Salma Elahmar
Summary
Embedded engineering professional with a solid technical background and over 10 years of experience in the automotive field. Comfortable working in agile setups, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering reliable, efficient solutions through iterative development. Strong focus on collaboration, continuous improvement, and balancing hands-on technical work with team coordination.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Team Leader
SEITech Solutions
08.2023 - Current
- Leading two Cross-functional teams within the Gen7 Radar Platform;Signal Processing team and Control Operation Team.
- Along with being the team lead for both teams; Acted as the Technical Lead for the Control Operation Team.
- Performing Product Owner Responsibilities for Control Operation Team, including:
- Contributing in the PI Planning Including Features and Capabilities analysis Breakdown and assignation on the team based on the Features Scope.
- Plan the needed technical discussions during the PI Planning with the different metiers including System, Architecture, Testing and other POs to define and discuss the dependencies.
- Engagement in regular technical discussions with the Product Owners System team, Architectural team to align on the design direction, system development and Integration within the different teams.
- Conduction Technical Reviews across th different SWE Levels Starting SWE1 to SWE4 and SYS Requirements. Responsible for the Task delegation within the team, Iterations Planning, Daily follow-ups.
- As a Team leader for Both teams, Responsible for mentoring both teams to ensure alignment with PI Goals through delivering the needed tasks on time with maintaining the Quality standards.
- Participate in the KPIs defining, Measuring, and reviewing. Then taking the corrective/Improving actions based on the KPIs insights to optimize team performance and delivery predictability.
- Worked closely with each team member to identify skill gaps and support ramp-up plans for each of them individually.
- Setting complementary objectives for each member to ensure their ramp-up in key areas , while fostering a strong , cohesive and high performing team.
Senior Team Leader
Valeo
04.2022 - 06.2023
- Started as a team leader of Smartbar project
- Smartbar contains 4 different nodes, each is controlled by its individual software
- I was Managing a team of 14 team members of developers and testers
- According to my Role in Smartbar I had the following Responsibilities:
- Handling Baseline meeting with the System team to agree on the scope of each Release
- Setting the estimation of the tickets planned for the release with the support of the architect
- Planning the different deliveries for the 4 ECUs to include the agreed scope to fit in the delivery timeline
- Managing and tracking the day-to-day activities of the team to ensure we are always on track including resolving any issues or blocking points
- Setting a backup plan for any issues, deviations of the timeline
- Communicating regularly with the system team to cascade the updates, challenges, blocking points and any open topics
- Ensuring that all the tickets planned for the release are implemented with the full process covering the whole V Cycle activities - and checked through CCB1 & CCB2
- Ensuring the Robustness of the software through checking the Testing Results either Smoke Tests, Regression, affected Integration Test Cases and Validation Tests that are handled with every Software before delivered to the system team
- Planning team availability for Business trips to support in either Customer or system workshops
- Building the ishikawa diagram for Issues that are reported by the Customer
- Contributing in the weekly meetings with the customer together with the system team
- Handled Customer on-site Audit where we got very good feedback
- Main Focal point with the management and Customer during the escalation phase providing team progress, analysis results, Testing results & findings
- Helping the team to Ramp up faster through trainings, internal knowledge transfer pulses within the team
- Discuss with the team members to Set together clear & reliable Objectives, Follow Up with them throughout the year during the one-to-one meetings, they are achieving their goals
- Closely monitor the Team performance, share feedback with them continuously, provide guidance to enhance performance
- Encourage team members always to share their feedback continuously so we are all working in good and pleasant environment
- Beside Smartbar Project, I handled 3 other projects 'IRK, FZD 'FAAR/Mini' before handover to Chennai Here are some of the activities
- Planned all the Open Quality actions to be closed and verified by the quality team
- Support in some of the issues reported from the customer
- Planned Handover for Chennai team, provide support when needed
Overall Architect of RGB Project
Valeo
07.2020 - 06.2021
- Started working as an overall architect for RGB Project in ISC Team with the following activities:
- Checking all the upstream requirements allocated to the software are applicable and doable through the Software side
- Allocating the upstream requirements to ArchiElements of the software
- Setting the Verification strategy & Criteria of all the Upstream requirements assigned on the Software metier
- Built the software requirement specification document including: Refinement for Complex upstream requirements, Definition for the different Operating Modes for the software and the transition between them, Definition of the performance requirements CPU Load, Ram consumption, Rom Consumption
- Built the Software Model in Raphsody including: The static architecture including all the ArchiElements and interactions between them
