Project leader for the Flight Test Departement of Airbus
Date
November 2014 - February 2017
Context
Member of Tech Mahindra indian company, working for Airbus Flight Test EVIDD with workpackages
Airbus changed the sub-contractor company for the Flight Test bundle at the end of 2014. TechMahindra indian company won, so corresponding projects had to be set-up with a new development team. For the first time, an external development platform had to be installed inside the sub-contrator company.
Position
Holding the position of project leader on Sabre project for Airbus Flight Test department.
Sabre software
SABRE is the biggest software of Flight Test department.
This piece of software is used to configure the Flight Test Installation (Prameters definition, measuremet chains creation, FTI programming to produce data to be loaded on aircraft) of A380, A400M, A350, A320 NEO aircraft.
It is also used to organized the work-sharing between different Airbus National Companies; and to manage all processes around the Flight Test Installation.
It is made up of a database (700 tables), Graphical User Interfaces, program to produce files for Flight Test Installation or to exchange data with other applications, ...
Role
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As one of the first members who set-up the project at TechMahindra:
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Install the platform for development (Linux servers, Ingres databases, Kanboard, ...),
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Write Unix tools to have the development more efficient
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Write into a Wiki all the knowledge related to the project and to be shared with the whole team.
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Teach the Flight Test business, developement tools, quality processes to the new recruits
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As project leader:
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Build a Gantt planning using Miscrosoft Project,
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Manage the risks,
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Follow the actions opened to reduce the risks previously identified,
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Assign the tasks to frontoffice and backoffice teams (except for Agile projects) using a Kanban tool shared between France and India,
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Attend meetings (each 2 weeks) with Airbus project leaders,
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Control the deliveries ...
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Prepare audits (AS9100) with Indian quality team,
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Control the time sheets of the team,
Note:My team is devided in a frontoffice team based at Colomiers and a backoffice team based at Bangalore.
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As administrator:
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Declare the users and access on the file server (Synology Rackstation)
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Manage Ingres databases in case of issue.
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Manage Linux machines in case of issues.
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As designer:
- Analyse the input documents in order to write specifications,
- Carry on verification tests,
- Enter requirements, verification tests and coverage matrix in HPALM tool.
Technical skills
- MS-Project
- Requirement management under HP-ALM tool
- Eclipse
- Linux CentOS (at the office), Ubuntu (at home).
- OpenRoad language (Computer Associates) to build GUI for ingres database.
- Ingres database (Computer Associates).
- XML
- C language.
- Linux: Shell + administration.
- SQL.
- Power AMC
- Requirement management under HP-ALM tool
Management of people working on following technologies
Eclipse, Java,
Jenkins (Continous integration software),
sonarQube (continuous inspection of code quality),
Fitnesse (Acceptance Test Tool),
Junit (Unitary Tests Tool),
Jacoco (Java Code Coverage),
Splunk (BigData),
Note: Java developments were performed with Scrum Agile method.