Technologist, Test Engineering – System Test
Western Digital
full-time
Posted on:
Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $134,100 - $178,800 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
LinuxPython
About the role
- Own product validation: test plan definition, test plan execution, and primary lead in failure analysis
- Primary lead in performing performance characterization of product and tracking down anomalies
- Contribute to overall test schedule development
- Write test plans for new product features, generate test matrices, test reports, and other test documentation
- Define new tests based on customer feedback and defect fixes
- Execute existing/regression test cases throughout product development cycle
- Work closely with system test, hardware, ASIC and firmware engineers to improve test methodology and develop new tests and strategies
- Configure customer hardware and software systems and troubleshoot problems to root cause
- Maintain customer and test equipment to current revision
- Instrument changes in Linux Kernel and guide automation/script reviews
- Support security-related features (Secure Boot, Secure Firmware Download, Secure Debug, Authentication, Attestation, Data-in-Flight Encryption)
Requirements
- Bachelors degree or Masters degree in Engineering, Computer Science, other related discipline
- A minimum of 8-10 years of experience in Ethernet Storage/Networking
- Experience with Networking protocols and Storage NVMe
- Programming experience utilizing Python or other scripting languages
- Comfortable instrumenting changes in Linux Kernel
- Experience with Secure Boot, Secure Firmware Download, Secure Debug, Authentication, Attestation
- Experience with Data in Flight Encryption including IPsec (transport and tunnel mode), TLS 1.3, Asymmetric (Public-Private key) Cryptography, Symmetric Cryptography (e.g., AES-GCM), Quantum-safe (Post-Quantum) Cryptography
- Experience in performance characterization and failure analysis
- Experience defining and executing test plans, regression tests, and writing test matrices and reports
- Ability to configure customer hardware and software systems and troubleshoot to root cause
- Experience collaborating with system test, hardware, ASIC and firmware engineers
- Guide for Automation and Script reviews (expert)
- Bonus: Secure development process and penetration testing experience