11.5 Years of Aerospace and Aviation industry experience in Avionics Systems Engineering, Hardware and Software Integration, Verification, Validation and testing automation. Worked as Senior Technical Lead at HCL America Solu4ons Inc. for Flight Management Systems for Flight Deck for client Rockwell Collins. Worked as an Avionics Systems Engineer at JANA Inc. mainly for client Delta Airlines in Atlanta. Worked as Technical Lead at HCL Technologies Ltd. for Flight Management Systems like FMS Graphical Flight Planning Systems (FGFP) for Client Rockwell Collins. Worked as Senior Engineer at Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore. Before that, I worked on Project A429 Data Bus Analyzer as a Project trainee for 5 months at Honeywell. Onsite coordination and work experience (Shanghai, China) with high-quality project delivery in a 4mely manner. Knowledge of DO-178B/C, DO-254, ARP4754, and have experience in AGILE (SCRUM). Test Plan/Strategy, Test Design, Effort Estimation, Test-case scripts preparation, automation of regression suite, test execution, risk reporting, and mitigation and defect management. Worked on hardware integra4on for a wide range of FMS projects of different aircraft families (Gulfstream–G650, PV10, Embraer-E170, Dassault-F9X/F7X/F2000/DF7X, Airbus- A350/A380, Boeing 747). Leadership/Mentorship by successfully coordinating teams on multiple locations and projects. Project planning, problem-solving, aircraft surveys, and good communication skills. Received multiple awards for the team's excellence and performance. Hardworking Technical Lead proficient in quality assurance, equipment management, and resource utilization. Oversees development utilizing methodology. Successful at leading both internal and external teams to accomplish challenging objectives. Hardworking Technical Lead proficient in quality assurance, equipment management and resource utilization. Oversees development utilizing [Type] methodology. Successful at leading both internal and external teams to accomplish challenging objectives.
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SURASHMI GUPTA
Cumming,Georgia
Summary
Overview
13
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
HCL America Inc.
Senior Technical Lead
09.2021 - 09.2023
Job overview
- High-level requirements analysis in JAMA provided by the customer and implementing them.
- Estimating effort for test automation implementation and closure for the entire change requests.
- Test automation script development in Python using the Virtual Integrated Software Testbed for Avionics (VISTA) tool.
- Project execution as per the Agile methodology and JIRA tool.
- Customer interactions on daily/weekly status updates.
JANA Inc.
Avionics Systems Engineer
06.2018 - 09.2021
Job overview
- To perform Cabin interior reconfiguration for all Delta’s fleet by providing design definition, integration and installation of various systems using AUTODESK AUTOCAD.
- To participate in the aircraft Survey.
- Responsible for updating the work cards.
- Familiar with Aircraft Technical Manuals (AMM, WDMs, IPCs, CMM)
- Customer interactions on daily/weekly status updates.
HCL Technology
Technical Lead
07.2015 - 11.2016
Job overview
- Low level requirement analysis in DOORS provided by the customer.
- Lead a team of 20 engineers, allocating tasks to the identified engineers in the team.
- Estimating effort for test automation implementation and closure for the entire change requests available in IBM Rational ClearQuest.
- Test automation script development in Python using Virtual Integrated Software Testbed for Avionics (VISTA) tool.
- Reporting bugs in software to customers via the IBM Rational ClearQuest tool.
- Performed Failure Analysis and Re-Analysis for multiple programs like EDS, M145, and C-Series.
- Customer interactions on daily/weekly status updates.
Honeywell
Senior Engineer
02.2013 - 04.2015
Job overview
- Creating software builds for all OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), which includes Embraer (E170), Gulfstream (G650, PV10), Dassault (DF7X, DSMS), Airbus (A350, A320, A380), Embraer (E190), Gulfstream (G450, G550).
- Writing test cases and scripts in Honeywell proprietary language for testing basic ground-based and flying scenarios of all NGFMS aircraft.
