Saaket Shahane

• Lead Software & System Quality Assurance activities for automotive embedded programmes including model base design projects, NPI projects.

• Conducted audits and assessments to inspect compliance with process specifications, ensuring adherence to quality standards and functional safety.

• Coordinated customer-specific quality requirements and SAAP (Software Assurance Approval Process) – CQI-34, SASW (Software Application submission warrant) to align project objectives with client standards.

• Coordinate and analyse customer specific quality requirements from customers like Paccar, VW

• Summarised and reported status of quality assurance activities to ensure transparency and facilitate decision-making.

• Process gap analysis against target capability levels.

• Process Owner for QA process improvement and team member for organisational process improvement team.

• Support for creating Metrics dashboards for monitoring the project health

• Coordinating with customers through regular reviews and feedback sessions, promoting continuous improvement.

Managed Paccar and ECJV programs focusing on the voltage converter system.

• Support for assessment interviews and outcomes.

• Conducted gate checks, providing QA ratings for phase-wise deliverables including project planning, requirements review, concept development, design verification, product/process validation, production launch, serial production, and post-production support for change requests.

• Perform gap analysis for ASPICE requirement projects, and guide project teams to fix the ASPICE gaps

Facilitated internal and external assessments for ASPICE compliance, ensuring thorough support as an auditee.

• Audits and Assessment: Inspection of compliance with / implementation of the process specifications (Process & Work Product check including Functional safety)

• Led and monitored process improvement activities within the organisation and quality management system.

• Released organisational quality dashboard and conducted metrics/KPI analysis.

• Measuring maturity of product through Engineering gates checks.

• Report on the project's quality status regularly to the management and project teams.

• Performing Supplier monitoring, process checks, ASPICE Gap analysis at supplier end.

• Coordinate for customer specific quality requirements such as KGAS and other customer specific quality standards.

• Conducted induction training and mentored new joiners.

• Performing discipline audits (Systems, Software, Functional Validation, Cybersecurity, Project Management) for the projects assigned from project's Award & Planning phase till the development and testing ends.

• Reported project's quality status to management and project teams, ensuring alignment on quality objectives.

• Perform gap analysis for ASPICE requirement projects, and guide project teams to fix the ASPICE gaps.

Directed the quality team to provide project and QMS support.

• Assigned to VW/Skoda, Mahindra, TATA programmes with Clusters, Displays and Infotainment development in scope.

• Coordinate for gate reviews and release readiness reviews.

• Perform Project plan/strategy reviews.

• Initiated opportunities in Platform projects strategy, quality monitoring among engineers, deep dive sessions, and process improvements, enhancing overall project outcomes.

• Coordinate for customer specific quality requirements such as KGAS and other customer specific quality standards.

• Coordinated for improving cyber security process

• Conducted induction training and mentored new joiners, facilitating smoother onboarding and integration into the team.

• Applied and optimised generic processes in projects, driving and maintaining Quality Management System for ASPICE compliance.

• Conducted discipline audits (Systems, Software, Functional Validation, Cybersecurity, Project Management) from project's Award & Planning phase through to development and testing.

• Active participation in ASPICE Assessment, IATF External audit, QMS management review meetings.

Facilitated communication and coordination among interdisciplinary teams, both internal and external, to ensure project alignment.

• Perform process quality internal compliance checks activities like process audits (Software, System, and System Testing, HW/Mechanical), Cyber security process checks, Program management process checks, configuration process checks, work product checks, Work product reviews and release verification audits etc.

• Conducted discipline audits (systems, software, functional validation, cybersecurity, project management) throughout project lifecycle from award and planning phase to development and testing completion.

• Coordinated ISO 9001:2015, CMMI 1.3 Level 5, and ASPICE compliance assurance and implementation.

• Harmonised processes and improved quality management system activities within the department.

• Ensuring objective evaluation of the process followed and bringing visibility to senior management for risks, report activities.

• Driving Release readiness reviews for customer specific deliveries.

• Performing discipline audits for the projects assigned from project's Award & Planning phase till the development and testing ends.

• Conducting RCA/ 8 D analysis of deviation in performance metrics/Client complaints using 7QC tool, 5-Why Analysis &DMAIC approach

Supported project quality and quality management systems, facilitating compliance with industry standards.

• Creating and reviewing FMEA’s, Control plan, PSW

Contributed to development of consumer electronics and lamps projects, ensuring quality standards were met.

Conducted audits to assess processes and standards, identifying areas for improvement.

Developed dashboards that enhanced reporting capabilities.