Vinit Patel Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca, Us

Burbank, Ca, Us

• Lead a cross functional team of Software Development Engineers, QA Analysts and Engineering Managers to deliver Commerce features involving Web Commerce flows, Commerce Tooling and Backend Services from CGI team.• Work closely with the program management, product management, and the software architects to understand the features and deliver software (modules, and services) and tools across Hulu and Disney Streaming platform.• Actively participate in system design reviews, code reviews, and incident reviews and provide constructive feedback on timely basis to ensure software best practices are being followed.• Lead teams working on backend and/or frontend (UI) modules and developed and deployed web commerce features to create immersive and magical experiences for Disney customers.• Integrated continuous testing using Kubernetes with the service deployment pipelines to enable CI/CD of services and to keep a check on quality of production services. • Set and communicate team priorities and goals (quarterly, annual) and closely work with the individual and their leaders to help them achieve their career goals. Hire and mentor interns, full time engineers, contractors, and managers in the team by coming up with all round interviewing and onboarding plans.• Actively engaged in budgeting and headcount management related discussions.

New York, Ny, Us

• Lead a cross functional team of Software Development Engineers in Test which writes automation to validate backend services which power Disney Streaming Commerce flows.• Work closely with the program management, product management, and the software architects to understand the features and deliver software (modules, and services) and tools across Hulu and Disney Streaming platform.• Played a key role in helping multiple teams go from 0 to 1 in terms of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) of services, test automation and in turn improved the overall software deployment velocity.• Actively participate in system design reviews, code reviews, and incident reviews and provide constructive feedback on timely basis to ensure software best practices are being followed.• Integrated continuous testing using Kubernetes with the service deployment pipelines to enable CI/CD of services and to keep a check on quality of production services. • Work on Security compliance for billing and payment services which handles and stores sensitive data to ensure all InfoSec standards are met and there are no policy violations.• Work closely with various 3rd party payment (3PP) providers (WorldPay and Adyen) and partners (Roku, Comcast, Verizon, etc.) to integrate their interfaces with the billing and payment services to enable 3PP commerce flows.• Set and communicate team priorities and goals (quarterly, annual) and closely work with the individual and their leaders to help them achieve their career goals. Hire and mentor interns, full time engineers, contractors, and managers in the team by coming up with all round interviewing and onboarding plans.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Lead device side regression and feature test efforts for Alexa/Echo devices. Manage a team of engineers across the globe to deliver quality results in time.• Lead load testing effort for various services that are used to enable gaming and other experiences for Alexa Gadgets users. Represent Alexa Gadgets team in org wide load tests and scope out the resource needs for the team to bring up enough resources/servers for the peak traffic needs. Worked with product leads, program managers and development managers to come up with a resource estimate for the peak events during the year.• Responsible for end to end test planning and development of firmware tests for Echo Buttons and Echo Wall Clock to test their various functionality like Bluetooth connectivity, OTA updates, Secure Image checks and performance measurement. Develop automated tests for various end user scenarios for Alexa Gadgets users.• Developed Alexa skills and prototype Gadgets to aid in the test automation and for demoing new features to a wider audience. • Worked on BlueTooth (BT) related issues and testing BT connectivity in congested air due to higher BT traffic and come up with the data to resolve issues more efficiently and deliver products with better BT connectivity. Focus on power measurement and performance benchmarks for embedded systems and guide product management teams to release highly optimized products for the customers.• Developed python based framework for end to end testing of Alexa Gadgets over UART.• Integrated continuous testing with the service deployment pipelines to keep production services bug free.• Developed Selenium based web automation to automate various developer portal experiences for Alexa Voice Services and Alexa Skills Kit developers.• Firm believer of improving quality at all the levels to make systems more robust and stable for end use.• Worked on GDPR compliance for consumer products to release them successfully in European markets.

