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Austin, Tx, Us

* Leading a talented group of engineers through process optimization to deliver to the market, a leading-edge IoT Wireless Product Portfolio on the company’s roadmap.* Cross-functional team collaboration with Design, Systems, Marketing, Apps, Firmware and Product Test teams.* Communication with shared purpose to maintain timelines with uncertain and ambiguous developments in complex system validation testing.* Scaling business and process automation tools to enable empowered execution from the teams getting onboarded across the organization globally.* Constantly improving validation software infrastructure and processes in Python and Vue.js with inputs on the requirements and use-cases to the Validation Software team.* Planning and Phased Execution of Test plan by priority and review cycles to balance de- risking with production milestones of Initial Production (IP) and Final Production (FP).

* Driving validation engineering teams to plan and execute efficient, effective, high-quality validation coverage on a variety of mixed-signal IPs while consistently meeting aggressive schedules.* Development and propagation of tools and best practices within the team to achieve scalable results and demanding coverage of IPs.* Planning and forecasting the deliverables possible in a sprint, and using Agile processes on Scrum board from bring-up to final customer reporting.* Leading the sightings/bugs resolution process between cross-functional teams of Design, Systems and Validation.* Recruiting, Interviewing and Selecting best-of-best candidates for building world-class high performing teams.

* Introduced and propagated a working model for Silicon Compliance Matrix (SCM-Data Correlation Report) for the benefit of cross-functional teams of Validation, Product Test Engineering, Applications, Systems, Design, Marketing and Program Management.* Managing the validation team's productivity, efficiency and quality of workflow, using JIRA Agile Development tools like Version Burn-down Report, Control chart and the JIRA Dashboard.* Leading the validation efforts to ensure timely delivery of quality assessments and deliverables starting from bring-up on pre-silicon and first silicon for the boosted Class-D amplifiers mixed-signal product line.* Think and understand customer usage model and assure that the specs meet the needs of the customer today and beyond by stress-testing.

* Direct contributions to an efficient validation of boosted amplifiers product line, shipping over one billion units over three consecutive years of significant YoY unit growth starting with the company's first shipping product in CY2012.* Emulation of pre-silicon and Validation of post-silicon Mixed Signal Audio (MSA) ASICs from test methodology and setup to data review and analysis.* Focused goal of quality results with reduced cost and time-to-market while adapting HW/SW toolset to changing technologies.* Key contributor in developing test suite automation framework software (Maestro) using GUI interfacing with MATLAB scripts and thus streamlined test execution for the entire boosted amplifiers product line.* Led the team to architect test script infrastructure to promote and support code re-use initiatives.* Responsible for the development of information links and implemented the reporting templates using data visualizations in TIBCO Spotfire® and became the go-to person for data analysis.* Technical expertise in test and measurement design and architecture to get the test automation flow from execution to data analysis.* Supported the design and systems engineering in bringing leading edge MSA chips to market by ownership in efficient bring-up, debug of test setups and re-creation of failures consistently to dive deeper on multiple products.* Experienced in root-cause analysis by understanding and implementing the Design of Experiments (DoE) developed with cross-functional teams.

Austin , Texas, Us

* Verification and Validation testing of Dynamic Signal Acquisition (DSA) devices – PXI-449x and designed the related test hardware accessory, debug fixture and also the test fixture for the system tests.* Improved the manufacturing First Pass Yield (FPY) of DSA products from low-40%'s to a significantly higher target bringing significant COGS savings for the company by continuous improvements and leading a cross-functional team of manufacturing and test engineering.* Resolving customer escalation issues with the DSA product line.

Austin , Texas, Us

Designed and verified the hardware of a CompactRIO module for 3-phase measurement of active, reactive and apparent energies and implemented its API interface to the host PC using LabVIEW FPGA.

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Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electronics & Communication