Validation Project Chief Automotive

Job Title:

Validation Project Chief Automotive

Duration:
Long Term

Cognizant Mobility is the premier automotive engineering services division of Cognizant that is focused on smart connected vehicle engineering and software delivery. Our clients include well known Automotive OEMs and Electric/Autonomous Start Up Companies that leverage our automotive engineering expertise.

The VPC Responsibility is to lead electrical feature validation and verification for specific vehicle programs and should be capable of working with suppliers, various Engineering Support teams including systems, wiring, design release engineers, Program Management, and Manufacturing teams as required to validate and resolve electrical issues to support successful vehicle launch.

• Manage and create test plans for electrical features across the vehicle: cluster, radio, body control module, telematics, and powertrain
• Develop, maintain, and execute test plans (DVP&R) at the vehicle level
• Report defects based upon test plan failures
• Manage issues and root cause analysis of issues found
• Provide feedback on System Requirements to ensure specs are testable
• Manage team budgets and tasks
• Develop the program budget and timeline
• Generation and ordering of the Bill Of Material (BOM)
• Commissioning of the Test Properties – Plywood Buck, HIL, Vehicles
• Define and manage the ECU tracking and Design Verification Plan (DVP)
• Specification and requirements reviews, change requests, and lessons learned
• Manage Issues and Status Reporting
• Maintain strategic relationship with functional areas and manage deliverables for the vehicle program, ownership of program plan execution
• Manage all series cards and bulletin impact to the budget (manpower, equipment, vehicles, etc.) and program timing
• Responsible to ensure vehicle timing and requirements are provided to the team
• Develop the plan for test property types and quantities and their configurations
• Lead build coordination of PWB/VHIL/HIL properties (including securing a technician and simulators), ensure on-time delivery and test property readiness to start testing per the plan.
• Collect manpower assessments before program approval and track actual manpower effort.
• Determine vehicle count/needs for validation, obtain approval, and submit vehicle requests
• Develop and maintain ECU (Electronic Control Units) tracking charts and Design Verification Plan (DVP) for the program
• Collect software and verification reports, share with validation team and after validation is completed, publish validated software for other functional vehicle custodians to use for development fleet updates
• Update plywood buck and vehicle test properties before the start of every planned validation loop
• Collect vehicle information such as original configuration/PROXI, vehicle scan reports, PINs for key programming, etc.
• Manage test properties and reservation calendar
• Support End of Line (EOL) tester development
• Review bulletins and change requests, develop validation timing for changes and provide detailed information to the validation team for validation planning
• Participate / present in program reviews and vehicle team meetings ensuring all deliverables meet milestones
• Escalate roadblocks and deliverables that are not on track to be met (or are late)
• Lead and coordinate technical issue resolution
• Manage documentation reviews and support Lessons Learned process
• Support the Design Responsible(s), Design Lead(s), and Managers; lift tasks not completed and support the coaching of engineers
• Support assembly plant warranty, quality, and reliability meetings
• Ensure compliance reports are completed on time to support program milestones
• Primary interface/lead for Product Related Issues and Investigations

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ Years Experience in various automotive roles
• Experience in electrical systems design, development, or test engineering
• Experience in validation of complex systems and resource and financial budgets/allocation
• Experience in developing/scheduling DVP&R (Design Verification Plan and Report), aligning necessary resources, and…