Yogesh Ramesh Padwal
Thane
Summary
Highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Electronics Hardware Verification Engineer with [6 years] of experience in the battery management systems (BMS) industry Plus 6 years of experience in testing and repaired engineer in other industry. Specialized in hardware verification and validation, design verification planning (DVP), EMI/EMC & ESD testing, and system-level analysis for safety-critical applications. Proven ability to manage complex projects, ensure compliance with industry standards, and drive product quality through rigorous testing and troubleshooting. Adept at cross-functional collaboration and mentoring junior engineers.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal lead Verification and Validation
Create Uno Minda
Pune
09.2025 - Current
- Principal Lead – Design Validation & Testing
- Own and lead the Design Validation Plan (DVP) strategy and execution in line with Statement of Requirements (SOR) for complete projects.
- Provide technical and program leadership for end-to-end DVP activities, including planning, scheduling, and execution with external accredited testing laboratories.
- Lead EMI–EMC certification activities for IC-CPD and OBC chargers, ensuring compliance with international and customer-specific standards.
- Oversee electrical, environmental, mechanical, and rigidity testing, ensuring test coverage, compliance, and technical rigor.
- Drive pre-compliance and development testing to identify design gaps early and reduce certification risks.
- Govern and review internal DVP testing, ensuring readiness for external certification and audits.
- Act as the primary technical interface with customers, managing DVP plans, test status, deviations, and final test reports.
- Review, approve, and release test reports from internal teams and external labs, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
- Lead cross-functional collaboration with design, quality, manufacturing, and supplier teams to resolve validation and testing issues.
- Drive root cause analysis (RCA) for failures, define corrective and preventive actions, and track closure to ensure design robustness.
- Mentor and guide validation engineers.
Senior Electronics Hardware Verification Engineer
Maxwell Energy Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
10.2018 - 08.2025
- Lead the hardware verification efforts for cutting-edge BMS products, ensuring compliance with functional and safety requirements.
- Develop and execute comprehensive DVP test plans, writing of test cases for validating the design according to design team and customer requirement including functional, stress, and environmental testing for Analog and digital circuits.
- Perform EMI/EMC pre-compliance and certification testing in collaboration with third-party labs.
- Preparation of EMI-EMC test setup high voltage battery test setup
- Design, implement, and maintain automated test benches for hardware validation.
- Analyze test results, identify root causes of failures, and propose corrective actions to optimize product performance and reliability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (design, firmware, and quality) to resolve hardware design issues and improve product robustness.
- Doing hardware design verification in deeply to delivered the high precision design product to the customer.
- Maintained the equipment inventory and its maintenance very well.
- Mentor and train junior engineers on hardware testing methodologies and tools.
- Successfully reduced hardware validation cycle time by through process optimization and automation.
- Spearheaded the EMI/EMC compliance testing of BMS, achieving first-pass success in certification.
- Enhanced testing efficiency by integrating custom scripts for automated data acquisition and analysis.
- Communication with customers.
Lead Technician
Maxwell Energy Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Mumbai
10.2018 - 03.2022
- Lead the Technician team of 7 people for more than 3.5 years
- Mentor and trained technician team on hardware testing, troubleshooting of the BMS, making of test setups, making of high voltage battery test setup and quality check of BMS.
- Handled various testing of BMS and successfully delivered to the customer.
- Handled warranty complaints of BMS as well as perform the RCA of the same.
- Handled production issues and quality check issues of BMS during new build production run.
- Handled automated test bench issues during the production.
- Handled customer audit during live production run.
- Build the new EOL testing team for production department.
- Set up the testing labs of our two different locations.
- Successfully completed the IPC -610 certification of acceptability & inspection of electronic board.
- Developed leadership quality of myself.
- Developed testing and automation skilled.
Testing and repaired engineer
Glory global solution south specific Asia pvt ltd.
Mumbai
08.2015 - 10.2018
- Done troubleshooting and testing of the currency automation machine electronics boards.
- Refurbishment of currency automation machine single handed.
- Maintained inventory of components and boards which required for the troubleshooting purpose.
- Handled new machine installation and it's onboarding to customer on different locations.
Testing and repaired engineer
Selec control system pvt ltd.
Navi Mumbai
02.2012 - 07.2015
- Testing of programmable logic controller on production line.
- Quality check of final product before ship to Finish good department.
- Debugging of various PLC boards which were found during production testing.
- Debugging of PLC test panels.
- Handled the daily production process and inventory.
- Testing of electronics board.
- Debugging of electronics board.
- Production and quality process.
Education
Diploma - Electronics and Communication Engineering
University-Mumbai
Thane, Maharashtra, IndiaSkills
- Hardware Design Verification and Validation (DVP)
- Battery Management Systems (BMS) Hardware Testing
- EMI/EMC Testing and Certification Processes
- Fault Analysis and Root Cause Investigation
- Hardware Test Bench Design and Automation
- Analog and Digital Circuit Testing
- Test Plan Development and Execution
- Compliance with Industry Standards (Automotive standards like AIS-004, AIS-156, CISPR-25, IS011452-2, ISO11452-4 ISO 16750-4, ISO 10605 etc)
- PCB Testing and Debugging (Multilayer)
- Communication Protocols: CAN, I2C, SPI
- Test Equipment: Oscilloscopes, Digital Mustimeters, Data Logger, Spectrum analysers
- Battery-level Short Circuit Testing
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 23/10/1990
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Projects
BMS Hardware Validation, Led the validation and testing of a high-performance BMS designed for electric vehicles., Designed test setups for validating safety-critical features, such as overvoltage, undervoltage, and thermal protection., Coordinated with firmware teams to validate communication protocols and diagnostic functions. EMI/EMC Testing for Automotive BMS, Conducted pre-compliance EMI/EMC testing, identifying and resolving design flaws before certification., Worked closely with external labs for full certification, ensuring compliance with automotive EMI/EMC standards.
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that all the information furnished above is correct to the best of my knowledge.
Place
Thane, Maharashtra
Technical Tools And Software
- Altium Designer
- LabVIEW
- LTspice
- CANview
Languages
English
Beginner
A1
Marathi
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Principal lead Verification and Validation
Create Uno Minda
09.2025 - Current
Lead Technician
Maxwell Energy Systems Pvt. Ltd.
10.2018 - 03.2022
Senior Electronics Hardware Verification Engineer
Maxwell Energy Systems Pvt. Ltd.
10.2018 - 08.2025
Testing and repaired engineer
Glory global solution south specific Asia pvt ltd.
08.2015 - 10.2018
Testing and repaired engineer
Selec control system pvt ltd.
02.2012 - 07.2015
Diploma - Electronics and Communication Engineering
University-Mumbai