SMTS - Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title: Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Member of : Engineering Group

Location: India (Remote)

About Us

Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise Private Clouds. Founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers, we are dedicated to transforming IT operations. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns your existing hardware into a full-featured, future-ready private cloud. We innovate across what we build and how we deliver it, staying focused on a next-generation, open private cloud while holding ourselves to one standard: exceptional customer outcomes.

Enterprises are selecting Platform9 to replace legacy virtualization because it eliminates operational risk and complexity. Private Cloud Director is designed for the experienced infrastructure team, offering a familiar GUI experience for managing VMs and containers, seamless integration with your existing hardware and third-party storage, and critical enterprise features (HA/DR, scale, reliability) built-in. This enables IT teams to gain robust API control and a user experience they trust—rooted in customer obsession and an owner’s mindset. We share context quickly and candidly to keep decisions moving.

With over 30,000 nodes in production at some of the world’s largest enterprises including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace, Platform9 is the proven path to achieving true vendor independence operational consistency. We are an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, supported by a partner ecosystem of resellers, systems integrators, MSPs, and technology vendors committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency. Our values—innovation, customer obsession, ownership, radical candor, and excellence—guide how we build and support every deployment.

Position Summary:

We are looking for a Software Engineer with proven expertise in testing large scale, distributed cloud based systems in a continuous integration environment. The engineer in this role will drive and influence quality initiatives within product development teams.

Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Work closely with product development engineers to design new tests for new features and products, analyze existing test coverage, identify gaps and add missing tests. 
• Write automated tests and integrate them with CI/CD systems. 
• Work on test infrastructure to design, implement and run functional, integration and scale tests. 
• Encourage and build a quality focussed culture within engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related discipline. Extensive relevant work experience is also acceptable.
• 4-10 years of experience in developing automated tests in a continuous integration environment for large scale systems.

Key Skills: 

• Proficiency in writing reliable and maintainable code in Python or Go 
• Experience with continuous integration systems like Jenkins or Teamcity 
• Experience with linux based systems 
• Experience with cloud/containerization technologies, preferably Kubernetes.

Skills that give you an edge:

• Being a highly motivated self-starter with the ability to work in a highly dynamic environment 
• Troubleshooting skills 
• Automated testing of the front-end 
• To succeed in this role, you’ll need to be a team player with a strong sense of ownership for your work and a passion for working in a data-driven organisation.

Benefits and Perks:

Employees today are looking for companies that truly care and recognise their whole person. As a budding start-up, we have a small energetic workforce and we have curated personalized employee perks that are employee-friendly. The good news is that Platform9's benefits and perks program has a significant impact on employee retention, motivation, and company culture—but not just for men; by empowering women to take care of their physical and emotional well-being, we can guarantee their continued participation in the workforce.

Please note, benefits change by country. 

• Competitive Compensation and Equity 
• Medical Healthcare for you and your family 
• Hybrid Work Model 
• Wellness Benefits 
• Professional Development/Global certifications 
• Reward and Recognition Programs 
• Team Building Activities 
• Hackathon 
• Company-Wide Programs

Our benefits have been carefully selected, keeping in mind employees' requirements and personal situations now and for the future.