Firmware Tester

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Business Unit Introduction:

India Systems Development Lab (ISDL) is part of IBM Systems world-wide technology development lab. Established in 1996, the Lab is headquartered in Bengaluru, with a strong presence in Pune and Hyderabad. Developers at ISDL deliver technology innovations across the entire IBM Systems portfolio - z Systems, Power / OpenPOWER Systems and Storage. The team here works across the entire stack from processor design, firmware, operating system, systems software, performance engineering to software defined storage.

The Lab also focuses on innovations, thanks to the creative energies of the teams. It has contributed over 400+ patents in cutting edge technologies and inventions so far. While computing veers towards cognitive, cloud, mobile, social, and security, the lab has significantly contributed to not just new products focused in these areas, but has also ushered in new development models such as Agile, Design Thinking and DevOps.

Your role and responsibilities

You will be responsible to:

• Test system firmware that runs on IBM Power Systems spanning entry level servers to enterprise level high end servers with feature rich Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) features.
• Work with the OpenPOWER partners and OpenBMC community for Firmware test and support.
• Drive testing of firmware features to ensure high quality product
• Automate tests as part of the agile development process
• Interact with the development team to understand requirements and design
• Collaborate with other teams to define/understand requirements.
• Contribute in developing an environment of continuous improvement across product lines and development groups.
• Continuously Innovate to ensure better customer experience of firmware features

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 2 - 4 years of experience in firmware testing
• Working knowledge of computer systems architecture and operating systems concepts
• Hands-on development or testing on Linux platform and knowledge on Linux OS internals
• Enterprise level Functional or Systems Testing and STLC concepts
• Proven Experience in Automation frameworks
• Hands-on working experience with Python and other any scripting languages
• Proven Experience in Linux, Git and Gerrit
• Experience with working on open-source software using tools such as git

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Exposure to Server domain and embedded systems
• Knowledge of IBM Power systems software/architecture
• Interest in low level Hardware
• Understanding of network and security testing

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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