Some examples of the skills Parsons Software Associates Ltd has...

• STB Software Full Stack Integration/
  Development

• Real Time embedded 'C' development

• Defect root cause identification and fixing

• ISO9001 Wrote company software development procedures

• Full stack build and configuration management

• PVCS/Clearcase/Git Configuration management tools

• Reproduction, isolation and identification of defects both new and regressions

• Creation of novel test environments to assist in defect identification and stress test of network connected devices both hard-wired and WiFi

• Excellent device driver knowledge

• Excellent Network/WiFi experience

• Software and hardware-based performance analysis and stress testing

• Taking a proposed fix and identifying possible weakness for further testing

• Jenkins automated build/test tools experience

• Real-time embedded highly respected problem-solving analysis skills

• Use of hardware and software-based debugging tools

• UPNP software stack knowledge including problem identification, test tool and fix identification/test

• Strong ABR (Adaptive Bit Rate) experience and test environment setup

• Linux based embedded system development

• DVB broadcasting standards

• Linux shell scripting using bash, sed, awk, expect, curl etc.

• Excellent written language communication skills

• Considerable experience of being sole company representative at customer site often in a fractious environment.

• Able to win confidence of customer and improve working relationship

• Have often travelled at short notice to many different international customer destinations representing Cisco for critical problem-solving activities

• Excellent experience with working with third party STB manufacturer driver teams

• Generation of labour/materials estimates for defect fixing and component development

• Creation of brief but accurate progress report summaries for higher level management information

• Specialised small team leading targeting critical area faults

Integration is here defined as gathering all of these software components and hardware systems and making them work as a full stack system operating in a seamless way.

Often, the various individual components have been tested in isolation and pass their own test suites. However, when the components are combined and run as one, there are always problems to be solved.These problems can arise as a result of timing in a multi-tasking environment, misunderstanding of API definitions, memory resource problems and a host of other reasons.It is the responsibility of the Integration Engineer to identify the root cause of the problems and identify the component(s) at fault. Often, the Integrator will work at source code level with or without the direct involvement of the relevant software engineers.