Vijayalaxmi Ulvekar

· Led Verification & Validation activities for ADAS, Radar, and Passive Safety (Airbag) systems, ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and delivery standards.

· Managed work allocation, task tracking, and technical reviews, ensuring timely delivery of safety-critical milestones.

· Maintained end-to-end requirements traceability to support audit readiness and alignment with ASPICE and internal quality processes.

· Acted as primary interface with customer SPOCs and program managers, addressing delivery status, risks, and technical concerns.

· Owned risk identification, mitigation, and contingency planning for complex automotive programs.

· Performed hands-on defect lifecycle management using JIRA, including defect triage, retest coordination, and closure.

· Designed and implemented test automation frameworks and internal testing tools, improving efficiency and repeatability of validation activities.

· Functioned as Technical Trainer and Department Coordinator delivering structured training programs that significantly improved team capability and productivity.

· Coordinated multi-disciplinary stakeholders to enable effective project planning, risk mitigation, and execution for airbag and ADAS programs.

· Reviewed airbag, Core Software, Feature, and Fault Injection requirements, ensuring alignment with system-level objectives and customer expectations.

· Performed gap analysis and ensured complete requirements-to-test traceability across system and integration test levels.

· Guided and reviewed test development activities, ensuring adequate coverage for system, integration, and regression testing.

· Prepared and maintained project schedules, validation reports, test result summaries, and status updates.

· Communicated detailed test observations, risks, and progress updates to support informed decision- making.

· Delivered regular customer-focused status reporting, ensuring alignment with OEM milestones.

· Analyzed and reviewed BSM requirements and developed detailed functional and scenario-based test cases to validate ADAS behavior and reliability.

· Created and executed automation test suite using CANoe and CAPL, accelerating validation cycles and reducing manual effort.

· Detected software issues during validation, raised clear and actionable defect reports, coordinated with development teams, and verified defect fixes through retesting.

· Supported system and integration testing activities, ensuring readiness for customers and vehicle- level validation.

· Reviewed Telematics Control Unit (TCU) , EV-TCU , RVC system and software requirements, designing comprehensive test cases to ensure reliability, functionality, and compliance with ASPICE standards.

· Identified system issues during testing, raised Software Change Requests (SCRs), and verified resolutions through structured retesting and regression validation.

· Ensured defect lifecycle and SCR management compliance, supporting audits, process adherence, and continuous quality improvement.