ddn - QA Engineer II

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States$110k - $140k3w ago

Remote Mid NA QA Engineer Python Celery Linux Ansible Redis

Requirements

• Python (2+ yrs): comfortable with scripting, basic async/task-queue concepts (Celery a plus) • Working knowledge of Ansible (writing/modifying playbooks and roles) • Linux fundamentals — filesystems, networking, processes • Exposure to CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions or similar) • Understanding of storage concepts (block/file/object) — willingness to learn benchmarking tools (FIO, IOR, mdtest) • Prior exposure to Redis/RabbitMQ or any message queue • Grafana or other dashboarding tool experience • Node.js basics • Internship/project experience with performance testing or storage systems • Familiarity with monitoring and metrics tools (Prometheus, Grafana).

Responsibilities

• Work upon performance testing for a large‑scale distributed storage platform supporting S3 object storage, POSIX file systems, and block‑level protocols. • Write and maintain Ansible playbooks/roles for cluster setup, health checks, and install/configuration • Contribute to Celery-based task orchestration for running I/O workloads in parallel • Execute and troubleshoot storage benchmarks: FIO, IOR, mdtest, IO500, WARP • Write Python scripts for parsing results, generating manifests, and normalizing metrics • Help maintain the PostgreSQL results schema and Grafana dashboards • Assist with test reporting integration • Debug test failures and flaky pipeline run across protocols • Contribute new benchmark profiles (YAML workload definitions) under review • Work closely with developers to validate fixes and feature performance impact.

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