Deepalakshmi Jeyachandran

Dynamic Technical Project Manager with extensive experience at American Energy Storage Innovations, excelling in project management and agile methodologies. Proven track record in software development and testing, driving successful monitoring product launches. Adept at stakeholder engagement and risk assessment, delivering impactful results in fast-paced environments.

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• Instrumental in setting up the R&D center for CET Power Solutions, being the first employee of Bangalore office.
• Part of Schneider innovation team, working on Innovation Project (OCP) Open computing racks for the year 2017.
• Selected for the Champions club 2016 for your leader's program - Most prestigious training given to best performers in Schneider Electric to groom young leaders.
• Best Performer award for the year 2015-2016 for cloud testing.
• Received Promising Newcomer award in Schneider Electric 10/14
• Received STAR performer award - given to 3% of the organization, 06/13.
• Received CAP award for outstanding contribution in Ortiva Wireless, 10/12.
• University Rank holder in M.E.
• Toped in many subjects in university both in B.E and M.E programs

Whitepaper Standardizing-DER-Communications IEEE2030.5 

CDMA based on chip scheduling-proceedings in the national conference on Communication and informatics., Multiplexing of message signals using WAP

Presented VLSI project in 9th IEEE VLSI Design and Test Symposium conducted by VDAT

Conducted IEEE Communications Workshop

Utility scale ESS- AESI (2023 - Present)
AESI has designed a new line of energy storage products to meet the needs of grid energy storage, deployment, operation, and energy management for the next 20 years.
My Contributions: StorView
Define specification for StorView which monitors TeraStor(Energy Storage system) which includes implementation of remote monitoring, Controls through Peak shaving, Ramp Management, Manual charge discharge, Remote dispatch from protocols like Modbus, DNP3, Event Management, Logging, Firmware Update, Cloud communication, Defining Requirements for Local web UI and backend API implementation, WBS, Sprint Planning, Resource Planning and allocation, Test Planning, Process, and strategy definition. Managing different cross functional teams across geos, Managing multiple test cycles, releases simultaneously, Bug Review and Test Report Analysis, Customer review demos.


Remote Monitoring INVIEW, CE+T Power Solutions (2017-2023)

CET Power Communication product INVIEW, provides customer interface to communicate to Inverter and UPS through different protocols
Supporting External Batteries like BYD, Pylontech, FZoNick, KorePower, LG, Redflow through CAN and Modbus protocol.
My Contributions:
• Functional requirements review
• Defining requirements to support external interfaces
• WBS and Sprint Planning
• Release goals
• Customer review and demos.

Implementation of Sunspec Modbus INVIEW - DER functions for smart Inverter
My Contributions:
• Defining Requirements
• Sprint Planning
• Scrum master
• Customer review demos


CET Power Communication products INVIEW, T2S ETH, T2S USB, T4S, INVIEW S, INVIEW Gateway, MeasureBox
My Contributions:
• Test Plan, Planning for test setup, environment
• Functional Testing
• Plan for manual and automation testing
• Develop Python scripts for SNMP and Modbus Testing
• Regression and Re-testing
• Defect Reporting, Defect Reproduction, Fix Verification and Review.

Schneider Electric Smart-UPS with SmartConnect
Digital Services Platform is the unified platform to provide cloud-based services to Schneider’s products. DSP 2.0 is already operational and provides a M2M agent to connect devices to the platform. Wombat attempts to connect a Microlink slave, at 57600 baud or 9600 baud. The Microlink slave parses the received Microlink descriptor for a set of known usages, including the minimum set for Microlink authentication. The IP-enabled product that directly connect to DSP
My Contributions:
• Requirements Management
• Develop Postman API to communicate to DSP server
• Functional Testing (Usability and Compatibility)
• Mobile App Testing
• Regression and Re-testing
• Defect Reporting, Defect Reproduction, Fix Verification and Review.

Schneider Electric UPS and Network Management card testing
APC is a part of Schneider Electric which works in energy management and conversion for home, small, medium and large industries, business and commercial enterprises, factories, apartments etc. APC has a range of different products like single phase and 3-phase UPS, switched and metered rack rPDUs, Cooling’s etc. with a lot number of versions and arrangements.Network Management Cards, remote monitoring and control of an individual UPS by connecting it directly to the network.

The T&E team performs the device and NMC communication and NMC to other interface communication through different protocols like HTTP, SNMP, Telnet and Modbus for all the UPS with different loads, output-input voltage, efficiency etc. before releasing it to its clients and market.

My Contributions:
• Requirements Management
• Test Case designing
• HTTP, SNMP, Telnet, MODBUS, BACNET protocol testing
• Protocol automation using Spirent iTest
• Performed various Black Box testing like Adhoc, Regression, Smoke testing etc.
• Functional and Non-Functional Testing (Usability and Compatibility)
• Regression and Re-testing
• Defect Reporting, Defect Reproduction, Fix Verification and Review.

Schneider Electric, Power Chute Network Shutdown
This is distributed software which is used to shutdown the clients gracefully before the UPS is Turned OFF., Creating the framework which configures the shutdown in PCNS and at the same time generates the alarms from the UPS., The alarms are captured and saved in the text file which can be viewed later and creates an Excel sheet with the details of the results., The system will be restarted automatically by running the batch file at the back end once the shutdown is started.

My Contributions:
Creating the framework which configures the shutdown in PCNS and at the same time generates the alarms from the UPS. The alarms are captured and saved in the text file which can be viewed later and creates an Excel sheet with the details of the results. The system will be restarted automatically by running the batch file at the back end once the shutdown is started.

Mobile Video Optimization Gateway for Ortiva Wireless, Paxterra Software Solutions
Ortiva Mobile Video Optimization Gateway (mVOG) is a video optimization system that dynamically composes audio and video streams as network conditions change
My Contributions:
To develop the automation test script using Spirent iTest using various session profile for mVOG components

Internet Video Optimization Gateway for Allot Communications, Paxterra Software Solutions
Ortiva Internet Video Optimization Gateway (iVOG) is a video optimization platform designed specifically for wireless network operators.
My Contributions:
Understanding the new features and coming up with the test cases, To develop the automation test script using Spirent iTest, Functional, non-functional testing and debugging the component issues, Regression testing, Escalating the issues, Client Interaction Analyzing the root causes of issues by debugging the logs and tcpdump and update the bugs with the same

Spirent iTest 4.0 Release Testing, Paxterra Software Solutions
Spirent iTest is a Test automation tool.,
My Contributions:
Understanding the new features and coming up with the test cases, Tested web API/CLI interfaces, Protocol interfaces session profiles, Functional, non-functional testing and debugging the component issues, Regression testing using RFT Frame work, Escalating the issues in JIRA

AXON for Spirent Communications, Paxterra Software Solutions
Spirent Axon is a simple network test platform that delivers reliable results., Understanding the new features and coming up with the test plan and test case,
My Contributions:
To develop the automation framework using Python and Selenium Web driver, In AXON automation had complete ownership and achieved 80 % testing coverage in automation