Avinash Raghav

QA Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India16 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 12+ years of Software QA experience in gaming industry.
  • Led QA for Nvidia SHIELD, optimizing gaming performance.
  • Expert in Apple compliance and multimedia testing.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Gaming Quality Assurance expert with extensive experience in graphics and performance testing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Agile MethodologiesQuality AssuranceGraphics Driver ValidationGame StreamingApple Compliance Testing

Other Skills

Agile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile TestingAndroidAutomated TestingCCommunicationCompliance TestingDebuggingGame TechnologiesJIRAKey Performance IndicatorsLeadershipLinuxManual TestingMicrosoft Excel

About

With 12+ years of Software QA experience, I had the exciting opportunity to do end to end testing as QA Lead on bring up of Nvidia SHIELD android gaming products right from the involvement of gaming tablet's stable boot to performance optimization while supporting android OS, drivers, firmware parallel changes and eventually designing, reviewing and creation of test plans & AGILE process for a team of 10 to deliver a Xbox Console like gaming experience on Tablets dock mode to best in class handheld gaming experience on android Lolipop of optimized AAA Pc game build ports on android device Was actively engaged on SHIELD Tablets Quality of Service algorithm by tweaking & testing h264 codecs real time FPS, bit-rate, render resolution over varied network bandwidth to deliver lag free cloud based gaming experience with high visual fidelity Being a part of QA at EA studio & having enriching work on Apple's I Phone & I Pad has made me understand how user experience on smart phone should be intuitive & seamless and helped me understand the underlying QA process which define quality experience, which is achieved by innovation & tight integration of iOS + Apps + Hardware to provide end to end solution. Eventually driving me to explore innovation centric future gaming projects Also have experience on the Pc & Console side of gaming on AMD GPUs Radeon series products to provide day one AAA game graphics driver support by releasing optimized stable Graphics driver with widely used features like Free-sync & Virtual super resolution Having worked on ARM based SOC, GPU drivers has helped me apply my knowledge on numerous features exposed by a smart phone processor (for instance Touch technologies, Modem, Camera, Mobile Broadband, GPS, Bluetooth, Graphics, Power management driver, USB, Display & many more ), with this generation & next generation products becoming more and more smart within a mere 6 months of time cycle my experience is a big plus for a innovation focused consumer product based tech companies

Experience

Google

Quality Assurance Team Lead

Aug 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · India

CommunicationKey Performance IndicatorsWeb ApplicationsProcess ImprovementRequirements GatheringAgile & Waterfall Methodologies+4

Amd

Senior QA Engineer

Oct 2015 – May 2022 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • >Experience in Graphics Driver Validation for day 1 support of AAA games release lineup on Radeon Family of GPU
  • >Experience in AMD Link google play store Apps CRC execution and took responsibility of Dog fooding session before the app launch in market
  • > Validate the quality of the system for every changed release cycle.
  • >Actively be a part to monitor and improve quality process by creating and analyzing RCCA (Root Cause Corrective Action Repot) and Post Mortem Report
CommunicationKey Performance IndicatorsAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile MethodologiesQuality AssuranceGraphics Driver Validation

