Sathish S
Chennai
Summary
Dedicated Quality Assurance Engineer with 4 years of experience in the passenger and commercial vehicle industries. Proven track record in quality control, analytics, and team management, with strong leadership skills. Successfully improved the Defects Per Unit (DPU) target from 95% to 98%, demonstrating a commitment to excellence and continuous improvement
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineer - Quality Assurance
Daimler India Commercial Vehicle Private Ltd.
Chennai
07.2023 - Current
- Ensured supplier parts were defect-free before transitioning to the production area by maintaining high-quality standards.
- Performing based on SQDCM principles, supporting continuous improvement through key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive efficiency and quality enhancements.
- Controlled quality issues through a Quality Gate System, implementing Quality Feed Loop (QFL) levels 1 to 5 to achieve DPU targets.
- Responsible for maintaining PPAP and APQP documentation for new product and part development.
- Identified root causes by validating processes through SWI and JES, followed by Control Plan updates and PFMEA implementation to enhance process efficiency by risk priority number (RPN).
- Raised Incident Action Reports (IAR) for issues caused by supplier parts or internal processes and requested ICA and PCA for resolution.
- Implemented JDI, KKD, and QC story for enhanced problem-solving approaches.
- Analyzed customer feedback to identify potential issues in engineering design or process improvements.
- Govern documentation for various audit reports like process audit and product audit; audit reports like TS16949, ISO45001/OHSAS18001, and ISO14001.
Associate Engineer Trainee - Quality Assurance
Seoyon E-hwa Summit Automotive India Pvt. Ltd
Chennai
06.2019 - 10.2021
- Proven experience in managing supplier non-conformance activities, conducting root cause analysis to solve quality issues, and prevent recurrence.
- Readiness to facilitate new product launches to ensure that supplier quality meets the required standards
- Pivotal in decreasing rejection cost by 11%, implemented quality control measure, and proper training program to achieve the result.
- Administer implementation and development of Product for Customers; handle customer web portal for GRN.
- Received an award in plant level for maintaining 3C and 5S
- Lead a team of 10-15 people as the team leader for SQA and act upon the customer MRD.
- Draft PPM for Supplier through weekly Agendas while employing Counter Measure report for Problem
- Cascade countermeasure reports (CMR), Supplier Rating (PPM), Quality alerts, and work standard.
- SAP and ERP software to prevent defects and enable process improvement in the system.
- Served in audit in relation to related to customer complaint, whether that supplier is following working standards.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Jaya Engineering College
Chennai04-2019
Master Diploma - Product Design and Honours diploma in Computer Application
CAD Center
Chennai01-2019
HSSC -
Railway Mixed School Hr. Sec. School
Chennai03-2015
SSC -
Kaligi Ranganathan School Mat. Hr. Sec. School
Chennai03-2013
Skills
- Quality Control
- Supplier Evaluation
- Analytical Skills
- Team Management
- Client Management
- Leadership Skills
- Organizational Skills
- Effective Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Quality Management Systems
Training
- Inplant training at Wheels India Ltd, Chennai, 2017
- Inplant training at Diesel Loco Shed, Tondiarpet, Chennai, 2017
- Inplant training at TI Diamond Chain India, Chennai, 2016
Languages
Tamil
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
German
Beginner
A1
Timeline
Engineer - Quality Assurance
Daimler India Commercial Vehicle Private Ltd.
07.2023 - Current
Associate Engineer Trainee - Quality Assurance
Seoyon E-hwa Summit Automotive India Pvt. Ltd
06.2019 - 10.2021
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Jaya Engineering College
Master Diploma - Product Design and Honours diploma in Computer Application
CAD Center
HSSC -
Railway Mixed School Hr. Sec. School
SSC -
Kaligi Ranganathan School Mat. Hr. Sec. School
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