Test Engineer Machine Learning

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David Acquah-Asare

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Professional Summary

Dedicated Test Engineer adept at executing manual and automated testing, training, programming and doing presentations. Skilled at documenting test procedures to enhance product development. Work Experience

Owner

Ekow and Associates, Lake Forest, California 5/1/2023 – 1/1/2025 Manage the creation and distribution of educational materials, with successful sales in multiple countries. Expanded offerings to include college physics handbook, technical, insurance related material, re-engaging with advanced computer technologies combining machine learning principles and ROS 2. Field Applications Engineer

Oakgate-Loomis, CA May 2022 to February 2023

Managed testing of new Oakgate SVF software releases, sandbox testing and JIRA reporting. Worked on SVF appliances, repairs, RMAs, identifying customer drive issues and Oakgate software updates. Built remote lab and managed employee to duplicate issues for JIRA issue resolution. DVT Test Engineer

Virtium Inc, RSM, California April 2020 to May 2022 Built the test infrastructure and executed DVT tests in a fifty-computer networked testbed for SSD devices. Developed Python applications to issue NVMe commands using NVME CLI admin passthru commands. Modified C code to display NVMe Smart data information in an acceptable manner. Tested a variety of NVMe, SATA/SAS USB drives, using test scripts apps and automated processes. Created power control scripts to execute reboot tests using Denkovi relays for soft/hard reboot testing. Software/Test Engineer

Cosemi Inc-Phoenix, AZ October 2018 to January 2020 Wrote production software using C and Lab-Windows/CVI. Worked on software to enable of USB devices. Interpreted I2C signals on a scope and created C scripts for I2C to control interface optical encoder. Tested high speed HDMI, DVI, USB signals over fibre cables for long distance connectivity. Test Engineer

Universal Electronics Inc, Santa Ana, CA November 2017 to May 2018 Tested and researched GSM signal interference with Bluetooth and RF4CE device transmissions. Evaluated test fixtures and custom procedures for appropriateness specific to device test requirements. Created a standard document system and structure to backup and record all GSM testing done. Senior Test Engineer

SolidFire-Boulder, CO May 2015 to November 2015

Executed automated continuous integration (CI) tests in scrum team for 24/7 test coverage. Ran automated test scripts with SolidFire's AT2 and their element named enterprise software. Implemented a "Process to Procedure" initiative to share undocumented applicable product knowledge. P a g e 2

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HGST-Santa Ana, CA October 2014 to April 2015

Executed NVME power shutdown test scripts on solid state drives using Oakgate SVF software. Identified power issues on NVME drives and reprogrammed failed PCIE SSD test units. Reproduced and tracked firmware bugs in JIRA in Agile environment with HW/FW developers. Senior Test Engineer

NetApp-Morrisville, NC November 2013 to August 2014 Wrote test plans, executed Dell blade server/NetApp storage tests; Created and presented test reports. Tested pre-released Dell servers’ fibre channel interfaces, FC switches with NetApp enterprise storage Managed rack mounted servers with HP ALM in High-Availability environment with Perforce 4. Interfaced with OEM vendor to resolve a severe fibre channel issue that I discovered during testing BIOS Test Engineer/Lab Manager

QLogic-Aliso Viejo, CA October 2012 to August 2013 Supervised the DVT lab facilities, scheduling tests and managing enterprise storage systems. Developed test procedures for FibreCache HBAs with embedded Marvell 78460 ARM SoC. Wrote C code for programming the QLogic FibreCache host adapter (SPG manufacturing software). Designed and executed functional and reliability test strategy for fibre channel HBA, BIOS and driver. Education

Bachelor of Science in Physics

Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, IL 1985 Organizational skills

Test experiences include System Development Life Cycle, Agile and Waterfall Testing. Building test set-ups, execution and automation, with devices including Fibre Channel switches for zoning and LUN masking. Bluetooth and RF4CE GSM signal interruption using signal generators, intercepting and exposing product flaws (bugs) through detailed, focused testing.

Technical Background

Protocol experience: Fibre Channel, NVMe, FCoE, SCSI, iSCSI and Bluetooth specifications. Fibre Channel experience: multi-boot BIOS, FC SANs, FC zoning, multi-pathing, fail-over testing. OS experience: Microsoft Windows Server (2012/2008/2003), Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu Linux. Storage device experience: HP, IBM, EMC, Clariion, NetApp, RAID and JBOD storage systems. Extensive understanding of test processes gained through permanent and contract experience. Scripting with Python and C/C++, familiar with Command Line Interfaces like NVMe CLI Architecting BIOS and firmware test plans to meet and exceed customer product requirements. Work experience includes FC, SANs, Finisar, LeCroy NVMe analyzers SerialTek analyzer. Hands-on supervisory experience, giving presentations and accomplished team-training skills Fibre Channel and SANs, SSD testing with a focus on NVMe and USB, cable and bluetooth testing: Use of embedded devices, Adaptec and QLogic ASICs, ARM7 SoC, Raspberry Pi, Arduino Mega. Testing fibre channel BIOS, adapters, fibre channel storage, switches and FC Hubs.

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