Job Details

Viking Enterprise Solutions has a rich history of leadership in providing storage and storage server platforms to hyper scale and enterprise data centers worldwide. The division leads the market with ultra-high capacity and high-end flash systems.  Viking Enterprise Solutions provides advanced data center products including solid-state memory and disk-based storage 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.

Job Purpose:

In this role, the System Test Engineer will participate in product validation of cutting edge data storage products and server product designs in Colorado Springs. 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 replicating field issues related to BIOS/BMC firmware, application software and various operating systems. Candidate 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.

Responsibilities include:

• Working closely with 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

Education and Experience:

• BS degree in engineering or computer science or related field
• Eight years minimum experience required
• 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)

Salary range: $108k - $135K

Sanmina is an Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity