Selected Project
Firmware quality engineering and QA advocacy for Avigilon's H4A and H5A PTZ camera families.
Overview
I served as the main QA advocate for these camera variants' firmware team at different stages of those products' lifecycles at Motorola Solutions / Avigilon. My role involved overseeing the quality assurance strategy for the firmware, writing and maintaining automated test suites specific to those cameras, investigating complex issues across multiple subsystems, and helping the relevant development team incorporate testing and quality practices into their workflow.
What I contributed
I maintained and expanded a large automated testing framework that covered critical firmware subsystems including lens control, imaging, video streaming, manufacturing processes, networking, and PTZ movement. This allowed the team to catch regressions early and verify firmware stability across releases.
As QA advocate, I helped shape the firmware quality strategy for those camera projects from early development through release. I worked closely with firmware developers to ensure testing was considered at every stage, wrote reproducible bug reports with thorough investigation findings, and pushed for better testing infrastructure and practices within the team.
I investigated and reproduced complex firmware issues spanning multiple subsystems — from PTZ movement and imaging control to network streaming and camera web interface behaviour. This required understanding how embedded systems, image sensors, PTZ coordinate systems, and network protocols worked and interacted with each other.
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