Qa Engineer Software Engineering

CHRISTOPHER P. BRAYDEN

PROFILE

Professional with over 26 years experience at Apple working in Software Engineering on the CoreOS team where I helped to bring new products to market while ensuring Apple quality standards through a combination of manual and automated testing in a Continuous Integration environment and Agile software development methods. Well versed in I/O technologies, an expert at writing test plans for qualification across Apple and external testing houses for testing of embedded fw and sw presubmission of Thunderbolt, USB, Sensors, Camera, Video, Audio, and Ethernet technologies. Adept at managing multiple projects using automation to produce both testing results and reporting. Skilled at training new team members and mentoring others. EXPERIENCE

IHSS Service Provider 2024 - Present

• Special needs provider for in home care.

Apple Inc. - CoreOS - QE Engineer/Systems Quality DRI — 2017 - 2024

• Core IONS Systems Quality DRI in charge of small team of internal and external testers responsible for Quality across all of Apple’s HW devices using Core IONS software; authored test plans to qualify all in development and legacy Apple hardware projects for factory, internal and external test teams covering the breath of I/O technologies supported by Core IONS. This used a combination of manual testing and automation in a CI structure to qualify system software on all consumer hardware products (all iOS, watchOS, tvOS, MacOS devices).

• Core IONS QE DRI for Apple’s transition to USB-C - Lead cross-functional testing between different teams, including training and weekly engineering submission qualification and reporting of features and results. This was an enormous undertaking for Apple, going to the USB-C connector, and it entailed training the team on the technology with weekly updates, traveling to other countries to supervise testing and many cross-functional meetings with both HW and SW teams in Apple. This was essential in delivering a quality first product with USB-C. Apple Inc. - Thunderbolt DRI/QA Engineer — 2012 - 2017

• DRI/QA Engineer for Thunderbolt HW/SW Engineering team testing Embedded FW releases for Thunderbolt HW as well as pre-submisison testing for Thunderbolt SW. Apple Inc. - Mac OS Program Office - Lab Manager/Installation QA Engineer — 1997

- 2012

• QA Engineer for Mac OS X Installation team responsible for manual and automated testing while managing a lab of over 50+ Macs for teams use. Dealt with System Administration and Mac HW/SW issues for my team as well as cross functional teams.

NeXT Computer - Desktop Support/Lab Manager/Driver QA Engineer — 1996 - 1997

• Desktop Support for the company and Driver QA testing of NextStep and OpenStep. Lab rat in charge of keeping software lab up and running. 408-***-****

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3532 Casabella Ct.

San Jose CA 95148

United States

Education

• San Jose State

University —

Bachelor’s Degree,

Computer Science,

2017

Skills

• Embedded FW

Testing

• Hardware and

Software testing.

• Blackbox and

Presubmission

Testing

• Continuous

Integration Testing

• Unix/Linux, Shell

Scripting, BASH,

Python, SQL

• Git, PyCharm

• Debugging and

Strong Analytical

Skills

Awards

Dean’s List SJSU 2014,

2015

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