- Built the Real Time Design document -Covering the Dynamic architecture - including: Definition all the pre-requisites for analysis (Microcontroller characteristics, Operating System characteristics, Emulated EEPROM or Dataflash), Gathering all the Real time requirements from the Upstream documents, Building the Initialization Sequence based on the Initialization Upstream Requirements, Components' Integration Constraints, Building the Shutdown Sequence based on the shutdown Upstream requirements, Components' integration constraints
- Analysis of the Soft Real Time requirements, covering them with the tasks
- OS Tasks mapping analysis for Tasks and runnables, designed based on the Real Time constraints and Components' integration constraints
- Tasks Priorities and verification that the system is harmonic
- Analysis of the Hard Real Time requirements, covering them with the Interrupts
- Interrupt/polling decisions' analysis based on the Upstream real time constraints
Architect in MQB37wl
Valeo
07.2018 - 07.2020
- Started as an Official Architecture Technical Reviewer in Comfort & Driving Assistance Product Group
Common Modules Architect
Valeo
09.2017 - 06.2018
- An architect for the Application of the VW group Team in Comfort and Driving assistance product
- Common modules were part of 4 Projects, zFas, MQBB, MQB Renasas, Calypso and MLBevo
- Handling all the change requests for all the projects
- Analyzing all the Requirements with the Overall architect of each project
- Supporting all Team members in the implementation to ensure No change affect other projects
Embedded Software Engineer in Zfas Project
Valeo
01.2016 - 08.2017
- I have started as a Module owner for one application Component 'Bapa' in Comfort & Driving Assistance Product
- Being a Module owner for components used in many Projects -for the three different Vehicles of the VW group 'VW, Audi, Porsche' -was requiring maintaining the component to be adaptable for the different Specifications of each Project and each Vehicle, Building New Features with every New Project - Projects: Calypso, MQBB, MQBA, MLBevo
- Fixing Issues for all the Vehicles in the different Variants
- As a module owner, I was responsible for analyzing the system requirements, Mapping to the software requirements, designing the architecture of the component, developing the component, doing all the developing activities like the Integrating Testing, Unit Testing, Analyzing Issues, Handling the discussion with the system team and the customer in the Specifications and even supporting them with my deep knowledge in the component in setting the appropriate Specifications
- I have supported the system team in the Car Tests, debugging in the software with the Vehicle connected
- Worked in the Integration of the Bap stack in the Autosar Basic software 'BAPG, BAPS'
Embedded Software Engineer
Valeo
09.2013 - 12.2015
- I have started as a Module owner for one application Component 'Bapa' in Comfort & Driving Assistance Product
- Being a Module owner for components used in many Projects -for the three different Vehicles of the VW group 'VW, Audi, Porsche' -was requiring maintaining the component to be adaptable for the different Specifications of each Project and each Vehicle, Building New Features with every New Project - Projects: Calypso, MQBB, MQBA, MLBevo
- Fixing Issues for all the Vehicles in the different Variants
- As a module owner, I was responsible for analyzing the system requirements, Mapping to the software requirements, designing the architecture of the component, developing the component, doing all the developing activities like the Integrating Testing, Unit Testing, Analyzing Issues, Handling the discussion with the system team and the customer in the Specifications and even supporting them with my deep knowledge in the component in setting the appropriate Specifications
Education
Bachelor's degree - faculty of engineering
CAIRO UNIVERSITY
Egypt01.2013
Skills
- Project Management
- People Management
- Leadership Skills
- Decision Making Skills
- Team monitoring
- Recruitment and Selection
- Budgeting
- Documentation and Reporting
- Performance Evaluation
- Agile Project management
- ASPICE Audits
- Static/Dynamic Architecture
- AUTOSAR
- COM Stack
- Memory Stack
- System Stack
- Diagnostic Communication
- Manager
- Davinci Configurator
- Complex application architecture
- Debugging
- Doors
- CoreALM
- IBM Rational Rhapsody
- Rectify
- C/Embedded C
- Model Based Development
- Canoe
- Vector Cast
- Misra Rules
- CAPL Code
- Maximum allowed Interrupts Response time
- Maximum allowed Critical Section
- Calculation of theoretically maximum CPU Load based on tasks/interrupts choices
- Theoretical Verification of the Real time Upstream constraints
- Shared Data analysis "Software & Physical resources"
- Supporting in setting & reviewing the estimation of the tickets
- Performing CCB1 for analysis of tickets done in CoreAlm
- Supporting in the analysis and Bug fixing
Accomplishments
- Nominated as Certified interviewer in Valeo
- Worked as a team leader for one of the most focused projects in Valeo with very tight deadlines and stressful situations.
- Managed to build a very strong team who was able to reach the SOP Phase with Successful releases beside completing the Quality KPIs for different Milestones of the project.
Timeline
Senior Team Leader
SEITech Solutions
08.2023 - Current
Senior Team Leader
Valeo
04.2022 - 06.2023
Overall Architect of RGB Project
Valeo
07.2020 - 06.2021
Architect in MQB37wl
Valeo
07.2018 - 07.2020
Common Modules Architect
Valeo
09.2017 - 06.2018
Embedded Software Engineer in Zfas Project
Valeo
01.2016 - 08.2017
Embedded Software Engineer
Valeo
09.2013 - 12.2015
Bachelor's degree - faculty of engineering
CAIRO UNIVERSITY
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