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This role focuses on designing and executing test strategies, identifying defects early, validating fixes, and partnering closely with engineering teams to improve product quality throughout the development lifecycle.\nYou will work cross-functionally with software engineers, product managers, and support stakeholders to validate new features, regression-test existing functionality, and strengthen test coverage across manual and automated workflows. This role is well suited for someone who is curious, methodical, and comfortable investigating issues deeply rather than only following predefined scripts.\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\nDesign, execute, and maintain test plans, test cases, and validation procedures for new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.\n\nPerform functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing across product areas.\n\nIdentify, document, reproduce, and track software defects with clear technical detail and business impact.\n\nPartner with engineering and product teams to clarify requirements, define acceptance criteria, and identify quality risks early in the development process.\n\nValidate bug fixes and confirm that changes do not introduce regressions in related workflows.\n\nContribute to the development and maintenance of automated test coverage where appropriate.\n\nHelp improve release quality by participating in sprint planning, feature reviews, and release validation activities.\n\nAnalyze logs, error messages, and system behavior to support root-cause investigation and efficient issue triage.\n\nCollaborate with support and engineering teams to reproduce customer-reported issues and confirm resolutions.\n\nContribute to quality documentation, test standards, and continuous improvement of QA processes and tooling.\n\nWHAT YOU’LL BRING TO DDN\n3+ years of experience in quality assurance, software testing, or a related engineering role.\n\nStrong understanding of software QA methodologies, defect lifecycle management, and test design principles.\n\nExperience writing clear, thorough, and reusable test cases and bug reports.\n\nFamiliarity with manual and automated testing approaches.\n\nExperience testing web applications, APIs, and integrated systems.\n\nComfort working with logs, diagnostics, and technical data to investigate failures and isolate issues.\n\nFamiliarity with defect tracking and test management tools.\n\nBasic scripting or automation experience is preferred.\n\nStrong attention to detail and a disciplined, methodical approach to validation.\n\nGood written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.\n\nCuriosity, ownership, and a continuous improvement mindset.\n\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nExperience with test automation frameworks and CI/CD environments.\n\nExperience validating performance, reliability, or system-level behavior.\n\nFamiliarity with Linux environments, command-line tools, or API testing tools.\n\nExposure to storage, infrastructure, or enterprise software environments is a plus.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3167,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Enterprise Storage Systems","Servers & Data Center Hardware"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T15:54:09Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-09-30T18:41:23Z"}],"liveness":null,"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":140000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ddn-qa-engineer-ii","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ddn-qa-engineer-ii.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T19:16:48Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1777,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3223,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}