Firmware Engineer jobs in Bangalore at IBM

Introduction
As a Hardware Developer at IBM, you’ll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today’s market.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Firmware Engineering Professional in the IBM Power Systems Hypervisor Functional test team, you will be responsible for the functional verification of IBM hypervisor for Power servers. As needed, you are also expected to work with the Open POWER partners and Open BMC community for server virtualization validation and support.

As a Firmware Engineering Professional, you will work on testing, design and development of automation suites for validating different Hypervisor related subsystems of IBM Power Servers.
Design, develop and execute test plans for validating platform and virtualization management functions through command line and Graphical User interfaces.
Develop / maintain automation suites GUI and CLI demonstrating a strong understanding of underlying system design and using skills in Jenkins, GIT, Python / Perl.
Be a contributor in developing an environment for continuous improvement across product lines
Proficient with bug tracking and test management toolsets to support development processes
Working knowledge of testing fundamentals such as Agile & TDD Methodology.
Interact with the Development, System test teams and Product Engineers to define test plans and collect test data across teams
Analyse Automation reports; Identify and verify defects

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

1+ years of IT experience
Programming skills - Languages: Perl / Python
Familiarity with general Hypervisor environment
Familiarity with System P architecture, Server hardware knowledge is a plus
Prefer familiarity with creating and managing IBMi, VIOS, AIX or Linux partitions using server management tools.
Configure Network, SAN and Virtual Machine setup in Unix/Linux environment.
Experience in I/O or Storage domain, Virtualization concepts, able to configure and execute partition mobility (I/O technologies like PCIe, Adapter hardware etc...).
Should have strong debugging skills. Should be able to isolate setup/configuration, hardware, scripts, product issues.
Write Test Plans from the Design Documents.
Experience with defect management tools like Clear Quest and Test tracking tools (RQM a plus)
Experience in scripting languages (PERL / Python) and should have experience in configuring and executing automated test suites.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Proven Test experience with Jenkins, Perl/Python etc , server management and Linux / Unix Operating systems exposure
Proven experience with system management software (platform management and/or virtualization management)

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries. The company began in 1911, founded in Endicott, New York, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed 'International Business Machines' in 1924.