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Sowmya G

Sowmya G

Bengaluru

Summary

Accomplished Product Development and Feature Owner Engineer with extensive experience in testing and validating vehicle features at both breadboard and vehicle levels. Proven track record at Ford Motor Company, delivering product milestones on time, reducing complexity to cut costs, and enhancing business value. Expertise in CAN, CAN-FD, and ETHERNET Protocol; AUTOSAR Architecture; Vector CANoe and CANalyser; PREEvision; plant-level testing; BCM configurations; and functional safety - ASIL. Career goal: to leverage technical expertise to drive innovation in automotive feature development and validation.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Product Development | Feature System Engineeer at

Ford Motors Company
Chennai
04.2024 - Current
  • Responsible for testing, verification, and validation of vehicle features in a breadboard/vehicle.
  • Feature System Engineer responsible for feature delivery on time, with quality, to the new vehicle programs in exterior lighting, connectivity, and communication feature domains.
  • Requirements engineering and feature test procedure development as a core team member for new plug-in hybrid vehicle features, and work in collaboration with core feature teams around the globe for internal combustion engine vehicles.
  • Application Feature Owner for the following features in the Compact Pickup Vehicle segment in Ford IMG Markets.
  • Hazard Light.|Manual high beam - flash to pass.|First-row seat position control.|Overhead lighting.|Turn indicator.|Headlamp level.| Low beam.
  • I visited the AAT and FTM plant in Thailand for a business trip to test the lighting features in the super duty vehicle.
  • Feature data analytics dashboard development for new features to understand feature utilization, and reductive redesign of existing features.
  • Ensuring customer expectations are met with high quality through detailed feature verification sign-off for the new programs.
  • The ability to analyze complex issues, identify root causes, and propose effective solutions is essential for a Function Owner role.
  • Maintain a comprehensive verification strategy, including test plans, test cases, coverage analysis, and execution of test suites, in order to test feature functionality.
  • Working on the project - Virtual Lighting Breadboard: VLB Tool, using the BCM virtual model developed by the Global MBSE Core group and their extended team at GES.
  • Hands-on experience with the CANoe CANalyser 17 SP5 tool, a diagnostic engineering tool.

Testing | V&V | CAN | ETHERNET | CANoe CANalyzer

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
Bengaluru
11.2021 - 04.2024
  • Responsible for testing and validating the test reports of CAN, Ethernet, and LIN protocols for VMEC controllers as per software requirements.
  • Involving in kick-off meetings with suppliers for a brief description of the ECU, its supporting protocols, and other relevant information.
  • Functional testing of active safety, powertrain, and other automotive systems.
  • Identifying the hardware and software issues based on their severity.
  • Execute test cases manually using the bench setup, and analyze the results.
  • Coordinating with the software integration team and resolving the errors on upcoming software releases.
  • Analysis of oscilloscope plots for the hardware test results.
  • Knowledge of the AUTOSAR COM stack and layered architecture (ASW, BSW, and RTE).
  • Hands-on experience with tools such as Vector CANoe, AUTOSAR Explorer, Wireshark, PREEvision, and ARXML Viewer.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication

Kalpatharu Institute of Technology
Tiptur, Karnataka
08.2021

Intermediate - PCMB

Kalpatharu PU College
Tiptur, Karnataka
01.2017

Matriculation -

NEELAKANTASWAMY MEMORIAL GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL
Tiptur, Karnataka
04.2015

Skills

  • CAN and CAN-FD protocols
  • Automotive Ethernet
  • Basic CAPL
  • Basic Python
  • ISO 26262
  • Verification and Validation [V&V]
  • Vector CANoe and CANalyser
  • Diagnostic Engineering tool - OEM
  • Vehicle exterior lighting features
  • ISO 26262
  • Basic AUTOSAR architecture layers
  • BCM Configurations
  • ADAS, infotainment, and powertrain modules
  • Virtual lighting breadboard using MBSE tool
  • PREEVision

Certification

  • CAN & CAN-FD Protocol
  • AUTOSAR Architecture
  • Basic CAPL
  • Basic PYTHON

Accomplishments

  • Received recognition from supervisor for working on Project Virtual Lighting Breadboard using MBSE tool
  • I visited Thailand's plants to test the lighting system features since my people leader provided leadership
  • Completed program deliverables, feature signoff on time in every milestone, and recognized by the supervisor

Timeline

Product Development | Feature System Engineeer at

Ford Motors Company
04.2024 - Current

Testing | V&V | CAN | ETHERNET | CANoe CANalyzer

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
11.2021 - 04.2024

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication

Kalpatharu Institute of Technology

Intermediate - PCMB

Kalpatharu PU College

Matriculation -

NEELAKANTASWAMY MEMORIAL GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL

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