Subhabrata Chatterjee

Leadership Highlights:
- Led multidisciplinary Validation and Quality Engineering teams supporting Android and Linux Smart TV platforms across global markets.
- Defined enterprise-level validation strategy covering multimedia, interoperability, connectivity, compliance, system integration, UX, and product reliability.
- Established automation-first quality engineering practices resulting in over 50% reduction in validation cycle time.
- Partnered with executive leadership, chipset vendors, certification agencies, and product organizations to drive successful worldwide product launches.
- Directed post-silicon validation programs across HDMI, HDCP, Audio, Video, CEC, and HSIO technologies.
- Implemented data-driven quality analytics and predictive defect analysis solutions using Python, improving release readiness and defect prevention.
- Led critical customer escalation management and root-cause investigations across hardware, firmware, middleware, and application layers.
- Built engineering governance processes that improved product stability, compliance readiness, and customer satisfaction.

Business Impact:
- Certified more than 100+ HDMI products annually, supporting significant revenue generation through successful compliance certifications.
- Reduced customer-reported interoperability issues by 40% through a comprehensive HDMI validation framework.
- Improved platform quality and reduced production risks through proactive validation and defect prevention strategies.
- Contributed to manufacturing improvements resulting in cost savings exceeding ₹5 Crore through defect reduction and process optimization.

Technical Highlights:

• Creating Test Bench, Infrastructure and supporting team on system validation.
• Bridge between Business Development, Software development and Product testing team. Creating product requirement and optimizations, Adhering with Business Analyst Role.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop innovative design solutions and enhance project outcomes.
• High Speed Input/Output (HSIO IO), HIL, SIL test in Consumer electronics products.
• Video/Audio/I2C/CEC protocol test.
• Using various test techniques (Test Automation Tools) during project life cycle to capture the issues quickly, hence enables quick project maturity.
• Created Defect Analysis tool to show the test productivity using Selenium and Python.
• Coordinating with external and internal customers to share the defect found and make sure the defects are resolved on time.
• Supporting development team, external/internal customers in HDMI standards implementations, certification, compliances and testing, making the HDMI stack stable quickly.
• Maintained strong communication with vendors throughout the design process to ensure alignment between our vision and the final product.
• Manufacturing process monitoring and control of Philips India TV.
• Owned Manufacturing Process Quality and Product Quality audits..
• Onsite Assignments on field return analysis and various one roof at Countries of Europe and APAC.

• HDMI Certification Testing: Philips Electronics India Ltd
• Individual Contributor to Perform HDMI Certifications Test at “Philips HDMI ATC Lab” which includes:
• HDMI Electrical Testing (LCR/HDMI Power Supply/CEC data lines/HPD assertion which includes EDID/TMDS/CEC/HPD/Vcc)
• HDMI Physical Layer Testing (TMDS Data/TMDS Clock/DDC or I2C/Skew/Jitter/Differential Signaling/Differential Impedance).
• Audio and Video Protocol Testing
• CEC Protocol Testing
• EDID Testing
• HDCP Testing
• Report Generations and sharing to customers with HDMI Connectors (Source/Sink/Repeater/Audio Systems/HDMI Switches/HDMI Tuner Devices).
• Supporting customers in debugging issues during certification testing.

• Client: SONY JAPAN
• Development of Lip-sync Module in “Chassis Control” Layer using C and CPP
• Development of Test Application in Linux OS to test HAL/CC/AV Driver layers.
• Creating Test Metrics, Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases for the assigned module.
• Executing Designs and Integration Testing and Test Report preparation.
• Monitoring and control Testing Activities.
• Documenting the lessons learned and initiating necessary improvement plans.

• Client: NXP semiconductors Ltd.
• Executing Functional, System and Integration testing.
• Validation of Audio, Video, DVB-T, DVB-C, EPG, HDMI, SCART, CVBS, YPbPr Features.
• Defect logging, Test report Preparations.
• Test Case Preparation for the new features and updating the current test case whenever required.

• Preparing HW board by manually electronic component insertion, HW validation during New Product Introduction Phase before pre-production.
• Development of Hardware board on the basis of Bill of Material and hardware Design documents
• HW design optimization.
• Software and Hardware Validation of Embedded System Products.
• Field Call Analysis of the returned product from the field and advising the necessary changes to the design team.
• Performing field test at various locations of India.