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Irvine, California, United States

Farmington Hills, Michigan, Us

• Successfully launched 2 electric/hybrid vehicle programs and involved in every phase of the project starting from analyzing business requirement to product launch into the market.• Developed project reports/metrices, execution reports for each milestone and shared the reports with top management, respective stakeholders, providing insights to top management for strategic decision-making.• Organized/coordinated weekly status meetings with multiple teams across the organization and several third-party suppliers for efficient test planning/execution results.• Experienced in an agile startup setting characterized by ambiguous project timelines, Bill of Materials (BOM) cost reductions, and demanding schedules, where agile methodologies (CI/CD) are implemented at scale.• Excellent project management skills and achieved every project milestone/deadline. Proactively escalated all the potential deviations and made sure issues are addressed in a timely manner and provided technical guidance and training to team members as required in the project.• Developed the HIL and lab car setup per the program requirement and led a team of 10 validation engineers and 2 technicians using dSpace equipment.• Experienced in developing and validating ADAS features including ACC, LKA, lane centering, Blindspot monitoring, RADAR etc. along with Established bidirectional traceability by considering KPI’s.• Tracked development progress, lab environment (HIL and Lab car) setup, ensuring critical/high priority issues were promptly communicated, addressed, escalated to top management, • Designed vehicle network architecture with zonal electronic control module concept and reusable chassis skateboard platform aimed at BOM (Bill of Materials) cost reduction.• Good understanding and hands on experience in implementing Automotive SPICE development processes (VSYS.2 to VSYS.5) Analyzing and developing requirements, designing architecture.

Farmington Hills, Michigan, Us

Project: Endurance – Pickup truck• Lead a team of six engineers and two lab technicians effectively and efficiently and made sure the project deliverables meet the program timelines.• Work with chief of engineering team on research and development activities to optimize the system or vehicle performance.• Generate and share the project metrics like development and execution reports with the top management.• Support NextGen architecture (zonal ECU concept) for future vehicle platforms as part of continuous development or improvements.• Evaluate and optimize the vehicle network topology, network communication strategy and architecture for Endurance vehicle program.• Organize department weekly meetings to understand, mitigate and/or escalate the high priority tickets to the top management wherever applicable.• Excellent communication skills to coordinate with multiple teams within the organization and various third-party suppliers across the globe. • Proven knowledge on the manufacturing plant General Assembly line operations, EOL tests, DVT and Quality reports also support manufacturing facility during Beta, Prototype vehicle (PV) builds and production launch to optimize the plant processes and improve the build quality.• Work with safety team and provided onsite crash testing support to acquire necessary crash data for the development team.• Encourage and drive team members with best compliments and conduct peer review meetings frequently to avoid communication gaps and to understand the employee areas of interests.• Integrate and validate new features and functionalities per requirement specification documents and ensure software meets the functional safety ISO26262 and FMVSS requirements/regulations.

Farmington Hills, Michigan, Us

Project: Endurance – Pickup truck• Analyze business requirements, develop functional and non-functional requirements, and track all the requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) in Polarion Portal.• Define and perform the DFMEA at system, subsystem, and component level.• Exceptional hands-on experience with project management and troubleshooting tools like Polarion, JIRA, connected vehicle, FOTA portals, and Vector tools (CANalyzer, CANoe).• Lead Systems Integration, electrical, powertrain issues, troubleshoot and defect triaging in JIRA portal to appropriate development or design engineer/team.• Support manufacturing facility during Beta and Prototype vehicle (PV) build launch to optimize the manufacturing process and improve the build quality.• Derive test scenarios, test cases, map the test cases against the requirements, and make sure 100% test coverage is attained.• Execute test cases in different environments like Bench test setup, lab car, vehicle and HIL environment and made sure the test results were uploaded to Polarion portal within the project deadline.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Project: K1.0 – Revero and K2.0 - Revero GT and GTS• Integration and validation of software for 'Karma Revero' plug-in hybrid luxury car. • Support vehicle telematics, remote diagnostic and over the air (OTA) connectivity feature implementation and validation.• In-vehicle testing and validation for complete system level integration.• Lead software release process. Coordinate with module groups for software submission, build software package and push to the fleet and production vehicles. Also build a package for dealership locations.• Debug and root cause software issues by analyzing data captured using CANalyzer and over the air (OTA) logs.• Author and execute automated and manual test cases to validate functionality and safety requirements with respect to the functionality requirement documents (FRDs).• Create, update and close software and hardware issues found during testing and validation through JIRA issue management tool.• Design and develop in-house test benches for component level hardware testing for plant support.• Key resource for successful integration of Karma EREV pickup truck. Team was responsible for concept design, implementation, integration and validation of the electrical systems of the pickup truck. The project was completed within 3 months.• Work with chief program engineer and other module groups to escalate, and resolve issues encountered.• Basic hands on experience in plant model development in Matlab and Simulink for HIL systems.• Identify and close all potential unsafe conditions in electrical lab and fulfill all safety and regulatory norms required by ISO for world class safety.• Developed complex automotive wiring harnesses and performed hands-on debug/rework for faulty wiring systems.• Developed test cases and performed functional and regression testing at bench level, vehicle level and using HIL systems environment for software compliance.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Project: K1.0 and K2.0, Electrical (EE) Systems • Debug software issues by analyzing data captured using tools like CANalyzer, Control-Tec and Vector data logger.• Support developers, system engineers and proving grounds with consistent and accurate validation results.• Flash modules using Karma diagnostic tools.• Perform complete functional and safety checkout for software on the bench before releasing it to vehicle fleet.• Support team for developing and execution of test cases in Polarion portal.• Created JIRAs for issues encountered during testing, defect tracking and report generation.• Ensured all machine safety parameters and interlocks are operational. Implemented Lock Out Tag Out.• Standardized the personal protective equipment (PPE) for lab operations.

Jonesboro, Arkansas, Us

• Designed and maintained web applications for Arkansas state university portal using dotCMS technology.• Provided frontend and backend support for Blackboard application (Student’s portal for accessing assignments, and test results).• Assisted professor and mentored 40 bachelor students for three semesters.• Assisted professor in conducting examinations and evaluating their test results.• Assisted professor in collecting and processing data for her research paper.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Project: American Express rewards and redemptions• International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) foundation certified tester.• Worked successfully with geographically separated teams across the globe and coordinated testing activities.• Expertise in conducting and participating in different Types of Testing - Integration, System, Functional, Regression, Sanity, Smoke and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).• Proven experience with Quality Center / HP ALM Test management tool to develop test cases in Test lab, creating and tracking defects in defects module and generating reports in Quality Center.• Analyzed requirements, drafted test scenarios, and test cases to ensure 100% requirement coverage / test coverage with the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).• Utilized debugging skills to identify the bottlenecks and issues impacting functionality of the application.• Very good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).• Validate backend applications by writing SQL and PL/SQL queries using Oracle 10g application.• Create and execute automated test cases using UFT and Selenium tools.• Excellent experience in GUI, Functional, System and Regression testing of Web based applications.• Proven experience in web services testing and API testing using SoapUI tool, Java Web application testing.• ~3 years of hands-on experience in American Express Rewards systems (AMEX-credit card division).

Master'S Degree, Engineering/Industrial Management

Bachelor'S Degree