Evrard Amindjou Tsafack-Senior Embedded Software Tester
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Senior Embedded Software Tester
Bosch GmbH
- Ensuring system maturity and operational readiness across the entire lifecycle of automotive products according to ASPICE and internal quality processes
- Analyzing system behavior and performance to identify inefficiencies, integration issues, and gaps in diagnostic coverage
- Supporting development milestones by validating system interactions, configurations, and boundary conditions
- Deriving test specifications from software and system requirements
- Implementing test cases with RobotFramework and Python
- Collaborating closely with system, software, hardware, and calibration teams to ensure stable and high-performing system behavior before release
- Conducting end-to-end system performance analyses through endurance tests and automated result evaluation with Python and RobotFramework
- Introducing KPI-based system monitoring and performance analysis, and building automated evaluation and feedback pipelines
- Organizing and moderating cross-functional debugging and integration workshops
- Successfully integrating and validating system and software components for series truck platforms, leading to sustained improvements in performance quality, test quality, and integration stability
Embedded Software Test Engineer - Data toolchain
Bosch GmbH
- Responsible for in-vehicle integration of the Predictive Distance Control software function
- Performing system calibration and data acquisition with CANape
- Integrating pre-trained machine learning algorithms for Predictive Distance Control
- Developing an optimized toolchain based on defined KPIs to evaluate function behavior in the vehicle with Python and RobotFramework
- Creating a custom Qlik dashboard for analyzing and visualizing vehicle and function data
- Regular reporting and close collaboration with international senior stakeholders (including Audi and Porsche) to ensure project alignment and requirement adjustments
- Establishing a standardized KPI framework for functional evaluation
- Implementing structured data pipelines for reproducible analyses
- Developing transparent dashboards to support fast and informed decision-making
- Strengthening collaboration between system, test, and data teams
- Successfully integrating and validating the Predictive Distance Control function in the vehicle with transparent KPI-based decision criteria and on-time release for series projects
Embedded Software and System Test Engineer
Bosch GmbH
- Test feature owner for the entire system, including sensors, actuators, and connectivity components
- Analyzing requirements, epics, user stories, and architecture and specification documents to derive software integration and test criteria
- Building, operating, and maintaining a hardware-in-the-loop environment to cover all functionalities of the real system with Python and RobotFramework
- Performing root cause analyses and managing tickets in defect-tracking systems like JIRA
- Coordinating test feature owners for data acquisition, mobile network, diagnostics, and Wi-Fi
- Developing custom dashboards and providing regular reporting to management
- Responsible for integrating test cases into the CI/CD pipeline
- Subject matter expert in test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and HIL setups
- Standardizing test automation architectures and CI/CD processes, and developing reusable keywords, libraries, and HIL configurations
- Introducing structured defect analyses and sustainable best-practice formats
- Successfully integrating and validating software components for series truck platforms, leading to lasting improvements in performance quality, test quality, and integration stability
Embedded Software and System Test Engineer
Volkswagen Group
- Analyzing requirements, epics, user stories, and architecture and specification documents to derive software integration and test criteria
- Integrating test cases into the CI/CD pipeline
- Implementing test cases with Python and RobotFramework
- Subject matter expert in test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and hardware-in-the-loop setups
- Participating in software adaptation and integration for target hardware
- Performing root cause analyses and managing tickets in JIRA
- Actively participating in debugging, test, and integration workshops
- Evaluating, documenting, and presenting validation and test results to internal and external stakeholders
- Expanding test automation with Python and RobotFramework and introducing structured test strategies and quality gates
- Optimizing defect-tracking and root cause analysis processes
- Increasing test quality by 70% through expanded automated tests and reduced production error rates
Embedded Software Engineer
Pintsch GmbH
- Contributed to the development and validation of safety-critical application software for railway control and train protection systems according to EN 50128 / EN 50129 (SIL-4)
- Conducted module tests of application software with Tessy and µVision, including implementing test cases and evaluating test results
- Adapting and extending module test environments with Python, XML, and C# to increase test coverage and reusability
- Implementing and adapting software modules in C++ according to project-specific requirements
- Developing hardware-related test software based on LabVIEW and setting up and commissioning test systems for electronic assemblies
- Collaborating closely with system, hardware, and test engineers in parallel customer projects
- Expanding verification processes and test coverage, and automating test execution and documentation
- Building hardware test rigs to support integration and release
- Reliably validating safety-critical software modules and successfully commissioning hardware test systems to support integration, testing, and release
Industry Experience
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Experienced in Automotive and Manufacturing.
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Experienced in Quality Assurance, Product Development, and Information Technology.
Summary
My core competencies include the development and validation of embedded software, test automation (Python, RobotFramework), debugging and the use of CI/CD tools.
Skills
- Defect Tracking
- C/C++ Programming
- Test Automation
- Requirements Analysis
- Embedded Systems Testing
- Debugging Techniques
- Collaborative Problem-Solving
- Agile
- Linux
- Jira
- Devops
- Microcontroller
- Can-Bus
- Mod-Bus
- Test Specification
- Robotframework
- Python
- Hardware-Debugging
- Real-Time Systems
- Technical Documentation
- Debugging Expertise
- Can Bus Analysis
- Embedded Testing
- Firmware Validation
- Hardware Validation
- Debugging Skills
- Test Case Design
- Analytical Thinking
- Bug Tracking
- Hardware Integration
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Education
University of Duisburg-Essen (Distance Learning)
Master of Science, majoring in analog and digital signal processing, transmission technology, OFDM, RF simulation, and microwave · Electrical Engineering and Information Technology · Duisburg, Germany
Bachelor of Engineering, majoring in automotive electronics and drive systems · Mechatronics and Electrical Engineering · Esslingen, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD)
ISTQB Agile Tester
ISTQB Foundation Level
Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization And Optimization
Neural Networks And Deep Learning
Project Management Essentials
Structuring Machine Learning Projects
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