[Jobs] JOB: (Melbourne) Quality Assurance Software Eng, Contract

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Quality Assurance Software Eng, Contract

Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI)
Australian Software Group
Quality Assurance Software Engineer

SGI (www.sgi.com) has pioneered visual computing solutions and is a leading supplier of high-performance systems from workstations to high-end servers.

The Australian Software Group is situated in SGI's Melbourne office, with a staff of 24 Engineers and 2 Managers reporting directly into SGI's corporate engineering organization in the USA via a Melbourne-based Engineering Director.

The range of engineering projects undertaken in Melbourne is very broad, including systems and performance management tools, storage software (file systems, volume management and hierarchical storage) and networking (including NFS).  These projects cover both maintenance and new feature development for key software components at the heart of SGI's product strategies for IRIX and Linux servers.

We have a requirement to expand our Quality Assurance program on our clustered filesystem CXFS, and are seeking a software engineer to participate full-time for a fixed-term period of 6 months.

The duties would include:
+ developing and running tests to ensure functional conformance, detect functional and performance regressions and reproduce customer reported problems
+ record keeping and report preparation
+ kernel and userspace problem identification and resolution
+ software installation and system administration
+ hardware configuration of a variety of cluster and storage systems

The successful applicant would have the following skills:
+ familiarity with the C programming language
+ familiarity with one of the common Unix/Linux shells (sh, ksh or bash)
+ basic systems administration and filesystem knowledge
+ familiarity with more than one of the following operating systems:
  IRIX, Linux, Solaris, AIX, Mac OS X, Windows

During the course of the contract, the successful applicant would potentially learn the following skills:
+ basic system administration on IRIX, Linux, Solaris, AIX, Mac OS X, Windows
+ automated testing systems
+ clustered filesystem internals
+ userspace and kernel level debugging
+ high-end RAID and SAN configuration

It is expected that suitable candidates would be recent graduates with a bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

For someone who is keen and willing to learn, this is a great opportunity to develop your skills and gain practical experience in a leading software engineering team, working on a variety of challenging problems. The lab environment features a wide range of current generation systems and storage hardware.

We offer a well-resourced, challenging environment with a competitive
remuneration package.

Inquiries concerning the positions (principals only) should be directed
to David Chatterton on +61 3 9834 8200, or chatz at sgi.com.

E-mail applications should be forwarded to chatz at sgi.com.

Recruiters and head-hunters need not apply.

Application closing date: 15 July 2005 
Contact: David Chatterton
chatz at sgi.com
+61 3 9834 8200
Applications close: 15th July 2004