Peter Schneider

Pfalzburger Str. 34, 10717 Berlin

Summary

Software and Test Engineer with extensive experience in both embedded systems and desktop applications. As a developer, I appreciate good testers. As a tester, I appreciate good developers.

Hard Skills

Excellent C/C++
Excellent C#
Strong focus on OO
Strong focus on relevant, reproducible, automatic tests
ClearCase, ClearQuest
Experience with MVB, CAN, USB
Areas of experience and interest: Railway, automotive, print
Excellent English
Some Java, SQL, UML, Enterprise Architect, Doors, Linux administration

Soft Skills

Reads and writes documentation
Acquires, assembles and organizes information from diverse sources
Communicates well, verbally and in writing
Team player
Persistent

Education

Abitur
B.Sc. in General Computer Science from Technische Fachhochschule Berlin (now Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin); focus on Software Engineering

Experience

Software Engineer developing test tools
Major railway manufacturer, Berlin area, 2014-present

Configuring test environments for PC based emulations of embedded railway software
Technolgies: C#, XML
Obtain specifications for all programs used in the tests from the developers, understand their interaction, design user work flow.
Programmatically interface with ClearCase

Software test engineer/Software developer
Major railway manufacturer, Berlin area, 2011-2014

Assemble and understand the specification of the controlled hardware (circuit diagrams, bus interface specs, state diagrams)
Write an emulation of that hardware in C++ to test against
Specify, write, run and evaluate tests for the software on the controlling unit (EA, UML)
Assess software quality, give feedback to developers and project leaders, assist in debugging (ClearQuest)
Assist in completing and “debugging” the specification

Software Engineer
Technical instrument manufacturer, Berlin, 2008-2009

Setting up a cross-compiler for PowerPC and then cross-compiling a software environment (gtk etc.) for an embedded controller under Linux/busybox
Shell scripts, make files, patch
Research and experimentation to fix cross-compiling and run time issues

Earlier major assignments

Integration, test and debugging of a USB driver in an automotive infotainment platform with a large German supplier. Hardware-assisted in-depth analysis of the USB communication with various devices, hardware-assisted source-code level debugging of the USB stack, deadlock analysis, apple protocols etc.
Test automation with CANoE, CAPL for an automotive TV tuner. Verification of compliance with the CAN spec. Diagnosis protocol compliance tests. Automatic voltage curve generation of ignition spikes, scripted evaluations with GPIB/RS232 controlled programmable transformers and measuring devices. Systematic explorative testing to detect problematic voltage curves.
Customizing and debugging of open source software (GhostScript/GhostPCL) for a Raster Image Processor. Written a PCL6 parser in C++ to extract document information.