Lead Firmware Test Automation Engineer

Overview

Lead the automation and validation strategy for OpenBMC firmware across enterprise server and storage platforms, architecting scalable test frameworks, establishing validation methodologies, and driving CI/CD integration.

What you'll do

• Define and execute the OpenBMC automation roadmap and validation strategy.
• Lead automation architecture and framework development efforts.
• Establish automation standards, coding guidelines, and validation best practices.
• Drive automation adoption across firmware development and validation teams.
• Mentor and guide engineers on automation technologies and validation methodologies.
• Lead technical reviews and validation readiness assessments.
• Lead validation activities for OpenBMC firmware and platform management features.
• Develop and maintain validation plans, automation suites, and test strategies.
• Ensure comprehensive validation coverage across functional, regression, stress, performance, security, compliance and interoperability testing.
• Drive defect triage, root-cause analysis, and issue resolution.
• Support customer escalation analysis and field issue investigations.
• Develop and maintain enterprise-scale automation frameworks and reusable automation libraries and test abstractions.
• Develop infrastructure for automated firmware deployment, test execution orchestration, platform provisioning, log collection and analysis, and automated reporting and dashboards.
• Design and maintain validation lab infrastructure and test environments.
• Integrate automated validation into firmware release pipelines and support continuous integration and continuous testing.
• Improve automation execution efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to optimize build and deployment workflows.
• Work closely with firmware, hardware, platform architecture, and program teams, and participate in requirements reviews and feature discussions.
• Collaborate with OpenBMC developers to improve feature testability and quality.
• Support project planning, effort estimation, and risk mitigation activities.
• Partner with customers on validation requirements and quality objectives.

What you'll need

• Strong hands-on experience in OpenBMC validation, automation, and debugging.
• Expert proficiency in Python and Robot Framework for test automation framework development.
• Experience automating and validating Redfish, IPMI, PLDM, MCTP, and SPDM interfaces.
• Strong understanding of OpenBMC architecture, including D-Bus, BMCWeb, Entity Manager, phosphor services, Virtual Media, Firmware Update, and User Management.
• Experience validating OpenBMC platforms based on AST2500, AST2600, and AST2700 BMC SoCs.
• Strong knowledge of server platform architecture, BIOS-BMC interaction, inventory management, sensor monitoring, power and thermal management.
• Hands-on experience with Linux, shell scripting, networking, system services, and log analysis.
• Experience with firmware validation including functional, regression, stress, performance, security, and interoperability testing.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills for firmware, software, and hardware integration issues.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins, Git, GitHub/GitLab, Gerrit, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience developing automation for firmware deployment, provisioning, test execution, log collection, and reporting.
• Familiarity with test management and defect tracking tools such as JIRA.
• Ability to define validation strategies and automation roadmaps.
• Proven experience leading automation initiatives and improving test coverage.
• Strong planning, estimation, execution, and risk management skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in firmware validation, automation, or embedded systems testing.
• 5+ years of hands-on BMC/OpenBMC validation and automation experience.
• Proven experience leading automation initiatives and validation programs.
• Strong experience with enterprise server, storage, or datacenter platforms.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with OpenBMC upstream development or testing.
• Experience supporting enterprise server, storage, or datacenter platforms.
• Familiarity with containerized test environments and infrastructure automation.
• Experience building reusable automation libraries and validation frameworks.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• Business Unit: Intelligent Infrastructure; Job Grade: P04.