Principal Engineer, Validation
CurrentDevelop and execute platform validation for WD's direct attached storage products, including the well-known My Passport and My Book line of external disk drives.My responsibilities include leading and working with a world-wide team of engineers and experts in the field of disk drive technologies and communication protocols to validate the best possible product for our customers, while minimizing the cost of test resources.In addition, I am tasked with the following duties: - Test plan development based off Requirement documents and Firmware specifications - Provide testability feedback during product development - Creating of new test cases and validation requirements for product release - Schedule planning of test execution and resources with a world-wide team for on-time product release - Plan and execute certification and logo testing - Requisition of new equipment for product testing - Execution of test plans in the lab environment - Analysis and debug of test failures - Capturing and analyzing protocol traces