Nvidia

Lead QA Engineer

Dec 2011 – Sep 2015 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Pune

  • > Quality Release of SHIELD hub android App on Google Play store for game streaming
  • > Create & Execute Manual/Automated Functional, Sanity, Regression, Performance, Stress and Stability tests on Tegra3/Tegra4 SOC modules like Camera, Wifi, Modem, GPU, Audio, Ambient Light sensor, Power, Touch.
  • > Create & execute manual test plan for incremental Game Stream features like Network Tester, Gamer Tag, Streaming while roaming on internet, Multiple Pc Server Support, Audio on Pc, Advanced Streaming ops settings like 'FPS', 'Bit Rate' and 'resolution' via Android App (SHIELD Hub) for SHIELD series of products .
  • > Understand and optimize working of QoS algorithm to get best game stream experience based on the available network bandwidth
  • > Study & Review functional design document of Game Stream Android App(SHIELD Hub).
  • > Create performance test plan for Game Stream performance indicator
  • > Run graphics benchmark tools like Dolphin, Fish IE, Unreal Engine, D2D Demos, HTML5 demos.
  • > Experience in using Windows Kernel Debugger to Identify, Debug & Isolate Basic Driver functionality & Critical Driver stability Issues for Tegra3 & Tegra4 SOC for Windows surface Tablet by executing PAC test suite
  • > Familiar with building WHQL Server, Executing WHQL Test Suites for Microsoft Driver Certification.
  • > Debugging of ATP4WOT (automation tool), WHQL & Windows Kernel Debugger job logs.
  • > Experience in creating Product analysis report for Surface Tablet RT/ Asus ViVo Tab RT by taking the the review from IGN and fellow testers.
  • > Reporting and tracking of bugs and defects by using ‘NVBugs’ ‘JIRA’ ‘PRISM’ and ‘Dev-Track’ system.
  • > Tracking bugs and inconsistencies in a comprehensive, concise and structured manner (making use of Bug Filters & Watchlists) for Bug Scrub meetings and weekly Dev-QA conference calls.
  • > Create OS Acceptance, PAC Report, CSR [Consolidated Shift Report], WPR [Weekly project Report] and Post-mortem report.
CommunicationKey Performance IndicatorsAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile MethodologiesQuality AssuranceGame Streaming

Qualcomm

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2011 – Dec 2011 · 6 mos

  • > Experience in Automation/Manual multimedia testing of Graphics, Camera, Camcorder, Audio Video Playback, Audio Recording, video Streaming and modem on Qualcomm’s smart phone Dual-Core microprocessor ‘Snap Dragon’ 8960, 8660 and 7655.
  • > Run OpenGL based graphics benchmark tools Robust, Powerlift, Neocore, Gles2gears and EglTest.
  • > Experience in Sanity, Regression, Performance and Stability Job execution on Qualcomm’s smart phone microprocessor 8960, 8660 and 7655 via automation tool ASIA as well as manually to verify the multimedia functionality.
  • > Finding, Reporting & Tracking bugs and inconsistencies in a comprehensive, concise and structured manner (making use of Bug Filters & Watchlists).
  • > Reporting and tracking of bugs and defects by ‘JIRA’ ‘PRISM’ and ‘Dev-Track’ system.
Agile & Waterfall Methodologies

Ea mobile

Senior QA Engineer

Jun 2010 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr · Hyderabad

  • > Apple Compliance, Compatibility and Performance testing of the applications on Apple’s I Phone, I Pad & I Pod Touch
  • > Study functional design document of apps, review latest iOS and application’s latest version and suggest changes accordingly
  • > Make a customer analysis report for Apps by taking inputs from App Store forum
  • > Verification and Validation of EA’s online account registration website
  • > Verification of data population on STAGE/LIVE tracking servers for mobile applications which helps EA improve the quality of product by tracking user preferences and events.
  • > Verification of Dynamic More Applications [DMA] website. DMA is a website which promotes applications developed by EA through in-app browser of smart phone
  • > Act as a liaison between Team Lead and QA team
Agile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile MethodologiesQuality AssuranceApple Compliance Testing

Vmc

QA Engineer

Jun 2009 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • > Experience in Functional, Regression & Soak testing (Memory Leak Issues) on AAA Game Titles on PS3, Xbox 360 & Nintendo WII and also with Games/App/Website on handheld devices like Apple’s I Phone/ I Pad and NVIDIA SHIELD
  • > Familiars with PS3’s TRC (Technical Requirement Checklist) & XBOX 360’s TCR (Technical Certification Requirement)
  • > Experience in multiplayer test on various network configuration
  • > Mechanics, Artificial Intelligence (NPC), Game-Audio, Game-Video, Game-Play Performance & Stability Issues
  • > Verification and Validation of XLIVE account and PSN account registration
Agile & Waterfall Methodologies

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelores of Technology — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jan 2004 – Jan 2007

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