Hardware engineer

he 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

As the IBM zSystems hardware engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Identifying existing manual test scenarios and workloads and design programmatic automation to replace them

• Executing a variety of stress and functional tests throughout a defined test schedule to ensure a quality product for our mainframe customers

• 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 Technical and Professional Expertise

• 6-10 years of experience writing test automation using languages such as Python, bash shell scripting, or something similar

• 3+ years of experience setting up and maintaining Ethernet switches

• 3+ years of experience with RoCE and OSA (OSC 3270, OSC 3215, OSE, OSD)

• 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 Expertise

• 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