Xian Tang

About Xian Tang

Proven track record in SW Quality Assurance, Test, Safety and Program Management of large SW system with 500+ million lines of code; Validation cost reduction by $10M annually* High quality delivery of 30+ SOTA smart phones, One from-concept-through-launch luxury intelligent Electrical Vehicle, Infotainment, ADAS/AD, Cloud, AI testing and data pipeline* Strong Embedded SW, Linux, Android, Communication, Cloud, Electrical Vehicle SW, Embodied AI and data engineering technology expertise* Well built best practice and leadership in each stage of SDLC, STLC; excellent at process standardization, stakeholder management, risk assessment, change management and budget management* Leveraging SW V&V, quality audit and assessment to push cross-functional collaboration and continuous optimization* Achieved 98%+ defect detection rate and 95%+ defect closure rate before delivery* Chaired test-driven development and data driven quality improvement. Accelerated the resolution of defects, including system-wide defects across requirements, hardware, design, manufacturing, reliability, modeling, and coding* Extensive experience in Agile methodologies, SAFe, DevOps and quality assurance processes to push faster iteration and maturation of complex system SW release and product quality* Proficient capability of leading software test strategies, test planning, design, development, test infrastructure, test toolkit, test execution and reporting* Productive and efficient test automation and test scripts management; building out SIL, HIL and VIL test environment for vehicle SW test * Coding experience: assembly, C, C++, Java, Python, Javascript* Deep expertise and experience on Open/Closed loop ADAS simulation, ADAS bench test / field test / road test, ADAS multimodal data collection and processing pipeline * Deep expertise on LLM, LLM benchmark, AI Agents, AI safety, vision transformer, Self-supervised learning, and Conditional Imitation Learning based end to end AD solution* Integral test experience and expertise of both AD and vehicle platform* Demonstrated proficiency in industry standards, such as ASPICE, ISO 26262, ISO 21448, ISO 21434, ISO 9001 / 16949 QMS, AUTOSAR

Experience

1. Director, Automotive Sw Program Management

   高通

   Aug 2025 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

   ADAS, Automotive SW Program Management

Education

• Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  Bachelor, Applied Electronic Technology

• Peking University

  Master, SW Engineering, Embedded System

Skills

• Linux
• Cross-Team Communication
• Team Management
• Mobile Communications
• Software Project Management
• Test Management
• Debugging
• Program Management
• Mobile Devices
• Embedded Software
• Testing
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Result Oriented
• Lte
• Software Engineering
• System Testing
• Distributed Team Management
• Test Design
• Test Strategy
• Wcdma
• Clearcase
• Umts
• Wireless Communications Systems
• Android
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Wireless
• Software Design
• Telecommunications
• Embedded Systems
• Test Planning
• Rtos
• Cdma
• Software Quality Assurance
• Team Leadership
• Device Drivers
• Tcp/Ip
• Symbian
• Agile Methodologies
• Agile Testing
• Test Automation