General Manager - Devices

• Jul 2019 - Present

Product Management: 1. Product selections 2. Cost evaluation, negotiation and finalisation 3. Deciding the project schedule and tracking the same to ensure TAT 4. Managing from concept, to design, sampling, testing, to launch 5. Control on AFR 6. Cross Functional working to meet the organisation goals 7. Product marketing strategy with competition mapping 8. Training and cross-functional support to sales team 10. Creating a futuristic roadmap for products 11. Managing product life cycle 12. Leading the "Make in India" project 13. Ensuring timely delivery of ready stock at warehouse from Vendors or Indian Factories 14. Working on kit closures Quality Assurance: 1. Basic evaluation on the samples to early shortlisting of products 2. Preparing test cases & RFPs 3. Complete software & Hardware (in reliability lab) testing 4. Issues (bugs & customisations) discussion with vendors for getting these fixed 5. Optimising UI and UX for customer experience 6. Preparation and verification of all the technical test docs like Block Diagram, Schematic Diagram, PCB Layout, reliability reports etc. 8. Integration & testing of associated application for our fitness devices (smartwatches) 9. Ensuring NPI at Indian factories with arranging all the requisites like Jigs/Fixtures, Tech Specs, BOM, SOP etc. 11. Managing whole technical process at Indian factory while production Service (After sales & support): 1. Managing customer care & service centres including commercials and stock management 2. Technical trainings 3. Detailed technical reports on market failures of products 4. Working with specific vendors for getting after sales issues fixed 5. Handling the escalations Compliance (to ensure the product meets the essential legal requirements): 1. Working as an authorised signatory, working with Govt. authorities directly 2. Govt accredited labs finalisation 3. Technical reports & required samples arrangement 4. Uploading the issued reports on Govt portals (BIS, ETA, CE & RoHS) Show less

Project Manager - Smartphones

• Nov 2016 - Jul 2019

● Agile Software development Life Cycle (SDLC) of Smartphones projects. ● Mainly focus on Software Testing and TAT (Turnaround Time) of Projects. ● Making New Test Cases and Test Plans with regular updating. ● End to end technical discussion with the developers to get the observed issues fixed. ● Technical discussion with Chipset Vendors and Google for issues fixes related to them. ● Deciding the Benchmark for performance and battery to beat/meet competitive devices. ● Implementation of new features & requirements as per the market requirements. ● Providing Technical support & documents to Manufacturing (NPI) Team in production. ● Responsibility of Quality of Projects with target of less AFR (Annualized Failure Rate) ● Handling all the After Sales issues and their timely solution update through FOTA. ● Timely Google Security Patch update for the launched models along with Market issues ● VAS Applications management in Project on the basis of performance ● Leading all the Functional (Application) testing, Performance testing & Field Testing. ● Delivering the Technical Training to After Sales team. ● Providing Technical support & documents to Manufacturing (NPI) Team in production. ● Handling Manufacturing (NPI) Quality issues to provide the solution Show less

Software Test Lead

• Sep 2010 - Nov 2016

● Leading Functional and Field Testing (FT) of Android based Mobile Phones & Tablets. ● Handling all the Mobile Wi-Fi Routers, Mi-Fi (3G & LTE) & Data Card Models (3G & LTE) as a single entity based on Qualcomm, MediaTek, Spreadrum, ST Ericsson & Marvell chipsets. ● Throughout testing of LED Smartstyk Dongle (Model Number: SD600 & SD500) – It helps to convert normal TV to Smart TV by inserting this dongle through HDMI Port. ● Working on wireless Technologies: VoWi-Fi, Vi-LTE, Vo-LTE, DC-HSPA+, eMBMS etc. ● Preparing Test Cases on Mobile phones, Data Cards, Wi-Fi Routers and Android Tablet. ● Bug identification and verification Show less

Six Months Training

• Jan 2010 - Jul 2010

Accomplished six months industrial training from CDAC (Center for Development In Advance Computing), Noida in Embedded System. Worked on the project “Development of HF RFID Reader” at CDAC, Noida (R&D) Purpose: To make RFID Readers standalone so as to eliminate human intervention on the reader and to automate scanning and reading of RFID Tags by using Embedded C Language Accomplished six months industrial training from CDAC (Center for Development In Advance Computing), Noida in Embedded System. Worked on the project “Development of HF RFID Reader” at CDAC, Noida (R&D) Purpose: To make RFID Readers standalone so as to eliminate human intervention on the reader and to automate scanning and reading of RFID Tags by using Embedded C Language

Two Months Internship

• Jun 2008 - Jul 2008