Mani Shankar Email & Phone Number

Berlin, De

Berlin, Germany

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsibilities:• Product validation owner for Smart Access system of Mercedes Benz Cars with Vehicle connectivity solutions.• Research product’s technical specifications from Connected Car Consortium (CCC).• Collaborate with stakeholders and external stakeholders (Continental, Apple Inc.) to resolve the issues.• Coordinating and supporting the team across global timeline with USA, Germany and China markets for the product.• Applying the appropriate test measurements and metrics to the product.• Develop plans for setting up the required test infrastructures for testing.• Analyze an end-to-end system for the product from IoT edge device to Azure cloud services.Achievements:• Developed automation script to find the ranging location of the digital key in and around the vehicle, which resulted in improved analysis of the software behaviour.• Designed and accomplished the test infrastructure within 2 weeks, which enables the team to reach the milestone ahead of time within 4 months.• Enabled the external stakeholder Apple Inc with test infrastructure to support on the product development, helps in expanding the product market in USA.

Sindelfingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Responsibilities:• Accountable for project delivery in SWE.6 and SYS.5 for Inverter systems of EV.• Create Agile project plans, milestones, KPIs and timelines.• Offer input on technical and platform-related strategic planning initiatives.• Design a data analysis system, to evaluate the performance of the Electric Drive system for Volvo, VW.• Assess project milestones and team performance to keep team members on-task.• Collaborate with stakeholders to resolve the system problems.Achievements:• Developed zero-cost data analysis system using Python and implemented resolutions to reduce processing time to 35%.• Implemented continuous improvement and delivery pipelines results in quick delivery and reduced to zero manual overhead.

Chennai

Project: Product link – Caterpillar Telematics ecosystem.Responsibilities:• Telematics end-to-end system verification of Caterpillar Fleet Management system.• Design and develop test automation framework for verification for end-to-end system.• Product verification backlog management with Agile methodologies.Achievements:• With challenges in unstable pre-production environment, developed an CI/CD pipeline along with Python test framework helped the team to perform a sanity check on deployment.• Developed and coordinated the newly formed team to automate both In-Vehicle network and Cloud web service.• Developed an automation to find the page loading performance, which enabled the developers to improvise the page loading time to 70%.Project: Product development of Wheel Tractor Scrapers.Responsibilities:• Systems Engineer for Wheel Tractor Scrapers of Caterpillar Inc.• Liaise between product owner, development and testing team to deliver a quality product.• Configure hardware in loop systems and software to set up complete test system for the product.• Co-ordinate with software development team on reported errors and bugs on newly released software and assisted in deployment of release fixes.Achievements:• Challenged with the different range of product lines with different configuration, successfully handled the release of 5 product lines of Wheel Tractor scraper.

Project: Systems Verification and Validation.Responsibilities:• Systems V&V for L4 subsystems of various Caterpillar products.• Perform requirement analysis, test case development, test analysis and defect reporting.• Managing the test data by documenting the results of each test cycle to identify flaws.• Interacting with and coordinating the development and validation team and ensuring that effective communication takes place.• Test Automation development for different HIL systems across the globe.Achievements:• With various test subsystems in place, its challenging to develop and maintain different automation scripts, so developed a common XML based diagnostics workspace across the subsystem which boosted the testing activities.• Developed an idea of common harness to reduce frequent changes and maintenance.