Introduction
Looking for a Hardware Engineer to work on our EST squad executing and automating test scenarios. This job role provides a wide range of technical experiences, from hardware handling to running programs on a variety of operating systems. It also offers a lot of troubleshooting, investigation and problem resolution. This encompasses several sub-roles including: machine configuration, operation, maintenance, error handling and investigation, troubleshooting bugs, defect reporting, operating system knowledge, and workload execution. In addition, there is a strong desire to transform traditional test methods to a more automated approach which will require a significant amount of programming & scripting. We need someone with the drive to find machine bugs and work with our development team until the issue has been resolved. A team player is a must! In order to ensure success, the candidate will need a willingness to continuously seek education to build their skills. This, along with a strong desire to replace traditional manually initiated workload/testing with automated execution techniques will be a big plus.
Your Role And Responsibilities
Your Role and Responsibilities
- Executing a variety of stress and functional tests throughout a defined test schedule to ensure a quality product for our mainframe customers including regression testing.
- Identifying existing manual test scenarios and workloads and design programmatic automation to replace them
- Working with firmware development to understand the technical details of new firmware features in order to design appropriate test scenarios and workloads to validate them
- Growing knowledge of physical server design and logical constructs behind its operation
- Hardware handling, maintenance, changes and manipulation
- Working with multiple Z mainframe operating systems to execute workloads that are used to verify the latest hardware and firmware deliveries
- Large amount of troubleshooting, investigation and problem resolution.
Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- 3 - 5 years of experience executing variety of stress and functional tests throughout a defined test schedule to ensure a quality product for our mainframe customers including regression testing and writing test automation using languages such as Python, bash shell scripting, or something similar
- Solid understanding of the Windows and Linux operating systems and their command line operations, file systems, and operations
- Outstanding communication skills are key to working within Engineering System Test and with development teams around the world
- Strong team player with good communication (verbal/written) and interpersonal skills
- Ability and drive to dive into unknown hardware architectures and operating systems and grow new technical skills.
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- 2+ years of experience working with Z mainframe systems in some capacity
- Experience with one or more mainframe operating systems.
- Experience with practical applications of the mainframe
- Experience writing and executing test plans with the ability to ensure proper coverage based on customer requirements and workloads, and perform regression testing
- Hardware troubleshooting skills
- Knowledge of Agile practices
- Ability to handle testing and debugging tasks independently.
