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 Providing leadership and direction to the team of engineers within the system test team for urban projects. Ensuring adherence to engineering processes to provide high quality to meet customers’ schedule andexpectation. Developing the engineering team to achieve full potential and maximum contributions from the team. Creating and implementing plans to improve employee skills, motivation and engagement. Foster Innovation, catching ideas from the team Communicating and enforcing the engineers’ responsibility for tracking their progress and adherence tobudgeted hours through task planning. Developing action plans and coordinates resources to address and resolve problems as needed. Planning and allocating resources to all bids, projects and line related activities in the team. Responsible for bid estimations for work packages within team. Supporting the work packages with how and who. Optimizing communication and relationships with customers and other functions. Optimizing processes/tools/behaviors continuously by taking into account business requirements, customerneeds, technical innovations, and new market conditions. Driving and proposing work improvements: measure and analysis.

• Working as work package leader for site data delivery for BHP (industrial mining) project.• Involved in preparing estimation efforts and variation orders related to changes in site data• Primarily responsible for delivering the Site Application data and related design documents required for BHP.• Preparation and/or verification of input design documents for SA data. • Manage third party design team for project Specific Application data implementation.• Delivery of SA product along with the supporting documentation in the form of review reports, verification reports and release information.• Interfacing with project engineer, system engineer and onboard team for inputs/ changes affecting site data.• Liaising with wayside team for inputs required by SA data implementation.• Interfacing with tools team for activities related to data integration and migration to new software releases.

Working on Delhi metro line 7 with the following responsibilities:1. Verification of interlocking data with the signalling requirements.2. Specifying and executing tests, analyzing and reporting test results.3. Analyzing and understanding system requirements.4. Analyzing and raising non-conformity reports.5. Setting up of test workbench including simulators for testing environment

 Working on detailed design of interlocking as well as level crossing to be deployed in UK mainline railways based on EN50128 following software development lifecycle (SDLC) including software architecture, software design and deployment. Introducing best practices into the department for the future use of the system.

 Involved in software design process for new interlocking for the UK mainline railways. Worked on application data (ladder logic / PLC) for UK railway level crossing. Worked on production of functional requirements analysis for interlocking system for the UK railways. Worked on software architecture including use cases, class diagrams and sequence diagrams based on the concepts of object oriented design. Worked on production of mathematical model based design in MATLAB, Simulink. Developed working model of a railway line and its simulation to verify the requirements. Produced interface management documents for external equipment interfacing with the interlocking system.

 Worked on detailed design of location for various resignaling projects across the UK. Involved in the record hand back process for various resignaling projects across the UK. Involved in GRIP 5-8 (Governance of Railway Engineering Projects) works for new as well as resignaling projects for UK railways. Designed stage work for renewals of signaling equipment. Worked on production of DPSF for axle counter.