Dilkush Sivappan

Client – Samsung Semiconductor India Research.

• Worked in In-vehicle infotainment domain for KITTY2, PoIP, and CCCM ECUs.
• Experienced in leading and managing a team of up to four resources, managing test activities in accordance with policies and standards.
• Have a complete understanding of system-level cybersecurity from end to end for the product.
• Have a good understanding of system and software-level infotainment cybersecurity functionalities and feature level on SOC (Android, QNX, Linux).
• Experienced in the analysis of requirements from the Polarion tool, clarifying the open points to team members, and aligning with stakeholders for requirements clarification and change requests for requirement suggestions.
• Developed robot scripts for test automation, which helps in terms of continuous testing.
• Have hands-on experience working with a wireless IP connection with a Raspberry Pi to an ECU, where test automation can be run in multiple ECUs in the form of test farms using the Robot Framework.
• Have hands-on experience in the creation of TARA, and vulnerability management.
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience in CAN, UDS protocols.
• Experienced in testing various infotainment modules, such as Connectivity (WIFI, BT), Diag, and SW update, with respect to cybersecurity features.
• Hands-on experience in requirement gathering, requirement analysis, and in the creation of test specs alongside test case review before the code merge.
• I have led and been part of the ASPICE audit on areas of Sys5, Sys1, and SWE6.
• Worked with the QM team to ensure that the quality of tickets triaged to the stakeholders is much more informative about the defect.
• Contributed to and supported the development of security concepts for the product owner.
• Supported for LTPs in performing verification and validation standards according to Aspice compliance.
• Experienced in performing pentest and fuzz testing.
• I have been part of the requirement management team, where I contributed to enhancing the requirement structure for various attributes, thereby helping to increase the maturity levels.

Client - General motors

• Worked in In-Vehicle infotainment Cybersecurity module.
• Worked on the convergence project, which has a single processor unit for both the infotainment and instrument cluster.
• Conducted sanity and pre-release testing on daily builds, meticulously reporting defects, and ensuring their resolution.
• Executed comprehensive test plans, system performance runtime, and startup tests, consistently meeting project deadlines.
• Proficiently handled flashing, recovery, and analysis of IVI head units, resolving hardware issues promptly.
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience with CAN, UDS protocol.
• Facilitated effective communication and coordination among stakeholders, actively contributing to project success.
• Hands-on experience and ownership in analyzing, reporting, and bug creation towards the fix of vulnerabilities with respect to kernel tags.
• Prepared the report and provided the test results, test strategy, and test design for each cadence release.
• Hands-on experience in the DOORS tool, gathering requirements from clients, as well as following the ASPICE standard.
• Hands-on experience in EA, with a focus on working towards changes in each requirement and its design to maintain traceability.
• Following the IBM Rational tool for creating submodules of a task and stories based on the feature requirements, and to track our day-to-day progress.

Responsibilities:

• Point of contact for major support issues.
• Handled major escalations.
• Provided support and issue resolution for customers.

Client - DXC Technology

Responsibilities:

• Point of contact for major support issues.
• Handled major escalations.
• Provided support and issue resolution for customers.