PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Systems Test & Integration Engineer, QA Test Engineer, DOCSIS Certification Test Engineer, and Set - Top Box Engineer at Confidential and Confidential .
• RF Test and Integration at Confidential, Confidential
• Supervision & Management at Confidential, Confidential . Skills:
• DOCSIS Set-Top Box Test Engineer: 6 years
• Multi Vendor Set-Top Box Certification testing: 1 year
• A/V VOD Confidential Set-Top Box Testing: 2 years
• Broadband Routers: ( Confidential 64K & Cisco vbr7200) 4 years manual DSG configuration.
• QA Test Engineer: 2 years
• QA & Supervision: 10 + years
• Testing: 20 + years
• RF Test Engineer: 15 + years
• RF Bench Top Testing: 10 years
• Technical Writing: 20 + years
• Ethernet Networks: 15 years
• Linux: 2 years
• Cloud VOD testing: 15 months
• Cloud DVR testing: 9 months (Testing and upgrading Arris Servers)
• Electronics: 20 years
• Mechanics: 20 years

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Downingtown, Pa

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the confidtial off-shore software engineers to advise of changes needed to accomplish Confidential ’s requirements of the Test Harness Query Builder and Batch Scheduler Tools for cDVR interface queries.
• Created and tested new query batch files using the new Confidential Query Builder and Batch File Scheduler Tools for cDVR system interface queries.
• Tested cDVR recording, archiving, and playback for new Arris server software upgrades.
• Queried Recorder Server and Recorder Manager Server logs for all cDVR interface request and response results and errors.
• Used HPQC for external defect reports, tracking and testing required test cases for new software versions and regression testing.
• Used JIRA for tracking and issuing internal defect reports.
• Upgraded Arris cDVR servers (Recorders, Recorder Cluster Managers, & Recorder Managers (Application Servers, Load Balancer Servers & Database Servers)

Confidential, Downingtown, Pa

QA Test Engineer for Cloud VOD

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included understanding the “CLOUD” architecture and its functionality, test rack setup, Settop Box configuration which included loading all boxes with appropriate Confidential firmware and channel maps via DAC 6000, testing of 3rd party CLOUD VOD software, writing test procedures, performing test cases per HPQC, and opening up Defect Reports, presenting results and defects to QA Lead Engineer, Program Manager, & Program Lead Engineer.
• Helped build the test rack for manually testing sixteen different model Confidential settop boxes (DCT, DCH, & DCX) using a sixteen channel digital video recorder for video monitoring of all settop boxes for the behavior characteristics of the new CLOUD VOD software versions under various load conditions.
• VOD Tests included: Setting Parental Controls, Checking VOD Asset Availability, DVR Features (Record, Replay, FF, Rev, Stop, Error Reporting, etc.), EAS Messaging Display.
• Set error log levels and captured error logs via the serial port output per software engineering requests.

Confidential, Horsham Pa

DOCSIS Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Required understanding the DOCSIS test requirements of the OCAP software, the Dream Gallery application software and the audio/video requirements, perform the required tests and update the procedures as required for OCAP/Dream Gallery, analyze all failures & write the defect reports, present the results, and enter the results into the Test Central 4.0 data repository.
• Manually tested OCAP (open cable application platform) using both the HPNX system which is basically a Head-End simulator (HPNX card with HPNX software run locally) for setting up DSG properties and messaging (mostly SCTE 65 messages) together with the standard method of DSG configuration management which consisted of my own plant/network to configure and edit the CMTS DSG configuration as needed for the required test cases.
• The A/V testing was performed using an Audio/Video streamer server for different A/V formatted streams (MPEG1-MP1, MPEG1-MP2, MPEG1-MP3 & Digital Dolby Audio and MPEG2 HD, SD, & LD video) for manual testing and AutoMoto/VOD (video on demand) server for running automated Audio/Video test scripts.
• The STB OS was OCAP and the versions tested were Fire-Fly, Ayer, Ayer-Dream Gallery, and Bedford which were initially downloaded through several different processes: “Common Download” being broadcast on a “Carousel Server”; other methods of software download were TFTP, SNMP, and USB local.
• The test setup consisted of a CMTS (BSR 64000 series Broadband router), DAC 6000, DHCP/TFTP Server running Incognito DHCP services, test computer running MG-Soft SNMP tool, HPNX system for DSG configuration and messaging services, an Audio/Video streamer server for different A/V formats (MPEG1-MP1, MPEG1-MP2, MPEG1-MP3 & Digital Dolby Audio and MPEG2 HD, SD LD video) for manual testing and AutoMoto/VOD (video on demand) server for running automated Audio/Video test scripts.

Confidential, Downingtown, Pa

Sr. DOCSIS Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a DOCSIS Test Engineer of the Confidential Certification Wave team my job is to understand the testing requirements, perform the required tests, analyze all failures, present the certification wave results, and file the results package.
• The testing includes the setting up of fifty devices for test, testing these devices using the automated scripts through the use of GUI interface which would include the correct configuration for each device, changing the CMTS configuration files on five different CMTSs, an Arris D3.0, Arris D2.0, Confidential D2.0 BSR 6000, Cisco D3.0 10K, & Cisco D2.0 VXR, for cross platform compatibility, and troubleshooting any problems with the device registration or drop-out prior to and during testing.

Confidential, Horsham Pa

Systems Integration & DOCSIS/DSG Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created cable modem and settop box configuration files for manual regression testing on new software versions on new and older settop models to DOCSIS (Digital Over Cable Service Interface System) Internal Requirements and developed the setup for multiple settop boxes and software version testing simultaneously.
• Modified the original test setup to increase productivity from a single software version and one model settop box to four software versions and up to nine settop boxes. (adding manual IP and video switches & RF splitters)
• Assisted in the transition of a manual setup to an automated setup by providing the software group with the setup configuration requirements, a detailed explanation of the test requirements and the ability to help troubleshoot and analyze the initial automation test script failures.
• Loaded and tested the Guide Application using a (DCCG) Confidential Control Channel Generator and the required channel maps to check its effects on the settop boxes during normal DOCSIS & DSG throughput data rate usage.
• The test setup consisted of a CMTS (BSR 64000 & CISCO 7200 vxr series Broadband router), DHCP/TFTP Server running Incognito DHCP services, Test Computer running MG-Soft SNMP tool, SmartBits 2000 & 6000 IP/UDP Data Analyzer, LynkSys Switch, SigTek ST-260C DOCSIS RF Tracer.