Hi, I’m
Rajesh Gautam
Kumar
Pune,Maharastra
Summary
● To work in inspiring and challenging areas of Quality/Reliability Engineering to use potential & skills to the fullest and deliver output with high quality and reliability and evolve self as an innovative and resourceful leader and a growing contributor to the industry and society.
● Having 16+ years of experience in Design for Reliability, Reliability Analysis, Prediction, Software Quality Assurance, Measurement and Analysis, Six-Sigma.
Overview
18
years of professional experience
3
Certification
Work History
Garrett Advancing Motion India
Reliability Engineering Manager
04.2021 - Current
Job overview
- Build and manage, coach and mentor team of reliability engineers for capability development for reliability engineering areas.
- Support in product functional safety, launch risk assessment and help in mitigating the in house and field issues.
- Set up lab and monitor activities for turbochargers and relevant measurements to support V&V activities.
- Help team in reliability test planning, sampling and optimization of test parameters.
- Project management, tool development, automation and process development and implementation in different ongoing and new projects.
- Hardware and software reliability modeling, analysis, and prediction.
- Reliability roadmap and strategy implementation across platforms in line with functional safety framework.
Seagate Technology LLC
Compliance Engineering Manager
03.2019 - 04.2021
Job overview
- Build and manage team of reliability and product compliance in related areas of environmental, safety and global market access for Seagate EDS products.
- Get the Star/Energy rating of the products and list them on relevant portal timely.
- Setup Lab in-house and collaborate with external certification agencies to comply national and international product certification requirement.
- Renew AMCs and calibrate Lab Equipment with the help of external agencies.
- Quantitative project management by making data driven decisions making.
- Software and hardware reliability modelling, analysis and prediction for EDS products.
- Identify process improvements and implement them across functions.
- Help cross functional teams with definitions of metrics and measurements for product quality assurance and risk management.
Honeywell Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd
Technology Specialist
08.2017 - 03.2019
Job overview
- Manage team of reliability engineers, provide trainings to internal and external.
- RCA, DOE, Six Sigma, Field Data Analysis, Limited and absolute warranty analysis.
- Design for Reliability, Warranty analysis and Reliability Testing time and sample determination.
- Data Mining for customer profile generation and conversion to the engineering requirement.
- FMEA, FMECA, Defect Prediction, mitigation as well as reliability Growth testing with TAAF, PLC wise Test to learn and fail.
- Sensor data collection and analysis for reliability improvement in real time.
Whirlpool Corporation
Reliability Leader
07.2013 - 08.2017
Job overview
- Leading the team of Six Engineers for work and career planning.
- DfR, DFSS, RCA, DOE, FMEA facilitation, review and approval.
- Manage reliability lab activities for reliability data and calibrate equipments for accurate measurements
- Reliability modelling, testing,analysis and prediction.
- Field Data Analysis, Limited and absolute warranty analysis.
- Accelerated & Acceptance reliability testing and product/component approval.
- Market Interaction, Data Mining on Customer profile generation and conversion to the engineering requirement.
- Reliability strategy implementation on organizational initiatives, TAAF, Test to learn and fail planning and execution.
Emerson Electric CorporationHyderabad
Quality and Reliability Manager
03.2010 - 11.2011
Job overview
- Lead the team of 4 people directly and 2 off site for cross functional Reliability management.
- Support reliability target setting for the projects according to lifecycle and strap planning.
- Create awareness within the project regarding the Quality and Design For Reliability.
- Define process for M&A and Reliability Measurement and Estimation as well as Reliability Testing.
- Provide input the global reliability strategy for go no go decision making and feedback tracking on improvements.
- Facilitating the projects on the Statistical analysis and Process Control across functions.
- Supporting projects to create and manage operational profiles with customer interaction.
- Lead tailored CMMI Initiatives at Organization level.
HuaweiBENGALURU
Technologies Project Leader
10.2009 - 03.2010
Job overview
- Software Reliability analysis and prediction.
- Phase wise Reliability planning, testing and validation.
- Data Mining on Customer profile generation and conversion to the engineering requirement.
- FMEA, FMECA, Reliability Analysis and Prediction, Defect Prediction, Defect Modeling as well as reliability Growth and development testing.
- TAAF, PLC wise Test to learn and fail.
- Manage software quality assurance activities.
