The Open University of Israel

Braude Academic College

Principal System Validation Engineer at Western Digital

•	Lead the validation product life cycle from product kickoff to release to the customer, including design, implementation, maintenance, and test traceability of automotive projects
•	Manage lab execution activities as a product owner, leading experiments, and analyzing results
•	Define validation strategy per product/feature on different levels of validation, simulation, hardware, and real platforms based on product requirements, define the environmental conditions, such as tools, infrastructure, automation, and reports, define detailed specifications for systems features such as performance, power, and stress characteristics
•	Establish a validation coverage matrix per product
•	Lead and define the validation infrastructure activities
•	Lead complex investigations from the site of the customer to determine the root cause of the bug within a short timeframe
•	Define machine learning strategy in terms of product validation needs, such as improving debug capabilities and coverage
•	Develop scripts and parsers for testing , analysis, and reporting using Python, SQL, PowerBI
•	Invented 3 US patents

Western Digital

Technologist System Validation Engineer

Principal System Validation Engineer

•	Lead the development of software validation and failure analysis teams
•	Manage a team of 8-10 members
•	Transfer the project and knowledge to the Western Digital team in India
•	Manage the team responsible for handling feature protocols (eMMC, UFS) and internal product features 
•	Increased the productivity of the team by defining tools that facilitate the work of the team, including automatic failure analysis and test traceability
•	Define validation development methodology (random, direct tests) and several processes such as failure analysis, reproduction, etc
•	Act as the validation training champion, organize and facilitate boot camps
•	Develop features in Python such as latency, customer traces, and rump-up products across platforms (30% hands-on)

Team Leader Software Validation

•	Develop validation tests based on product features using Python
•	'End-to-End' validation process - review, analyze, plan, design, define and write validation documents, development tests, utilities, and UT, building reports, and resolution of bugs
•	Responsible for the debugging process
•	Lead the failure analysis group and lead task forces that address critical customer issues
•	Perform the role of validation integrator

SanDisk®

Senior Software Development Engineer Test

•	Tests development in Java and C
•	Perform code stack analysis for real-time systems in VxWorks
•	Define and develop tests for OpenGL systems
•	Manage and implement tests and documents at DOORS, Quality Center

Eyal Hamo