James Raj Asirvatham

• Architected two-way SPI communication protocol to facilitate seamless data exchange between the cluster Vehicle processor and the Graphical processor (cluster HMI and Center stack).
• Defined comprehensive message sets for critical system-level functions (Power management, Diagnostics) and real-time application data, including ADAS, gauges, and audible & visual warnings.
• Established message attributes—including scheduling, periodicity, priority, and unique IDs—to ensure deterministic performance and optimal bus load management across the interface.
• Review with stakeholders when CR

• Developed the Boundary diagram representing the subsystems of the cluster. Identified the boundaries and defined the interfaces for the FMEA analysis for the cluster features.
• Designed the DFMEA for the cluster features (driver assist, gauges, indicators, audible & visualwarnings, HMI user selection & personalization, display illumination, vehicle transmission, trip statistics, fuel economy, odometer, power management, diagnostics etc.).
• Addressed pre-FDJ (Final Data Adjustment - project milestone) detection methods and post-FDJ detection methods against each of the failure causes.
• Identified the Quality history items for the Ford cluster features and referenced those in the DFMEA.
• Identified the critical defects reported from the cluster software which resulted in functional specification updates.
• Collaborated with cross-functional Ford engineering teams (HW, Systems, Display, Audio, Feature group), cluster requirements team and the cluster software development team to identify the failure modes, failure causes and the preventive methods.
• Addressed the DFMEA core assessment questionnaire.
• Coordinated with the cluster software test team to identify the test coverage for the failure modes for the cluster features.
• Updated the DFMEA incrementally with the requirement changes.

• Collaborated with the cluster software development team and scrum master to drive the product development using sagas, epics and user stories for the cluster features (ADAS, gauges, indicators, audible & visual warnings, HMI user preference & personalization, display illumination, vehicle transmission indication, trip statistics, fuel economy, odometer).
• Managed the product backlog, prioritising the list of deliverables for the cluster software development team, using the JIRA dashboard.
• Facilitated daily scrum meetings and collaborated with scrum master and the software development team to identify actionable items and blockers.
• Steered the cluster software development team in implementing the change requests.
• Orchestrated cross-functional engineering efforts for the respective change requests to ensure that the software implementation from respective teams were fully integrated and verified within the designated milestone releases.
• Triaged the JIRA defect tickets reported by the System test team, vehicle test team and cross-functional Ford engineering teams against each of the cluster software milestone releases. Assigned the tickets to the respective Ford engineering teams based on the root cause analysis of the defect reported. Used wireshark to ensure production readiness.
• Executed end-to-end vehicle-level validation against cluster software across iterative and milestone releases; identified system-level anomalies and performed closed-loop verification of software resolutions to ensure production readiness.
• Triaged cluster software anomalies that necessitated cluster requirement specification revisions, and coordinated with the requirements team to ensure technical documentation remained aligned with evolving software design and program needs.
• Evaluated system-level test specifications for cluster features to ensure 100% requirement traceability and provided technical clarity to the systems team on specification requirements.
• Coordinated with the cluster requirements team to address the questionnaire, from the System test team and the software development team, on the requirements from the cluster functional specifications.
• Liaised with cross-functional engineering teams to track JIRA defects, facilitating the closed-loop verification of software fixes within specific software build.

• Derived the functional and system requirements from the feature specification for respective vehicle digital Instrument cluster features and designed the functional specifications. Specifications for cluster features such as gauges, power management, telltales, chimes, warnings, display element strategy, HMI settings, trip computer, fuel economy, odometer, etc. were developed.
• Developed the functional specification for vehicle Instrument cluster features based on design change requests.
• Collaborated with cross-functional Ford engineering teams (HMI, Netcom, Systems, Software development, Feature group) to define requirements for the cluster features. Provided technical solutions to implement use cases.
• Provided impact analysis of the design change requests by determining feasibility, risks, feature dependencies, hardware changes and complexity of the software development.
• Generated and released the functional specifications in the Ford-proprietary document version control tool.
• Tracked the status of the updates of the functional specifications, in the JIRA, against the targeted project milestones.
• Performed peer review of the functional specifications.
• Organized weekly meetings with the software development team and the functional test team to address questions on requirements from the functional specifications; provided technical solutions to the software development team on the implementation of various use cases.
• Coordinated with the software development team to identify the list of functional specifications for software implementation in each of the Sprints in the project.

