Principal Engineer-Software Development

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Job Description:

Microchip Technologies has a mid-career Principal Engineer-Software Development opening based in Bangalore, India to be a key contributor in quality assurance effort of our storage firmware and driver applications. In this role, you will be responsible Design, development of automation library for supported protocol interfaces and also use those libraries for writing automation test for verification of firmware and driver for multiple products for Data Center Solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Work with multiple project teams internal and outsourced development partners responsible for all stages of quality assurance for complex products and platforms, including testing strategy, analysis, coding, results evaluation, and proposed corrective actions
• Work as part of a team to design, develop, execute, triage, document, and test a series of features within a storage software solution under various x32 & x64 operating systems to deliver a reliable and cost-effective solution
• Understand product implementation reading functional specs, source code and engineering discussions
• Design and develop framework and infrastructure or tools using C++
• Work together with software, drivers, and firmware teams on root-causing defects
• Reproduce, root cause, and verify solutions to customer escalations in a timely manner
• Provide project status and estimates and track issues to closure with project managers
• Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with quality assurance guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk
• Provides domain-specific expertise and overall software quality assurance leadership and perspective to cross-organization projects, programs, and activities
• Drives innovation and integration of new technologies into projects and activities in the software quality assurance organization

Requirements/Qualifications:

Requires bachelor’s degree in computer science or related streams

Skills Required:

• Minimum of 10-12 years of hand on experience of working in C++ and Linux environment.
• Advanced programming skills –

• Object oriented design and understanding of OOPS concept

• C++ programming (Advanced)
• Good knowledge of data structures
• Good analysis/debugging skills
• Problem Solving Skills

• Good knowledge/experience in System Programming on Linux environment
• Experience or exposure to Data Storage domain (RAID, SCSI, SAS, SATA, NVMe).

Preferred (Good to have):

• Experience with multi-threading, memory management and low-level system programming.
• Knowledge in SCSI Primary, Block, and Storage Enclosure command sets.

• Knowledge of Enterprise servers and storage environments.
• Knowledge on Windows platform.
• Knowledge of Embedded systems.
• Knowledge in PLDM, GSOAP, and RESTFUL protocols.
• Knowledge in Storage Enclosure Zoning and Management.
• Knowledge and use of standards such as REST and JSON.
• Experience developing software in Advanced REST a plus.
• Exposure to Agile development environment.
• Exposure to Test Automation Frameworks.

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