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Ganesh HG

Ganesh HG

Technical Lead
Hassan

Summary

Driven by a reputed organization with the desire to acquire the knowledge and experience of the industry and with the vision to efficiently reciprocate the acquired skills for the benefit of the organization and consequently proving my worth for the organization to do something Innovative.

11+ years of experience in Embedded Testing and debugging on Windows, Linux platform and having very good understanding on Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), test equipment's, debugging, Defect life cycle and Validation. Pursuing a successful career in diversified fields of system bring up, testing and debugging with emphasis on the following:

Experience in manual and automation testing.

Black box testing, White Box testing, System testing and debugging.

Expertise in Embedded Testing, Triage and Debugging.

Validation on Intel Systems with Post Silicon.

Extensive experience in preparing test strategies, test plans, test case creation and execution, post silicon validation

Extensive experience in Defect life cycle - Filing bug, follow up and track till closure

Extensive experience in Intel Graphics driver testing, issues triage and debugging.

Sound knowledge in Windows platform – Post Silicon, Power management issues triage and debug activities.

Sound knowledge in Lauterbach debugger tool, ITP, WinDbg, Event and Driver Tracing and analysis.

Experienced in WWAN 4G, 5G system debug activities.

Experienced in IOTG (Network and Edge) Linux and windows low and desktop platforms system debug activities.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Technical Lead

Capgemini Technology Services
11.2020 - Current
  • IOTG - Network and Edge group System debug activity.
  • System Debug in Windows and Linux environment.
  • Worked on Graphics, Power Management (s0ix, S4), OS, WiFi (i225, i226), PXE-boot, Audio, IPU\Camera, PCIE-PTM, EDAC driver, DPTF, USB ,dTPM ,DPMO ,Genlock & Pipelock , Xorg and Xserver, and IFWI domain in IOTG low and desktop platforms.
  • Understanding Requirement of Test case for debug and fix
  • Debugging and root causing platform bugs
  • Debugging and root casing WWAN 4G-UDE & 5G-Netadapter driver bugs
  • Using JIRA, HSD, UTP for Bug life cycle
  • Using GIT for project development, tracking and maintenance
  • Using JAMA and GIO to extract Test case
  • Debug activities - HLK, Power and performance, Stress and Stability
  • Platform debug activities - Soft hung and Hard hung analysis using WinDbg, ITP/XDP/D

Senior system debug engineer

L&T Technology Services
07.2019 - 11.2020
  • Understanding Requirement of Test case for debug and fix
  • Debugging and root causing platform bugs
  • Debugging and root casing 4G-WWAN driver bugs
  • Using JIRA for Bug life cycle
  • Using GIT for project development, tracking and maintenance
  • Using JAMA to extract Test case
  • Debug activities - HLK, Power and performance, 4G-UDE and Stress and stability
  • Platform activities - Soft hung and Hard analysis using WinDbg

