Introduction As a Power Performance Tools developer your responsibilities will include creating and maintaining tools and automation required for analyses to detect performance bottlenecks, managing performance aspects, and uncovering optimization opportunities for every major release of IBM® Power® (IBM Power systems) This role requires expertise in OS concepts, computer system architectural design and performance analysis . The areas of work will be to develop test automation framework on different versions of the latest family of IBM Power servers utilizing several versions of PHYP, Power Firmware, AIX / VIOS, and Linux releases.
Your Role and Responsibilities As a tools developer you will design, build, test and deploy effective testing solutions which reduce the amount of manual effort in the Performance test execution and analysis.
You are responsible for developing and maintaining automated tools for system performance analysis and optimization
Support the test team by recommending tools and processes
To automate other test activities, such as test management, reporting, test data generation and defect management.
Work closely with team members to design and develop performance testing tools and platforms.
Develop acceptable performance test reporting and process tools preferably open source/home grown.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
8+ years of overall experience
5+ years of experience as a Tools Developer
5 years of experience in hardware system test automation domain
5+ years of experience in a software development role using C, C++
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, Ability to handle coding, testing, and debugging tasks; independently and as part of a team.
Experience with other programming and scripting languages, i.e. Python, Node.js, Perl, Linux Shell
Experience developing in a Linux development environment
Strong expertise in virtualization technologies, including hypervisors virtual machine management, and resource optimization.
Good knowledge on Computer system architecture, system HW , Operating System
REST and JSON
Good problem solving, strong analytical and logical reasoning skills
Familiar with server performance management and capacity planning
Familiar with performance diagnostic methods and techniques
Knowledge of Agile and DevOps practices and methodologies including Continuous Integration.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Experience on Java, Ansible would be an added value.
Knowledge of IBM PowerVM Virtualization
Knowledge of IBM POWER Server System architecture
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