Akshay Shukla (MIEAust)

Product Manager

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia11 yrs 7 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Over 12 years in safety-critical systems.
  • Expert in Verification and Validation leadership.
  • Strong background in rail, medtech, and automotive sectors.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned professional in safety-critical systems across rail and healthcare industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Verification And Validation (v&v)Stakeholder ManagementIntegration TestingProject ManagementTest ExecutionTest PlanningQuality AssuranceEmbedded Systems

Other Skills

Test Lab ManagementTest StrategyTest ManagementTroubleshootingCollaborative Problem SolvingPython (Programming Language)Test AutomationRequirements AnalysisIntegrationScriptingDefect ManagementResearch and Development (R&D)LeadershipManual TestingSoftware Testing

About

I am a V&V Manager with over 12 years of experience in safety-critical systems, specializing in end-to-end verification, system integration, and complex hardware-software environments. My career has evolved from hands-on engineering roles to leading multidisciplinary V&V teams, enabling me to bring both deep technical expertise and strong leadership capability to large-scale engineering programs. Currently contributing to SRL East project, a major rail initiative in Melbourne Australia. Core experience in Hardware-Software Integration (HSIT) and Systems Integration & Test Leadership. Domain Knowledge: Rail, Medtech & Automotive. Gallup Clifton Strengths: Analytical, Learner, Responsibility, Strategic, and Relator

Experience

11 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Alstom

2 roles

V&V Manager

Promoted

Jun 2026Present · 0 mo · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · On-site

  • Part of Alstom’s team delivering the Suburban Rail Loop East project in Melbourne.
  • Leading all the Verification and Validation (V&V) activities and managing the engineering lab facility, while ensuring full alignment with stakeholders & project requirements, compliance with quality standards, and timely achievement of delivery objectives.
Verification and Validation (V&V)Stakeholder ManagementTest Lab ManagementTest Strategy

Systems Integration Test Lead

Jun 2023May 2026 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · On-site

  • Responsibilities:
  • Lead and develop a team of 11 System Integration Testers delivering critical verification activities for the BHP Rail Technology Programme.
  • Own V&V strategy, SIT planning, execution, and reporting to ensure quality, compliance, and timely delivery.
  • Drive team performance, task prioritisation, and issue resolution as the single point of contact.
  • Ensure robust test environments (virtual labs, subsystems) and end-to-end validation readiness for commissioning.
  • Oversee defect management, risk mitigation, and KPI-driven performance tracking.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and customers to align on integration strategy, audits, and delivery outcomes.
  • Tools: IBM DOORs, IBM Rational Synergy, IBM RTC, virtual test environment lab (VMware, linux CentOS)
  • Standards: CENELEC EN50128/ EN50129, and ERA UNISIG Subset-026 System Requirement Specification
Integration TestingProject ManagementTest ManagementTroubleshootingCollaborative Problem Solving

Ge healthcare

System Verification Lead

Jan 2022May 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Responsible for executing and managing end to end testing/ verification/ reliability activities for Xray & Mammography medical devices/applications, for new and in-market products.
  • Involved in system reliability, requirement-impact analysis, V&V planning/ stratergy, test effort estimation, regression, component, functional, performance, integration & explorative testing.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Product Reliability end-to-end ownership, reliability strategy, target definition, mission profile, setup, scripting (python), execution, failure analysis and logs analysis.
  • Authoring reliability scripts, automating log analysis and data analysis
  • Setting up, troubleshooting, maintaining, and validating system reliability setup
  • Performing system verification impact assessment, to derive time-effort estimation & prioritization.
  • Developing system level test strategy, test plans, test cases to ensure end-to-end verification of medical devices consisting of hardware, firmware, and software components.
  • Involved in test case reviews, test env. setup, HW-SW integration, regression/ system test execution, etc.
  • Authoring tangibles like V&V plan – summary, steering guide, test reports, config control, etc.
  • Contributing & coordinating PI planning, creating-assigning test features, user-stories, tasks, etc.
  • Tools: MyWorkSpace, Rally, IBM DOORS, Jenkins, Git, in-house scripting, and cycler framework
  • Standards: ISO 14971, ISO 13485, IEC 62304, and FDA General Principles of Software Validation
Python (Programming Language)Test ExecutionTest PlanningCollaborative Problem SolvingTest AutomationProject Management+23

