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Test Engineer

I break things
on purpose.

I'm a test engineer. Most recently at SGS, running RF conformance testing on 5G NR and LTE devices against 3GPP specifications. I'm now doing an MS at Texas A&M and building conformance test harnesses — the kind of tooling that tells you whether a failure belongs to the device or to your own test rig.

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Subject
Rahul Bulsara
Function
Test Engineer
Site
San Francisco, CA
Status
Open to SDET and test automation roles
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[01]About

Somebody has to find the failure first.

At SGS I ran RF conformance testing on 5G NR and LTE devices — Keysight and Anritsu platforms, 3GPP specifications, and a lot of time spent working out whether a failure belonged to the device or to the bench.

The part I kept coming back to was the automation. I built a Python service there that cross-checked license files against multi-format test data and test case requirements, which took manual setup errors off the table across thousands of configurations.

Now I'm doing an MS in Mathematics at Texas A&M and building test infrastructure on my own time. Two conformance harnesses so far, and both of them measure their own effectiveness rather than just reporting green — I'd rather know what my tests miss than assume they catch everything.

At a glance
Currently
MS Mathematics · Texas A&M
Previously
Wireless Test Engineer · SGS
Focus
Test automation, conformance, CI
Education
  • MS, Mathematics
    Texas A&M University
    Jan 2026 — Dec 2027
  • BS, Mathematics and Computer Science
    University of California, San Diego
    Sep 2023 — Jun 2025
[02]Experience

Where I've worked.

Most recent first.

  1. Jul 2025 — Dec 2025

    Wireless Test Engineer

    SGS — North America · San Diego, CA

    RF conformance testing on cellular devices in an accredited lab, plus the automation to make it repeatable.

    • Performed RF conformance testing on 5G NR and LTE devices using Keysight and Anritsu platforms, ensuring compliance with 3GPP specifications.
    • Automated license validation for 5G NR/LTE test cases with a Python service that cross-checked license files and multi-format test data (Excel, HTML) against test case requirements — eliminating manual setup errors and cutting test plan setup time across thousands of configurations.
    • Applied 3GPP standards and RF engineering principles to troubleshoot, analyze, and optimize device performance alongside cross-functional RF teams.
    • 5G NR
    • LTE
    • 3GPP
    • Keysight
    • Anritsu
    • Python
    • RF Conformance
  2. Aug 2023 — Aug 2024

    Instructor Assistant

    Microsoft TEALS · Oregon, WI

    Classroom support for a high school AP Computer Science program.

    • Designed curriculum for High School AP Computer Science covering introductory Python and Java, improving lesson efficiency by 50% and giving students more time on projects and assignments.
    • Teaching
    • Python
    • Java
    • Curriculum Design
  3. Jan 2023 — May 2023

    Software Engineer Intern

    NASA L'SPACE · Remote

    Proposal research inside NASA's L'SPACE virtual internship program.

    • Drafted a NASA proposal outlining the use of Finite Element Models enhanced by AI — Artificially Learned Finite Elements (ALFE) — projected to improve engineer efficiency by up to 40% by reducing manual computation.
    • Research
    • Finite Element Models
    • Technical Writing
[03]Projects

Things I've built.

Two test harnesses and a Transformer. Each one measures something about itself, not just the thing it's pointed at.

MCJul 2026Pass

Modem Conformance Test Harness

A cellular-modem conformance harness that runs declarative YAML test plans against a device and classifies every failure as a device fault, a timeout, or a fault in the harness itself.

82
Automated tests
21
Conformance cases
100%
Fault classification
  • Separates 82 automated pytest cases from declarative YAML test definitions, covering 21 conformance cases across identity, registration, data-context, and error-handling behavior.
  • Every push runs the full conformance pass against a live modem simulator in Docker and publishes JUnit XML and HTML reports as CI artifacts.
  • Python
  • pytest
  • YAML
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
Source
ACAug 2026Pass

API Conformance Test Harness

An automated framework that validates a running REST service against its published OpenAPI contract, using a single spec-driven test oracle instead of per-endpoint assertions.

109
Automated tests
54%
Negative-path coverage
6/6
Seeded defects caught
  • Measured its own defect-detection rate by seeding 6 labelled defects into the service under test — caught 6 of 6 with zero false positives on a healthy build.
  • A contract-drift gate in CI fails the build on any undeclared change to the public interface, catching breaking API changes before consumers do.
  • Python
  • pytest
  • OpenAPI
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
Source
SMMay — Jun 2025Pass

Symbolic Music Generation

A decoder-only Transformer trained on symbolic music, with a custom embedding and positional encoding pipeline.

900+
MIDI files
0.8918
Validation loss
1000+
Generated segments
  • Multi-stage generation system producing conditional and unconditional output from pitch, pause, and duration tokens in a learned embedding space.
  • PyTorch
  • Transformers
  • Sequence Modeling
More on GitHub
[04]Skills

What I work with.

No percentage bars. Just the list, grouped by what I use it for.

Test & Validation8

The core of the work.

  • pytest
  • JUnit
  • YAML-driven test plans
  • Fault injection
  • Negative-path design
  • Contract testing
  • RF conformance testing
  • 3GPP standards
Languages6

What I write in.

  • Python
  • Java
  • C
  • C++
  • SQL
  • Bash
Tooling & CI7

How it ships and stays honest.

  • Git
  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD
  • OpenAPI
  • GDB
[05]Contact

Let's talk.

Roles, projects, or a question about test engineering — I read everything.

Emailrahulvbulsara@gmail.com
LocationSan Francisco, CA
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