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Venkat K

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Santa Clara, California, United States20 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth testing methodologies.
  • Led validation for advanced embedded systems at Meta.
  • Proven track record in performance testing and certification.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth testing expert in the embedded systems industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Embedded SystemsWi-fi802.11axPerformance TestingBleBluetoothWi-fi CertificationValidationWi-fi ChipsetAutomationTest PlansTest Cases

Other Skills

QualcommNXP RT600 MCUSpirentKPI measurementWi-Fi 6EIOT testingWiFi SniffersDynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)Wi-Fi 6analyzing testing requirements802.11n802.11acBluetooth profilesSamsungMMS

Experience

20 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
3 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Meta

2 roles

Engineering Lead

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · United States

Senior Technical Lead

Dec 2022Oct 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · United States

  •  Meta (Employer: Quest Global) (05th Dec 2022 to till date)
  • Meta Peripheral device consists of 3 component systems with the major hardware blocks being: Qualcomm Aurora (SoC, ISP and Bluetooth Stack), NXP RT600 MCU + DSP. The hardware blocks present within the MCU that allow firmware to communicate with external peripherals and devices. These blocks are provided by the hardware and controlled through firmware.
  • Meta Peripheral device supports Music streaming, video capture and transfer, Picture capture and transfer, phone calls
  • Responsibility’s
  • 1. Validating System level End to End Meta smart embedded devices along with meta wearable Application
  • 2. Expertise core technologies like sensors, camera, audio, RF, power management, and signal interfaces
  • 3. Driving and training On-shore and Off shore teams for key validation metrics on Fuel Gauge, peak power, Wi-Fi media tranfer, Live streaming, OTA and KPI measurement
  • 4. Organizing Validation efforts efficiently and report regular status to the team using internal tools, progress trackers and by driving bugs and fixes to closure.
  • 5. Expertise working with embedded systems and software, particularly mobile chipsets like Qualcomm, Marvell, Broadcom, Quantenna
  • 6. Verification of Wi-Fi performance using Spirent Octobox and Candela solutions
  • 7. 802.11ax performance using RVR, RVO, latency test, on 5GHz and 2.4GHz
  • 8. Preforming Wi-Fi, BT Coexistence test with HFP, A2DP profiles and BLE
  • 9. Develop new reliability test specifications and procedures.
  • 10. Develop test plans, and validated media capture with respective thermal vs power vs different battery conditions and levels.
  • 11. Contribute to failure analysis and use correct methodology to identify root cause of failures.
  • 12. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement mitigations for reliability risks.
  • 13. Work with Battery, Electrical, Firmware, Thermal and Power teams to tune performance at subsystem and system level, including charging algorithms.
QualcommNXP RT600 MCUembedded systemsWi-FiBluetoothSpirent+3

Onsemi

Staff SQA Lead Engineer

Dec 2021Nov 2022 · 11 mos · United States · On-site

  • ON Semiconductor’s Wi-Fi 6E solutions are designed to accommodate the transition to the 6GHz band with AdaptivMIMO technology while addressing mainstream 6GHz applications. A Wi-Fi 6E infrastructure device with AdaptivMIMO allows the network to operate in the 5GHz or 6GHz band depending on the clients present in a subscriber’s home network to maximize performance, coverage, and utilization. The QCS-AX2 series provides the Wi-Fi performance and connectivity in congested environments to multiple devices that applications demand.
  • Responsibility’s
  • 3. Verification of 802.11ax standard, on 6GHz and 5GHz and 2.4GHz
  • 4. 802.11ax performance testing using Ax210 & Samsung Galaxy s21 Ultra for 6G and Ax200 for 5Ghz and Samsung Galaxy S20 for 2.4GHz
  • 2.Performaing IOT testing in Realtime Test house environment using Ax200(11AX 2x2)/AC88(11AC 4x4)/MACBookPro (11ac 3X3) and iPhone 12 and Samsung galaxy
  • 4.WiFi Sniffers [Wireshark, Omni peak]
802.11axWi-Fi 6Eperformance testingIOT testingWiFi SniffersDynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)+1

Hcl technologies

Technical Manager

Oct 2021Dec 2021 · 2 mos · United States

Spirent

Cognizant technology solutions overseas corp

Technical Lead

Aug 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Ramon, California, United States

  • Working at Cognizant technologies Technical Lead at client Intel (12th Aug 2019 to till date)
  • The Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX Chipset is designed to support the upcoming IEEE 802.11ax standard - Wi-Fi 6 technology and the Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi 6 certification. The product supports 2x2 Wi-Fi 6 technology, including new features such as UL and DL OFDMA and 1024QAM, delivering data rates of up to 2.4Gbps These new features deliver a significant improvement in user experience in dense deployments, supporting fast uploads and downloads, lower latency and longer battery life compared to solutions supporting 802.11ac..
  • Responsibility’s:
  • 1. Verification of 802.11ax standard, with its unique features such as OFDMA, 1024QAM
  • 2.802.11 ax/ac Performance Testing on clients AX200(11AX 2x2)/AC88(11AC 4x4)/MACBookPro(11ac 3X3)
  • 3.Target Wake Time (TWT), and spatial reuse verification 4.WiFi Sniffers [ Wireshark , Omnipeak ]
802.11axWi-Fi 6Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)performance testing

