IT Hardware Lab Test Engineer

JOB DETAILS:
Client:
Microsoft
Role: Hardware Lab Test Engineer
Location: Redmond, WA
Type: Contract
Duration: 6+ Months

Description of Services:

• Test execution:
  Test planning, execution and storage setup for multiple scenarios (RS2, RS3 and beyond releases of Windows Server, Dedup, MAS)
• Test configurations, including VM Setups, workload execution for SharePoint, IW workload, and DPM Tenet backup Dedup scenario
• Support for reliability/stress runs at scale for MAS scenario
• Support on functional and stress runs for Dedup, Data Management and Work-folders
• Support on performance, longhaul and scalability runs which require specialized hardware configurations for Dedup
• Coordinate hardware failures and replacements within the team
• Dedup Selfhost Support
• Performance, scale, longhaul and workload validations for Azure storage (Azure files)
• Work Folders and Sync test planning and execution support on multiple scenarios and environments
• Work Folders Stress test execution
• Supporting high touch devices environments
• Managing and maintaining high touch local Lab for Devices, environment setup, test execution
• Reimaging and reconfiguring the setup to be used with different device type variations

Responsible for iterative design & code generation, test case development and quality assurance testing. The position performs analytical process steps and provides feedback to ensure continuous process improvement. Typical steps include collecting/analyzing quality data and investigating nonconformance to determine permanent resolution. Coordinate and conduct internal quality audits. Identify, analyze, and resolve non-conformance.

Required Skills:

• Hardware – Experience working in a hardware lab
• Debugging – Run stress/reliability tests (stress, reliability). Tools used (indbg, kd, ntsd)
• Storage – Stress and reliability validation. Scripting – Power Shell, JavaScript, batch scripting

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.