Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Oct 2019 – Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• Chief Technology & Engineering [ CTE ] - Software Engineering : AMDGPU/APU Driver Validation on Linux for existing & upcoming AMD platforms, focusing on AMD-APU component Quality after Integration
• AMD Post silicon Test System setup & readiness with defined System configuration- SBIOS, OS, basic components/packages installation
• Design & Maintain the test plan, Testcases, Test Report for Multiple new & sustenance programs
• Execution of Test cases covering Sanity, Functional testing, stress testing with Audio, Power, mesa, Vulkan API, OGL games, steam games, benchmarking applications with native & Non native resolution over HDMI, DP, Type C
• Excellent in Identifying & Filing Blocker/Critical bugs, Perform First Level Failure Analysis, follow up with driver Development team to resolve the bugs within the schedule.
• Complete End to End responsible for defect filing & defect handling till the closure. Also own Test Report & Publishing to stakeholders
• Bringing up new ideas to reduce test execution time & increase execution efficiency. Self monitor display using camera to monitor the tests remotely without any intervention.
• Worked with tools team & Contributed to make test engineers to flash the SBOIS remotely by themselves without dependencies
• Proven Excellency in Working with Peers, seniors from various disciplines, stake holders & Various Cross Functional teams like Build infrastructure - driver development, Automation & Tools teams across Geo’s seamlessly.
• Successfully handled High visibility multiple customer issues by identifying the root cause & resolve issues aggressively & truly demonstrated Work together by working with US counterparts to strive for product success. Responsible for working between development teams and the tool suppliers to re-engineer equipment in support of sustainability
• Excellent in team handling, drove & manage team of 6-10 members.

Apr 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• HDD Firmware R&D:
• Firmware Validation for Enterprise Storage Products with Western Digital. This involves Manual Testing, System testing, White-box testing, Protocol testing, Performance & Reliability Testing.
• One of the Core member for Firmware validation team in India, contributed for the project transition from U.S & also effectively worked with various teams in Japan & Malaysia.
• Successfully Drove Lab infrastructure set up planning, System bring up, Resolve system & infrastructure issues with more Hands on & execution activities in Agile methodologies
• Effectively Contributed to Test firmware for Various Enterprise products which involves Manual , unit, Drive performance testing & Automation Testing
• Excellent in Identifying & Filing Blocker/Critical bugs, Perform First Level Failure Analysis, Follow up with Test development/ Firmware Development team to resolve the bugs within the schedule.
• Contributed by Suggesting various new ideas to fine-tune various process to reduce time & increase execution efficiency.
• Proven Excellency in Working with Various Cross Functional teams like Build infrastructure - Jenkins, test development & firmware development, Automation & Tools teams across Geo’s seamlessly
• Successfully handled High visibility multiple customer issues by identifying the root cause & resolve issues aggressively & truly demonstrated “Do it together” by working with US/Japan/Malaysia counterparts to strive for product success. Responsible for working between development teams and the tool suppliers to re-engineer equipment in support of sustainability
• Got multiple recognitions & awards in short time during the regular work.

Sep 2012 – Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Client Research & Development : 2014-2016
• Chrome Validation &Automation:
• Contributed to Coreboot, PCH & System Agent test cases and Google Auto test Framework.
• System Validation Lead for Linux: Design, create testcases, test plan & Execution on various platforms.
• Responsible for Validation of touchpad, touch panel & sensors for Braswell & Broadwell platforms Effectively worked with developers for the patches & feature verification on work week releases.
• Integrated Touch POC Hardware set up, fairly complex hardware set up done by working closely with US
• labs & Local India Resources. Got Recognized with a CSS India SRA during Q4 2014.
• Development Opportunity Tool (DOT): Responsible for Benchmarking of applications on Intel & competitive devices which involves designing & executing the scripts & UI suits & comparing the attributes like load time, FPS etc. Analyze Intel performance vs Competitive position & helped Intel Support Vendors to improve the performance.
• Responsible for working between development teams and the tool suppliers to re-engineer equipment in support of sustainability.
• Tools Validation & Test Case development on Android :
• Validation of HWAPI,Topology and OSI Interface Tools for tools team. Enabling Gcov,Lcov and Val-grind for MBIM - ril, test source code coverage analysis and memory leak debugging tools and HTML report for MBIM tests.
• Donlin Creek / Grasberg in Client Systems Software :
• Responsible for Variable Height Testing of Grasberg / Donlin Creek Application on Intel Valley view 2 Platform with the Various Intel Graphics Driver Versions - Validation of Various features on 15.33 IGD drivers, found issues, debug and Fix them. Contributed to Zedo Ad Server Integration and Web Installer Validation.

Jul 2011 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Ideas to Reality- I2R
• Intel® Atom™ Innovation Kit is a project for accelerating the adoption of low power Intel architecture solutions. Developer Kits based on Intel® Atom™ architecture will be available through this program. This also offers developers a central place to learn, implement and share about low power Intel® Atom™ architecture and ongoing initiatives in India. This program allows interested developers enable and rapidly prototype low power solutions based on Intel architecture like embedded intelligent systems, internet devices and other, hybrid solutions.
• Role and Responsibilities :
• Contributed in Porting of Android to Intel® Atom™ Boards (Menlow based UHD & Next generation Intel® Atom™ Board) .Enable Bluetooth and WIFI Peripherals on Intel® Atom™ Boards. worked on Various Linux kernel modules, character drivers,Understand Kconfig and Menu config and build Android Intel® Work Week Releases.
• Process of firmware Flashing, Learning Crash dump Analysis and debugging tool, bringing up community portal, UI Models, Functionality Validation and, Propose new UI design Models,Content Management, Software and System performance tuning and Analysis.