Patrick Perron Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Focus on Safety and Virtualization

Ontario, Canada

• Own test suites for several kernel and hypervisor features, ensuring they fulfill the needs of several internal stakeholders such as the development, safety, and test organizations.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders on safety, test, and development teams to prototype a process for developers to trace requirements and design documents stored in SVN to source code and test cases stored in JAMA.
• Champion CI/CD practices by prototyping a sanity-test pipeline with parallel instances of virtual hardware, improving test suite runtime performance by a factor of 10x.
• Interview, manage, and mentor 15+ co-op students on test and automation tasks in remote and in-person work environments.
• Coordinate weeklong training sessions on C, POSIX, QNX, Safety, and Testing Mindset for 20+ new students and full-time hires every semester. Capture, analyze, and integrate feedback from participants with a survey.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Develop tests, documentation, and automation to enable ISO 26262 ASIL-D certification of QNX Neutrino RTOS and QNX Hypervisor.
• Develop device drivers for serial communication device (UART) and hardware timers (HPET, LAPIC) using the device specification to enable more thorough testing of the QNX Kernel and Hypervisor.
• Interface with members of the product development team to assess, improve, and execute the safety test specification for QNX Hypervisor for Safety 2.2.
• Present requirement verification process to external auditors during 3 successful ISO 26262 ASIL-D audits of QNX RTOS and QNX Hypervisor.
• Own the code coverage reporting process and provide coaching to others handling the equivalent task in other releases.
• Coordinate with external supplier to assess the value of an instruction-accurate virtualizer in the context of simulating the OS responding to non-cooperative hardware.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Developed unit tests for ASIL-D/ISO-26262 safety-certification of QNX Neutrino RTOS and QNX Hypervisor 2.0 for Safety.
• Improved efficiency of code coverage infrastructure for regression tests.
• Designed, implemented, and maintained an automated server to perform daily test runs and analyze/share the results.
• Analyzed market/safety requirements and traced them to the source code that fulfills them.
• Worked in a collaborative environment with extensive mentoring and opportunities to train, assist, and learn from new students.

Ottawa, Ontario

• Developed scripts to automate the creation of test specification documents from comments in the test source code.
• Analyzed and documented OS regression tests to add to test specification documents for QNX SDP7 Release.
• Modified regression test infrastructure to support new features such as custom timeouts and pre/post-test scripts.
• Developed tools to facilitate generation of regression test lists and presented it to the teams that would be using it.

Kanata, Ontario

• Developed automated test scripts for hardware and noise filtering software in latest phone builds using Bash.
• Developed and implemented audio tests for large batches of Mitel phones.
• Documented and presented the tools we developed to team members.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Technology Innovation Management

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Systems And Computer Engineering

Classes in Electronics, Software Engineering, Operating Systems, Computer Communications, Verification & Validation, Computer Security.