Hcl technologies at google

Technical Lead

Feb 2017Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Palo Alto

  • Working at HCL America Technical Lead client Nest Labs (Google) (21st Feb 2017 to 09 Aug 2019)
  • An embedded QA tester is an engineer who deals with the testing of embedded system for quality assurance prior release. The job responsibilities of the profile include developing test plans, analyzing testing requirements, identifying standard testing procedures, installing, and testing of embedded system. Verifying the BLE and WI-FI functionality and service connectivity with AWS of Nest Camera.
  • Responsibility’s:
  • 1. Validating the WIFI Protocol 802.11 a/b/g/n and 11AC and QOS functionality. Analyzing problems using Wireshark, and Analyzing BLE issue using Ellisys sniffer
  • 2. Analyze and decompose a complicated embedded software system and design a strategy to test this system
  • 3. Understand user behavior and develop test cases that factor environmental.
  • 4. Develop and execute test suites, frameworks, and tools to validate Nest learning features
  • 5. Expertise working on Weave, Thread and 802.15.4 protocols
Wi-FiBLEtest plansvalidationanalyzing testing requirements

Fortinet inc

Senior Dev QA Engineer

May 2015Feb 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Sunnyvale CA

  • Working On 802.11 a/b/g/n Protocols and WiFi Certification. Validation of Forti AP on Atheros chipset and FortiGate Controller, Certified FortiAP Wave 1 and Wave 2 Devices for the protocols 802.11n, 11AC , PMF, WMM-PS
  • Expertise in working with WFA certification test setup Sigma 8.3 and Wi-Fi TestSuit (WTS) 9.1.0
Wi-FiBluetoothtest plansvalidation

Qualcomm (employer: global edge software )

Senior Test Engineer

Jul 2014May 2015 · 10 mos · San Jose California

  • 1 Title: Working on Qualcomm Wi-Fi Chipset (Peregrine) For Google Access Point
  • On 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz Radio
  • Tools : IXIA Variwave, Variwave Apps, Variwave Dynamix, Variwave
  • QOE, PVT lite automation setup, Wire shark, Chariot, SWAT.
  • Team Size : 6
  • Duration : July 2014 to till date
  • Chipset : Peregrine (Qualcomm chipset)
  • Wi-Fi Driver : Ath10K (Atheros)
  • Peregrine is QUALCOMM Chip set which supports 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Radio, also supports 11AC, with ath10k driver which is integrated with google Access Point.
  • Verified all the functionality of Google Access Point, AP Functional, 11AC Functional, DBDC Functional, QuickStaKickout, Emulated station Test plan executed using WaveApps, WaveQoE & WaveDynamix
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Validating the functionality of Google Access Point by using PVT lite automation test setup
  • 2. Validated the AP Functional and 11AC functional test planes
  • 3. Executed Emulated test plane using IXIA Variwave.
  • 4. Capturing the HostAPD log, Kernel logs and sniffer capturer.
  • 5. Verified Offload functionality on client
802.11n802.11acWi-Fi certificationvalidation

Marvell semiconductor (employer: global edge software )

QA Engineer

Jun 2012Jul 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune Area, India

  • Title: Worked on Qualcomm Wi-Fi Chipset APQ8084 & MSM8994 on 2x2 for
  • Rome 2.1, 2.2
  • Environment : Android
  • OS : Android
  • Tools : Prism, QXDM (Communication between Driver and Firmware),
  • Wire shark, logcat (All Event at Supplicant), Kmsg (Kernel
  • level/Driver module level information)
  • Team Size : 15
  • Duration : June 2013 to July 2014
  • Chipset : Qualcomm Chipset
  • BT–WLAN Interface: UART
  • Worked on Next Generation wifi 802.11 AC chipset on Android OS
  • Validating P2P features on Rome Cards
  • Woked on Wi-Fi Direct and STA & SOFT AP features on Rome cards
  • Features covered: P2P GO (modes)- Clients
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Validating the Offload functionality of the station feature
  • 2. Validated the WI-FI, SoftAP and WI-FI Direct functionality
  • 3. Capturing and analyzing the logcat, kernel, Sniffer traces
  • Project Profile:
  • 3. Title: Microsoft Win8 Tablet (Surface, Surface RT) validation
  • OS : Windows8
  • Tools : Bugzilla, MV test Engine, Client, Wire shark, Air sniffer
  • Team Size : 3
  • Duration : June 2012 to June 2013
  • Chipset : Marvell
  • Testing Bluetooth profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP, PAN, OPP, DUN, SPP, BT Printer, HID, BLE, Skype call tests on Win8 environment. Verified Multi profile tests and Soft AP test, BT co-existence test cases. By using MV Test Engine automation environment on Win8
  • Involved in Windows certification test (WHCK) for Bluetooth and USB Composite device on Microsoft Surface tablet.
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Validating the Bluetooth profiles A2DP, ACRCP, OPP, and PAN on different interfaces.
  • 2. Validating the Driver reliability test.
  • 3. Validating the multi profile A2DP+HID, A2DP+PAN, A2DP+OPP
  • 4. Executed the Bluetooth Coex manual test case.
  • 5. Measuring the KPI’s of BT and WLAN Co- existence test cases.
  • 6. Executed the Soft AP test cases.
QualcommWi-Fi chipsetautomationvalidation

Tieto

Senior Test Engineer

Jan 2008Jun 2012 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Project Profile:
  • 4. Title: ST Ericsson Platform validation on Android Environment
  • Environment : Android
  • Tools : Fido, Teraterm, Iperf, Wire shark
  • Chipset : ST Ericsson
  • Validating ST Ericsson platform by measuring the KPI‘s, data throughputs of WLAN.
  • Executing the WLAN, Soft AP, WIFI Direct test cases,
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1.Writing the test cases for WLAN, Soft AP, WIFI Direct and executing them.
  • 2.Testing WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n and WLAN features - WPA/WPA2, WPS
  • 3.Measuring the TCP and UDP KPI’s of WLAN
  • 4.Measuring the KPI’s WLAN with BT OBEX FTP and SCO connection
  • Project Profile:
  • 5. Title: Bluetooth profiles on Android platform (3G and 3D Handsets)
  • Environment : C,Android
  • Tools : QPST, FTS Air Sniffer. BT Link tool
  • Chipset : CSR
  • 1.Writing of System Test Cases IOT and Multilink Test cases and Execution. And Voice call, Video call, A2DP, Media player. MMS, Phone Book, SMS,
  • 2.Reproducing the bugs and Capturing Logcat logs, HCI and FTS logs and Analyzing the Logs.
  • 3.Working on Bluetooth profile OPP, FTP and PBAP, HSP, and HF profiles. Execution of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Co existence test cases.
  • Project Profile:
  • 6. Title: Bluetooth Profiles
  • Environment : C, EMP
  • OS : ENEA
  • Tools : Platform Assistant, FTS.
  • This project is based on EMP technology with Sharp Application suite. The current project involves porting and maintenance of testing and maintenance of Bluetooth profiles on sharp handset.
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Writing of System Test Cases IOT and Multilink Test cases and Execution
  • 2. Reproducing the bugs and taking DebugMux and FTS logs and Analyzing the Logs
  • 3. Working on Bluetooth profile OPP, FTP and A2DP and Hands Free profiles and worked on Bluetooth Watch, Befalo headset(supports 2.1 features),worked on LMP logo testing by analyzing with the help of Air sniffer (FTS) and DebugMux logs.
  • 4. Reproducing the bugs and taking DebugMux and FTS logs and Analyzing the Logs
QualcommWi-Fi chipsetvalidationBluetooth profiles

Samsung (sasken communication technologies)

Software Engineer

Dec 2006Jan 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Title 7: Multimedia Messaging Service on ERICSSON MOBILE PLATFORM (EMP) Samsung Bangalore
  • Client : Samsung India
  • Languages : C
  • Team Size : 5
  • Tool/Utilities : Manual, MOSES, Artifact, Clear Quest
  • Duration : Dec 2006 to Jan 2008.
  • The project is to design and develop Samsung Handsets based on Ericsson Mobile Platform. This is achieved by porting the SHP to EMP.
  • All existing features provided by Samsung Handset and upcoming requirements are targeted to be supported on the new platform. This is ensured by fulfilling the porting requirements of SHP.
  • SHP is the application Framework used in the Samsung handsets. It provides a common interface for the applications. The handset applications can be developed on an abstracted interface irrespective of the underlying hardware platform. The main features of these phones are multimedia, MMS, Bluetooth and tested
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Writing of System Test Cases by analyzing MRS (Marketing Requirement Specifications) document and translating them into deliverables for software testing.
  • 2. Executing of test cases according to the Test Plan.
  • 3. Involved in preparing Cross trigger and Concurrency matrices.
  • 4. Executed Video call test cases on Anritsu. Working on Clear Quest.
SamsungMMStest plansvalidation

Sky mobile

Test Engineer

Dec 2004Dec 2006 · 2 yrs · Bangaon Area, India

  • Project 8: Multimedia Messaging Service.
  • Operating system : Win NT/98.
  • Languages : C.
  • Team Size : 12
  • Duration : December 2004 to Dec 2006.
  • I have tested the audio and video applications with different formats of audio codec’s like AMR-NB for recording and .mp3, .3gp, .aac and .m4a for playing of audio files. Video codec’s like .3gp, H-263, mp4 etc.
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1 To learn about the feature and investigate about test suites. Servers and necessary documents.
  • 2 Investigate relevant standards to learn about the features requirements.
  • 3 Start building the test bed once final plan reviewed.
  • 4 Executed test cases manually to verify the system functions as per user specifications.
  • 5 Involved in the CCB Meetings to discuss about the Bug states.
  • 6 Raising the bugs in the clear quest tool and verify, validate the bugs once
  • They resolved.
audio and video applicationstest casesvalidation

Education

Osmania University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Electronic Communication Engineering

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