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IBM Hardware Test engineer 
India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 
204576721

12.08.2024

Looking for a Hardware Engineer to work on our mainframe squad with a focus on card recovery and service testing. 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 moderate amount of programming & scripting.


Your Role and Responsibilities
As the IBM zSystems hardware engineer, you will will be responsible for:

  • Executing a variety of stress and functional tests throughout a defined test schedule to ensure a quality product for our mainframe customers
  • Grow 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
  • 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
  • Identify existing manual test scenarios and workloads and design programmatic automation to replace them


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • 4 – 8 years of experience working with Device driver, Hardware, firmware testing
  • Some basic industry knowledge is required – navigating Windows & Linux environments with a range of software applications
  • General basic knowledge of things like command line operations, file systems, and operations is needed
  • Basic scripting knowledge such as with Python, bash, or something similar
  • Knowledge of Z mainframe systems in some capacity
  • Communication skills are key to working within Engineering System Test and with development teams around the world


Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Linux – Knowledge in Linux Containers( example Podman)
  • z/OS and z/CX
  • AI Models
  • RAS
  • 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
  • Strong team player with good communication (verbal/written) and interpersonal.