Staff II Engineer

The Elevator Pitch: Why would you enjoy this new opportunity?  Enterprises are running mission critical software in more places than ever before -- in their datacenter, hybrid cloud, public cloud, and at the edge. VMware Tanzu enables you to build, run, and manage modern apps on any cloud and continuously deliver value to customers and enable development and operations teams to work together in new ways to deliver transformative business results. The Tanzu Common Core Validation Engineering team ensures the Tanzu suite of products are shipped with optimal quality with the focus on an integrated customer experience. You would be a lead voice in architecting our end-to-end testing strategy. What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for? VMware Tanzu suite consists of many mission-critical products like Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, Tanzu Mission Control and Tanzu Application Platform. These products are accelerating our customers move to hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You will work as a Quality and Test Architect with a focus on customer experience and software quality across these products and topologies. The role involves developing, documenting, and manually executing customer focused test scenarios to ensure end-to-end performance and functionality of the different products we ship. You will then work closely with automation team, to get these scenarios automated for continuous coverage. This role requires technical and interpersonal skills to work with multiple teams. Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months, you will work toward completing? You will be the voice of our customers for the team. As a staff quality and test architect, you will define the testing strategies and end-to-end workflows based on various customer personas primarily of App developer and App Operators across all Tanzu editions. The success in this role would be measured by having lesser number of customer escalation in 6-12 months. What type of work will you be doing? What assignments or requirements will you be performing on a regular basis? On a regular basis, You will interface with product teams, field, and support personnel to help identify and refine relevant test coverage. You’ll work with different editions of the product, understand the differences, upgrade paths and dependencies. You’ll spend a significant amount of your time understanding how the various components of our product fit together with particular attention to the testing and quality. Track new product feature and design changes and implement corresponding testing strategies. Collaborate with internal teams to solve issues involving test automation. Mentor, provide direction and guidance to junior engineers and new hires in the team. Work in a distributed team across multiple geographical locations and time zones. What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware? You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com. Employee Stock Purchase Plan Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types Generous Time Off Programs 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community Rethink’s Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.) Healthy and local inspired snacks in all our on-site pantries Category : Engineering and Technology Subcategory: Software Engineering Experience: Business Leadership Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time Posted Date: 2022-07-27 VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. 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