Dipl.-Ing. Marian Cososchi

- Leading a cross-functional team of 20+ engineers for Tier1 client projects, focusing on Embedded systems testing (HIL). - Responsible for technical interview and evaluations, team performance, technical mentoring, and professional development of the engineering squad. - Coordinating technical activities utilizing automotive specific tools to ensure system reliability. - Building technical roadmaps and status reports for stakeholders. - Optimizing team workflows in an adapted Agile environment.

- Product Owner for two IoT devices. - Function Owner for BMW Augmented Reality (AR) Navigation features; defined product vision, requirements and technical specifications in DOORS/Confluence. - Synchronized technical requirements across multiple BMW departments using Jira and Confluence. - Facilitated Sprint cycles, sprint planning and retrospectives in a SCRUM environment. - Benchmarking tests to align the product with the competition. - Test drives with prototype vehicles to ensure product reliability.

- Led an offshore team of 10 engineers in India, ensuring 24/7 testing coverage and ensuring results were ready for BMW status meetings daily by 8:00 AM. - Resolved critical technical blockers and acted as the primary technical point of contact for BMW function owners. - Validated car-to-cloud communications utilizing MQTT protocol and DLT Viewer for log analysis. - Supervised backend system simulations to support vehicle connectivity and telematics testing operations. - Managed test results and reports

- Performed end-to-end integration testing of infotainment and navigation systems on prototype vehicles and test benches for BMW. - Analyzed complex system logs using, DLT Viewer, EDIABAS and E-Sys to identify software defects and performance issues. - Managed defects lifecycles and quality metrics within HP ALM, collaborating with development team to accelerate fixes.

- Coordinated between manual and automation teams, executing automated test scripts for BMW Navigation systems (C#). - Performed international field testing drives in Romania, Europe, and one in South Africa to validate Navigation Map and GPS performance. - Maintained virtual test bench hardware and software environments to support automation tests. - Utilized E-Sys, EDIABAS, and DOORS for system diagnosis and requirement verification. - Created and maintained a database for tracking maps inventory (SQL)

Electronics SQL Databases OOP Programming