Nandhini G

Experienced Professional who has 5+ years of experience in Post Silicon NAND Validation, Manual Testing & Test Automation.

Architected Automation

Framework for NAND Validation Platform saving regression effort of 3 weeks to 3 days. Successfully deployed CI/CD pipelines used in Test Platforms. Established right coding practices & standard processes in Manual/Automation Testing in Agile approach. Spearheaded a team of 5 & mentored 5 new joiners in enterprise SSD Validation, NAND validation and Test Automation.

• Staff Engineer, Firmware Engineering, Western Digital (July 2022 - Oct 2023)
  • Collaborated with enterprise SSD Team for deploying CI/CD pipeline to enable Nightly Regression of 20+ eSSD drives, which helped to capture critical bugs before production. 
  • Enhanced Test Coverage by 25% through Automation testing of 100+ NAND APIs.
  • Spearheaded a team of 5 & mentored 5 new joiners in Post Silicon NAND validation, eSSD Validation & Test Automation
  • Designed & deployed a Live eSSD Performance Tool to monitor the Random Read/Write, Sequential Read/Write Speed for 40+ customer workloads with varying read/write percentages with the nightly build of Manufacturing F/W. 
  • Scaled & enhanced Automation Framework to support 3+ new generation of eSSD drives engineered with different architecture, having varied capacities of 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 8TB. 
• Senior Engineer, Firmware Engineering, Western Digital (July 2019 - June 2022)
  • Captured 30+ development bugs during Manual validation, reported, tracked & re-validated to ensure timely customer releases including a critical delivery for USB mass production. 
  • Contributed to 15 QA sign-off releases for NAND characterization, Device Teams spanning to 10 different NAND generations comprising of 150+ NAND APIs.
  • Designed & deployed GUI automation for NAND validation process to run 100+ Sanity Test cases in 25 minutes time for a single generation of NAND in 3 different testers. 
  • Automated the manual validation process in Post Silicon Technology - NAND Validation Platform using hybrid automation framework built using Python tech stack reducing regression effort from 3 weeks to 3 days.
  • Delivered Build Deployment Tool for technicians using NAND Test Platform for deploying production build in 50+ testers saving manual effort from 1 day to 15 minutes. 
  • Streamlined coding practices and Agile processes for better utilization in Manual validation & Test automation helping to deliver with ease during 10+ customer milestone releases. 
• Intern, Firmware Engineering, Western Digital (January 2019 - June 2019)
  • Developed, implemented 100+ test cases to validate 3 different NAND generations for manual validation for competitive analysis and failure analysis.
  • Implemented 20+ test cases to the existing UI Automation framework using Selenium, enhanced back-end log parser in Linux 
  • Enhanced QA Report format for NAND Validation to capture Test Environment, Test Case details and Error Remarks and Implemented auto-reporting of bugs in JIRA using Python.
• Associate Engineer, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. (July 2016 - July 2017)
  • Designed, Developed, implemented and tested 7 features like Speedometer, Battery Diagnostics following SDLC process for 2 generations of Volvo Cars. 
  • Analyzed, root-caused, fixed 3 bugs identified in features of Instrumental Cluster / Head Up Displays.
  • Supported to set up the platform for Next Generation Head Up Display Unit which comply with AUTOSAR specification and ISO26262 standard.

• M.E. Embedded and Real-Time Systems (Full-Time) 
  • College: PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
  • GPA: 9.69
  • Duration: July 2017 - May 2019
  • Courses: 
    • Real-Time Operating Systems
    • Linux Architecture and Device Drivers
    • Computer Architecture
    • Advanced Embedded Controllers
• B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Full-Time)
  • College: Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
  • GPA: 9.4
  • Duration: Aug 2012 - May 2016
  • Courses: 
    • Object Oriented Programming
    • Electronic Devices and Circuits
    • Microprocessors and Microcontrollers Programming
    • Neural and Fuzzy Systems