SHAHINSHA RASHEED

Quality assurance lead with expertise in industry quality management processes and the practical application of quality standards. Skilled in quality cost concepts, analysis, and improvement techniques. Drives continuous improvement to support revenue growth and operational performance through reliable, high-quality products.

• Languages: English – B1 (Intermediate)
• Urdu – B2 (Upper Intermediate)
• Hindi – B2 (Upper Intermediate)
• Tamil – B2 (Upper Intermediate)

• Led quality planning and execution across global New Product Introduction (NPI) programs, aligning Engineering, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, Project Management, and Operations to ensure product conformity, manufacturing readiness, and successful product launches.
• Drove quality assurance throughout the product lifecycle, from design reviews and material/component testing to verification and validation (V&V), process validation, industrialization, production ramp-up, and field/service quality.
• Led complex engineering and manufacturing investigations using RCA, 8D, 5 Why, Ishikawa, FMEA, and CAPA methodologies, addressing systemic failure mechanisms and implementing sustainable corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Strengthened verification of engineering drawings, technical specifications, BOMs, manufacturing procedures, inspection plans, and quality documentation to ensure design intent, technical compliance, process consistency, and production readiness.
• Deployed and strengthened APQP-based quality planning, risk reviews, readiness assessments, and stage-gate controls to identify technical risks early, improve cross-functional accountability, and support robust product launches.
• Led supplier quality improvement initiatives, structured corrective action reviews, and supplier performance governance, recovering significant Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) and improving supplier accountability and product conformity.
• Directed material and component testing, inspection, qualification, and validation activities to verify compliance with engineering specifications, reliability expectations, and customer requirements.
• Established quality KPIs, risk-based reviews, NCR governance, escalation mechanisms, and management review processes to improve issue visibility, accelerate decision-making, and ensure timely closure of critical quality risks.
• Improved manufacturing process robustness through process risk assessments, SPC, control plans, traceability, non-conformance management, and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce defects and strengthen process control.
• Strengthened quality oversight of engineering changes, design revisions, and manufacturing documentation updates to maintain configuration integrity, control implementation risks, and ensure alignment between design requirements and shop-floor execution.
• Supported product reliability improvement through failure investigation, component performance assessment, test result analysis, and corrective action implementation, translating field and manufacturing feedback into design and process improvements.
• Leveraged SAP Quality Notifications and Power BI dashboards to enhance quality performance visibility, track corrective actions, monitor KPIs, and enable data-driven decisions across quality and manufacturing functions.
• Championed preventive quality, lessons learned, cost-of-quality governance, and continuous improvement practices to shift organizational focus from defect correction toward risk prevention and sustainable process excellence.
• Influenced global stakeholders and mentored engineering and quality teams in APQP, RCA, CAPA, V&V, reliability, and Lean Six Sigma, strengthening problem-solving capability and quality ownership across the organization.
• Coordinating Continuous Improvement Management (CIM) projects globally ( Nacelle & HUB) Leverage field failure trends, root cause findings, and lessons learned to strengthen failure prevention, improve product performance, and feed reliability improvements into ongoing engineering and quality initiatives.
• Partner with regional Engineering and CIM teams to lead structured root cause investigations, identify emerging failure modes, validate failure mechanisms, and drive corrective actions to improve product reliability and prevent recurrence.
• Manage the end-to-end creation, tracking, and updating of CIM candidates based on emerging CIR findings, ensuring timely technical assessment, effective case prioritization, and delivery of robust, actionable solutions to field service teams.

• QMS governance, audit readiness, documentation control and management review.
• APQP / PPAP, DFMEA / PFMEA, Control Plans, risk assessment and manufacturing readiness.
• Quality Culture & Leadership: Strengthened quality ownership through governance, KPI reviews, mentoring, training, lessons learned, and stakeholder engagement.
• NCR / CAPA, customer complaints, supplier quality, containment, RCA and prevention of recurrence.
• Lean and continuous improvement through structured problem solving, process capability, KPI monitoring and waste reduction.
• Digital Quality Transformation: Developed SAP Quality Notifications and Power BI dashboards for NCR, COPQ, supplier performance, and quality KPI analytics.

• Manufacturing process improvement - Traceability of products
• Process quality performance management - Implemented systematic tools and Quality pillars
• Reduction of NCR & CAPA implementation and supplier cost recovery - Drivetrain
• Framework (Waste Reduction) - Continuous improvement. Connecting must win battles.
• Mechanical Fatigue test time reduction
• Digital twin implementation in the Yaw test bench
• Blade addons and sealant test implementation and Performance reporting DVRE
• Collaboration - Performed MBP on Global projects and identified gaps and implemented with global stakeholders
• One shop office stop NPI product review process instruction implemented