Shailaja Katakam

About Shailaja Katakam

Having 5+ years of professional work experience in development of functional test cases and system level testing. • Work experience in developing vivado designs to validate different data paths in SOC.• Experience in analysing & debugging the design issues in vivado.• Work experience in Platform bring up, development test cases in C and execution, Bug reporting, Debugging, Tracking.• Experience in test execution on FPGA emulations (palladium, zebu, haps) in AMD.• Experience in Virtualization (VT-d) Performance Testing on Graphics.• Experience in Synthetic tests on FPGA emulation (Zebu) and Graphics Validation in Intel.• Sys Debugging activities i.e; Compute OSBV Validation on Linux platforms.• Knowledge of display and 3D related debug issues on windows platform.• Hands on experience on embedded C programming on TM4C123 controller and ARM cortex M4 architecture.• Experience on hardware debugging using ICDI debugger.• Knowledge on Intel and Arm Assembly programming.• Knowledge on Operating system concepts and Linux system programming.• Proficiency with Serial Communication Protocols UART, SPI, I2C,PCIe. knowledge on Boot loadersreceived Instant Recognition Spotlight Award.

Experience

1. Senior Engineer

   Qualcomm

   Sep 2023 — Present

   GPU hardware debugging and post-silicon validation aligned with graphics architecture.Android and Windows platform debug activities.Root cause analysis of post-silicon GPU issues tracked via Jira.Collaborative bug triaging with UMD, KMD, design, and integration teams.Automation of dump analysis using custom scripts.

Education

• Sreenidi Institute of Science &Technology

  Bachelor of Technology, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician

  2016 — 2019

• Sindhura college of engineering & technology

  Diploma of Education, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2013 — 2016

• Zilla parishat secondary high School

  Board of Secondary Education

  2013