Full Job Description
Your Role and Responsibilities
In the role of Storage test specialist, this individual will be responsible for test designing, test planning, testing execution and guidance during test specification of individual product features for IBM Storwize/SVC family of storage products, IBM Software Defined Storage portfolio & IBM cloud storage services.
You will be owning and driving product functionality as SME and represent it in global product team. You will provide technical leadership and advice to Test Manager with test planning activities. The individual will act as a mentor for junior members in the test team and work with the senior technical leaders and test manager in effectively managing the test deliverables through his technical skills and prior experience. You will be also expected to design and implement complex test cases and scenarios. You will be responsible for creating test plans independently and get it reviewed and approved from the relevant technical leaders and Managers.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
5 – 12 years of experience in testing system software products (Storage, OS, Device Driver, firmware etc)
Proven understanding of Storage protocols like iSCSI , FC and FCoE.
Strong automations skills using Perl /Python
Proven understanding of Linux internals.
Proven understanding in server, network,, files systems & SAN
Strong understanding of FC Switch fabrics.
Proven understanding of storage technologies (Replication, Virtualization, RAID, Block/File IO, compression , encryption )
Familiarity with Host OS virtualization (VMware, MS Hyper-V)- Familiarity with protocol analysers, IO exercisers, IO jammers and performance tools
Proven debugging and problem-solving skills
Proven skills in other programming and scripting languages (Shell/Python)
Familiarity with software development processes, code management and status reporting tools.
Ability to plan test execution details meticulously and identifying dependencies.
Proven communication skills to crisply and accurately report program status.
Experience working with Global teams.
Proven technical leadership skills to mentor new team members.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Good experience in storage testing
Strong automations skills using Perl /Python
Strong Storage and network virtualization skill
Could reference architecture, Kubernetes and Storage API for Cloud knowledge will be a value add.
About Business Unit
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