SUMMARY:

Over 7 years of experience in semiconductor and telecom industry proven ability to manage/lead multiple projects while meeting challenging deadlines. Demonstrated ability to drive project requirements communicate with executive management. Work closely with cross functional teams to help launch new products in market.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Bug tracking tools: JIRA, BUGZILLA, PRISM, RMA IR.

Data Analysis/mining tools: Optimal + and Data power.

Version control SW: Perforce (P4v), Git.

CRM software: SharePoint.

Operating Systems: Android, Windows.

SW languages: Python, MATLAB.

Confidential Tools: QPST, QSPR, QXDM, QFIL.

Other tools & SW: ADB (Android debug bridge), MS - Office, Putty, Trace 32, Agilent 8960, CMW-500, Titan and Chroma systems.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Diego, California

Engineer/Product Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provide SW and HW Solutions for customers issues (RMA).
• Responsible for yield improvement, test time and cost reduction.
• Internal and external customer DPPM (Defective parts per million) reduction and improve Quality.
• Processes improvement (when necessary) between Customer/Branch & Confidential .
• Experience working with android devices and failure debug.
• Experience in Multimedia Testing - Audio, Video, Camera Features etc.
• Experience in Functional testing, Performance, Regression, Stability and stress testing.
• Experience with product HW test and system characterization and validation.
• Experience with system HW stress testing and triage for internal and external RMAs.
• Debugging the failing systems (from the internal testing or customer returns).
• Run MTBF(Mean time between failures) on daily new SW releases.
• Experience with call processing and 3G, LTE technologies.
• Understand the root cause and implement corrective actions through design and test enhancements.
• Chair daily scrum calls with various engineering teams for failure debug.
• Experience with data mining tools such as Optimal + and data power.
• System level test lead on multiple MSM and MDM projects.
• Participate and contribute in reviews of requirements, schedules, and test plans.
• Excellent verbal, written and organizational skills and ability to present data clear and concise manner.
• Work directly with customers to own & drive New Product Qualification (NPQ) requirements.
• Provide leadership and be responsible for local/global production test team in daily operations.
• Conduct technical evaluations of customer returns at system and device level utilizing tools such as ATE, SVE, system level test, and bench leading to a clear path of root cause.
• Act as the conduit between Confidential customer, Product Core Team, and worldwide CQE.
• Track actions, schedules and owners to maintain targeted RMA analysis cycle time. Initiate internal corrective actions where applicable.
• Define priority among customer corrective actions to be taken within Confidential and guide the implementation within internal teams.
• Generate weekly/monthly/quarterly update reports to problem-solving teams and management.
• Update customers in a timely fashion regarding the status of open quality issues or support requests.
• Experience with HVM (High Volume Manufacturing) and NPI and bring up of Confidential products.
• Planning and execution of system test on Confidential chipsets to the WW production sites.
• Estimating, prioritizing, planning and coordinating testing activities.
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
• Ensures that the reliability, performance, and functionality of assigned features and functionality meet or exceed business goals.
• Documenting test procedures to ensure replicability and compliance with standards.
• Execute and evaluate manual and automated system level test cases.
• Experience working with CDP, MTP and ATP boards for system test and debug.
• Configure and maintained test environments. Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.
• Reproduce defects reported internally or by customer and analyze logs to find the root cause.
• Issue reporting and escalation to higher management as necessary.

Confidential, San Diego, California

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Competitive performance analysis on Power, Thermal, current, voltages.
• Run the Benchmarks to optimize the performance. Based on real world scenarios.
• Stress performance analysis on all hardware and Software components at temperature variations.
• LTE, WCDMA, CDMA, GSM Voice and Data calls using Agilent, Anritsu.
• Testing Multimedia Camera, Camcorder encoding and decoding. HD, 1280p, 720p Video and Data calls using Agilent, Anritsu.
• Change Requests (CR) and JIRA tickets for all the observed issues during test execution.
• Extensively used Confidential tools- QPST, QXDM, QXDM, QFIL.
• Voltage, Current, Power, Battery measurements on RCM (National instrument) and XERXES, on all power rails using voltage regulators.
• Hardware verifications on CPU, GPU, DDR, Modem.
• Perform the Voltage characterization and measure the power rails and provide a voltage table.
• Experience in HW Manual and Automated Testing.
• Strong experience in building and execution of HW Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts.
• Test Procedures based on the Design and User Requirement Documents for - Unit, Integration, Regression, Functional, Non-Functional, Performance and User Acceptance Testing manually as well as using various automation tools.
• Taking logs and generating log dumps for automated tests and semiautomated tests.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in field test and lab test, analyzing field issues in real time and offline.
• OEM Device testing (3G, LTE) experience on live network and also in lab environment.
• Documenting test procedures to ensure replicability and compliance with standards.
• Responsible for identifying and reporting bugs to the management.
• Represent test findings/metrics to the higher management in weekly review meetings.
• Design, develop, maintain and execute test cases and report test results.
• Execute manual test cases including ad-hoc and exploratory testing.
• Change software configurations to simulate specific configuration scenarios for successful testing results.

Confidential

Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed both inter/intra data and voice handover tests for UMTS and LTE.
• Conducted field drive tests to verify call drops, data throughput, and RAT handover.
• Layer 3 message analysis for drops and access failures issue.
• Conduct root cause analysis of identified defects, replicate and drive it to resolution.
• Ensure defects and requirement variances are being communicated to development for correction.
• Experience with wireless communications protocols and analysis via Wireshark.
• Good understanding of Layer 3 messaging. Able to collect and analyze data and performance statistics.
• Defect Reporting and tracking in JIRA.
• Participated in weekly status review meeting to update team progress and goals.
• Experience with test case creation, execution and regression efforts.