1. PRAGYA TIWARI
10426 Caminito Alvarez, San Diego, CA 92126| Ph:+1-858-336-2446| Email:pragyati@buffalo.edu
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a job opportunity where my educational background & technical skills can contribute to the benefit of the company
EDUCATION
University of Buffalo (SUNY), New York, USA, MSEE, Feb 2014
Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, India, BSEE, May 2010, Ranked 1st
in college
SKILLS
 Wireless/Networking Skills: NFC, LTE, UMTS, CDMA, GSM, 802.11 (WiFi), OSI, TCP/IP, Network Simulator, Wireshark
 Programming/Design Skills: MATLAB, C, Python, Verilog, Unix, Filter Design, Keil uVision4, Agilent ADS, Xilinx
 Industrial Tools: QXDM, Keolabs NOMADLab SWP Sniffer, PRISM, Lauterbach Trace32, JTAG, Oscilloscope, Spectrum
Analyzer, Microsoft Windows 2000/XP, Visio, Microsoft Office, Oracle Toad, HP Quality Center, Bugzilla
WORK EXPERIENCE
Wireless Connectivity Systems Test Engineer, Qualcomm Atheros, Inc., San Diego, California, Apr2014-Current
 Testing & Debugging issues down to RF/Firmware/Middleware levels, using ADB & OTA logs on NFC Applications
 Tag Read/Write – Functionality, Range Testing
 P2P communication – IOT with various Android devices (Samsung, Nokia, LG, Motorola etc)
 Card Emulation – Different Power States, Volumetric Testing
 KPI measurement & Performance testing
 Responsible for Creating Test Suite based on customer requirements & bringing up various Android prototypes
Assistant Systems Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services, SEZ-Powai, Mumbai, India, Dec2010-Jul2012
 Manual & automated testing using HP Quality Center, SQL Manager for Oracle DB and Unix shell scripting
 Performed Unit, Integration, System, Regression Testing on front-end & back-end applications
RELEVANT COURSES
LTE Wireless Communications, MIMO, Smart Antennas, DSP, Principles of Networking, RF/Microwave Circuits, Embedded Systems
PROJECTS
MIMO System Design Project & 4G LTE- A survey (MATLAB)
 Simulated 2x1 & 2x2 MIMO systems, for Jakes’ Fading simulator & compared performance by plotting BER vs. SNR curves
 Wrote an article on the network architecture of 4G LTE (RAN, EPC, Interfaces and ProtocolStack)
CDMA Transceiver Design (Hardware Implementation)
 Designed a CDMA transceiver using 4-bit Shift register and 8-bit input signal given to the circuitry using a CRO, showing the
use of PN sequence generator to encrypt a signal. PCB layout was designed on ExpressPCB
Smart Antenna System Design (MATLAB)
 Designed an adaptive antenna system using zero-forcing beamforming & different number of antenna elements, plotted the
beam power patterns in dB scale
 Simulated MF & MVDR beamforming techniques and compared the results
Designing a Mismatched Filter using Barker Codes (MATLAB)
 Successfully designed a mismatch-filter using Barker 13 code to supress the side lobes of the transmitted signal using Side
Lobe Inversion Technique
3 - Section Directional Coupler (Hardware Implementation)
 Designed a 20 dB parallel line 3-section coupler at 7 GHz & a bandwidth of 8 GHz. The schematic was created using ADS
Energy-efficient point-to-point transmission of delay-sensitive video data with packet prioritization (MATLAB)
 Implemented joint optimization of both PHY layer centric & system-level techniques to minimize energy consumption under
buffer delay constraint during video transmission, performed on MKV files
A Karaoke player, using microcontroller NXP LPC1768 (C, Assembly)
 Designed MP3 Karaoke Player on an ARM Cortex-M3 RISC based 32 bit microcontroller using Stereo Cancellation technique
Game Design (Python)
 Developed “Rock, Paper, Scissor, Lizard & Spock” and “Guess the number” games as hobby projects
Electronic Lock (Verilog)
 RTL design of a four-digit code lock on Digilent BASYS2 FPGA Board using Finite State Machine
ACHIEVEMENTS
 Awarded the best project of the quarter in July 2012, by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Canada
 Certified by International Systems Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB)