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 in the UCS B-series Server Platform team at Cisco, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of cutting-edge data center compute products. This role involves driving architecture and design discussions, writing test plans, executing test cases, and providing feedback to hardware and software teams. You will also contribute to automation scripting and evaluate technologies 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 volunteer work.
• Inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity.