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System Test Validation Engineer - 130464

The Role:

As the leader of AMD's Client NPRP lab team you will own the last step in the process before sending AMD's 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 multi-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.

Come join a Winning Team!

Key Responsibilities:

The primary mission is to lead a team of technicians through build, test and on time shipment of systems to reviewers.

Lead collaboration with Engineers, Product Marketing, Product Management, Program Management, and PR to ensure the highest quality product is delivered to reviewers on time.

Ensure software, firmware, CPUs, Motherboards and memory are aligned to NPRP delivery scheduled.

Develop test plans, and system configurations with engineering, product marketing and product management to for NPRP.

Quickly diagnose issues and resolve or bring them to the attention of the lead engineer in order to maintain overall test schedule.

Responsible for diagnosing and resolving test automation issues.

Sign-off responsibility for synchronized releases for internal and external delivery

Partners with External and Customer co-validation teams

Preferred Experience:

Demonstrates Systems 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 through NPRP review cycle.

Ability to work with Lead System Engineers, Lead Technical Engineers and debug leads to resolve complex issues that are found in the NPRP 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 carrying out test cases to ensure accurate 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 implement test procedure content.

Ability to code with C#, Python 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 detailing experiments to isolate and root cause issues.

Familiar with Microsoft Operating Systems, Linux Operating Systems, virtualization software (VMware, Xen, et al), and validation/certification processes for each of these environments

Familiar with high performance client IO adapters, drivers and stress testing

Academic Credentials:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering