KRISHNA KANTH KONDA
Marysville,USA
Summary
Quality Assurance Engineer with around 4 years of experience specializing in Automotive Infotainment testing, verification, and validation. Skilled in python scripts, analyzing system requirements, designing test cases, and the execution of detailed manual tests for features such as Navigation, Bluetooth, and Media. Proficient in defect reporting using tools like JIRA and experienced in executing comprehensive test plans to ensure high product quality. Aiming to utilize expertise in QA to contribute to rigorous software defect identification and documentation.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Infotainment Test Engineer
Honda Auto Development Center
Ohio, USA
05.2023 - 04.2024
- Testing of Infotainment Head Unit for features like Navigation, Bluetooth, Power modes, Media [USB, IPOD, MTP], Tuner [FM, AM, SXM], and Voice Recognition
- System requirement analysis
- Test Environment setup
- Test case design and execution
- Defect reporting and tracking using JIRA
- Developed and executed test plans based on product requirements and specifications
- Tested and validated connectivity features such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and other communication protocols
- Ensured seamless integration with external devices like smartphones and other peripherals
- Identified and reported software defects, working closely with developers to ensure timely resolution
- Maintained detailed documentation of test cases, test results, and issues encountered during testing
- Communicated validation results clearly in the defect tracking JIRA tool with detailed issue descriptions including preconditions, test steps, expected behavior, observed outcomes, and various logs
- Mapped test cases to requirement IDs in the Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure traceability
- Supported reproduction of critical issues and provided logs for debugging issues reported by clients.
- Automated repetitive tasks using Python scripts, increasing efficiency within the team''s workflow processes.
Infotainment Test Engineer
Hyundai America Technical Center
Michigan, USA
05.2020 - 04.2023
- Tested Infotainment Head Unit features including Navigation, Bluetooth, Power modes, Media [USB, IPOD, MTP], Tuner [FM, AM, SXM], and Voice Recognition
- Conducted system requirement analysis
- Set up test environments
- Designed and executed test cases
- Utilized JIRA for defect reporting and tracking
- Performed Bench and In-vehicle level testing for various infotainment modules
- Conducted sanity testing for multiple infotainment domains for each software release
- Validated navigation features such as Route guidance, Traffic updates, One-Shot destination entry, Waypoints, Points of Interest (POIs), previous destinations, and Address book functionalities at both bench and vehicle levels
- Managed test suite generation and maintained existing Test Suites by adding Exploratory Test Cases after each release for the Navigation domain
- Mapped test cases to requirement IDs in the Requirement Traceability Matrix
- Worked with different Bluetooth profiles like HFP, A2DP, PBAP, and MAP
- Identified defects through Sanity, Full functional and HMI validation, Exploratory, and Regression Testing
- Interacted with developers for verification and reproduction of reported issues to ensure faster defect resolution
- Performed On-Board CAN diagnostics using diagnostic sessions, security access controls, reading and clearing DTCs, and managing Data Identifiers (DID)
- Captured and validated CAN bus traffic communication using vector CANoe between different ECU modules.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement high-quality Python applications.
Infotainment Test Engineer
Nissan Technical Center North America, Inc.
Farmington Hills, MI
12.2018 - 05.2020
- Performed bench and In-vehicle testing on Tuner (AM, FM, SXM), Bluetooth, Voice recognition and Projection features
- Perform requirement analysis of Tuner and Voice recognition domains, develop test cases for Tuner and Voice recognition domains
- Perform On-Board CAN diagnostics in CSM by reading DTC status using different status mask and read and write information of the services from Data Identifiers (DID), Security access and diagnostic session control
- Perform sanity test on the weekly builds and run full validation cycle for Tuner, VR and projection features on weekly released builds
- Finding Defects in the system by performance, Regression and Exploratory testing on intermediate software builds
- Communicate Validation results clearly in defect tracking JIRA tool with clear description of issue (precondition, test steps, expected behavior, observed and various logs)
- Support reproduction of the critical issues and as well as issues reported by client to provide more logs for further debugging of the issue
- Simulate vehicle environment on bench for various scenarios like power mode, CAN message simulation using Vector CANoe.
Education
B. tech - Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering -
Lakireddy Balireddy College of Engineering
01.2017
Skills
- Communication Protocols: CAN
- Diagnostic Tools: CANoe
- Bug Reporting Tools: JIRA, ELVIS
- Utility Tools: IBM DOORS, MS-Office Suite, ATT (Auto test tool), Tera Term, ADB
- Operating Systems: QNX, Android
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Web Applications Testing
- Mobile Apps Testing
- Database Queries
- SQL
- API Testing
- Manual Testing
- Test Planning
- Test Case Execution
- QA Role
- Defect Tracking
- JIRA
- Python
- Unit Testing
Timeline
Infotainment Test Engineer
Honda Auto Development Center
05.2023 - 04.2024
Infotainment Test Engineer
Hyundai America Technical Center
05.2020 - 04.2023
Infotainment Test Engineer
Nissan Technical Center North America, Inc.
12.2018 - 05.2020
B. tech - Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering -
Lakireddy Balireddy College of Engineering