Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Lead reliability testing and pre-sales support for EMS, hardware prototyping, and EMC/reliability testing in automotive and consumer electronics.
• Manage and mentor cross-functional teams to achieve optimal performance and meet business objectives.
• Spearhead lab modernisation initiatives, ensuring ISO 17025 compliance and managing HSE standards across all testing operations.
• Drive pre-bid activities and collaborate with clients to secure new projects, expanding business through Lab-as-a-Service offerings.
• Achieved $3 million YOY savings in validation cost optimization by leveraging AI and IoT-driven approaches, and optimizing location strategy to reduce CAR costs.
• Led predictive maintenance programs, reducing 15% downtime and 20% unplanned maintenance.
• Managed outsourcing partnerships worth $1 million YOY, scaling operations while maintaining high-quality standards.
• Utilized data analysis tools like Power BI and FAMOS to drive data-driven decision-making, improving testing efficiency and operational performance.

Jul 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Led product validation, including hardware testing, vibration, and environmental testing for automotive, healthcare, and consumer electronics products.
• Managed cross-functional teams, overseeing daily operations, meeting deadlines, and ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Delivered $6 million in business through pre-sales support and technical proposals for product validation services.
• Achieved $5 million in cost savings through lab optimization, improving testing capabilities and infrastructure.
• Applied data analysis to validate reliability models and improve testing strategies for better decision-making.

Jan 2019 – Jun 2019 · 5 mos

• Hands on experience of operating Climatic chamber, corrosion chamber and thermal shock chamber for performing humidity, thermal, corrosion and salt spray tests. Work on the development of the verification infrastructure components (functional models/scoreboards/setting up new verification environments)
• Carried out environmental testing on High voltage power electronics and electrical control units which includes DC-DC Convertor, Body electronics ECU, Engine management ECU and Steering control unit. Define the verification scope, develop testplans and work on functional coverage driven verification closure
• Collaborate with architects, designers, software engineers, post-silicon teams across sites for innovative and timely solutions. Reported product defects which were observed during validation to Reliability and design team. Verifying the design, architecture and micro-architecture using advanced verification methodologies

Aug 2018 – Dec 2018 · 4 mos

• Responsible for third-party Bosch business & executing environmental tests for product reliability. Prepared quotations worth 2 million USD and gained businesses worth 900 thousand USD. Creating test strategy and test plan documents detailing the test architectures, traceability matrices and test bench requirements
• Reviewing and analyzing project’s offer requirements, system and product specifications. Develop test scenarios and test cases for functional tests, regression, boundary tests, integration tests, system tests, performance tests, robustness tests, etc. Coming up with the test strategy for Solution Testing
• Lead engineering team to ensure Systems Safety Engineering efforts are conducted through identification and analysis of potential hazards from aircraft and system concept definition through development, testing and sustainment. Create Fault Trees and reliability block diagrams to assess system reliability

Jan 2018 – May 2018 · 4 mos

Jan 2018 – Feb 2018 · 1 mo

Jun 2017 – Jul 2017 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked for Reliability manger for reliability testing for product validation of ECU's.

Jun 2017 – Jul 2017 · 1 mo · Charkhi Dadri Area, India

Apr 1997 – Present · 28 yrs 11 mos · Planet Earth