Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara California that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. global company that specializes in manufacturing semiconductor devices used in computer processing. The company also produces flash memories graphics processors motherboard chip sets and a variety of components used in consumer electronics goods.
Job Title: Test/Validation Technician
Work Location: Austin TX 78728
Duration: 12 Months
Work Type: Temporary Assignment
Job Type: Onsite
Job Description:
The Role:
- As a member of the Clients lab team you will own the last step in the process before sending the clients 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:
- Demonstrates Systems knowledge breadth - CPU chipset boards options peripherals OS BIOS drivers
- Sufficient 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
Academic Credentials:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or relevant industry experience.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.