Hardware engineer

Job Description

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. Required education Bachelor's Degree Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise 3 - 5 years of experience executingvariety of stress and functional tests throughout a defined test schedule to ensure a quality product for our mainframe customers including regression testing andwriting 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.