Director of Engineering at Babelgum
Nice Area, France
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- QA Manager at Babelgum
- QA Manager at Trusted Logic
- Senior System/Development Engineer at Xevo
- QA Manager at Intel
- QA Team Leader at Shiva
- Education
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- Ecole supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Génie électrique
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Eric Gavaldo’s Summary
During all my career, my activities have been focusing on Testing and Automation with as constant objective of improving the quality of the products I was working on. I've been acting on different areas as different as:
- networking software/hardware (network access servers, routers, VPN etc.),
- legacy software (distributed applications)
- embedded software (mobile phones, smart cards, setup boxes etc.)
- and internet (WebTV).
I'm now acting on the other side ;) ! trying to build products of the highest quality as possible.
On my free time, I'm also the owner/developer of XQual XStudio (http://www.xqual.com), a free test management tool available on Windows, Linux and MacOSX platforms.
I see myself as being determined and goal oriented, self-evaluative and sometimes critical of my own performance.
Given objective, I'm able to develop my own plan, manage my time and focus my effort on a daily basis to reach these goals. I would also describe myself as cheerful, sociable and enthusiastic.
Eric Gavaldo’s Specialties:
Engineering
Project Management
Testing
Automation
Quality
Eric Gavaldo’s Experience
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Director of the Engineering
Babelgum
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
Director of the Engineering
Report to CEO/CTO about development projects (including client application, web application and front-end servers) -
Site Manager of the French office
Babelgum
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
The French office is about 20 people. Most of them are working in the Engineering department.
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Founder/Owner
XQual
(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years)
XQual is providing a free open test management tool.
I'm acting on my free time as architect/developer to deliver to the community the best software as possible. -
QA Manager
Babelgum
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
September 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 1 month)
QA Manager
Report to CEO/CTO about all testing projects (including front-end & back-end) held by the QA teams (spread over Dublin and Nice). Setup of common tools for automation, quality methodology, continuous integration processes etc. in a Scrum environment. -
QA Manager
Trusted Logic
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2002 — September 2007 (5 years 6 months)
Setup of the QA group in Sophia-Antipolis.
Leading the QA/Engineering team for tests development.
Setup of quality processes and methodology.
Development of a complex asynchronous testing framework for STIP/FINREAD including more than 30.000 testcases.This was designed to validate security features on connected terminals and mobile devices (i.e. mobile phones, payment terminals).
Design for the Global Platform Consortium (www.globalplatform.org) of the standard STIP testplan (www.stip.org). Active member of the STIP Consortium technical team.
Conception/development of the automatic documentation generation process – from XML skeletons – of testplans and test reports.
Setup/Administration of the Bug tracking System (Mantis)
GUI testing -
Senior System/Development Engineer
Xevo
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2000 — April 2002 (1 year 6 months)
Architecture, conception & prototyping of the front-end management console for the ASP (Application Service Provider) accessible from the Web (Java Signed Applet) and/or from the LAN.
Development of multi-platform provisioning modules in C++ (Unix and Win2K) in a COM+ environment.
Conception/development of the “Web Delegated Administration” Application (HTML, ASP & JavaScript) & the associated COM-Layer (XML over HTTP API in VisualBasic/Java - IIS).
Development of several tools: Parsing/optimization of the software localization resources, automatic doc generation. Front end to generate XSLT provisioning transforms.Test-suite builder for constructing, sending & processing XML MAPS requests (logging results).ServiceModel generator (stress-test tool), graphical viewer & query engine -
QA Manager
Intel
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Computer Networking industry)
January 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 10 months)
Setup of a brand new validation process in cooperation with development team.
Writing of testplans and estimation of different phases of testing (smoke, functional, non-regression, stress, negative & black/white box & performances tests).
Development of test-suites (MS-VisualTest) for GUI test automation project.
Development of test-cases for non-regression tests (ANVL) as well as a data transfer bandwidth measurement tool. -
QA Team Leader
Shiva
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; SHVA; Computer Networking industry)
March 1996 — January 1999 (2 years 11 months)
Development of DIG (Dial In Generator):Managed a team to develop C2S (Call Setup Simulator) - real-time, shared memory & multiprocess. Developed the GUI as well as data transfers, stat. collector & graph tracer modules - C & gtk/gdk libs. Developed a configuration tool (X11/Xwindows) for M2S (Multiple Subscribers Simulator) - TCL/TK.
Trained development & QA teams in Bedford (US) on how to develop subsequent add’ons for DIG.
Organization of beta trials (project manager for Firmware 6.1’s beta testing in Europe).
Eric Gavaldo’s Education
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Ecole supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Génie électrique
BAC+5 , Computer-Science/Networking , 1988 — 1994
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