Introduction
Looking for a Hardware Engineer to work on our EST squad executing and automating test scenarios. 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 significant amount of programming & scripting. We need someone with the drive to find machine bugs and work with our development team until the issue has been resolved. A team player is a must! In order to ensure success, the 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

• 3 – 5 years of experience writing test automation using languages such as Python, bash shell scripting, or something similar
• 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.