Hardware System Test Engineer – Virtualization Squad

Introduction
Software Developers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives to design code test and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today – planes and trains take off on time bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe because of the work our software developers do. Whether you are working on projects internally or for a client software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide. At IBM you will use the latest software development tools techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of

Your Role and Responsibilities
You will

• Work as a Test Specialist in the design development and support of the Management Console for IBM Power Servers
• Create/contribute to the Test plan/Test Strategy by creating new use cases based on new requirements
• Setup and configure the server and related infrastructure as per customer environment and report any issues to ensure the quality of releases
• Automate new use cases (CLI REST & UI) or make changes to existing code based on new feature additions for CLI/REST/UI
• Good knowledge on CI/CT process and perform Continuous Test execution
• Understand various system dependencies and Run Load/stress tool different workloads perform Defect triaging and provide the details in defect and consolidating team issues
• Timely verification of defect fixes and perform regression tests around the fixes.
• Collaborate with the development and system test teams to maintain product quality usability and serviceability

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5 to 8 yrs of Server Virtualization testing experience with System level product knowledge defect characterization Product integration testing and ability to create test cases and test plan
• Good Knowledge on

• Virtualization – PowerVM KVM VMware STORAGE NETWORKING
• Backend – Python CLI RESTful API CI/CD pipelines
• UI – Cypress
• DevOps – GitHub Terraform Ansible

• Experience in Server Architecture of various Hypervisors Storage Domain (SAN NAS NVMe SAS SATA) Networking ( FC FCoE ISCSI TCP/IP) and Hardware knowledge.
• Good knowledge of one or more Server operating systems (Ubuntu RHEL or Suse ESXi ) and Virtualization technologies
• Knowledge and experience on Automation languages using Python/Perl and Cypress
• Good understanding on Jenkins and DevOps
• Strong logical debugging and creative problem-solving skills good oral and written communication skills and excellent analytical skills
• Have knowledge on Vulnerability scanning and experience in use of tools to check a network or website for known vulnerabilities

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Solid understanding of Testing domain and tools especially in latest AI/ML emerging technologies
• Planning capabilities requirements for the program e.g. effort estimation hardware/infrastructure requirement