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netPolarity, Inc. (Saicon Consultants, Inc.)

Validation Engineer

netPolarity, Inc. (Saicon Consultants, Inc.), Austin, Texas, us, 78716

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Job Details Title: Validation Engineer

Location: Austin, TX

Duration: 12 Months contract

Rate: $35-$38/Hour on W2

Overview As a member of Client lab team, you will own the last step in the process before sending the client\'s latest cutting edged products to the most influential reviewers in the world. In addition to working side by side with some of the best engineers in the world, you will also get exposure to teams and executives across the company in this high-profile role.

The Person

Highly motivated self-starter

Strong analysis and problem-solving skills

Exhibits strong attention to detail

Engages well with customers and partners while navigating through potential roadblocks

Effective with executive communication and building respect

Works cross-functionally across groups (LSE, Debug, HW, Software) to quickly resolve issues that arise from testing in NPRP configurations.

Accomplished listener who can analyze, abstract, communicate the big picture, and articulate status, progress and success to upper management.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with Engineering to ensure the highest quality product.

Ensure software, firmware, CPUs, Motherboards and memory are aligned to product delivery schedule.

Create test queues from test plans and run on system automation farm.

Quickly diagnose issues and resolve or bring them to the attention of the lead engineer to maintain overall test schedule.

Responsible for diagnosing and resolving test automation issues, including hardware, OS, workload and automation wrapper debug.

Partners with External and Customer co-validation teams.

Preferred Experience

Systems knowledge breadth - CPU, chipset, boards, options, peripherals, OS, BIOS, drivers

Exposure to industry standard benchmarks, benchmark testing, setup and reporting

High level of proficiency with test automation techniques and workflows.

Ability to lead teams to test requirements for test flow development and execution.

Speaks SW, Hardware and System. Able to function within Bios, Drivers, Silicon, IO subsystems, power, thermal.

Demonstrates Platform experience across configurations, definitions, and integrations

Knowledge of test methodologies as they would apply to end customer experience.

Ability to work with Lead System Engineers, Lead Technical Engineers and debug leads to resolve complex issues that are found in the test cycle.

Ability to work with Product Marketing, Product Management, Program Management, and PR to ensure all software, firmware, CPU, motherboard, and memory schedules align to support launch schedule.

Experience executing test cases to ensure correct functionality of systems including ASIC hardware (SoC or discrete), peripheral hardware, drivers, software tools, firmware, BIOS, operating systems, and applications.

Knowledge of how systems power sequence from POST to operating system including power, BIOS, firmware, boot and HAL.

Experience with industry standard computer architecture specs.

Exposure to register read and write using software and hardware tools in an OS or with JTAG interface.

Ability to interpret new technologies from specifications and execute test procedure content.

Ability to code with C#, Python, Batch, Bash and PowerShell

Experience leading computer testing, validation or performance benchmarking.

Experience with client PC and mobile testing, diagnostic and debug preferred

Experience with testing tools and environments, defect tracking and revision control

Experience designing, tracking, and documenting experiments to isolate and root cause issues.

Familiar with

Microsoft Operating Systems, Linux Operating Systems, virtualization software (Hyper-V, VMware, Xen, et al), video conferencing (Teams, Zoom, et al)

and

validation/certification

processes for each of these environments

Familiar with high performance

client IO adapters, drivers and stress testing

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Industries

Computer Hardware Manufacturing

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