What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Validation Engineer position at ZT Systems?
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About the Role
In this position, the Sustaining Engineer will serve as a key technical contributor to both the Electrical and Platform level validation of ZT server platforms particularly running Microsoft Windows OSs. The Sustaining Engineer will be working in a cross functional team to develop and execute test plans which will verify product functionality, adherence to electrical specifications and production requirements; including SW stack and use case testing. The Sustaining Engineer will also debug, identify root cause and resolve issues as they occur.
Responsibilities
- Interface and full understanding of architecture, design, platform, firmware and system engineering for a high degree of collaboration and leverage in all phases of the design process.
- Evaluate test specifications, requirements, strategies and methodologies for electrical validation, firmware validation and platform level testing.
- Coordinate test effort preparation and track requirements, schedules and actions
- Review, track, execute, document and summarize test results
- Internal Server Research & Development Hardware Validation support
- Collaborate on automation efforts for validation
Minimum Qualifications
- Proficient experience with server and computer architecture processors, BIOS, PCIe Gen2 & 3 & 4, DDR3/4, SAS, SATA, USB, HDMI, etc.
- Proficient experience with hyper-scale or enterprise servers and storage systems (network, storage, out-of-band management and monitoring, etc.)
- Proficient with validation, testing, and qualification of hardware and/or software
- Proficient with scripting, particularly on PowerShell and Python
- Proficient with deployment, management and monitoring of Microsoft Windows Servers (deployment of OSs remotely, etc.), understanding of Hyper-V and/or Azure architectures, etc.
- Proficient with datacenters, server and storage
- Proficient with knowledge of computer architecture, storage protocols, PCI Express, and/or networking
- Proficient experience with creating test cases for system-level or firmware validation, executing them and providing reports
- Proficient experience with developing and debugging code for in Microsoft Windows Servers
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or System Engineering and 5 years of experience
- System validation experience or equivalent or 3 progressive years and a master's degree
ZT Systems offers a highly competitive salary commensurate with work experience and/or education, an excellent benefits program that includes a 401(k) plan, health and dental insurance, and paid time off. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and do not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, age, gender, marital status, national origin, disability or handicap, or veteran status. ZT Systems is a Drug-Free Workplace.