Test Engineer

TASHAWNDA HARRIS

**** ******* ****

Aurora, IL **502

Phone: 630-***-****

Email: ablqoe@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Senior Software/Test engineer with 13+ years experience in the

telecommunications, personal networking, and multimedia industries with

proven skills in C, Assembly, and Unix. Demonstrated abilities in

development, analyzing, and debugging of code for embedded real-time

systems along with strong testing skills of telecommunications products. A

well-organized team player with the capacity to adapt to new challenges,

meet deadlines, and troubleshoot complex problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

LANGUAGES: C, Assembly, Perl, Microcode

APPLICATIONS: Anite Terminal Automation Gateway, ADB,

QXDM, QPST, Oberthur PCOM,

Cingular Editor, Audacity,

Navaho, PCO2, RTA, RadioComm, Test Central,

GemXplore Case

Lite/Admin, Moto Seem, Flex Auto, RSD Lite, Jira, DDTS,

WSAN, PVCS Tracker,

WireShark, ClearCase, Sablime, Continuus, Visual C++,

Visio, Ami Pro, Pspice,

Matlab, NetSpy, Multi, Minicom, SingleStep,

UC Davis SNMP Manager,

XXGDB, Kermit, ADS56300

EQUIPMENT: Anite SAS, Spirent 8100, Rohde & Schwarz

CMU200 CMW500,

Anritsu MD8480C, Comprion

IT3 Move, Logic Analyzer, Sniffer, Emulator,

Simulator, Debugger,

Oscilloscope

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Unix, Windows 9x/2000/NT/XP, Sun-OS, Solaris, HP-UX,

pSOS,

VxWorks, VRTX32 C, GSM

BSS Executive

EXPERIENCE

1 Motorola Mobility Inc., Libertyville, IL 2005-2012

Sr. Software Engineer

Worked in a GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/LTE cellular networking environment in order

to provide optimal testing of mobile phones being provided to vendors for

the Carrier Validation Team:

. Demonstrated ability to provide strong analytical research, problem

solving, and verbal/written communication skills along with the ability

to provide proficient manual and automated testing of products.

. Expert for testing of various functional areas such as Call Processing,

AMR-MM, Smartcard Features, etc. along with ability to expand testing

expertise and knowledge across various functional areas.

. Worked closely with Requirements team to ensure device acceptance test

plan and requirements stayed in sync.

. Responsible for logging issues, reporting results, and driving high

priority issues/blockages/showstoppers found to closure with Technical

Account Managers (TAMs), Requirements team, and Hardware/Software

development. Also provided support to development engineers in

determining and verifying fixes.

. Worked closely with the Execution Team Lead to assist with their daily

responsibilities including reviewing test results, tracking open issues

and updating/coordinating progress on issues with TAMS to ensure test

execution team was on schedule to complete test cycle on any given

product. Also acted as Execution Team Lead in their absence.

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3 Motorola Inc., Arlington Heights, IL 1999-2002

Senior Software Engineer/Software Engineer

Platform functional area expert for field/lab issues in national and

international markets for the CDMA cellular infrastructure of the VSX

Platform/DSP Team of the CDMA Systems Division:

. Demonstrated ability to develop, maintain, troubleshoot, analyze, and

debug 12 year old legacy system platform code spanning several functional

areas for various product releases.

. Communicated effectively cross culturally with people in international

markets of China, Israel, and Japan along with US markets supporting

vendor's cellular system availability by

- Serving as primary development contact for Transcoder Platform issues.

- Troubleshooting and resolving issues for on-site/off-site lab support

and customer sites.

- Collaborating with various groups such as hardware, call processing,

sub-system test to resolve issues in a timely and efficient manner.

. Demonstrated multitasking ability by concurrently prioritizing resolution

of issues to meet business and customer needs while also ensuring

continuous system availability during delivery of next generation

functionality.

. Maintained platform group's development level Transcoder System that

supported engineer development, testing, and troubleshooting purposes by

maintaining a current configuration database and system code, and

monitoring system hardware.

. Designed, coded, tested, and wrote documentation for redesigning of

initialization process of EGP/GPROC with backward compatibility to

previous product releases to accommodate for memory issues drastically

affecting system performance. This extended the life of hardware saving

the company $2000/board within its Trancoder cellular infrastructure.

4 Motorola Inc., Arlington Heights, IL

Developed software with Real-Time Protocol (RTP) on RTP component of a

cable modem for Platform and Telephony Team of Multimedia Group.

. Wrote and tested code which successfully meet product specifications and

standards for

- Different features of RTP component such as Mac Reinits, Caller Id fix

for certain DSP voice modes, provisioning of low bite rate codecs.

- Command Line Interface (CLI) and Simple Network Management Protocol

(SNMP) Access routines for different cable modem components.

- MCF5206E Coldfire Direct Memory Access (DMA) Controller Module for DSP

downloads and read/writes to Hostport Interfaces to increase speed and

efficiency.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at

Chicago

Associate of Science in Engineering, Triton College, River Forest, IL

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