Product Quality & Safety Leader

Product Quality & Safety Leader

About Alstom in India

Alstom has established a strong presence in India. Currently, the company is executing metro projects in several Indian cities including Chennai, Kochi and Lucknow where it is supplying Rolling Stock manufactured out its state of the art facility at SriCity in Andhra Pradesh. In the Mainline space, Alstom is executing Signaling & Power Supply Systems for the 343 Km. section on World Bank funded Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor. Phase 1 in the construction of the new electric locomotive factory for manufacturing and supply of 800 units of 12000HP locomotives is also complete at Madhepura, Bihar while the depot at Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh is ready to commence operation. Alstom has set up an Engineering Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru, and this coupled with a strong manufacturing base as well as localized supply chains, is uniquely positioned to serve customers across the globe. Today, Alstom in India employs close to 3600 people and in line with Government of India’s ‘Make in India’ policy initiative, Alstom has been investing heavily in the country in producing world class rolling stock, components, design, research and development to not only serve the domestic market, but also rest of the world. www.alstom.com/ India

POSITION OVERVIEW:

To support & plan product quality [quality development (internal and external) and sustaining activity] related to a product families incl. quality management milestones such as Gate Reviews, FAI, audits ... - to produce and obtain approval of the necessary quality deliverables (e.g. Product Quality Plan) - to report quality and safety alerts - to validate evolutions and Non regression strategy

Software program Quality

• Establish the Program Quality plan (including SW) and ensure the proper application during program execution in accordance to the solution requirements or project gap, and to the Alstom processes
• Support the Alstom digital mobility (ADM) program teams and PM to prepare gate reviews & follow up related action plans
• Make sure that Delivery reviews (DR), Peer Reviews and Phase reviews are well prepared and fueled for gate reviews (GR) process,
• Makes sure that Engineering and Safety standards are well known and applied: Alert in case of deviation and Manage corrective actions when necessary, propose improvements when relevant, Manage Engineering Quality inspection.
• Can improves Quality Engineering standards with the return of experience(REX)/Root cause analysis with concern stakeholders

Software Program execution controls

• Support the program teams mainly the program core team to prepare gate reviews & follow up related action plans this points almost same as above point 3
• Manage System Engineering/SW/HW quality assurance activities;
• Manage process adherence inspection to demonstrate program adherence and manage process waiver ;
• Realize the quality task needed for System/SW/HW development and V&V activities including sub-contracted activities; 
• Realize the safety review, the chapter 2 of the safety case and the delivery review according Alstom Safety standard; 
• Realize safety authorization for direct product sales (no project) does this comes under program quality leader
• Control programs deliverables compliance through inspection or delivery review that authorize delivery to program customer
• Report quality and safety alerts and ensure REX process within the program

Measure and improve program quality performance:

• Manage Non-conformities and Safety issues and facilitate problem solving during related to ADM product portfolio that are used by project in execution phase to reduce the costs of non-quality (8D, REX and standards evolution)
• Make sure that Engineering team is included in Customer issues solving process(if needed).
• To Update Quality Engineering KPIs in program review, and propose action plans for improvement when necessary.
• Propose and follow up action plans for improvement during program review
• KPI’s tracking
  • Defect non detection ratio
  • Gate reviews conducted on time  &  Gate reviews go on time
  • Milestone hit rate
  • Average milestone slippage
  • Critical defects status & RCA
  • Process compliance percentage
  • Delivery on time for external and internal deliverables
• CMMI Level 3 required measures and very good knowledge

SKILLS & EDUCATION 

B.Tech/B.E Graduate having 6+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance

Technical & Behavioral

• Rigor, Communication, knowledge of Quality standard (ISO9001, IRIS, CMMI, ECM, CENELEC etc.,.) and quality tools
• Experience in operational activities and in documentation management
• Collaboration and team working
• Capability to Influence toward excellence and continuous improvement

Location - Bangalore