BIOS QA Engineer

About the position

You will be part of a next generation data center compute product team to work on the state-of-the-art technologies. You'll be crafting, implementing, and empowering the world's fastest growing cloud development platform. You'll collaborate as part of a disruptive software engineering team that is passionate about transforming the world.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and design discussions to ensure product's quality.
• Write test plans and execute test cases independently.
• Contribute to automation scripting and 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

• Skilled and an expert in Tiano based BIOS, memory sub-system and ECC error handling.
• Knowledge of PCIE, SMBIOS, ACPI, IPMI and UEFI; experience in validation labs is ideal.
• Understanding of software quality assurance processes and methodologies.
• Knowledgeable in Windows, Linux and VMWare and OS behaviors; understanding of Networking.

Benefits

• Quality medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
• Short and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• Numerous wellbeing offerings.
• Up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, including one floating holiday and a day off for birthday.
• Vacation time off accrual for non-exempt new hires, and flexible vacation policy for exempt new hires.
• Sick time off policy with 80 hours provided on hire date and annually thereafter.
• Paid time away for critical or emergency issues.
• Additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.