MTS 4 - QA
Nutanix
Quality Assurance
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Apr 7, 2026
Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Quality Assurance Lead Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in quality engineering for backend and distributed systems, with a sharp eye for design, user flows, and end-to-end product behavior. It would be a big advantage to have experience in platform engineering and hardware qualifications. Candidates are expected to have very strong debugging skills and automation experience, preferably in python. They should be able to define and own quality strategies for complex distributed system architectures, design robust test frameworks, and drive quality across a wide team.
About the Team
The FleX team is a critical engineering group within Nutanix’s R&D Platform organization, dedicated to providing a seamless hardware enablement and qualification ecosystem that allows both Nutanix and its external partners to qualify new hardware components and platforms independently
Your Role
- Looking for a QA lead who can help lead a team of qa engineers for the platform engineering team.
- Writing and executing detailed test plans to thoroughly validate features.
- Participate in defining product requirements, reviewing product design, performance, and scalability plans.
- Automating all aspects of the workflow, including test harnesses and frameworks.
- keen understanding of hardware certification processes is a plus
- Collaborating with a team of developers, test engineers, product management.
- Working closely with development engineers to detail and find the root cause of failures.
- Engage with customer support engineers as well as customers to debug and solve production issues.
What You Will Bring
- Minimum of 6–10 years of testing experience in a Data Center product company.
- BE or MS in Computer Science or related field.
- Experience in Test Automation in one of the following programming languages.
- Python/Perl/C/C++/Java (Python preferred).
- Good understanding of platform engineering, networking concepts and protocols .
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Go Programming Language will be a definite plus.
- Experience testing distributed, cloud-native systems.
- Experience using virtualization technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, or KVM
- Experience with building/testing a scalable solution and performance testing.
- Prior system testing experience of large scale deployments will be a big plus.
- Experience with distributed software systems.
- Experience with jira, jenkins and CI/CD. Experience with Version Control System (git)
- Basic understanding of UNIX/Linux/Windows.
- Can-do attitude while solving difficult problems spanning across multiple teams
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, agile environment
Work Arrangement
Hybrid: This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person collaboration. In locations where our workplace policy applies (i.e. San Jose, Durham, Mexico City, Bangalore, Pune, Hoofddorp, Belgrade, Barcelona, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), employees are expected to work onsite a minimum of 3 days per week to foster collaboration, team alignment, and access to in-office resources. Workplace type may vary based on location and team requirements. Please speak with your recruiter for details. Additional team-specific guidance and norms will be provided by your manager.
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