HEMRAJ LEKHAK

Experience

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  Western Regional Instrumentation Centre

  May 1995 - Apr 2004

  Sr. Engineer

  ● Developed 8085 assembly code for Tide Gauge – an Defence equipment to measure the sea level. Installation of Tide Gauge at 5 ports across India, Training navy staff for its usage and data collection.● Re-designed Reaction Time Monitor for KEM hospital, Pulse Oxymeter FW for L&T Bio-medical.● Designed Processor based timer for spot welding machines, Password based electronic locks for amusement parks, Electronic supervisor for security guards for housing colonies, Auto off timer for lamps.● Faculty for over 40 training programmes at university, medical colleges in India. Show less

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  Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd.

  Apr 2004 - Apr 2006

  Assistant Manager

  ● Led a team of 12 engineers for FW development, hardware design, system integration, validation, compliance & regulator testing and technology transfer of CHEMIX 800 fully automated blood analyzer.● Demonstrated successful validation of the product to the engineering team from Sysmex, Japan.● Designed microcontroller based circuits stirrer motor, reaction tray temperature control, liquid level sensing, backplanes for stepper motor cards, electrical wiring scheme.● Yearly appraisals of team members. Show less

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  GE

  Apr 2006 - Jun 2016

  ● Manage design verification and product acceptance team of 6 HW, FW testers for VME IO products, VPX based Ethernet switches of level1-5 ruggedization levels.● Delivered 15 SW releases for WIN, Linux, VxWorks OS. Delivered 6 NPIs based on VME, VPX platform.● Selecting the right architecture for the PCIe backplane for projects like PEX431, GBX411 and procuring them. ● Designing the Rear Transition Modules for various projects. ● Work with manufacturing team vendors to identify the right testing tools and procure them. ● Provide technical guidance, perform yearly appraisal & Individual development for team members. Show less ● Design Verification of VME based Analog IO, Digital IO, Repeater, Transducer IO cards. ● Tested over 15 products by writing manual and automated C code for GPIB interface.● Come up with Test Plan and Traceability Matrix, Design Test Cases & TestJigs, Identify and procure test equipments. ● Hold pulse meetings with stakeholders to present the status of execution, Raise defects and provide simple menu based test code to developers to find the root cause of issues.● Present the final verification results to the product management with relevant stakeholders to decide on product release. ● Ported the legacy Motorola processor test software with Intel Pentium processor and automated them with GPIB interface. Show less

  • Team Lead

    Oct 2009 - Jun 2016

  • Technical Lead

    Apr 2006 - Oct 2009
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  Danfoss Drives

  Sept 2016 - Apr 2020

  Validation Responsible for FW and HW releases

  ● As an independent contributor for QA & Test team delivered 40 releases while performing Validation Project Management for FW and HW releases of Danfoss HVAC(FC-102), AQUA (FC-202), INDUSTRIAL (FC-302) and CUSTOMIZED (Pentair, Maersk, Trane) drives, Fieldbus SW. ● Coordinate with Release, Project Managers and 6 test teams involving 50 test engineers to ensure validation schedules are met with quality and timeline.● Led technology transfer, Established from scratch the Customized drives lab at India R&D in Chennai for manual and automated testing. ● Review test cases, Guide team to resolve setup issues. ● Face process audits. Train staff on Processes, Test Management Tools, IATF-16949. Show less

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  Landis+Gyr

  Apr 2020 - now

  Technical Expert, SQA

  ● Established a test team of 25 members, Managing a team of 15 engineers for Solution Integration Testing of APAC projects, Competency Building and yearly appraisals of team.● Delivered over 8 GA releases, 12 MRs, over 50 SIT requests for APAC customers like Yurika, HEC, Intellihub, Meralco, CLP, DPDC, TPDDL, APDCL. Managing 10 AMI environments involving 80 on-prem VMs.● Led setup building for functional and scale validation environments involving 20 VMs. Managed function, scale and SLA validation of Dhaka Power Development Corporation project remotely at Zhuhai, China. ● Built expertise on testing aspects of IOT devices like RF modules, Meters, Gateways, Bridges, GMR and properietry SW products viz Command Center, TechStudio. Prepared video trainings for team.● Introduced major changes in regression test suites to cover APAC customers field setup, upgrade path validation. Framed input, exit criteria around each major deliverable to ensure enhanced scope of validation and traceability. ● Strategized resource competence development to build a COE in SIT team.● Known in the organization as a source of quick and accurate information on Advanced Metering Interface.● Started the Defect Escape Analysis initiative across the organization involving cross functional team members. Show less