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Lead a test team and delivering quality features in the field of Security, Cryptography and Operating systems. Heavily involved in test development, planning, management, reporting and meeting the goals under tight deadlines. • Drive end to end test planning and test development for kernel drivers and various embedded system features developed on Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. Test owner for all phases of SDLC from Pre-Silicon, HW/SW bring up to the product launch. Lead test efforts for functional testing, power measurements, performance optimizations at lower power consumption modes, UI optimizations, UX improvements, adversarial testing, system attacks and Customer scenarios. • Lead a team of engineers spread across different geographical locations. Managed the tasks across the engineers using industry standard tools like JIRA, Confluence and Workfront. Delivered quality products under tight timelines and with optimum code coverage numbers with the tests developed by the team.• Developed test plans and test cases for system level features on Android and Windows Operating systems. Hands on experience with HAL, memory access and other drivers interacting with hardware. • Delivered high-quality products for certification related approvals from various international institutions for releasing Snapdragon products in the market.• Closely work with program management, product management, and development teams to get an early head start in test planning and setting goals for various levels. Focus on automation to have regression suite and build verification suites automated for easing the execution at any given time of the day.

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Lead the Software Security and Hardware Security Test team• Responsible for end to end testing including test planning and test development of various kernel drivers / features on variety of embedded platforms. Involved in entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from hardware bring-up till the commercial product launch. Responsible for testing the product from various aspects like basic functionality, power measurements, performance optimization w.r.t. power consumption, adversarial tests, system attacks etc.• Developed variety of test cases for on-target testing to make the product more user friendly. • Test development involves understanding user scenarios and customer use cases.• Developed kernel mode test drivers/libraries and user mode test apps/client in C to perform unit testing w.r.t. functionality, stress and performance of security modules. Deep knowledge of secure coding styles and how to prevent users from attacking a piece of code by making it robust. Designed systems with secure coding standards in place to prevent access for attackers.• Hands on experience with various hardware and software security features to make the system more robust and hard to break.Awards: Numerous Qualstar Awards for excellence in testing and helping ship a quality product with least number of issues.

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Responsible for testing various drivers and HAL modules related to HWEngines and Systemdrivers. It consist of Data Movers (DMA) driver, Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) Driver, Bus Access Module, General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) and Secure System Manager driver for Windows OS. • Responsibilities included creating a test plan, designing & implementing test cases in C, executing them, automating them and creating/ fixing/verifying CRs for issues found. Developed Kernel mode test drivers & User mode test application to test the system drivers residing in Kernel mode. • Hands on experience with IOCtls development and with communication between User and Kernel mode in Windows and Android environment.• Responsible for developing and releasing various test modules that go into BREW Mobile Platform official release. It included test planning, creating test stubs, testing of the modules, bug verifications, bug logging, and creating reports. • Owned testing of various database modules like Contacts, CallHistory, Personal Identification Module, Timezone and Databases module. Also tested various low level modules like File System, thread and memory management. Worked on improving performance of these modules by tweaking various SQL queries.• The test stubs developed were of optimum quality and shipped to customers worldwide as part of Brew SDK.

Natick, Ma, Us

• Worked as System test Intern in Real Time Workshop-Quality Engineering department• Main responsibility is to ensure that the real time workshop demos of Matlab are working fine and are brought into main MATLAB code base.• Also worked as part of BASH team and CFEATeam.• Took active part in BASH testing and FITesting for release of MATLAB R2008b.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, In

• Worked as Software engineer with main responsibilities of Software Validation.• Did software validation for various mobile handset software modules like multimedia codecs, multimedia engines, UI screens, video telephony stack, RTSProtocol, etc• Performed various types of testing ranging from basic unit testing, to complete system level testing which includes software integration testing, modular testing, cross-trigger testing, concurrency testing etc.• Executed mobile handset software testing for various applications like Multimedia suite, Value added services (MMS, SMS, Browser, Email), Kill filters, Video telephony, etc

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Worked at Motorola, UK from Sasken Communication Technologies Limited.• Main responsibilities included design of test plan and test cases for multimedia modules like Camera, Media Player, Media Recorder and network intensive modules like MMS, SMS, WAP Push, Email and Browser. Extensive testing of "Key Press" module was also part of my responsibility.

Master’S Degree, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Be, Electronics Engineering

High School, Science