Embedded Safety Software Engineer

ISTQB Certified Software Tester
10 Jahre Embedded Safety Software
Ulm

• Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik (allg.)

PROFILE

Quick-learner and adaptable person with good technical skills and good communication skills in French, German and English. Highly motivated on new challenging projects. A 6 years experience in Embedded Software in Defence Industry and Postal Automation, especially 2 years accurately testing software and became Certified Tester to ISTQB Standard. Developing and Testing Process improver and automatizer. A good team player, also able to use initiative.


CAREER SUMMARY

EADS Software Testing Engineer 2008 2009
Solystic (Northrop Grumman) Software Engineer 2006 2007
CESA (Vinci) Junior Project Manager 2005 2006
Sagem DS Software Engineer 2003 2005
Anticipaction Software Engineer 2001



KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Achieved on time the software testing of the A400M radar according to DO178B standards
Improved and automatized the testing process of A400M radar software testing
Successfully developed a tracking software MUTIN for STRIX on Australian TIGER at Sagem DS
Successfully developed the Sort Plan Generator of a sorting machine prototype at Solystic
Working on several international projects in German and English



KEY SKILL AREAS

ISTQB-Certified Tester (Black-Box, White Box, FMEA, FTA, CMMI, TMM,)
Unit and integration testing to DO178B and MIL-STD-153 standards.
Excellent C/C++.
Adept to scripting languages Ruby, Perl, Dos and bash.
Configuration Tools: PVCS, WinCVS, mercurial
Modeling Tools: UML with Rational Rose and Rhapsody
Code Composer Studio, C++ and VB Visual Studio
Matlab, Scilab
XML and XSL, Matlab parsing, HTML
DOORS and DXL script
Checking C Program: Splint
Microsoft Office
Native French speaking German and English



EMPLOYMENT HISTORY


December 2007 Present EADS DS, Ulm, Germany

Role: Software tester for A400M radar (2 projects: air to air mode and DSP control software)

Achievements and responsibilities
Review of software specification, software design and source code to DO178B Standards
Developed scripts to import test cases specifications from DOORS to Matlab for the first project
Developed a faster process for second project: test cases specification written in XML, XSL layout to copy and paste directly in DOORS, matlab script to generate all Code Composer Studio and Matlab files of the test frame and DXL script to make links between DOORS modules
Unit testing to DO178B with JTAG and DSP6713:
o First project: Matlab model based testing
o Second project: testing the state machines with XML result files
Code coverage instrumentation and script to automatize the RTF code coverage report



June 2006 November 2007 SOLYSTIC (NORTHROP GRUMMAN), Valence, France

Role: C++ Software Engineer of a prototype letter sorting machine for Deutsche Post AG.

Achievements and responsibilities
First project: developed C++ application to generate optimized sort plan in order to sort letters for the postman with important customer constraints. (VB interface, COM-DCOM communication, XML format)
Second project: developed interface objects with new peripherals (VIdTM and cancelling)
Third Project: implemented sorting machine software requests
Integration of the sorting machine prototype in Nürnberg, Germany
Object Oriented Design and Configuration Management Authority for the project (Rational Rose and PVCS)



June 2005 May 2006 CESA (VINCI), Lyon, France

Role: Junior Project Manager using NPI Letter Sorting Machine

Achievements and responsibilities
Wrote functional analysis of Swiss customer requirements (Online DVD rental service)
Implemented the sorting machine software according to functional requirements using Visual C and MSDK
Managed a team of developers working on SILOE printing software for La Poste
Responsible of all equipment suppliers (barcode reader, linear camera, printer, computer)
Responsible of Customer Support in Germany and in Swiss.







March 2003 May 2005 SAGEM DS, Massy, France

Role: Software Engineer of 4 targets tracking system MUTIN for TIGER helicopter

Achievements and responsibilities
Worked on the full Life Cycle development of the project according to MIL-STD-1553 standards
Wrote the software specification and software design documents
Developed the functional part of the software in C (Kalman filter, image processing )
Unit testing of critical functions
Integrated the software on the new board with JTAG (Green Hills and Wind Power)
Integrated the software of the optronic sighting system STRIX


February 2001 August 2001 ANTICIPACTION, Paris, France

Role: Document Management System developer

Achievements and responsibilities
Wrote the functional requirements with the customers
Created data bank for Hummingbird software
Developed and tested the software (HTML, JavaScript and a CGI tool Fuldoc)
Delivered the software to customers


EDUCATION

Karlsruhe Universität (TH), September 2001 February 2003
o developed an artificial intelligence music analyzer in C (Diplomarbeit in German)
o studied cryptography, embedded software, cognitive systems, computer algebra
o Diplom-Informatiker in February 2003 with honors (1,3)

ENSIMAG (Ecole National Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble), September 1999 September 2002:
o Developed a face tracking software in C with a webcam in C
o Implemented a Pascal compiler in ADA95
o Developed an artificial intelligence game software in C++
o Implemented a CD management software in Java (JDBC) with SQL data bank
o Simulated an aerial cable car with Scilab
o Developed a pseudo 68000 assembler in C
o Built an 8-bit microprocessor
o Studied algorithms with Lisp, mathematic, image processing, UNIX, neural network, operations research, hardware.

Preparatory School in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Sciences in Lycée Faidherbe, Lille, France, September 1996 June 1999

French Baccalauréat with honors "Mention très bien" in Amiens, France, June 1996

RECOGNITION

In July 2009, ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) certified tester Foundation Level in German, Advanced Level certification in preparation.


MISCELLANEOUS

Current MoD Security to Secret
Clean Full Driving Licence
Playing the French horn and the alphorn
Swimming and bike

IT & Entwicklung
- Embedded Systems
- Konfiguration
- Qualitätsmanagement / Testing
- Softwareentwicklung

Programmierung & Betriebssysteme
- Softwareprogrammierung

Technik & Ingenieursberufe
- Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik