Engineer Software

Indra Reddy

System Verification Engineer **********@*****.***

Greensboro, North Carolina LinkedIn Profile +1-913-***-****

Professional Summary:

Verification Engineer having 4+ years of work experience in Automotive Telematics, Infotainment, and

other ECU's testing in both with OEM's and Engineering service providers (ESPs).

Worked on CAN based communication protocols J1939, ISO14229, and J1587, LIN, Ethernet.

Hands-on Experience with diagnostic tools like CANoe, CANalyzer, and proprietary tools including TechTool, Engineering Tool, ApciData Tool, etc.

Knowledge Telematics HIL Validation Tools such as MATLAB, Simulink, Dspace Hardware, ControlDesk.

Expertise in performing System Smoke testing, Sanity, Regression, Exploratory, Project Testing, Product and Integration testing.

Finding the Root cause analysis and Involved in Production problems and factory QJ’s for Telematics, Infotainment.

Proficient in Writing Test cases, Updating Test cases, Test case execution, Defect logging, tracking and re-verifying them, and has good knowledge of Software Test life cycle (STLC).

Hands-on Experience with Bug reporting tools JIRA, BUGZILLA, IBM Rational ClearQuest, PROTUS

Worked under different work environments like Agile, Kanban, Waterfall model, V model, SCRUM, and participated in Sprints, Program Increment (PI) planning sessions and PMT participation.

Work Experience:

Employer: XDIN Inc.,

Client: Volvo Trucks North America., Greensboro, NC

Title: System Verification Engineer (Telematics and Infotainment)

June 2017- To Date

Working in a Cross-functional Verification team, Involved in E2E testing for Volvo Trucks North America's Telematics and Infotainment systems at Bench and On-Vehicle level. My experience and responsibilities Include

Telematics:

Responsible for Smoke, Sanity and Full function testing on Test software to provide the quick feedback to project and finding the defects as early as possible to improve the quality.

Working with the cross functional Software developers and global teams closely for the problem discussion and issue debugging.

Supported the Battery Electric Vehicles and Diesel engine vehicles with different Trucks Electrical architectures.

Analyzing the Functional requirement Specification (FRS), Technical Requirements (TR), Logical Design Specifications (LDS), and creating the Test Specifications, documenting, ensuring the Test case coverage and Traceability for the PMRs and Project change requests (PCRs).

Involved in the Regression scope setting for every regression and creating the user work stories according to the test plan.

Complete understanding of the customer-focused Use-cases and Test cases Development, executing them under a diverse collection of operational scenarios, data analysis, results interpretation, defect reporting, issue debugging, and follow-up for the issue resolution.

Participating in the bug review meetings with Test team, Embedded software developers, Component owners and stakeholders.

Responsible for the Telematics Regression testing on different functions - Vehicle Data Reporting, Event Data Recorder, DOTA (Download over the air), Fleet Data reports, Fault monitoring on different electronic architectures for multiple brands.

Extensively tested the Volvo Trucks North American Remote Software Programming on different Powertrain ECUs and Electrical ECUs to update the software remotely.

Worked on Remote Parameter updates and Remote kits updates for the different Powertrain ECUs and played a key role in releasing them to production.

Worked on Volvo Trucks North American Remote Diagnostics, which supports all the truck ECUs to help in the Trucks total uptime.

Preparing the Test Vehicles for verification activities before every regression using Volvo’s proprietary tools Tech Tool, Engineering Tool and Vector CANoe, CANalyzer.

Verification Function Owner for several Telematics System End User Functions, responsible for making sure the Requirements, and Traceability's are up to date from verification perspective.

Maintained and Operated End-to-End HIL/subsystem Telematics test rigs for the Verification activities.

Infotainment:

Worked on Volvo Trucks North American Infotainment System testing and helped to shape it to the production successfully, including Apple CarPlay - first OEM to introduce in the Trucking industry.

Responsible for Smoke, Sanity testing for both Development and Production intended software, providing quick feedback to Lead Engineers, Component Owner, Project Manager and Stockholders.

