Evrard Amindjou Tsafack-Senior Embedded Software Engineer
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Senior Embedded Software Tester
Bosch GmbH
- Ensure the system maturity and operational readiness throughout the entire lifecycle of automotive products according to ASPICE and internal quality processes
- Analyze system behavior and system performance to identify inefficiencies, integration issues, and gaps in diagnostic coverage
- Support development milestones by validating system interactions, configurations, and boundary conditions
- Derive test specifications from software and system requirements
- Implement test cases using RobotFramework and Python
- Work closely with system, software, hardware, and calibration teams to ensure stable and high-performing system behavior before release
- Perform end-to-end system performance analyses through endurance tests and automated result evaluation using Python and RobotFramework
- Introduce KPI-based system monitoring and performance analysis and set up automated evaluation and feedback pipelines
- Organize and facilitate cross-functional debugging and integration workshops
- Successfully integrated and validated system and software components for mass-production truck platforms, achieving sustainable 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
- Perform system calibration and data collection using CANape
- Integrate pre-trained machine learning algorithms for Predictive Distance Control
- Develop an optimized toolchain based on defined KPIs to assess function performance in the vehicle using Python and RobotFramework
- Create a custom Qlik dashboard to analyze and visualize vehicle and function data
- Provide regular reports and work closely with international senior stakeholders (including Audi and Porsche) to ensure project alignment and adjust requirements
- Establish a standardized KPI framework for functional evaluation
- Implement structured data pipelines for reproducible analyses
- Develop transparent dashboards to support quick, informed decisions
- Strengthen collaboration between system, test, and data teams
- Successfully integrated and validated the Predictive Distance Control function in the vehicle with transparent KPI-based decision criteria, delivered on time for series projects
Embedded Software and System Test Engineer
Bosch GmbH
- Test feature owner for the entire system, including sensors, actuators, and connectivity components
- Analyze requirements, epics, user stories, and architecture and specification documents to derive software integration and test criteria
- Build, operate, and maintain a hardware-in-the-loop environment to cover all real system functionalities using Python and RobotFramework
- Perform root cause analyses and manage tickets in defect-tracking systems like JIRA
- Coordinate test feature owners for data acquisition, cellular network, diagnostics, and WLAN
- Develop custom dashboards and provide regular reports to management
- Responsible for integrating test cases into the CI/CD pipeline
- Subject matter expert in test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and HIL setups
- Standardize test automation architectures and CI/CD processes and develop reusable keywords, libraries, and HIL configurations
- Introduce structured defect analyses and sustainable best practice formats
- Successfully integrated and validated software components for mass-production truck platforms, achieving sustainable improvements in performance quality, test quality, and integration stability
Embedded Software and System Test Engineer
Volkswagen Group
- Analyze requirements, epics, user stories, and architecture and specification documents to derive software integration and test criteria
- Integrate test cases into the CI/CD pipeline
- Implement test cases using Python and RobotFramework
- Subject matter expert in test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and hardware-in-the-loop setups
- Contribute to software adaptation and integration for target hardware
- Perform root cause analyses and manage tickets in JIRA
- Actively participate in debugging, testing, and integration workshops
- Evaluate, document, and present validation and test results to internal and external stakeholders
- Expand test automation with Python and RobotFramework and introduce structured test strategies and quality gates
- Optimize defect tracking and root cause analysis processes
- Increased test quality by 70% through expanding automated tests and reducing production defect rates
Embedded Software Engineer
Pintsch GmbH
- Contribute to developing and validating safety-critical application software for train control and train protection systems according to EN 50128 / EN 50129 (SIL-4)
- Perform module tests of application software with TESSY and µVision, including implementing test cases and evaluating test results
- Adapt and extend module test environments with Python, XML, and C# to improve test coverage and reusability
- Implement and adapt software modules in C++ according to project-specific requirements
- Develop hardware-oriented test software based on LabVIEW and build and commission test systems for electronic assemblies
- Work closely with system, hardware, and test engineers in parallel client projects
- Enhance verification processes and test coverage and automate test execution and documentation
- Set up hardware test benches to support integration and release
- Reliably validate safety-critical software modules and successfully commission hardware test systems to support integration, testing, and release
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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 developing and validating embedded software, test automation (Python, RobotFramework), debugging, as well as using 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
- Modbus
- 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, major in analog and digital signal processing, transmission technology, OFDM, RF simulation, and microwave · Electrical Engineering and Information Technology · Duisburg, Germany
Bachelor of Engineering, major 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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