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Verification Best Practices (VBPT)

Leading the Verification Best Practices team that consists of verification engineers from multiple product lines and is responsible for continuous monitoring and improvement of product quality and verification efficiency. The team works in parallel to product teams to provide verification expertise and cultivate the best practices across product lines.

The team is responsible for

  • Participating in audits and 8Ds to find out areas of improvement
  • Experimenting and prototyping new tools and methodologies and introducing them to the team via articles or sessions as applicable
  • Ensuring the team get adequate training on the new tools and methodologies in and out of Synopsys
  • Ensuring the parallel product teams align on the methodologies
  • Cross pollinate the best ideas across the product teams

Team contributions​

Few key contributions from the team under my leadership are

Verification Plans​

The VBPT has paved the path for the verification team through 3 generations of verification plans, Excel based (Gen-1), HVP (Verdi) based (Gen-2) and finally Jama based (Gen-3). In each case the team has established templates and guidelines around verification plans, built tools (Ex: Scripts to automate Spec Linking, Coverage Back Annotation etc.) to ease the management. Gave sessions to get the team trained on the new tools. Migrated the templates and checklists from older versions to the new ones where applicable.

Individual Contributions​

Apart from leading the team in driving the above initiatives, below are my individual contributions

Workaround Management​

Standardised the workaround management process invented during G1 and G2 and made the automation generic and reusable across the environment. This lets the verification engineers and verification tools teams to move faster by workarounding known issues during the development cycle. While the process and automation ensures the stale-workarounds are flagged in an autogenerated Markdown or reStructuredText file that can be plugged into any static documentation generators to provide a live UI.

AI Integration​

Worked with central engineering team and other teams across Synopsys to ensure the verification team is equipped with latest AI tools like internal LLM based search engine, AI enabled IDEs etc. Got internal docs enabled in the internal LLM based search engine to ensure team is equipped with latest AI advancements before anyone else. Introduced tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf etc. as part of this initiative.

Duration: Jan 2017 — Present (Member), Jan 2019 — Present (VBP Team Lead)
Role: Member, Technical Lead
Team Size: A rotating team of ~10 verification engineers from multiple product lines