Venu Uppugalla
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Senior System Test Engineer Manager
Developer/Test Engineer with nearly 13 years of experience
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Extensive experience managing product development lifecycles including requirements management, design, prototyping, test and pre-production while supervising cross-functional teams.
Strategic planner and communicator that has been repeatedly successful in cultivating strong internal collaboration to complete projects on time and on budget.
Possess expertise in communication and rail automation.
Proven ability to achieve aggressive engineering innovation goals leading to greater customer Satisfaction and industry leadership.
Highly skilled in leveraging and managing team in multiple domains like Safety Critical domain (Rail-Control Center), Telecom domain and Embedded systems (For Radar based applications)
Managed and Delivered complete Test deliverables by coordinating and managing multiple team members.
Experience in Development and Testing for Embedded system.
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
HARDWARE / PLATFORMS: WINDOWS, OPENVMS, SOLARIS, MS-DOS, LINUX
TECHNOLOGY: OOPS, UML, TELECOMMUNICATIONS ( DSP)
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: C/C++, ASSEMBLY ( DSP)
AUTOMATION TOOLS: AUTOIT, SELENIUM, QTP, TEST COMPLETE, MATLAB, TTL MACROS
SCRIPTING LANGUAGES: C, C++, SHELL SCRIPTS, JAVA SCRIPT
STANDARDS: CENELEC (EN 50126, EN 50128),ISO, CMMI
DATA BASE: SQL
MODEL : WATERFALL, AGILE
INDUSTRY : TELECOM, RAILROAD ( WAYSIDE, CORSSING, PTC) AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Professional Experience
Cognizant Technology solutions, Rancho Cucamonga, California
Sr System Test Engineer Manager of Development Projects (2011 – Present)
Projects: Rail road signaling, Crossing, Wayside products and involved PTC functional testing for Siemens products.
Optimize project engineering processes from product design and development until transitioning to a manufacturing environment. Oversee project planning, schedule creation, risk management, resource allocation, daily cross-functional team management, requirements management, design reviews, proposals, supplier relationships, configuration management, and support to systems engineering.
Key Achievements:
Excel in creating, managing and executing technical development plans encompassing hardware and software solutions.
Maintain consistent engineering quality by overseeing unit, integration, verification, and pre-production testing.
Cultivate quality relationships with the executive management team by providing comprehensive project reports.
Advance innovation across multiple product lines by ensuring tight alignment with industry trends and customer upgrade requests.
Train and mentor junior engineers on all product development, testing, and QA best practices.
Managed the 15 offshore resources and executed multiple project activities on time
Desktop Automation for diagnostic tools.
Good in Troubleshooting the System and field issues.
Involved in System and Safety assurance activates
Role and Responsibilities
System Integration, Regression, Functional and Application testing for Railroad application with PTC enabled for Rail road crossing and interlocking applications.
Requirement Analysis, Test Plan Creation, Test Procedure creations, Execution of system Test (Integration testing, performance testing etc).
1.Writing the test procedures for the System Testing based on the requirements in DOORs and in PVCS
2.Configuration and Summary reports preparation and generating Document Change Requests for the document changes in the test procedures
Bring up the board (Boot, kernel,filesystem) with necessary software’s.
Involved and coordinated the Safety Assurance activities ( RAMS)
Coordinating the Team at offshore and also providing support to onsite test team.
Reporting issues to the client.
Daily status meetings with client.
Interacting with the client for discussions regarding the project activities.
Review of the test procedures and test results of the team members
Analyzing the test result discrepancies, resolving them and reporting to the client.
Providing the support for the other teams regarding the products worked
Lab management for setting the field templates
Demonstrating the products with lab setup and features to clients/visitors
Involved in end to end testing at client location (Onsite).
Delivery Audits and Closure of Project Auditing activities.
Manual and Automation testing for Hardware and Tools testing.
Troubleshooting the MFG/field issues and coordinate with the manufacturing and developers to resolve the issue
Invensys Technology solutions, Hyderabad, India
Test Lead of Development Projects (2007 – 2010)
Responsible for preparing the System Test Procedures for Safetran signaling products and analyzing requirement specification for the system to test complete system test.
Involved in Enhancement and system test for Vital Core Interface Unit Product at Safetran,Rancho Cucumango,USA
Role and Responsibilities
Requirement Analysis, Test Plan Creation, Test Procedure creations, Execution of system Test (Integration testing, performance testing etc).
Coordinating the Team at offshore and also providing support to onsite test team.
Reporting issues to the client.
Daily status meetings with client.
Interacting with the client for discussions regarding the project activities.
Review of the test procedures and test results of the team members
Analyzing the test result discrepancies, resolving them and reporting to the client.
Providing the support for the other teams regarding the products worked
Delivery Audits and Closure of Project Auditing activities.
Safety testing ( PFMEA ) for vital software
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Wipro Technologies, Hyderabad, India
Software Engineer (2005 – 2007)
Involved in development and Maintenance of telecommunication switches. The role involves fixing the issues for VCU(Voice Compression Unit),VSU (Voice Server Unit) and DTMF boards used on web switches. Also porting the high level languages to Assembly for increasing the performance of the system.
Responsibilities:
Provided 3rd line support activity for the hot issues reported by customer on the live sites.
Troubleshooting of the issues in the lab related to network, setup and configuration.
Use of Tracing and single step debugger for proper debugging.
Bug fixing of the Trouble Reports in Firmware DSP Modules.
AMPL, Hyderabad, India
Software Engineer (2004 – 2005)
Role involved in optimizing the code, Porting the assembly language on ADSP processors to achieve better performance and less cycling time.
Responsibilities:
Converting the C to Assembly for reducing the execution time
Optimizing the code to achieve the required reliability and performance.
Designing digital synthesizers for Radar projects with using ADSP processors
Implemented Digital filter using ADSP processors and simulation performed through the MATLAB
Education and Training
Bachelor of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Hyderabad India
Masters in Electronics and Communication Engineering, India
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