Jonathan King Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Test lead and people manager for software test of Bluetooth profiles, upper stack and controller. Working on cutting edge and highly complex low power wireless SoC’s targeting the voice and music markets, providing market leading solutions to tier one customers with stringent quality and performance requirements.• Test system architect; creator of python based, object oriented, platform independent test system built on top of unittest. Scalable from desktop testing to fully automated 24/7 CI system.• Test lead responsible for defining test strategy for large multi-national projects, and overseeing test plan creation and implementation, ensuring complete coverage and traceability of requirements through to test case execution.• People manager for over 6 years, leading and growing a small cross-functional test team, working closely with each member to support them in their career development. • Scrum master for combined development and test team for almost a decade. Facilitating the team to achieve their short term goals while planning for long term goals. Ran retrospectives to help the team evolve its agile process and improve execution.• Over a decade of experience in writing complex object oriented test cases and test infrastructure in Python. Experienced in various scripting languages such as PERL and TCL/Expect, utilising YAML, JSON, XML, and SQL for data, reporting with HTML/CSS and Excel.• Defined and implemented strategy for convergence and modernisation of several test systems, including aging legacy systems, across multiple layers of the Bluetooth stack.• Executed large test campaigns, performed detailed failure analysis, generated meaningful metrics and reported test status. Ensuring full coverage achieved within aggressive commercial timelines.• Automated various target hardware, supporting flashing and configuration, and providing access to debug and test API’s. Automated interfaces to various test equipment and software tools.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge Silicon Radio was acquired by Qualcomm.

• Test script architect technical lead. • Configuration control manager.• Verification and validation of SoC audio subsystem (SPDIF, I2S, ADC/DAC’s and DSP’s), SoC infrastructure (including interrupts, data network, UART, I2C, DMA control network, GPIO), memory testing and performance.• Responsible for creation, delivery and documentation of system bootscript variants for customers during development phase and product production. Member of Change Control Board to make decisions on bootscript changes and releases.• Involved in full SoC project lifecycle; contribution to initial design and specification, emulation verification in parallel with design from very early stage, silicon validation, customer design-in and formal sign-off for mass production.• Responsible for creation and maintenance of fully automated matrix test environment, matrix test creation, results processing and analysis.• Specialist support to customers, problem investigation, characterisation and resolution.

Same role as Trident Microsystems. I moved from NXP Semiconductors to Trident Microsystems on the acquisition of the TV and STB.

Same role as NXP Semiconductors. I moved from Philips Semiconductors to NXP Semiconductors when the semiconductor division was split from Philips.