Ravi Chette
Summary
Over 15+ years of experience in IT Industry as Quality Assurance professional, Value delivery, Customer Satisfaction and Governance focused professional, bringing in quality and Excellence for delivering Project, Programs and Processes at Enterprise level. Mentoring and Coaching product and service teams to deliver enterprise solutions through industry best Practices like ISO 9001, 27001, 26262 ,CMMI, DO178, 254 ,330 ,IATF 16949,ASPICE and Agile Framework.
Overview
4
4
Certifications
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Manager
THALES
08.2023 - Current
- Plan and implement software quality assurance in projects across ECC.
- Lead and undertake project QA activities to ensure software tasks are carried out in accordance with agreed work packages and certification plans.
- Ensure that the solution delivered to the customer complies with both customer and company requirements, with the required level of quality.
- Define Quality Plans specific to the project, verify their implementation, and relevant customer procedures.
- Support Certifications (AS-9100, ISO 9001, DO-178B, DO-254, DO-278, ISO, etc.)
- Monitor the participation of key contributors to ensure that clear governance rules are followed in the project, and ensure that all key actions have been taken before each decision-making step.
- Support the project teams so that the relevant processes, practices, and standards have been followed, and that the product delivered to the customer meets defined requirements.
- Support Quality Assurance activities, including Supplier Quality Assurance, to ensure the project is in line with customer expectations and agreed quality standards.
- Work in collaboration with the project team to provide support for better supplier relationship management.
- Assure the quality of purchased solutions in collaboration with SEM by evaluating deliverables through appropriate reviews.
- Ensure visibility of the project assessments and project performance through monthly QA reports.
- Support the project team in managing customer complaints.
- Verify the process implementation (TIMS) across projects, and support the external certifications.
- Raise alerts and veto as required.
- Monitor anomalies, nonconformities, and report to the management on these.
- Identify trends, issues, and opportunities associated with processes that may impact quality.
- Make sure that formal approval of the conformity of products is given by the right authority.
- Contribute as required to project reviews, supplying feedback by using the project quality advice.
- Support and verify tailoring activities of Thales practices, and their result in the relevant documentation.
Quality Assurance Manager
CAPGEMINI
04.2020 - 08.2023
- Establish the Program Quality plan for the program(s). Leads Assessments: Conducts formal ASPICE assessments, serving as the lead assessor, responsible for procedural correctness.
- Evaluates Processes: Reviews documents, conducts interviews, and assesses process maturity against the ASPICE model.
- Provides guidance: Offers consultancy and training on process improvement, focusing on automotive software development, ISO 26262, and related standards.
- Automotive SPICE/VDA guidelines shall be ensured. Active support of customers in their environment to reach the defined project targets.
- Identification and realization of process and quality improvement potentials, with respect to the Continuous Improvement Process.
- Interface and close collaboration with several stakeholders from the project or customer organization to ensure the integrity of the applied process.
- Close interaction with the customer regarding quality improvement aspects.
Representation of the department, both internally and with customers.
Senior Product Quality Engineer
HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGIES SOLUTIONS LAB
05.2015 - 03.2020
- Performing Audits as per Aero Process and Aero Guidelines for DO178 and DO254 projects
- Conducting Trainings on High maturity levels of CMMI to project teams on need basis.
- Performing Process compliance Audits with respective to CMMI (L3,L4&L5)
- Participated in daily Tier Accountability meetings with Engineering teams and Quality Team
- Preparation of Audit analysis and projecting to Engineering teams on quarterly basis
- Performing Rapid problem solution (RPS) for any metric deviations or Post release defects
- Performing reviews on all planning documents like Software Development Plan, Verification Plan and Verification Results wrt to tool development programs for Avionics
- Led sprint reviews and daily scrum meetings to touch base with whole team and ensure that all members were performing satisfactorily.
- Trained team members as well as the rest of the company staff in employing agile and scrum practices to improve workflow.
Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer
CYIENT
06.2011 - 07.2015
- Software plan Audit to ensure the communication &right usage of plans and standards
- Monitoring the project activities & ensuring the transition criteria is met.
- Tracking & monitoring project as per Project plan
- Performing Quality checks & Release audits as per DO – 178 B for Avionics Software.
- Ensure the process is in compliance with plans as per DO178b.
- Performing In-Process checks, witnessing the test execution.
- Conducting Hardware & Software Development life cycle Phase wise audits, Phase Transition audits, Statement of involvement audits (SOI#1 to SOI#4)
- Tracking & monitoring project as per MPP (Microsoft Project plan).
- Involving in project management activities, like project plan , Configuration plan, risk plan, estimations, Quality plan ensuring that they are incompliance with DO178B.
- Supporting the projects for Certification & surveillance audits.
- Monthly Audits & Configuration Audits
- Performing QCPC & RRCA for turn backs & ensuring that CA is implemented.
- Involving in process definition & process implementation.
- Metrics collection and analysis.
- Conducting Planning Phase review audits (PPR), Requirement Capture Review audits (SRR), Preliminary Design Review audits (PDR) and Critical Design Review audits (CDR), Implementation Phase audits, V&V Phase Audits (V&V) and Production Transition audits.
- Threats audits, Supplier Qualification audits, Release audits and Configuration management audits.
- Participated in daily standup meeting & customer meetings.
- Preparing SQAR's(software Quality Assurance Reports) for delivery
Education
BTECH - COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Kakinada, AP05-2011
Skills
ISO 9001 , AS9100 , 27001 , 26262
CMMI , ASPICE
DO178 , DO254 , DO330
Agile Methodologies
Internal auditing
Continuous improvement
Quality metrics
Problem-solving abilities
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Quality Manager
THALES
08.2023 - Current
Quality Assurance Manager
CAPGEMINI
04.2020 - 08.2023
Senior Product Quality Engineer
HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGIES SOLUTIONS LAB
05.2015 - 03.2020
Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer
CYIENT
06.2011 - 07.2015
BTECH - COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University