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Houston, Texas, United States

Munich, De

• Create and select the testing strategy and plan for unit, integration, and system testing and partner with project managers, design engineers, and test engineers for execution. • Derive and report systematic coverage of functional, certification, and customer-specific requirements, and identify opportunities for reducing product test and certification cycle time• Create process improvements and drive the agile process changes for the R&D department.• Develop, motivate, and coordinate the direct reports in all aspects of people management and work with the line managers to secure their assignments.• Experienced with responsibilities for team staffing, salary decisions, goal setting, and skill building.• Evaluate the state-of-the-art testing methods, tools, and processes, and implementation of testing improvements, and be responsible for advancing the test automation initiative.• Review the product defect backlog and prioritize testing based on available resources and time. • Create and represent the product development priorities, budgets, and strategies to R&D leadership by working closely with hardware and software engineering managers. • To create and implement the CI/CD - Continuous Integration and Continuous Development strategies.• Create a training plan and train internal/external customers on the new product features.• Drive regulatory compliance of Ex certification for North America (Can US), Europe (ATEX), International (IECEx), and regional type certifications for Korea (KC, KCs), China (NEPSI, CCC), UAE (EQM, ECAS EX) and EAEU (EAC EX) by teaming with notified bodies such as CSA, Sira, MET Labs, Eurofins, CML, KTL, NEPSI, SGS and Intertek. • Led the Quality and Regulatory for Business Divestment and developed strategies for product certification transitions to new business ownership.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Portfolio Agile Release Train Engineer for Global Product Release Train consists of five agile scrum teams ( 42 members) located in China, Mexico, and the USA. • Agile Product Owner for Healthy Building Initiative Scrum team (8 members) of Honeywell, and work within the scrum team to enable built-in quality of products used in Air Quality monitoring.• Leading the global teams for Technology ideation, and proof of concept development and testing.• Drive mitigation of the architectural risks of the program by working with architects in the early phases and conducting design reviews to identify failure modes during development.• Creation and driving Test Strategy, effort estimates, and test execution planning based on security, performance/scale, defects, and usability testing of software products and solutions.• Create Test Strategies for 3rd party products and solutions integrations to Honeywell business.• Build and maintain Air Quality lab for technology evaluations and qualification of IAQ sensors to support Honeywell's healthy buildings portfolio.• Prepare, forecast, and build the test setup along with hardware and software required for testing.• Drive product and system qualification and integration for the Healthy Building Initiative, to improve occupant experience and health.• Define the test environments and criteria for practical building environments to validate germicidal efficacy, life hazard, and material degradation effects of different disinfection technologies• Support and review the test execution done by global agencies and third-party labs.• Define system Pilot and Beta Site requirements and ensure site readiness for project MVO offerings.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Built and led the global multi-site test engineering team (7 members) for the design verification and product validation testing of Honeywell Flame and Gas Detection Products and Systems.• Creation of overall product test strategies, identifying automation and simulation needs, creation and execution of test plans, test cases, test management, and prioritization across multiple projects.• Product customer needs identification, competition product technology space analysis, the cost to feature benefit analysis, and minimum viable offering planning using Z21 and agile methodologies.• Hands-on expertise in component, module, system integration, installation, regression, functional, accelerated life tests, and compliance testing.• Led the cross-functional teams (Sales, Marketing, Regulatory, Service) to resolve customer issues.• Led and participated with the team for RCA, DFMEA, and PFMEA.• Planned and built engineering labs for project platform development, and pre-compliance testing to reduce NPI product development and certification cycle time by 60%.• Direct and Indirect contract resource management, training, and competency development with identification of internal and external training needs.• Create and executed environmental tests, EMI / EMC, shock, vibration, and performance tests per UL, FM, ATEX, and EN certifications.• Create and execute accelerated life tests (ALT) and highly accelerated life tests (HALT).• Responsible for project test schedule development, risk identification, risk mitigation, project quality matrix, and presentation to leadership. • Product compliance and relationship management with product certification and regulatory bodies like UL, CSA, TUV, FM, BRE Global, etc for obtaining product certifications and Hazardous location (Class 1 / Div 1, Class 1 / Div 2, and Exd enclosure) testing.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Created and executed end-to-end product testing activities including preparation of product test strategies, test plans, and test cases execution for new and sustaining products.• Built engineering labs for gas and flame detection product development, pre-compliance, and customer support to reduce product development cycle time by 30%. • Created pre-certification test platforms for Modbus, HART, FF (Foundation Fieldbus), etc.• Hands-on experience with fixed and portable gas detectors, fire and flame detectors, and their regulatory compliance and performance testing.• Hand-on experience with environmental test chambers, oscilloscope, data logger, regulated and programmable power supplies, and various lab equipment for product development and testing.

York, Pennsylvania, Us

• Reporting to Vice President of Engineering, Built and led the global multi-site test engineering organization (28 members) consisting of Automation test engineers and Mfg. test engineers to support the NPI and existing product feature development.• Creation of organization-level test strategy and vision for test automation platforms, CI/CD, and DevOps including security testing using agile methodologies for complex NPI and Sustaining projects to reduce the overall product development cycle time. • Led the team to implement to DevOps pipeline for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) product development and testing for NPI.• AOP planning and testing engineering talent development and management. • Contract resource management, training, and competency development with identification of internal and external training needs.• Project test metrics, quality reports, root cause, and corrective action management.

Navi Mumbai, M.S., In

• Built and led a team of 83 people (on-site) for the Oil and Gas Refinery fire and gas safety systems consisting of more than 15000 various life safety instruments and CCTVs. • Built and led a team of 12 people (off-site) for multiple project execution throughout the country.• Hands-on design, development, Installation, and Commissioning of Fire, Flame, and Gas detection systems at customer site.• Responsible for Project execution proposals creation with a budget, customer approval, schedule, and cross-functional execution. • Team project assignments management and tracking, project expenditures approvals.• Review and facilitate the technical contracts with sales and service teams.

Design, Develop, Install, and commission pharmaceutical automation systems with operator training in the medical industry using PLC, HMI, and electro-mechanical assemblies.1. NFD (Non-Fill Detection) systems for medicine in tablet or capsule form. 2. Counting and Filling for Rotary Capsule machines and Labeling systems for medicine bottles.

Master'S Degree, Instrumentation Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Electronics Engineering