Responsible for testing the Infotainment Diagnostics, Power Management, J1939 CAN communication between Instrument Cluster (IC), Light Control Module (LCM), Engine Control Module (EMS), Vehicle ECU.

Extensively tested the Software upgrade process and Fallback modes, involved in the aftermarket manual documentation and presentations for the Infotainment system.

Defect logging, handling the internal and external problem reports using JIRA (confluence).

Participated in Technical discussions, bug review meetings, project discussions with the team and with the Supplier, had discussions with Developers regarding the software releases and bugs resolution.

Testing the Infotainment HMI by performing continuous integration tests and reporting the anomalies.

Created new test artifacts, including developing new test cases, enhancements for existing test cases based on the FRS, XFS (Cross-functional requirements) and involved in the test case peer review process.

Worked on Infotainment internal client applications, which enables the Real-Time Traffic for the On-Board Navigation system using Volvo Group IT Connected Solutions infrastructure.

Exhaustively tested all the Infotainment features including Radio, Phone, Audio, Connectivity (Wired and Wireless), Bluetooth, Dimming, Turn by Turn Navigation, Multimedia, Apple CarPlay on Bench level,

On-Vehicle and during the Drive Tests.

Performed multiple drive tests for Apple CarPlay certification, collected and analyzed GPS data using Apple proprietary tools.

Involved in building the sub-system Infotainment and Telematics rigs for the internal verification purpose and sent multiple rigs to Apple for the CarPlay certification purpose.

Employer: CCIT Inc.,

Client: Danlaw Inc., Novi, MI

Title: Infotainment Test Engineer

Aug 2016- June 2017

Performed Bench level, On-Vehicle, Component level, and Drive tests to Test different infotainment features such as Audio, Phone, Navigation, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Tuner (AM, FM, SXM), Voice recognition, Multimedia, Apple Car Play, Android Auto with the aim of delivering the defect free software.

Performed manual Smoke, Sanity, Regression, Black box testing, performance testing for automotive Infotainment features for the new software test builds, and nightly builds.

Involved in Test cases Reading, Analyzing, Executing, and Writing the Test Results into reporting tool and Tracking the Testing Traceability using RTM.

Validating Positive test cases, Negative test cases, Corner test cases for various infotainment features.

Worked with Vector CAN tools to sniff CAN messages and perform test report analysis using CAN logs.

Reporting the defects diligently with supporting trace and log files description, Tracking the bug fixes and re-verifying them using JIRA and handling the bug statues accordingly.

Involved in the 600 miles Road test drive as a part of the testing team with customers, also tested the critical functionalities of the Car infotainment system in the busy downtown areas.

Actively participated in the team Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Scrum meetings, and Standup meetings.

Education:

Master's in Computer Science, University of Central Missouri, MO. (GPA: 3.60)

Bachelor's in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, India. (GPA: 3.43)

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems, Internals/Kernels: MS Windows, Linux, QNX, Android, Various RTOS

Communication Protocols: CAN based J1939 and ISO14229, J1587, LIN, MOST, Ethernet, LVDS.

Test/Diagnostic/Simulation Tools: CANoe, CANalyzer, J1587 Navigator, Engineering Tool, TechTool.

Diagnostics standards: Unified Diagnostic Service (UDS), On-board diagnostics (OBD)

Bug Reporting Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, PROTUS, IBM Rational ClearQuest, FileZilla.

Requirement, Project Management Tools: SE-Tool, JIRA, IBM Rational ClearQuest.

Programming Languages: CAPL Scripting (Knowledge), Python (Knowledge).

Wireless standards, Network protocols: GSM, GPRS, GPS, SIP, TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, SSH, SFTP, Telnet.

Development Tools/Emulators: MobaXterm, Putty, ProComm, Tera Term, Android debug bridge.

Microsoft Applications: Office365 Suite, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Etc.

Certification Tools: Apple ATS tool, Beagle USB 480 Protocol analyzer.

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