Senior Software Test Engineer

Viking Enterprise Solutions (VES) has a rich history of leadership in providing storage and storage server platforms to hyperscale and enterprise data centers worldwide. The division leads the market with ultra-high capacity and high-performance systems. Now VES provides advanced software solutions supporting ML/AI applications for generative and inferential AI in the data center and at the Edge. Software is at the heart of what makes VES a solutions provider. Cloud native systems are designed and built to simplify the use of tools and hardware so users get the job done quickly and efficiently. VES also designs and builds NVMe flash based server appliances, JBOD storage systems and related products for a variety of data center and storage applications. Viking Enterprise Solutions products are tailored for integration into OEM, System Integrator and data center products.

Viking Enterprise Solutions is proud to be part of the Sanmina family. Sanmina is recognized as a technology leader, providing end-to-end design, manufacturing and logistics solutions, maintaining a global footprint of design and manufacturing operations in 23 countries on six continents.

Job Purpose:

In this role, the Senior Software Test Engineer will participate in product validation of cutting edge data storage products and server product designs in Colorado Springs, CO or San Jose, CA. This person will be part of the Viking Engineering organization accountable for validation of our storage/server product designs and helping to establish conformance to documented requirements and designs. The candidate will also be responsible for replicating field issues related to BIOS/BMC firmware, application software and various operating systems. Candidates may be required to engage with our external partners to resolve problems. The ideal candidate will have a successful track record of independently composing test scripts, executing on those scripts and documenting the results for audit purposes. Role also requires the use of Jira for tracking issues reported.

Nature of Duties/Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the Storage/Server Firmware team to provide feedback on product quality, performance and conformance to documented requirements.
• Working closely with firmware and test engineers to develop test plans for product validation.
• Develop test scripts that exercise product designs and requirements with the objective to establish pass/fail criteria.
• Execute product test plans against committed objectives and schedules.
• Provide and maintain test execution results that can later be used to audit the program.
• Support sustaining and development efforts by replicating failing environments and reproducing reported failures for purposes of debug and problem resolution.
• Document failing test cases in Jira
• Participate in regular team meetings on product reviews
• Building systems in a lab environment
• Develop test plans and scripts for testing server and storage products
• Develop, train and mentor younger test engineers as required
• Lead discussions with third party vendors for interoperability and problem resolution as required
• Perform, HW, SW, FW and Interoperability tests and drive issues to resolution with the cross functional teams.

Education and Experience :

• BS degree in engineering or computer science or related field
• 8 years minimum experience required in a related role
• Excellent working knowledge of various OS (Linux, Windows, Unix etc..)
• Experienced in Server/Storage system architecture
• Excellent working knowledge in scripting language and test automations (Python, Linux Bash)
• Preferred experienced in testing of BMC, BIOS and SES firmware for storage/server applications
• System Hardware/Software integration skills
• Understanding of SES, BMC, BIOS testing requirement
• Good communication skills to interact with colleagues, external customers and engineering teams
• Experience with networking and networking protocols
• Basic knowledge of software version control (GIT)
• Basic knowledge of issue and project tracking software (Jira, Bugzilla)
• Experience testing and configuring GPUs is a major plus
• Experience performing hands-on hardware and SW interop testing
• Hands-on experience driving systems failures and defect reports to resolution
• Proven ability to resolve complex system problems and drive corrective action (HW, SW, FW, and OS)