Warranty Analyst

Expleo; Chennai District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative working environment

Global organization

Continuous learning opportunities

Job summary

Expleo in Chennai, India is seeking a Warranty Analyst Engineer to review and analyze warranty claims from dealers, service centers, customers, and field operations.

You will identify recurring failures, validate claims, categorize by failure mode and supplier, and coordinate with suppliers and internal teams for part retrieval and chargebacks. The role requires 4–10 years of experience in warranty or quality engineering and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• 4–10 years of experience in warranty or quality engineering.
• Proficient in quality tools for root cause analysis and corrective actions.

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze warranty claims from dealers, service centers, customers, and field operations.
• Identify recurring failures and trends.
• Validate claims against warranty policies and criteria.
• Categorize claims by failure mode, component, supplier, model, and application.
• Initiate collection/recall of suspect warranty parts for analysis.
• Coordinate with dealers, warehouses, suppliers, and internal teams for part retrieval.
• Analyze returned parts to attribute failure causes (supplier, manufacturing, design, etc.).
• Support investigations and root-cause analysis using quality tools.
• Identify warranty claims attributable to supplier defects.
• Prepare supplier chargeback claims and calculate recoverable costs.
• Ensure supporting evidence for each chargeback.
• Coordinate with Supplier Quality, Procurement, Finance, and suppliers for settlements.
• Track disputed, accepted, rejected, and recovered chargeback amounts.
• Follow up on pending claims to ensure timely financial recovery.

Skills

Coordinate supplier meetings

Communicate technical findings

Support field campaigns

Root cause analysis

Verify corrective actions

Monitor field performance

Containment actions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Job description

Overview

Warranty Analyst Engineer

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze warranty claims received from dealers, service centers, customers, and field operations.
• Identify recurring failures, abnormal trends, and potential quality issues.
• Validate warranty claims against applicable warranty policies and technical criteria.
• Categorize claims based on failure mode, component, supplier, model, and application.
• Initiate collection/recall of suspect warranty parts for detailed analysis.
• Coordinate with dealers, service centers, warehouses, suppliers, and internal teams for part retrieval.
• Analyze returned parts to determine whether the failure is attributable to the supplier, manufacturing process, design, assembly, or other causes.
• Support technical investigations and root-cause analysis using appropriate quality tools.
• Identify warranty claims attributable to supplier/component defects.
• Prepare and initiate supplier chargeback claims based on validated warranty failures.
• Calculate recoverable costs, including parts, labor, logistics, inspection, handling, and other applicable warranty expenses.
• Ensure supporting evidence is available for each chargeback.
• Coordinate with Supplier Quality, Procurement, Finance, and suppliers for claim settlement.
• Track disputed, accepted, rejected, and recovered chargeback amounts.
• Follow up on pending claims to ensure timely financial recovery.

Qualifications

• Education:Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.

Essential skills

• Coordinate supplier meetings for repeated or high-value warranty failures.
• Communicate technical findings and commercial impact clearly to stakeholders.
• Support field campaigns, service actions, recalls, and containment activities when required.
• Work with suppliers and internal engineering teams to establish root cause.
• Verify effectiveness of corrective and preventive actions.
• Monitor field performance after corrective actions are implemented.
• Recommend containment actions where significant safety, reliability, or customer-impacting issues are identified.

Experience

4-10 years

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – We stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers, developing solutions that create a sustainable today and tomorrow.
• Continuous learning - Our Learning & Leadership Development team has established a world-class learning ecosystem that enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses.
• Global organisation - We provide solutions to leading brands from various sectors, giving you the opportunity to work with top-tier companies providing impactful solutions to our customers’ customers.