Stryker

Senior Software Engineer

May 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana · On-site

  • Responsibilities:
  • ➢ Performing software risk management, tangible verification, hazard analysis, cybersecurity, and usability engineering activities for critical Software as a Medical Device (SAMD) as an independent Sr. Software Advance Quality Engineer
  • ➢ Analyzing and providing inputs to software safety test plans/ protocols, SRS-DI, DIOVV, Intended Use, SI-UM-IFU and V&V strategy as per the risk evaluation/ mitigation and risk controls identified.
  • ➢ Performing complaint analysis, PMS report analysis, FMEA, FTA, DHF reviews, and CAPA analysis
  • ➢ Performing software analysis and review, requirements analysis, system risk analysis, and software reliability analysis
  • ➢ Collaborating with cross-functional New Product Development teams through a quality management system
  • ➢ Ensuring software V&V activities comply with an internal quality management system, quality gates, design philosophy, FDA-ISO standards, and regulatory bodies
  • ➢ Author, review, research and evaluate project documentation like Risk management file, Risk assessment and risk control, Usability input file, QA metric, PMS report etc. for software release for compliance
  • ➢ Working on Class III SaMD software application that provides surgical navigational guidance to the end user
  • ➢ Proficient in Agile Methodology, V&V activities, V-model process documentation
  • Tools: PTC Windchill PLM, JIRA, Embedded C language
  • Standards: ISO 14971, ISO 13485, ANSI AAMI IEC 62304:2006, and FDA General Principles of Software Validation
Quality AssuranceTest ExecutionTest PlanningCollaborative Problem SolvingTest AutomationProject Management+21

Bombardier transportation

System Test Engineer

Jul 2017Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Responsibilities:
  • ➢ Performed sub-system and system testing of onboard Automatic Train Protection (ATP) software in compliance to European Rail Traffic Management System/ European Train Control System
  • ➢ Execute V&V test activities as per the V model SDLC, like requirement analysis, test planning, test case development, environment uplift and troubleshooting, test case execution, scenario-based testing, while adhering to SIL4 safety standards for the braking-speed supervision functionality package
  • ➢ Technical knowledge of ETCS levels, modes, packets, brake curves, SDM, target supervision, MRSP, MA etc.
  • ➢ System testing, defining regression scope, Integration testing, HSIT, test planning, test log analysis, bug recreation ➢ Responsible for req. coverage analysis in IBM DOORS, mapping test-req for updated requirement traceability matrix
  • ➢ Ensuring hardware-software integration of the hardware-in-loop system test bench by installing, configuring, and troubleshooting latest ATP software with the test hardware rack and subsystems
  • ➢ Perform test suite baselining and versioning in IBM rational synergy with CI/CD of software packages
  • ➢ Defining scope, prioritizing, and submitting bugs and non-conformity reports for my functionality team
  • ➢ Analyzing failed test cases, fields reports and data logs to identify failed requirements and report bugs
  • ➢ Test case scenario making, interpreting requirement, scripting in C#/ automation, modification and review ➢ Initiated version control and maintained configuration record for system test bench w.r.t weekly software builds
  • ➢ Follow the agile way of working, support PI planning
  • Tools: IBM DOORs, IBM Rational Synergy, IBM RTC, UNITe Test framework, ERA_Braking_curves_tool_v4, VectorCAST, Visual Studio, and scripting in C#
  • Standards: CENELEC EN50128, Agile-Scrum framework and ERA UNISIG Subset-026 System Requirement Specification
Test ExecutionTest PlanningCollaborative Problem SolvingTest AutomationProject ManagementRequirements Analysis+21

Denso international india pvt. ltd.

Research and Development Engineer

Mar 2015Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Manesar, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Worked in VA/VE projects involving software development of ECU, for the leading Indian automakers
  • My responsibilities ranged from customer requirement analysis to ensuring final software delivery
  • Actively involved in software validation, testing, modification and debugging,
  • Wrote extensible code, including experimentation and multiple iterations on SIL/ HIL systems and vehicle
Test ExecutionTest PlanningCollaborative Problem SolvingTest AutomationIntegrationEmbedded Systems+12

Beyond evolution tech solution

Embedded System Developer

May 2014Feb 2015 · 9 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

  • Successfully completed an Industrial monitoring solution (H/W and F/W), concept to finished product.
  • Performed unit and end-to-end system testing of the hardware and software of the Remote Terminal Unit.
Test ExecutionEmbedded SystemsResearch and Development (R&D)Embedded CSystem TestingTest Cases

Tevatron technologies pvt. ltd.

Intern

Jan 2014Apr 2014 · 3 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

Education

Punjab Technical University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Electronics and Communication Engineering

Jun 2010Apr 2014

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