• Collaborated with the Supplier System team to identify ownership, for software implementation of each of the requirements from each of the digital instrument cluster functional specifications, between Ford in-house Cluster software development team & the Supplier software development team.
• Analyzed and compared the project-specific system architectures of digital cluster (stand-alone cluster versus integrated cluster (cluster integrated with center stack)) and collaborated with the Supplier to identify the stand-alone specific functional specifications requiring update for integrated cluster.

Designed and developed application-based software modules for HUD features using MAT LAB.

• Designed software modules against the requirements from Ford functional specifications for the HUD features. HUD features such as Speed limiter, Traffic signs, Air temperature and Measurement units were developed.
• Debugged and tested the software modules, on the emulator using the Vector CANoe simulation tool, against the Ford functional specifications.
• Performed release of the software modules in the GitHub.
• Designed module specification and module test specification for each of the software modules.
• Tracked software module development in JIRA in each sprint of the project.
• Implemented the Change Requests against the function specifications for the HUD features.
• Peer-reviewed the application software modules.

• Designed Software Requirement Specification (SRSC) from the Ford functional specifications for the HUD features; linked each of the requirements from the SRSC to the requirements in the Ford Functional specifications in DOORS.
• Designed functional specification for the Electronic Horizon feature for the HUD. The specification was derived from the ADASIS protocol specification and the Ford HMI specification.
• Collaborated with Ford requirement engineers for defect analysis of issues reported during vehicle test & system test and provided technical solutions to potential requirement issues.
• Identified requirement ambiguities and design flaws in the HUD & cluster functional specifications and reported them to the Ford requirements team.
• Reported potential requirement issues, in the functional specifications, to the Ford requirement engineering team based on the vehicle test & system test.
• Provided impact analysis of design change requests and determined technical effort and program risk.
• Provided technical solutions to the software development team to implement the Ford functional specifications for HUD & Cluster.
• Resolved queries on requirements, based on Ford functional specifications, from the Software development & System test teams for the HUD & Instrument cluster.
• Maintained & tracked requirement issue list for HUD & Cluster. This list included queries on functional specifications for HUD & Cluster and the responses from the Ford requirement engineering team to each of the queries.
• Maintained the version control of specifications in the Continental Automotive proprietary tool.

• Coordinated with the Ford System engineers at the customer on-site (Ford Breadboard units and Ford prototype vehicles), for the Instrument cluster software, for defect analysis.
• Coordinated with the Ford Test engineers, for the vehicle test, for HUD & Instrument cluster software.
• Coordinated with the Ford D&R to track the status of software defects reported on the HUD & Instrument cluster programs.
• Programmed the HUD & Instrument cluster software on Ford Breadboard units and on Ford prototype vehicles at various Ford manufacturing plants.
• Configured the feature-based diagnostic data for HUD & Cluster at the Ford End of Line as per program request.

• Designed the vehicle test specification for HUD & Instrument cluster features against the Ford functional specifications.
• Recorded the vehicle data during the test using Vector CANalyzer and analyzed the root cause of defects observed during the test.
• Recorded the observations and defects during the In-vehicle test.
• Created the ticket for the defects and tracked the status of defects in the Continental proprietary tool.
• Reported potential requirement issues based on observations during the vehicle test, for the HUD & Cluster programs, to the Ford Requirement engineering team.

• Designed System test specifications for the UD features against the Ford functional specifications for the HUD.
• Performed System test for the HUD features against the Ford functional specifications using the Vector CANoe.
• Designed CAPL-based simulation for various vehicle use case scenarios for the system testing on bench.
• Created ticket for the defects and tracked the status of the defects in the Continental Automotive proprietary tool.

• Designed the System test specifications for Ford Instrument cluster features against the requirements from the Ford functional specifications. Test cases were designed using the test automation tool.
• Designed the CAPL-based simulation of various vehicle-specific use case scenarios, for the System test on bench, associated with the requirements for Instrument cluster features.
• Performed the Acceptance test for each of the Cluster software builds prior to the delivery to customer.
• Executed test cases using Vector CANoe.
• Reported & tracked the status of the cluster software defects in the Continental Automotive proprietary tool.

• Analyzed the data for the defects & observations, reported by Ford on the HUD & Instrument cluster software, against the Ford functional specifications.
• Reported the observation by Ford, based on the data, either as a software defect or as a behavior complying with the requirements from the Ford functional specifications.
• Designed the CAPL-based simulation of various real-time vehicle scenarios, associated with the defects & observations reported by Ford, to identify the root cause on the HUD & Cluster software.
• Coordinated with the Software development team for HUD & Cluster and provided the data analysis for the software defects.
• Created the ticket for the defects and tracked the status of the defects in the Continental proprietary tool.

