Merin Thomas

As a Functional Safety Manager, I perform below functional safety activities for various clients:

• Lead System and Software Functional safety lifecycle activities for multiple clients
• Perform project initiation activities from a safety perspective by planning safety activities based on customer requirements
• Formulate Software Implementation approach, Safety mechanism derivation approach etc. based on customer safety requirements
• Handle safety activities like Development Interface Agreement (DIA) and Safety plan preparation, Functional Safety Concept(FSC), Technical Safety Concept(TSC), Software FMEA and DFA, etc.
• Conduct safety inspection and confirmation reviews for safety artifacts
• Lead all phases in AUTOSAR MCAL software lifecycle including driver development, configuration, software integration and Automated Verification Framework Development for MCAL
• Conducting technical trainings on Software Functional safety aspects for engineering teams

As a Functional Safety Engineer, performed the below activities in various projects:

• Define multi-core microcontroller modules such as MCU, SPI, UART, MCAL LIB, LIN, FEE etc. for automotive safety applications developed in compliance with ISO 26262 ASIL D
• Lead requirements management & traceability documentation using Reqtify
• Conduct functional safety activities of MCAL, including Safety criticality analysis, Dataflow analysis, BVEC and other safety related activities of MCAL artifacts.
• Requirement review for Autosar 4.2.2 microcontroller modules
• Safety impact analysis for responsible ASIL modules
• Technical Documentation such as Software Architecture, Design using Enterprise Architect and MS-Visio, developer test reports, Resource usage and Stack depth analysis reports, Pre-CCB analysis reports for customer reported tickets etc.
• Preparation of Impact analysis in safety perspective, 8D, RCA and Safety analysis
• Reports and Deck preparation for end customers, solution proposal, JIRA estimation and scope finalization etc.