Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India

• Managing a team of 10+ engineers and matrix engineers.
• Leading the E2E Simulation Test & Automation efforts for the Automotive Vertical across different product deliverables.
• Develop & Deploy various KPI Dashboards for Product and Team/Org KPI Measurements.
• Development and deployment of LLM based solutions (small scale POC).

Jul 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India

• Managing a team of 10 engineers.
• Leading the Simulation Test and Automation Efforts for Drive Simulation platforms across different product deliverables.
• Develop & Deploy various KPI Dashboards for Product and Team/Org KPI Measurements.
• Development of E2E Automation pipelines for the Simulation Test Scopes thus reducing engineering efforts by half in terms of resourcing.
• Development of Bisection Utilities which reduced the overall TaT of Defect Fix life by ~6 engineering days for my direct staff and similar improvements for cross functional teams.

Apr 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India

• 2 years of experience in Autonomous Vehicles SW Stack Testing and Tools Development
• Experienced in handling E2E project deliverables, reporting status and leading a small team.
• Development of usecases to be tested for various products in L2/L3 levels of autonomy and define the strategy to validate the E2E stack in simulation.
• Development and deployment of Jenkins pipeline to automate the E2E runs of the defined tests on a large scale local server & enablement of local nodes in a server style to imitate a large scale server.
• Qualify the Autonomous Vehicle SW stack in simulation and help optimize Car testing thus reducing safety risk.
• Automating of various smaller components in E2E SW Qualification strategy to optimize the validation efforts and overall turnaround time.
• Development of scenarios for simulation testing of Autonomous vehicle SW stack in HIL and SIL
• environments.
• Development of tools for tracking KPI's using ELK Stack, Web Development and scripting languages like python and bash.
• Create new tools, propose process improvements and deliver technical sessions to team for skill development.

Oct 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India

• 3 years of experience in Autonomous Vehicles SW Stack Testing and Tools Development
• Experienced in handling E2E project deliverables, reporting status and leading a small team.
• Automating and validating ADAS functionalities (ACC / LK/ AEB etc.) for Driving Autonomy Level L2 & L4 with different micro ODD's (Intersections / Cut-In's / Merges / Splits etc.).
• Qualify SW Stack for In-Car drives by validating the stack on Simulation Environment and approving it for further validation.
• Development of scenarios for simulation testing of Autonomous vehicle SW stack in HIL and SIL
• environments.
• Development of tools for tracking KPI's using ELK Stack, Web Development and scripting languages like python and bash.
• Experienced with hardware sensors / ECU's and their setup for autonomous driving bench validation.
• Created first physical HW setup to replicate Car Testing in India office post US Visit and learnings from the travel.
• 6 Months of experience in NVIDIA Drive IX Bringup & Validation.
• Responsible for bring up of Drive IX on Nvidia's Drive AGX Platform (Single and Dual Pascal/Xavier)
• Define testing scope and design the plans for qualifying the stack from scratch.
• Help development of preliminary core features of SDK including (Face Detection & Recognition, Eye Detection & Movement tracking, Head Movement tracking etc...)
• Define and optimize test plans based on priority from a probabilistic pool of millions of combinations.
• Automated detection and tracking usecases using robotic solutions.
• Developed a robotic face with headpose tracking system using arduino and facial masks which was selected and presented in NVIDIAs annual Technical Conference as one of the final contenders.
• Create new tools, propose process improvements and deliver technical sessions to team for skill development.

Oct 2014 – Oct 2018 · 4 yrs · Pune District, Maharashtra, India

• 2 years of experience in Automotive domain testing and automation
• Responsible for bring up of DriveWorks SDK on Nvidia's Drive AGX Platform (Single and Dual Pascal/Xavier)
• Define testing scope and design the plans for qualifying the SDK from scratch.
• Implementation of applications using DW SDK & port it on Embedded Linux platform.
• Wrote embedded applications in C/C++ for CAN/ GPS/GMSL Camera.
• Wrote Unit tests, Define Code Coverage and write conditions to maximize the code coverage for DW SDK.
• Automated Drive use-cases using python tesseract to detect text from images and validate with real data.
• Create new tools, propose process improvements and deliver technical sessions to team for skill development.
• 2 years of experience in Embedded domain testing
• Creation of test cases for RTOS based on QNX and Linux for customer projects.
• Responsible for weekly reporting of project status.
• Responsible for validation of Communication Protocols like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for Infotainment Systems and Driver Assistance Projects.
• Worked on platforms like Android Auto & Apple's CarPlay to validate infotainment features like
• Navigation, Messages & Contacts using underlying communication protocols.
• Responsible for automation of use-cases in Nvidia's automation framework to be tested on a regular cadence.
• Responsible for Multi-OS testing.
• Well versed with Embedded Systems, Hypervisor, Foundation and Operating system.

Jul 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Pune District, Maharashtra, India

• 3 years of experience in Mobile Testing (Tegra) and automation in Communications Domains (Validating LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth & GPS)
• Bring up of Tegra Chip
• Creating test cases & test plans for validation of Tegra Chipset and Nvidia Products and executing them on a regular cadence.
• Worked on various Tegra Products like Shield Portable, Tegra Note 7, Nexus 9, Shield Tablet, Shield Controller, Shield Android TV Console & Remote.
• Responsible for functional testing of wireless technologies like LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS & NFC.
• Bluetooth SIG Certification Testing for Bluetooth profiles and protocols.
• IoT device verification.
• Feature validation for multiple Android OS drops for Nvidia products (like Nexus 9) involving feature planning, test planning, execution, bug filing & reporting.
• Validation of PC Streaming features to validate Wi-Fi concurrency issues & Miracast Solutions to provide high-end streaming support.
• Validated Various Certification testing like Google Cert.