Test Engineer Validation

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

To obtain a position that will enable me to use my strong organizational skills, educational background, and an ability to work well with people.

I would like to implement my analytical thinking, innovation, technical expertise, skills and creativity for accomplishing the projects.

Total 8+ years of professional work experience in various aspects of Pre-Si, Post-Si, SoC, System Validation Engineering, Implementation, Validation, Quality and knowledge of Phyton, Shell and others

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems : Windows 000/XP/7, UNIX/LINUX

Wireless : GSM, UMTS, LTE

Protocols : TCP, UDP, CMP, RLC, MAC, PDCP

Tools : QXDM, QPST, APEX, Wireshark, Putty, SecureCRT

TOOLS COMPETENCY:

Oscilloscopes - R&S CMW500, Anritsu MT8820C and Agilent8960 base station emulators

Hands on experience Python Automation Tool, Phone tool, WinSCP, Putty, Penguiness SM8 & STT.

QXDM, QPST. Prism, Jira, QPAT, PVT, SharePoint, ADB, Wireshark, and Crash scope.

Power Measurement Tools: Kratos, Hoplite and Spartan.

Qualcomm Proprietary Automation tools.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Experience in Platform Voltage Search for 2 Power Rails CPU (XGOLD) & RF (SMARTi8).

Experience in RF testing for different band combinations supporting carrier aggregation.

Experience on performance-based power consumption manual testing at battery level as well as at component level to identify issues in case of higher power consumption or power optimizations on most of the Qualcomm’s CDMA/EVDO, GSM/GPRS, WCDMA/HSPA and LTE technology-based chipsets across multiple HLOS’s (Android, BREW and Firefox).

Validated Thermal and Power Characteristics of CPU, Crystal, Modem SoCs by creating highly automated and integrated framework.

Developed Hybrid Binary Search Algorithm and Automation for CPU SoC Optimization w.r.t. Power, Thermal.

Experience with Processor Emulation Tools (preferably Lauterbach) and Scripting, specifically in the context of Trace and Debug

Experience in post silicon validation, system integration, hands-on debugging in lab both silicon and on emulation platforms, performance and power analysis across relevant use cases

Experience using lab equipment like oscilloscopes, high speed digital test equipment, logic analyzers and function generators

Constructed the circuit using real components on a breadboard using an oscilloscope to read results

Increased Utilization of High Cost Hardware resources by 80% using Optimized Automation Framework Designs. Functional sleep power test suite execution to find out mobile phone sleep issues.

Responsible for test case execution, analysis of test results and closely work with the development team, Chipset power team and other test & development teams to successfully execute and implement the assigned tasks.

Performing Component level breakdowns for identifying issues and collection various logs for debugging the issues.

Good testing experience on mobile modem and Applications (Graphics, Audio, Video) of mobile handsets.

Worked on Qualcomm chipsets SDM630, 8976, 8952, 8926, 7x27A [LA and FFOS] and 8x25Q [Quad Core Processor].

Knowledge on Trace32, defect creation and tracking for debugging the issues.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

5G Validation/Test Engineer Sep 2022 - Currently

Qualcomm, Minneapolis USA

Working in 5G modem (MTP- Mobile Trail Platform) testing.

Experience on 5G NR 3GPP standards.

Performed wireless device field testing per test plan and collect logs using Specific test tools.

Use daily CLA test automation tool, test scripts debugging, log analysis, reporting.

Trace and capture logs with STT, Wireshark, L3 analysis, crash analysis, UTP bug tracking tool.

Working closely with R&D for troubleshooting and verification

Perform RVT, SIT, KPI, Regression, TS11, GFIT, DFIT, NVIOT tests

Post Silicon Validation Engineer Sep 2019 – May 2021

Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd. Bangalore.

About: Job involves Strong understanding the Architecture and Spec of various IPs present in the SOC. Handling Concurrency in DG2 project in which multiple IPs involve.

Learnings:

Understanding of Validation and debug flows of complex DG/CPU Silicon

Understanding of architecture power management module of discrete graphics card.

Learning to development of test content in Python

System Validation Engineer. Oct 2018 – Aug 2019

Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd. Bangalore- India

About: Part of HWMM which is under MFT. Handled XMM7560, XMM7660 and IBIS18 Projects. Presently leading IBIS 2.0 bring up and involved in LAA & MIMO regression testing for XMM7660. Agenda is validation of modem supported RF bands and 3GPP Rel14 band combinations up to LTE-A 5CA

Key Accomplishments:

Created more than 500 new test case parameters including 7660 and 7560.

Created 180 new test cases in one day to meet customer’s requirement.

Took initiative to upload IBIS 18 test cases and results into QC, which was successfully done for the first time. Successfully handled IBIS18 & 19 project.

Worked on Python Automation tool

Post-Si System Validation Engineer. Nov 2017 – Sep 2018

Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd. Bangalore -India

About: My role involves Platform Voltage Search which improves yield of Silicon. Lead IBIS18 & IBIS 19 regression testing to find out the minimum voltage that a hardware can sustain in a particular scenario using binary search. System Verification of Process Window Lot XGOLD SoC (IBIS A0 & B0 XGOLD).

Key Accomplishments:

Recipient of Quarterly MPSG division recognition award 2018 for IBIS18.

Received recognition from higher management for a change went into IBIS18.

Enabled EVM in IBIS 18 for which received recognition from my previous manager.

Received recognition from project lead for SD1 rail experiment.

SD1 rail experiment: SD1 rail read out experiment confirmed IBIS power savings of 20mV and added more confidence during mainline stability and customer communication.

Involved in XMM7660 GNSS Vmin margining bring up.

Product Power Test Engineer Aug 2012- Oct 2017

Qualcomm India Pvt Ltd Hyderabad

About: My role involved test plan bring up, power measurements of modem and multimedia test case execution. Analyzed the power measurement results through waveforms and logs. Compare the results with previous existing results and report the regression or savings.

Key Accomplishments:

Played key role in delivering main snapdragon chipsets like SDM630. 8976, 8952 and 8926.

Certificate of excellence awards for excellent contribution in testing various chipsets and commercialization.

Recognition for contribution towards Firefox OS based mobile chipset testing.

Recognition for successful execution of days of use test suite.

Worked on Kratos measurement tool, Prism and JIRA Bug Tracking

EDUCATION:

B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from VJIT affiliated by JNTU, Hyderabad- India with an aggregate of 75 %, graduated in the year of 2012.

DECLARATION:

I hereby declare that all the above mentioned by me are true to the best of my knowledge.

Sindhuja

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