Quality Assurance Engineer

Apoorva R Wodeyar

Email id: **********@*****.***

Phone: +1-773-***-****/ +1-248-***-****

Work Permit in USA: Yes (H4 EAD)

Objective

Dedicated, hardworking professional, seeking challenging, growth oriented career in Quality Assurance, where I can pursue excellence and be a key resource, making an important contribution to the growth of the organization.

Profile Summary

Served in the capacity of System Software Quality Assurance Engineer at BorgWarner, Auburn Hill

Carried out the duties of Process Consultant at KPIT, Auburn Hills.

Worked as Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Larsen and Toubro IES.

Total 6 years of experience as Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Certified ASPICE Provisional Assessor

Hands on experience in implementing CMMI and ASPICE best practices (Waterfall and Agile Projects).

Verifying/ensuring conformance to various standards viz. ISO 9001:2008.

Supported cybersecurity and functional safety assessments

Hands on experience conducting trainings on Quality management system as a training coordinator

Conducting Audits to ensure Process Compliance in projects and functional groups.

Exposure to ‘ASPICE V3.1’ guideline.

Conducted internal assessments to prepare project team for external assessments

Worked as an individual assessor for the ASPICE assessment on the internal projects

Prepared the QA report with KPI’s and presented to management

Part of the Metrics Team to carry out metrics analysis at the organization level to establish performance trends and trigger necessary corrective/preventive actions.

Supporting the process definition, identification, and implementation of continuous improvement opportunities at the organization level as part of the SEPG activities

Working with cross functional team and reporting the status of functional Safety and Cybersecurity

Implementation of Process Performance Models to achieve process performance objective of the organization

Arriving at the root cause of the problem/defect reported by monitoring the Causal Analysis done.

Hands on experience with problem solving tool being 8D, 5 why

Providing training and orientation on QMS/CMMI to internal and external personnel.

Giving presentations to potential customers on QMS implementation in the organization

Exposure to ‘CMMI V1.3,Process Performance Models’ and Stages

Strong knowledge on excel, powerpoint, word.

Employment History

Employer 3 : BorgWarner, Auburn Hills

Designation : System and Software Quality Assurance Engineer(Jan 9th 2021 until present)

Employer 2 : KPIT (Client : Fiat Chrysler, Auburn Hills, USA)

Designation : Process Consultant (From October 2016 to May 2017)

Employer 1 : Larsen & Toubro, Integrated Engineering Services, India

Designation : Software Quality Assurance Engineer (From March 2012 to November 2015)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Standards : CMMI-DEV v1.2,v1.3, ISO9001:2008

ISO13485, ASPICE V3.1, IATF 16949, ISO 26262

ALM Tools : Polarion, PULSE, JIRA,

Configuration Management Tools : VSS, Tortoise SVN,XPRES,PULSE, powerBi, Trace

Languages : Embedded C

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Role played:

Quality Assurance activities planning

oWork product and process reviews planning

oRelease reviews planning

oWeekly, biweekly, monthly project quality status report planning

oInternal and external ASPICE assessments planning based on the customer milestone

Execution

oExecuted the quality activities based on the planning of each project

oProcess/work product reviews

oRelease reviews - Approve/reject the release based on execution and the outcome of the release review criteria

olog the findings and follow up

Reporting

oWeekly reporting to the QA manager on the quality status of the assigned projects

oBi Weekly reporting of the system software quality status of the respective project to the engineering team

oEscalating the project issues according to escalation strategy

oMonthly quality status reporting to the project engineering team

oCustomer Reporting on the quality status including ASPICE burndown

Project 1: ASPICE Gap analysis for internal Projects

Planning and performing of work product audits to ensure the quality of Work Products

Planning and performing internal assessment/ gap analysis

Planning the Road Map of ASPICE assessments in order to prepare development team for ASPICE assessment

Performing the Assessments

Sharing the ASPICE assessment results and tracking the ASPICE burndown to closure within the agreed customer milestone

Auditing the project artifacts for completeness and correctness

Instances of Audit includes review and approve engineering work products and releases checking for RCA for defects, Requirement Traceability, KPIs, Etc.

To ensure the project quality through Monthly Action Plan report includes Metrics

Project 2: Recertification Audit for ISO9001:2008

Part of the core team responsible for preparation for the recertification audit

Verify QMS in accordance with the requirements for ISO9001:2008

Audit the support groups (HR, Training, Procurement, etc.) as an internal auditor

Close coordination and interaction with the external auditors on the practices being followed in the organization.

Guidance and close interaction with the teams to thoroughly prepare them to successfully pass through the rigors of the audit.

Project 3 : CMMI Gap analysis for internal projects

Being a core team member responsible for preparation of the Process Quality audit

Verify QMS in accordance with the requirements of CMMI Ver 1.3

Audit the support groups (HR, Training, Procurement, etc.) as an internal auditor

Ensuring the strict adherence to the CMMI and prepare the teams to represent the same in the best manner.

Full involvement with the external auditors during the audits.

Project 4: Certification Audit for ISO13485:2003

One of the core team member responsible for the preparation of the Certification audit

Verify Quality Management System in accordance with the requirements of ISO13485:2003

Mapping of Quality Management System with the software safety classification standard

IEC62304

To train the people regarding the ISO13485:2003, IEC62304 and Hazard Analysis

Audit the support groups (Training, Admin, Calibration etc.) as an internal auditor

To co-ordinate and interact with the External Auditor, understand their expectations,

evident the same on the practices being followed in the organization

Additional Responsibilities

1.Reporting of Functional Safety Assessment result

2.Involved in reviewing the checklist for further improvements of the existing checklist

3.Core Team Member of Metrics Team

To analyze the data for various measures at the project level/organizational level and present the trends to the senior management as part of the ‘Defect Prevention’ meetings.

To set and revise the ‘SPC limits’ at the organizational level

4.SQA Team Coordinator

To consolidate the issues/non-conformities/initiatives triggered by the SQA team over a bi-monthly period and convey the same to the senior management

To trigger various improvement initiatives within the SQA team as well as the project teams

To plan and carry out the audits of the support groups

5.Verification of Process Compliance

To carry out audits to bring in visibility to process compliance & track the reported non-compliances to closure on-time, for the projects/support groups

6.Training Coordinator

To train the personnel on ‘Quality Management System’

To plan the Training for the New joiners and Laterals

To plan the Process Areas to presented effectively by the trainer

Consistently voted as the best internal quality trainer in accordance with the feedbacks received.

7.Part of the SEPG team

To review the improvement proposals as part of the continuous improvement of QMS and also evaluate the potential barriers and risks involved in the deployment

To deploy the improvement proposals

To draft the changes to the QMS and update the QMS accordingly

Educational Qualification

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science with 70% aggregate from CIT, Tumkur, 2011 Passsed out.

XII from Board of Kittur Rani Chennamma Sainik Colloege with 72 %.

X from Kittur Rani Chennamma Sainik School with 86.5 %.

I hereby declare that the above furnished information is true to the best of my knowledge.

Date: 07-02-2024

Apoorva R Wodeyar

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