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Business Unit Introduction:
India Systems Development Lab (ISDL) is part of IBM Systems world-wide technology development lab. Established in 1996, the Lab is headquartered in Bengaluru, with a strong presence in Pune and Hyderabad. Developers at ISDL deliver technology innovations across the entire IBM Systems portfolio - z Systems, Power / OpenPOWER Systems and Storage. The team here works across the entire stack from processor design, firmware, operating system, systems software, performance engineering to software defined storage.
The Lab also focuses on innovations, thanks to the creative energies of the teams. It has contributed over 400+ patents in cutting edge technologies and inventions so far. While computing veers towards cognitive, cloud, mobile, social, and security, the lab has significantly contributed to not just new products focused in these areas, but has also ushered in new development models such as Agile, Design Thinking and DevOps.

Who You are :
IBM India Systems Development Lab is looking for Firmware Test Engineering Professionals in the IBM Power Systems Firmware team.

• You will be responsible for testing system firmware that runs on IBM Power Systems spanning entry level servers to enterprise level high end servers with feature rich Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) features.
• You will work with the OpenPOWER partners and OpenBMC community for Firmware test and support.

Your role and responsibilities
Your Role and Responsibilities

• Test system firmware that runs on IBM Power Systems spanning entry level servers to enterprise level high end servers with feature rich Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) features.
• Work with the OpenPOWER partners and OpenBMC community for Firmware test and support.
• Drive testing of firmware features to ensure high quality product
• Automate tests as part of the agile development process
• Interact with the development team to understand requirements and design
• Collaborate with other teams to define/understand requirements.
• Contribute in developing an environment of continuous improvement across product lines and development groups.
• Continuously Innovate to ensure better customer experience of firmware features

Required education
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise
Required Professional and Technical Expertise

• Proven hands-on experience in firmware testing
• Hands-on development or testing on Linux platform and knowledge on Linux OS internals
• Working knowledge of computer systems architecture and operating systems concepts
• Enterprise level Functional or Systems Testing and STLC concepts
• Proven Experience in Automation frameworks
• Proven Experience with Python and other any scripting languages
• Proven Experience in Linux, Git and Gerrit
• Exposure to Embedded environment
• Experience with working on open-source software using tools such as git

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Exposure to Server domain
• Knowledge of IBM Power systems software/architecture
• Interest in low level Hardware
• Understanding of network and security testing

Years of Experience:
4-8