Hella Electronics Development Centre India, HEDCIPune
Senior Engineer
05.2009 - 10.2009
Job overview
- Implement the MA process and procedure and conduct audit, benchmarking and leading measurement and analysis initiatives
- Conduct trainings to the teams on Measurement and analysis, design for reliability, statistical analysis.
- Manage SQA team members, maintaining and base-lining organizational data for referencing and analysis
- Identifying data collection tools and designing the relevant template as per process demand.
- Leading CMMI initiatives as maintaining ASPICE and functional safety compliance
General Motors
Lead MA/SQA
02.2008 - 05.2009
Job overview
- Take initiatives for implementing the data collection strategies in various projects.
- Develop lab infrastructure for calibration of ECUs and engine parameters and reliability assurance.
- Requirement management process definition for global system engineering.
- QA and MA process for Requirement Management Process.
- Responsible for global process rollout of Project Management, Risk Management, Project Initiation, Test Management, Configuration Management, Peer Review, Measurement and Analysis processes.
- Productivity calculation formulation and implementation in different projects.
- Trained projects in Reliability Engineering, measurement and analysis and productivity.
- Interfacing processes in GM with CMMI process area requirements.
IBM India Pvt. LtdBangalore
Associate Software Quality Analyst
06.2005 - 02.2008
Job overview
- Worked for CMMI Ver1.2 and actively participated in L5 Reappraisal, Performed Gap Analysis for MA and QPM as well as updated the required Artifacts for final appraisal.
- To provide the proper guidance to the project team for implementing the process of data collection and deal with the complexity involved.
- To review and approve the quality plans of projects and guide them in quality planning.
- To train people at the organization level to promote the metrics and measurement culture i.e. Quality Culture and to help them in every possible way to carry it forward.
- To take initiatives for data collection analysis and prediction on project performance.
- To perform the data analysis and interpret the result,.
- To consult the project teams and inform them about the applicability of metrics and measurement in their project based on the work categorization, and to initiate the project and monitor their performance across the whole lifecycle.
- To report the decision critical interpretation to higher management.
- To discover the new metrics based on the new work arrivals and categorize them in a structured way.
- Six sigma Yellow Belt Trainings and facilitations to the projects.
Education
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Master of Technology from Reliability Engineering
01.2005
Indian Institute of TechnologyKanpur
Bachelor of Technology from Materials And Metallurgical Engineering
01.2002
Skills
- People Management- Building Cross Functional Teams and Management
- Lab setup AMCs, Equipment Calibration, Energy Labeling, safety labeling etc
- Quantitative Project management, Risk management
- Reliability Modelling, Analysis and Prediction
- Reliability Test Planning (Sample Size and Test Time Determination), Analysis and Prediction
- Software measurement and analysis
- Operational Excellence and LEAN- Six-σ Management
- Reliasoft (MATLAB, Weibull, Blocksim, RGA, ALTA), MINITAB and CASRE
- Statistical Process Control, Process capability analysis
- FMECA, RCA, DOE, ANOVA and Regression Analysis
Languages
Hindi
First Language
English
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Proficient
C2
Certification
- Certified Reliability Engineer,American Society of Quality - 2015
- Six Sigma Black Belt, American Society of Quality - 2017
- Six Sigma Green Belt, Honeywell Technology ltd. - 2017
Timeline
Reliability Engineering Manager
Garrett Advancing Motion India
04.2021 - Current
Compliance Engineering Manager
Seagate Technology LLC
03.2019 - 04.2021
Technology Specialist
Honeywell Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd
08.2017 - 03.2019
Reliability Leader
Whirlpool Corporation
07.2013 - 08.2017
Quality and Reliability Manager
Emerson Electric Corporation
03.2010 - 11.2011
Technologies Project Leader
Huawei
10.2009 - 03.2010
Senior Engineer
Hella Electronics Development Centre India, HEDCI
05.2009 - 10.2009
Lead MA/SQA
General Motors
02.2008 - 05.2009
Associate Software Quality Analyst
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
06.2005 - 02.2008
- Certified Reliability Engineer,American Society of Quality - 2015
- Six Sigma Black Belt, American Society of Quality - 2017
- Six Sigma Green Belt, Honeywell Technology ltd. - 2017
Indian Institute of Technology
Master of Technology from Reliability Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Technology from Materials And Metallurgical Engineering
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