Divyasri Budhi

Senior Software Site Reliability Engineer (March 2024- Current)

Senior Design Release Engineer (November 2022 - March 2024)

• Manages and owns TCP ALDL diagnostic specification requirements and responsible for releasing the requirements to supplier for every software cadence.
• Collaborated with Product and Project Managers, business stakeholders, Product and Feature Owners, Program Managers, and Technical Specialists to review backlogs, user stories, ECRs, and ECPs for the implementation of new features and updates during each agile sprint release.
• Manages, Owns and releases the development/production intent TCP calibration files for different TCP variants and regions, and generates the calibrations based on the country and business requirements for various vehicle programs.
• Participates in Agile Scrum and PI planning meetings to understand design and rollout strategies for new feature implementation and Worked proactively to remove development and implementation roadblocks.
• Reviews Program options documents regularly with the Supplier DRE's for the development of calibration files and to kick of any ECR's.
• Coordinate with various vehicle and program teams to review vehicle timing plans and release software and hardware according to the vehicle milestones.
• Provided test requirements to end of line testing (EOLT) and coordinate with production and assembly teams regularly to review the production requirements.
• Led large multi-functional group meetings and drive resolution of software/hardware defects, release issues, and schedule timelines.
• Regularly provide vehicle data to the OnStar Backoffice system for data loads and collaborate with Backoffice teams to resolve any VIN pattern and factory feed issues.
• Coordinate regularly with the cost teams to review the TCP purchase orders and invoices for the HW release to various vehicle programs.
• Participated in monthly program reviews with senior managers, program managers, executives, and shared program status.

• Analyzed product/system requirements, specifications, and architecture documents to understand feature functionalities.
• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams (development, integration, validation, program, and product) to understand the program overview and prepared test deliverables.
• Developed test cases based on requirements and performed software verification on various infotainment features on daily builds & Weekly Builds for different vehicle programs, reported issues using RTC.
• Worked closely with development teams to analyze and debug issues, facilitating solution implementation.
• Demonstrated strong written and verbal communication skills by sharing test data with leadership and software engineering teams daily.
• Actively participated in organizational and internal team meetings for status follow-ups and updates.

• Collaborated closely with the head of the department, program manager, hardware manager, operational managers, project manager, customer, and other coworkers to review and analyze customer purchase orders (PO) for Telematics hardware units (TCP).
• Actively participated in meetings with solution managers, software architects, product owners, developers, and senior management to review software release information.
• Worked closely with production and hardware teams to track the status of telematics hardware testing and provided regular status updates to higher management.
• Served as a direct point of contact for the customer and internal team members to share TCP Hardware data.
• Led two interns during the summer program, maintaining a strong track record for guiding and mentoring them in tool development/improvements required for TCP hardware re-flashing.
• Maintained a strong track record for delivering telematics hardware samples and production modules/parts/units to the customer based on purchase orders (PO) and official software build releases on a 7-week cadence.
• Trained and mentored resident engineers and internal engineers when software application/tools performance changed or updated.
• Maintained a strong track record for collaborating with software teams and the hardware production department to ensure customer requirements were successfully met.
• Successfully resolved customer issues/problems and provided timely solutions through virtual meetings and face-to-face onsite meetings.

• Analyzed TCP system requirement and specification documents to understand the features functionalities and worked closely with the cross functional teams in the preparation of test cases, test plans, test deliverables, and document reviews.
• Monitored and tested TCP 4G/5G software performance in the continuous integration level and identified 300+ issues and potential bottlenecks and created tickets using Jira to develop solutions.
• Worked effectively with the developers to debug issues to remove roadblocks and also for the solution implementation.
• Produced high-quality test data to share with project managers, operations managers, product managers, program managers, engineering managers, other senior management, executives, and customer on a daily basis of software test (STLC) and software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Maintained a successful track record for resolving customer faced issues/problems and provided solutions on a timely manner over virtual meetings and face to face onsite meetings.
• Organized and actively engaged in an agile team daily stand-up meeting, weekly meetings, scrum meetings, project meetings, and program increment (PI) planning's to communicate program statuses, technical challenges, business needs and identify/address potential setbacks.
• Demonstrated strong written skills and supported in the software deliveries with the preparation of documentations with processes, release notes, and test reports in a quickly changing and dynamic environment to ensure on time delivery.

• Coordinated closely with the Specification owners, feature owners and subject matter experts (SME) to review specifications, requirements, and vehicle architecture to understand the feature functionalities of various vehicles.
• Validated various infotainment connectivity features over HMI/Clusters/instrumental panels, such as Bluetooth, phone projection (apple CarPlay & android auto), media, navigation, Wi-Fi, cloud-based speech recognition and rear seat infotainment features against business requirements to identify production successes and implement plans for improvement.
• Worked on multiple vehicle networks such as ETHERNET, CAN, LIN and GMLAN serial data, to verify the communication messages over various ECU's.
• Demonstrated strong knowledge in program and issue tracking, successfully created 650+ issues against the software and hardware features using GM's problem resolution and tracking system (PRTS/ESIM).
• Worked closely with multiple design release engineers (DRE) and suppliers to track the status of the issue's, tickets and coordinated with internal and external stakeholders globally on a regular basis for the validation and test execution data collection.
• Strongly used various diagnostic test tools in order to perform diagnostics and vehicle power modes.
• Worked successfully across multiple projects/vehicles and completed tests under tight deadlines to meet project demands, timelines, milestones, and schedules.
• Demonstrated strong verbal communication skills to train and assist internal, external stakeholders and cross functional teams over product feature validation, priorities, and processes.
• Interacted with multiple Tier 1 suppliers across the global level to identify and discuss the business needs, requirements, and feature development/improvements.
• Collaborated closely with the customer facing teams to identify and fill the potential gaps in the product features to build highest standard relationship with the customer.
• Documented entire validation program processes using Microsoft office (word, excel, power point) to present and review data with senior management, executives, leaders, and other internal and external stakeholders.