Lakshmi Padakandla

About Lakshmi Padakandla

Data Quality Assurance Analyst with 4+ years of experience supporting enterprise data warehouse and large-scale data modernization initiatives within healthcare and public sector environments.Experienced in ensuring data accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and validity across complex data platforms used for reporting, analytics, and decision-making.Strong expertise in SQL-based data validation, data profiling, root cause analysis, and resolving data quality issues across ETL/ELT pipelines and cloud-based systems including AWS and Snowflake.Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams including business stakeholders, data stewards, developers, and analytics teams to maintain data integrity and support data governance initiatives.Hands-on experience with HIPAA-compliant healthcare data, supporting reporting use cases such as population health monitoring, KPI reporting, and regulatory analytics.Skilled in Tableau and Power BI for building dashboards that support executive decision-making and operational insights.Core strengths include data quality assurance, data validation, data governance, metadata management, and end-to-end data platform support.

Experience

1. Embedded Software Engineer

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   Sep 2024 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Performing Software Integration Testing (SIT) for embedded and distributed systems, validating module‑to‑module interactions, communication flows, and system behavior.• Executing integration, regression, functional, and interface-level testing across firmware, middleware, and hardware abstraction layers.• Reviewing embedded design documents, interface specifications, and communication protocols to derive integration test scenarios.• Debugging issues across C/C++ firmware, RTOS components, drivers, and hardware interfaces.• Analyzing logs, traces, and communication packets using tools such as CANalyzer, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and JTAG debuggers.• Validating CAN, UART, SPI, I2C communication flows and ensuring correct data exchange between integrated modules.• Supporting bootloader, OTA update, and diagnostic protocol validation (UDS/J1939 where applicable).• Collaborating with cross‑functional teams including firmware, hardware, and system engineering to resolve integration defects.• Documenting SIT results, defects, and traceability using Jira, Azure DevOps, and Polarion/ALM tools.• Participating in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and release readiness reviews for embedded software builds.

Education

• Wilmington University

  Master's degree, Information Technology Project Management

• PRIST University - India

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science