Technical lead

Wipro Technologies
01.2013 - 07.2019
  • Testing: Understanding Requirement specification document of different functions of GM-OnStar device
  • Preparing updating Requirement specification document as expected by Client
  • Create Test plan based on finalized requirement specification document
  • Understand Agile and V testing model
  • Create quality test case
  • Execution of test cases and filing bug
  • Test case review and helping Test Automation team - QTP for test script generation
  • Attend scrum call and understand requirement changes made by client
  • Owning Component and keep track of functional changes made by client
  • Testing: Understanding Display Graphics functions respect to power management
  • Execution of Display Graphics-Power cycling test cases and filing Bug for defects
  • Execution of WHQL test on Graphics benchmarks
  • Execution of Embedded Automation test cases
  • Debugging: Platforms - Responsible to find out root cause of failure and moving it to right ingredient team
  • Debugging of embedded automated test cases and system/platform debug
  • Responsible to meet new/triage SLA criteria which was set by Debug lead across all milestone
  • Responsible for guiding team members in Debug / Triage across all domains
  • Understanding each component functionalities from Architecture/debug perspective
  • Different Triage and Debugging Technics Irrespective of Platforms and components
  • Understanding Defect life cycle and follow-up of each Bug/HSD till closure/Fix
  • Provided Debug support on Graphics, Windows-Intel Power Management, Connectivity, USB, Embedded controller, Firmware, Bios, Camera, Audio domains
  • Provided Debug support on four different Low power systems, Notebook and Desktop platforms
  • Provided Debug inputs and did follow-up till closure on 500+ HSD/BUGS irrespective of platform and components
  • Ramped-up on usage of different debugging tools and technics for different components
  • Software debugging at lower level using assembly code tracing and memory dumps using WinDbg
  • Hardware debugging at board level using oscilloscope
  • Good in analyzing WPA ETL traces, for connected standby failures
  • Handy knowledge in lauterbach, to debug SOC related failure by analyzing hang dumps, and also able to decode PMC, PUNIT flows
  • Good in NPK tracing, also have hands on DCI over USB
  • Helped in python script generation for Hang dump Parser script, S0ix residency check
  • Good knowledge on root causing power management failures to specific component/Ingredient of software, Firmware, Hardware
  • Good in capturing and analyzing Software Event, Trace, Sleep Study and Socwatch Logs
  • Good in capturing and analyzing Bios serial logs
  • Good in modification and stitching of Bios using BMP and Intel Bios stitching tool
  • Root caused graphics failures to specific ingredient using ETL logs and WinDBG
  • Proactive in discussing failures in intel technical forums to root cause failure
  • Owned creating Debug and Trace test cases and marked as Integrated in JAMA test execution tool
  • Provided BKM/Procedure/Tool Tips documents to offsite Intel employees on Debug and Trace test cases and execution, usage of Lauterbach and NPK tool using different interfaces.

Education

MS - Information technology -

Vellore Institute of Technology
11.2013 - 05.2017

Skills

Embedded Testing & Debugging

Software Testing Life Cycle

Validation Manual\Automation Testing

Black Box Testing & White Box Testing

System Testing and System Debug

Post Silicon Validation

Defect Life Cycle

Graphics & WWAN Driver

Windows Platform

WinDbg

Event and Driver Tracing

Device Driver Debugging

Test Strategy & Test Plan

Test Case Creation & Execution

Bug \ Defect Tracking

Power Management

JIRA & HSD

GIT \ Git Hub \ visual studio

JAMA \ HP-ALM-QC

Power and Performance

5G(NetAdapter)/4G(UDE) -Driver

Stress and Stability/DPMO

Soft/Hard Hung Analysis

Agile & V Testing Model

Display Graphics

WHQL & HLK

Memory Dumps

Oscilloscope

Windows performance analyzer

ITP\Lauterbach\XDP\DCI

NPK Tracing & Debug

Python (Automation- path finding)

Bios stitching and Modification

ETL Log Analysis

Windows Debugging

Bios Serial Logging and triage

Intel System Cycling Tool

Software\Hardware Debugging

Technical Documentation

Linux OS and Device driver internals

Windows Device Driver

Windows Internals

Technical Lead

C

Project Management

Personal Information

  • Place of Birth: Hassan
  • Date of Birth: 11/25/90
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Marital Status: Married

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Kannada
Advanced (C1)

Certification

Gen AI Learn-A-Thon 2024

Accomplishments

Awarded with “Inspiring Performance Badge” for getting expose to new Architectural concept – NPK and debugging concepts by own, prepared requirement document and integrated the test cases for the same.

Awarded from Wipro ‑ INSIGNIO team for a customer appreciation on “USB signal probing” and Debug support.

Appreciated by Client for s0ix enablement debug support on GLK A0, B0 silicon.

· Appreciated by Intel sponsor for system cycling hang, triage and debug support.

· Appreciated by Client for owning Debug and Triage Test cases‑enablement and execution.

· Appreciated by PES Wipro management for proactive knowledge sharing sessions and owning project requirements.

· Appreciated by PES Wipro Management for gaining sound knowledge on LTB and NPK debugging tool and sharing the same knowledge to the Wipro‑Intel employees.


Timeline

Gen AI Learn-A-Thon 2024

08-2024

Connected Manager

05-2023

Technical Lead

Capgemini Technology Services
11.2020 - Current

Senior system debug engineer

L&T Technology Services
07.2019 - 11.2020

TeraData Testing

03-2017

McAfee EPS

02-2017

HP ALM Quality Center

12-2016

MS - Information technology -

Vellore Institute of Technology
11.2013 - 05.2017

Technical lead

Wipro Technologies
01.2013 - 07.2019
Ganesh HGTechnical Lead