Senior System Validation Engineer
Pace Micro Technology Plc
Total years of experience :16 years, 7 Months
An ISTQB certified, Senior System Validation Engineer with 7 .8 Years ‘of Industry experience in Embedded product Testing, focused on Head end system, Set Top Box and Multimedia Jukebox player.
• Integration validating of Pace drivers/middleware/CAS of STB, Performance and Middleware test Automation and also on field Customer Support.
• Gained experience in performing Manual/Black box and white box testing (Middleware SDK).
Experience in Head end product testing Cable and satellite Headend IPTV, Trans modulator, CMTS, Pace Cobalt (VOD/EPG head end).
Conditional access System Testing- smart card verification
NDS, Nagra, Irdeto Verimatrix, Conax, Viacess
Third party middleware testing:
NDS CDI, Nagra, Irdeto
STB Testing: ZAPPER, SD/HD PVR (DVB C, DVB S/S2, DVB T/T2, ), IP STB, Hybrid STB
Automation Set up and Test Execution :Youview Conformance testing, NDS FOSH CDI/XTV, DTG Test suit, STB Tester, Red rat automation tool
Pre certifications Testing of HDMI and CEC, Interoperability, Dolby, DTG, Docsis 2.0
Good knowledge of DVB, SI/PSI tables, MPEG TS, MHEG, EPG, VOD, PVR, Conditional Access (CA), DLNA, Audio Video Codecs, IMS, HDMI, WiFI, IP Networking/Streaming .
Building server setup: Open IMS Core. Cobalt Headend.
Customer demo and trial Set up (Astro Malaysia, Airtel India, Telnor Norway, Sky Italia (Italy), Youview UK, OSN Dubai).
Experience on onsite field/ System Integration testing (Overseas Customers), resolving customers issues and other customer support activities
STB and headend sytem :Boot loader testing
Test Planning and Estimation.
Project Risk analysis and reporting
Resource planning and management
Test documentation review and reporting
Customer requirement documentation
Product requirement documentation
Test strategy documentation
Test design and test cases documentation
Test exit report
Third party product and tool evaluation and interaction
Presentation of training programs for clients and company engineering team in use of new broadcast systems and equipment.
Planning, development and presentation of training programs for clients and company engineering team in use of new broadcast systems and equipment.
Conducting Technical interviews and Training for new joinees
Technical Skills
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Languages :
C, Data Structure, TCL/TK, Python
Operating Systems
Windows XP/Vista, UNIX, Linux, Fedora, Vxworks, Ubuntu.
Test Management Tool :
Zypher
Configuration Management Tool:
CVS, Clearcase, SVN
Change/Bug Tracking
Bugzilla, JIRA
Test Tools:
DekTeq stream Playouts,
Quntum data Analayzer (882/980),
Tektronix Multiplexer,
Simplay labs HDMI Test, Makefiles, GDB, Digi debug
Wireshark,
PIC programming Broadcom chip,
Ixia, ProgDVB, TS readerlite.
DVB Transport stream :Editing updating modification and creation
Identifying the Next Generation requirements for Future OSN STB release
Open Test Automation set Up and administration
Preparation of test scripts using TCL, to Automate Sanity tests, Reliability and Acceptance Test pack.
• Joined DVICO (A Korean Startup in India)as a 5th Employee and contributed in
initial setup(Networking, Server setup, Clearcase Installation Competency Building miscellaneous)
• Implementing and Testing Netshare (a utility for sharing files over network with Tvix4100 and TViX 6500) for windows XP and windows vista.
• Setting up the Testing Environment, Installation of OS and other System admin related activities.
• Preparation of Bug life cycle, PRD, CRD, MRD, requirement Spec for TViX 4100 and TViX 6500, release note documents
• Involved in identification and preparation of test cases document for -Network functionality, GUI functionality, Playback functionality of TViX 4100 and TViX 6500.
• Tracking of bugs in Bugzilla 3.0 and also playing a major role in maintaining the same.
• Formulation of functional and UI test case for the entire Audio codec’s, Jpeg Slideshow, Torrent, UPNP, Network and Video Codec’s.(Smoke Test Cases, basic acceptance reports and full functional test cases) .
• Working on Firmware Build environment, kernel compilation.
• Regular reviews of forums of the surveys conducted on the TViX media players (avsforum and mpcclub) for requirements gathering.
Master of Technology 2005-07 The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore/ (VTU) Information Technology
Bachelor of Engineering 2001-05 P A College of Engineering, Mangalore/ (VTU) Electronics & communication