BIOS QA Engineer

Cisco - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Jose, CA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

As a BIOS QA Engineer at Cisco Systems, you will be part of a cutting-edge data center compute product team, focusing on the UCS B-series Server Platform. Your role will involve driving architecture and design discussions to ensure product quality, writing and executing test plans, and contributing to automation scripting. You will also provide feedback to hardware and software teams to enhance Cisco solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and design discussions to ensure product quality.
• Write test plans and execute test cases independently.
• Contribute to automation scripting.
• Evaluate technologies to improve Cisco solutions.
• Provide constant feedback to hardware and software teams for improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience or Master's degree with 4+ years of strong X86 server QA working experience.
• Experience with debugging BIOS, OS, hardware, and driver issues.
• Experience in shell or Python script programming and/or C/C++ programming language.

Nice-to-haves

• Expertise in Tiano based BIOS, memory sub-system, and ECC error handling.
• Knowledge of PCIE, SMBIOS, ACPI, IPMI, and UEFI.
• Experience in validation labs.
• Understanding of software quality assurance processes and methodologies.
• Knowledgeable in Windows, Linux, and VMWare OS behaviors and networking.

Benefits

• 10 days off each year for community service.
• Support for diversity and inclusion initiatives.