Senior Ibm System Engineer Resume
Austin, TX
SUMMARY
- Over 8.5 years of professional experience in AIX (IBM UNIX) functional verification, commands development and in System p (IBM POWER systems) firmware and system software verification.
- Extensive experience in Shell and Perl scripting and test automation.
- Hands on experience in system programming with C and UNIX internals.
- Hands on experience in database management with SQL.
- Expertise in Test planning, designing, automation and execution on various areas of system software, firmware, virtualization.
- Expertise in software product quality analysis and improvements.
- Currently working on IBM server software and firmware verification, Power processor verification - PureFlex servers, System Director, Blade servers.
- Extensive experience in server I/O virtualization technology.
- Automation development using Perl and Shell script.
- Proficient knowledge in system technologies - Virtualization, Power server architecture, Blade servers, AIX, Linux, UNIX internals, UNIX security methods, system RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability),
- Experience in agile methodology, software test life cycle
- Exhibit excellent communication and analytical, problem solving skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems: Linux, AIX, Microsoft Windows.
Languages/scripting: C, Shell script, Perl, Tcl/Expect, basic knowledge in C++, Java.
Technologies: Firmware, virtualization, IBM system director, storage technology, SAS RAID, Blade server technologies, server management, HMC, server IO virtualization, SRIOV, Fiber Channel technology.
UNIX technologies: Security - LDAP, Kerberos, virtualization (LPAR, WPAR) management, Virtual IO server, File systems, UNIX internals, TCP/IP.
Methodologies: Agile, Software development and test life cycle, Rational ClearQuest
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior IBM System engineer
Confidential, Austin, TX
Responsibilities:
- Component lead for RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability) functions testing on System p firmware system test.
- Test Firmware, Hypervisor (Virtualization) functions on power servers. Develop script (shell/perl) to automate testcase execution.
- Review design documents and plan/design new test cases for new features
- Perform I/O virtualization test on power servers such as PCIe, SR-IOV, power 8 processor IO handling.
- Develop test cases, execute and track the test progress and defect resolution.
- Cconfiguration and management of servers in server lab.
- Understand customer requirements and integrate their use cases into the test suite for effective quality analysis.
- Wrote Redpaper on SRIOV technology on Power systems.
Senior AIX eRAS and security tech lead engineer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Lead eRAS and Security component testing on AIX operating system.
- Develop functional test plan, test case development using C or shell script and their execution
- Review testcases developed by team members and automate them.
- Develop test cases, execute, and integrate into the regression test suite.
- Identify customer defects and design new cases to improve the product and test quality.
AIX Operating System verification engineer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Testing engineer for AIX security and kernel subsystem.
- Developed regression testcases for AIX in C and shell programs.
- Executing test suite and working towards closure of the defects.
- Developed a tool to manage POWER systems remotely.
- Fix test case defects and improve the quality of test suite.