- Manual testing of B747, G650, and E170 builds on desktop and for ground/flying-based functionalities.
- Perform RED label Build deliveries to the customer.
- Designing Aircraft’s Hardware Integration.
- Designing Software integration test procedures for System Level Testing.
- Developing and executing test cases on Target Machine which is a Vxworks platform.
- Involved in Planning and Estimation, maintaining metrics data for the Bengaluru Cockpits.
- To maintain FMS hardware benches and resolve issues/LAB squawks.
Honeywell
Engineer
07.2010 - 01.2013
Job overview
- Involved in planning and estimation of NG ERJ Dynamic bench integration in collaboration with HTS-China ETS Team by leading it.
- Enable bench with all the functionalities to support on-ground (static) and flying (Dynamic) scenarios.
- To establish Datalink setup, Printer setup, and Debugger setup as added functionalities to the bench.
- To debug and resolve all the issues faced during avionics Integration process.
- To provide bench training to the HTS CHINA TEAM during NG ERJ Bench Integration which has helped the team in understanding/utilizing the bench.
- To setup FMS Hardware bench by integrating various avionics units and configuring bench by loading software’s for BGH and NG programs.
- To convert hardware bench into different original equipment manufacturers as per the program requirements by using Honeywell proprietary tools like ESCAPE, PCSIM.
- To perform requisite system checkouts on FMS benches and support the developers, testing, and Systems teams in executing their scenarios.
- Involved in the development of test scripts and Execution of Tests on the TIU (Test Interface Unit) and TATS (TIU – Automated Test Scripts).
Education
VIT UniversityVellore, Tamilnadu
B. TECH, from Electronics & Communications Engineering
May 2010
University Overview
GPA: 9.02
Skills
- C, Assembly Language, Python
- AGILE, SCRUM using JIRA, Confluence, Planning and Estimations
- Avionics Concepts, Flight Management Systems, Graphical Flight Planning, Guidance Systems, Navigation Systems, and Flight Controls
- People and Project Management
- Systems Integration Testing
- V&V Testing, RIGS/Bench Testing
- Client Interaction/Requirements gathering and analysis, Good Communication skills
- Cross-functional team Collaboration, Team Building, and Mentoring
- RTOS (Honeywell OS (DEOS))
- DIMENSIONS (PVCS), ESCAPE, Team Center, Clear Case, Tortoise SVN
- ASCB, ARINC-429, AFDX, DO-178B/C, DO-254 ARP4754
- TIU Client, TIU Server, TEX, TATS, FATE, EASE, HSS DESK, MMT, Code Test
- Build Tracking Tool, PCSIM – A/C data Simulation tool, ARINC429Analyzer
- Auto checkout Tool, VISTA
- Autodesk AutoCAD, Aircraft Survey
- Quality Assurance
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
- Global recognition for leading Integration activities for HTS CHINA NG ERJ Dynamic bench and successfully delivering the bench ahead of schedule at Honeywell, Shanghai site.
- 6-SPOT Awards for writing and executing FATE scripts, contributing to resolving bench issues for the BGH/NG program, and successfully integrating and delivering NG ERJ Dynamic bench, NG ERJ static bench, and NG Dassault static bench at Honeywell, Bangalore site.
- Team Excellence Award for Boeing-787 Program.
Certification
- Six Sigma, Honeywell
- Configuration Build Co-Ordinator
- Project Leadership
- Agile Project Management with Jira Cloud: 2 Lean and Agile Processes.
- Managing Jira Projects: 1 Introduction
Timeline
Senior Technical Lead
HCL America Inc.
09.2021 - 09.2023
Avionics Systems Engineer
JANA Inc.
06.2018 - 09.2021
Technical Lead
HCL Technology
07.2015 - 11.2016
Senior Engineer
Honeywell
02.2013 - 04.2015
Engineer
Honeywell
07.2010 - 01.2013
VIT University
B. TECH, from Electronics & Communications Engineering
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