**Introduction** At IBM Infrastructure & Technology, we design and operate the systems that keep the world running. From high-resiliency mainframes and hybrid cloud platforms to networking, automation, and site reliability. Our teams ensure the performance, security, and scalability that clients and industries depend on every day. Working in Infrastructure & Technology means tackling complex challenges with curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies and colleagues worldwide to deliver resilient, future-ready solutions that power innovation. With continuous learning, career growth, and a supportive culture, IBM provides the opportunities to build expertise and shape the infrastructure that drives progress. Looking for a Hardware Engineer for executing stress and regression tests. This job role provides a wide range of technical experiences, from hardware handling to running programs. It also offers a lot of troubleshooting, investigation and problem resolution. This encompasses several sub-roles including: machine configuration, operation, maintenance, error handling and investigation, troubleshooting bugs, defect reporting, operating system knowledge, and workload execution. Programming & scripting knowledge will be a plus. We need someone with the drive to find machine bugs and work with our development team until the issue has been resolved. A team player is a must! In order to ensure success, the candidate will need a willingness to continuously seek education to build their skills. **Your role and responsibilities** * Executing a variety of stress, functional, regression tests throughout a defined test schedule to ensure a quality product for our mainframe customers. * Execution / Triage / Debug on simulators/emulators * Execution / Triage / Debugging on pre-silicon and post-silicon setups * Identifying existing manual test scenarios and workloads and design programmatic automation to replace them * Growing knowledge of physical server design and logical constructs behind its operation * Hardware handling, maintenance, changes and manipulation * Large amount of troubleshooting, investigation and problem resolution. * Monitoring, Analysis, Helping users, Ticket management **Required technical and professional expertise** * 3 - 5 years of experience executing variety of stress and functional tests throughout a defined test schedule to ensure a quality product for our mainframe customers including regression testing and writing test automation using languages such as Python, bash shell scripting, or something similar * Solid understanding of the Windows and Linux operating systems and their command line operations, file systems, and operations * Strong team player with good communication (verbal/written) and interpersonal skills * Ability and drive to dive into unknown hardware architectures and operating systems and grow new technical skills. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * 2+ years of experience working with Z mainframe systems in some capacity * Experience with one or more mainframe operating systems. * Experience with practical applications of the mainframe * Experience writing and executing test plans with the ability to ensure proper coverage based on customer requirements and workloads, and perform regression testing * Hardware troubleshooting skills * Knowledge of Agile practices * Ability to handle testing and debugging tasks independently. IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.