Domain HIL Project Lead - TATA Elxsi, Pune

Role & responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) projects for automotive ECU and vehicle system validation.
• Define HIL validation strategy, project scope, schedules, milestones, and deliverables.
• Manage HIL test bench development, integration, commissioning, and maintenance activities.
• Coordinate with system, software, controls, calibration, and validation teams to ensure project alignment.
• Drive requirements analysis and creation of HIL validation plans and test specifications.
• Oversee development of plant models, simulation environments, and automated test frameworks.
• Ensure traceability from requirements to HIL test cases and validation results.
• Monitor project risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
• Lead defect triage, root cause analysis, and issue resolution with cross-functional teams.
• Manage project resources, effort estimation, and capacity planning.
• Track project KPIs, test execution progress, and quality metrics.
• Ensure compliance with Automotive SPICE, Functional Safety (ISO 26262), and customer processes.
• Review and approve HIL architectures, test cases, test reports, and release recommendations.
• Drive test automation, process improvements, and reuse strategies.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to HIL engineers and team members.
• Coordinate supplier activities and ensure timely delivery of project milestones.

Preferred candidate profile

• Automotive ECU validation and testing, HIL, SIL, MIL, and vehicle testing methodologies
• Control systems and model-based development, MATLAB/Simulink and Stateflow
• Plant model development and integration
• CAN, LIN, FlexRay, Automotive Ethernet protocols, Diagnostics (UDS, OBD)
• Functional Safety (ISO 26262), AUTOSAR awareness, Requirements management and traceability, Test automation framework development
• dSPACE SCALEXIO and ControlDesk, dSPACE AutomationDesk, NI PXI and LabVIEW, ETAS LABCAR
• Vector CANoe and CANalyzer, INCA and calibration tools, Jenkins and CI/CD integration tools
• Automotive SPICE, V-Model lifecycle, Test process definition, Defect management