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SAUL MARTINEZ Pflugerville, TX 78660 H: (512) 852-1025 | C: (512) 586-4113 [email protected] Saul Martinez LinkeIn Profile Test Engineer highly adept at driving production and validation efforts for new and existing products. Extensive experience leading cross functional teams including test execution. A dedicated engineer with experience in hardware, software, characterization, BIOS, drivers, system and silicon validation. Hands-on leader with a consistent record of increasing employee productivity and morale. Software Quality Assurance training with an eye for detail. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Oversaw the building facilities construction and infrastructure of a $1.2 million marginal silicon lab (building, network infrastructure, hardware, server racks, etc.) Led cross functional team of 21 direct reports including engineers, technicians and contractors Served as department cost center owner of an electrical platform validation team, Client System Validation team, DDR/Memory Characterization team, DDR/Memory Margining team and a Marginal Silicon test team Reduced debug root causes times by 7 days by creating a standard regression process & a standard template for submitting system and silicon bugs/issues CORE QUALIFICATIONS Management/Leadership Project/Program Management – Scheduling, budget, planning, hardware, risk forecasting Resource Management – Interview/Hire, coach/mentor, employee performance reviews Understands the overall scope of technical & business requirements for team & clients Strong analytical skills, logical thinking, excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communications skills

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SAUL MARTINEZ Pflugerville, TX 78660H: (512) 852-1025 | C: (512) 586-4113

[email protected] Martinez LinkeIn Profile

Test Engineer highly adept at driving production and validation efforts for new and existing products. Extensive experience leading cross functional teams including test execution. A dedicated engineer with experience in hardware, software, characterization, BIOS, drivers, system and silicon validation. Hands-on leader with a consistent record of increasing employee productivity and morale. Software Quality Assurance training with an eye for detail.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Oversaw the building facilities construction and infrastructure of a $1.2 million marginal silicon lab (building, network infrastructure, hardware, server racks, etc.)

Led cross functional team of 21 direct reports including engineers, technicians and contractors

Served as department cost center owner of an electrical platform validation team, Client System Validation team, DDR/Memory Characterization team, DDR/Memory Margining team and a Marginal Silicon test team

Reduced debug root causes times by 7 days by creating a standard regression process & a standard template for submitting system and silicon bugs/issues

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

Management/Leadership

Project/Program Management – Scheduling, budget, planning, hardware, risk forecasting

Resource Management – Interview/Hire, coach/mentor, employee performance reviews

Understands the overall scope of technical & business requirements for team & clients

Strong analytical skills, logical thinking, excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communications skills

Risk management, excellent problem solving skills and strong decision making skills

Engineering/Hardware Software Test

CPU/APU Silicon & System Validation – Server, Mobile, Desktop

Hardware & Software Testing – Drivers, Applications, Motherboards, Quality Assurance

Benchmarking & System Stress – 3D Mark, PC Mark, Unigine Heaven, Pass Mark

System Test Case & Hardware Configurations – User experience, memory, create & execute test cases

Microsoft & Linux OS Installations – Win, 7, Win 8, Win 10, 2008, 2012, SLES, SLED, Ubuntu

Software Quality Assurance Skills (Class/Training)

Application Testing – Web page, Web applications, Mobile, Thick Client/Standalone, Games

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Test Plans & Requirements – Review project plans and requirements documentation

Functional Testing – Installation, GUI, Function, Security

Test Techniques – Automation, Acceptance, API, Integration, Unit, Ad-Hoc, Exploratory, Smoke

Test Tools – Selenium, MS Test Manager, Jira, Bugzilla, SoapUI, SQL Server Management, Python Beginner

WORK EXPERIENCE

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) 2001-2014

Supervisor System Test/Validation Engineer

Collaborated with project managers to develop project schedules and resource allocation models for validation projects and other activities

Directed daily operations of our department, analyzes work flow, establishes priorities, develops standards and resolves problems

Reviewed project plans in order to execute project activity

Met with department heads, managers, supervisors, automation developers and vendors to insure hardware and software requirements/deliverables were enabled prior to silicon arrive

Conducted weekly project/program status meetings with local and global teams

Reviewed all submitted silicon, software and system issues prior to submitting to live debug tracker database

Led and executed system validation test plans, DDR/memory characterization, DDR/memory margining & Marginal Silicon validation teams

Assisted development team to create user experience test cases for system validation and created hardware configurations for silicon validation test plans

Ordered and/or provided recommendations for capital and expense hardware

Maintained and reviewed platform hardware revisions against ECO's in order to the maintain the latest board revisions

Captured voltage regulator transient measurements, power & signal sequencing measurements and sustained load measurements

Performed electrical validation on internal reference motherboard designs, ODM platforms and OEM mobile/server/desktop platforms

EDUCATION/TRAINING

ITT Tech - Associate of Science: Electronics Engineering Technology (Graduate 2001)

Bridge360 - Software Quality Assurance Training Course for Veterans (In-progress)

US Army Reserves (Inactive)