• Designed the Integration Test Plan for the Continental Automotive VDR for the Brazil & China projects.
• Planned the tasks for the Integration test project for each Sprint of the project and met the project deadlines.
• Identified, allocated, scheduled, and estimated the tasks for the team of 4 test engineers for Integration testing of the VDR software.
• Analyzed and resolved the issues reported by the test engineers for the Integration test tool design.
• Reviewed the Test specifications and Test reports from the test engineers.
• Reported and tracked the status of the VDR software defects in the Siemens proprietary defect tracking tool.
• Coordinated with the VDR software development team to enhance the scope of the Integration test.
• Managed the Integration test project using the AGILE methodology. Identified and highlighted the issues and blockers.
• Reported the status of Integration test, for each cycle of testing, to the management.
• Conducted the performance evaluation of the team.

• Designed the VDR Chip card simulator for the driver identification and the vehicle speed sensor simulator using the C++ & C# programming languages and the Rhapsody tool.
• Integrated the Chip card and the Speed sensor simulators (DLL files) with the Siemens proprietary automation test tool. Verified the operation of the simulators using the Hi-Tex emulator and debugger on the VDR Integration test software.
• Updated the Chip card and the Speed sensor simulators based on the design change requests for the chip card and the speed sensor specifications of the VDR.

• Developed the Integration test software to communicate with the Siemens proprietary automation test tool.
• Integrated the test software with the VDR software.
• Designed the Integration test specifications for VDR features (driver identification-chip card & vehicle speed sensor) using the Integration test automation tool.
• Executed the automated test cases on VDR unit on a CAN-based environment along with the test tool and generated the test reports.
• Analyzed the failed test cases using Hi-Tex Emulator and debugger, and root caused the software defect.
• Logged and tracked the software defects’ status on the Siemens proprietary defect management tool.

• Analyzed the Ford component technical specifications for various subsystems of Instrument cluster and identified the software implementable requirements.
• Generated the Ford functional specification using DOORS. Functional specification for Cluster features such as Chimes, Warnings and Indicators were designed.
• Identified and reported the defective and ambiguous requirements, from the Ford component specifications to the Ford requirement engineers.
• Resolved the queries on specifications from the Visteon software development team and the System test team. Notified the Ford requirement engineers on any update required in the functional specifications based on the Q&As from the development and the test teams.
• Tracked the queries on the requirements, from Visteon team, using the Rational Clear Quest tool.
• Managed the version control for specifications using the Rational Clear Case.

• Designed the System test specifications for various subsystems of Ford Instrument cluster against the Ford functional specifications for Cluster.
• Performed the System test on the Visteon Cluster software, for Ford, using the Vector CANoe tool. Generated the test reports and logged the defects.
• Performed regressive testing on the Visteon Cluster software.
• Identified and reported ambiguous and defective requirements in the Cluster specifications.
• Verified the product in accordance with SEI CMM Level 5 process.
• Performed the role of Quality leader for verifying the product, prior to customer delivery, for cross-functional teams.

• Designed the System test specifications, using the Accu-test tool (automated test tool), for various subsystems of Volkswagen Instrument cluster against the Volkswagen functional specifications.
• Performed the System test on the Visteon Instrument cluster software for VW using the Accu-test tool and the Vector CANoe tool. Generated the test reports and logged the defects.
• Peer reviewed the test specifications and test reports.
• Performed the regression test on Visteon Cluster software.

• Design System test specification, for various subsystems of Ford & Fiat vehicle Instrument cluster, against the Ford & Fiat functional specifications.
• Perform System test on the Visteon Cluster software for Ford & Fiat using the Vector CANoe tool. Generate test reports and log defects.
• Verify the product in accordance with SEI CMM Level 5 process.

• Verified the Denso Corporation vehicle Instrument cluster software, for General Motors, against the General Motors Cluster requirement specifications for various subsystems.
• Identify each of the software modules against the respective cluster subsystems and verified the software implementation of the respective cluster subsystem.
• Mapped each of the software functions of the software modules against the requirement specification of the corresponding subsystem. Reported the incorrect implementation and missing implementation against the requirements of cluster subsystems.