SUMMARY

• Solid experience in Software Development, Validation, Automation, Testing and Quality Assurance.
• Self - starter, hard-working, ability to learn and excel in new technologies in short time.
• Good experience in providing solutions for various cable MSOs such as TWC, Cox, Comcast and Cablevision.
• Deep troubleshooting skills for embedded systems
• Good in analytical and problem solving skills
• Expertise in OCAP and STB playback of video and audio related specifications
• Good Knowledge of Digital Video Recording, Home networking, tuning, video and audio playback.
• Good Knowledge in RTOS concepts and STB Architecture.
• Comfortable interacting with multiple levels of organization, management and staff from different locations.
• Experience with working in Agile/SCRUM software environments
• Good in Debugging/Troubleshooting issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• C, C++, Python (scikit - learn, NumPy, Pandas) and Tensorflow
• JIRA, CDETS and TIMS
• Jenkins
• STB open source solutions: OCAP and RDK

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SDET

Responsibilities:

• Add new features in test frameworks to validate and enhance home automation device software and hardware platforms such as camera products.
• Implement automation infrastructure and fixtures for various camera products, device control applications, and cloud services to run automated tests.
• Develop test plan and strategy to test various features of the camera software system.
• Ensure that the product quality and stability requirements are met by running full regression tests and various automated tests on camera products against latest software releases.
• Triage and provide analysis for issues found during validation of camera features using automated and manual testing.
• Respond to issues assigned, suggest workarounds, communicate to the stakeholders and close issues in an effective manner.
• Do code review to make sure the coding standards and requirements are met.
• Mentor and guide the new team members by providing trainings on scheduled based.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer and Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Automated multiple manual test processes such as validation of tuning process, play back of recorded programs, various trick modes (fast forward, rewind and pause) activities and display of settings menu.
• Ownership for Digital video recording (DVR), Home Networking (HN), Tuning, Section Filtering (SF) and Emergency Alert system (EAS).
• Responsible for Defect Tracking & Bug Fix for the modules owned.
• Delivering enhancements for OCAP spec changes and new features requested by customers.
• Monitoring weekly stability test execution results. Prioritizing the failures and triaging the failures and sharing status report with high level management.
• Testing support and bug fixing across modules like Tuning, HN, EAS DVR and, Section filtering.
• Fixing critical showstopper issues and customer reported issues across Axiom modules.

Confidential

Developer and Test engineer

Responsibilities:

• Writing Python scripts to create overnight stability scripts. Overnight stability scripts will connect to client set-top boxes and perform various activities such channel change, scheduling recordings, invoke various menu and log collection.
• Writing test plans for different client projects and executing test cases.
• Review test cases written by team members.
• Providing technical support to team members on the issues related to the head-end as well as set-tops.
• Worked on many platforms (DVR, Non DVR, Cable Card, Embedded CA, Tuning Adapter, DVD boxes and Cable Card)
• Deriving proper statistics from reports, analyzing the issues
• Performed various testing activities (Feature and Performance testing)

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Bring up RDK stack on Cisco G8 hardware. Responsible for Digital Video Recording & Home networking modules.
• Performing Unit testing and ensuring that features are working as per the requirements.
• Responsible for Defect Tracking & Bug Fix for the modules owned during the box bring up.
• Fixing critical showstopper issues and customer reported issues across RDK stack.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design, implementation, ownership & Point-Of-Contact of Digital Video Recording w.r.to OCAP Middleware
• Monitoring of recording reliability test execution and fix issues to keep the success rate as high as possible.
• Responsible for Defect Tracking & Bug Fix for the DVR, Tuning and section filtering modules.
• Responsible for milestone deliverables.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is the resident application for CISCO Cable Set Top boxes. Confidential stack is placed over the Power TV middleware; Confidential supports dual CAS, Cable Card and Embedded CAS. Different versions of Confidential support a wide range of functionalities from SD to HD, Non DVR to DVR. Notable features of Confidential are Picture-In-Picture, Multi Room DVR, Remote DVR, Switched Digital Video Broadcasting and support for wide Third Party apps.
• Below are the notable enhancements that I had done in Confidential
• SD-HD Enhanced Channel Map
• DVR Usage tracking
• Confidential boot-up time reduction
• BFS2HTTP
• Dynamic SAM update
• Fixed many critical field and lab issues.
• Preparing the design document, doing unit testing and test team support were part and parcel of each enhancements and critical issue fixing.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed three core copy modules
• Testing the application for bugs and bug fixes.
• Fixing the defects in all modules for Quality Improvement of the product (QIP Phase).
• Ensuring delivery on time.