Rajasekar

Rajasekar Dorairaj Hyderabad, India | - |-| Skype ID: rajasekar.dorairaj Summary Having 15+ years of overall experience in QA Test Management, management and System analysis. Expertise in System Testing, Unit Testing of Interfaces, forms, reports, conversions and enhancements .Expertise in developing the regression suite for custom code development. Experience in Functional Testing, Agile Testing, Regression Testing and Integration Testing and expertise in developing Test Estimations,Test Plans, Test Cases/Scenarios, Test Procedures ,analyzing Test Results and Test documentation and Test Metrics. A resultsoriented professional with proven abilities in strategic planning, managing projects, improving efficiency and detailing project information to determine effective processes . __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Accomplishments  Successfully designed more than one generic test case templates for test planning & executions and Tested & Delivered Functional Modules, resulting in zero or minimal defects in production environment.  Led and validated complex functions/features part of the project and mitigated risks, managed requirements, and worked with project stakeholders while managing expectations at the department and project levels.  Trusted leader known and respected for leading successful change in complex projects and building credibility with executive teams and staff.  Improved processes through the implementation of a new business case template—enhanced project visibility to determine project status for Executive decision-making. _________________________________________________________________________ Managerial Skills  Managing test teams.  Strong influencing and Communication skills.  Having a flexible attitude and positive approach.  Ability to lead offshore testing teams.  Experience of client facing roles.  Constantly maintaining high levels of accuracy.  Ability to quickly learn applications with minimal documentation  An understanding & appreciation of the full development life cycle & how testing relates to it.  Can translate business processes into clear and comprehensive test scenarios.  Training new test team members. Technical Skills:  Testing : Test Strategy, Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Sanity Testing, Regression Testing, Webs Services testing (using SOAP UI), UAT Test scripts & data setup.  Bug Tracking system: PROTON, JIRA, SpiraTeam, Bugzilla, HP ALM/Quality Center  Testing Tool: Familiar with ClearCase, QTP, Selenium  Good knowledge in SQL Server 2000/2008/2014, VB, VB Script, Java Script, Oracle 11g/12c, XML messaging, .NET - VC#, ASP.NET, Oracle 11g, PHP, HTML, CSS  Middleware: TIBCO , BOOMI  Methodologies: Scrum and Agile.  Proficient knowledge of MS Office applications, Visio and MS Project or other Project software. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Education, Certification & Affiliation Bachelor of Engineering—Computer Science; Bharathiyar University Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundations certification Member Project Management Institute (PMI), USA Intervoice IVR Developer certification, Texas USA _________________________________________________________________________ Experience Endpoint Clinical － Hyderabad, India (Remote) Nov 2015 to Current Lead, Validation  Facilitate the Elicitation and Analysis of Requirements and explored the potential solution.  Volunteered to validate the complex functions/features part of the project.        Worked closely with PM group (Client Services team) and contributed to standardizing the specification & functions and provided regular feedback, Introduced & implemented new QC processes globally to improve the quality. Built cohesive test team who shared best practices, test responsibilities, and supported reuse of test cases. Increased test coverage and efficiency without increasing test engineer headcount. Successfully leveraged resources across multiple projects to do more with less. Consistently met project milestones for multiple simultaneous projects. Coordinated test strategy development, project planning, scheduling, allocation of test engineers to programs, ensuring test environment availability, generation of test reports, communication of test status, and networking to coordinate test activities. Coordinated with partners to document and assess acceptance criteria for 3rd party data transfers.. Pushed for improvements in software development & testing practices to increase software maturity prior to delivery for UAT. Greatly improved integration of test engineers with development teams resulting in a cohesive work environment. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Novartis Healthcare － Hyderabad, India Application Manager            Jul 2013 to Nov 2015 Led the validation activities of complex project NIRT (Novartis Interactive Response Technology) in Development Informatics (DI - TRD). Point of contact for Business & technical team for the requirements Volunteered to validate the complex functions/features part of the project. Assist Business team in identifying business problems,needs and functions, understand stakeholders’ concerns and requirements,identify improvement opportunities, and contribute business input for developing the business case. Identified potential options, defining selection criteria; and driving requirements ensuring alignment with delivery of business value Sound understanding of the key business activities/ domain and ability to think about business processes outside of the technology context. Performed gap analysis ensuring business SOX compliance. Provided in-depth business knowledge to the teams to ensure efficient test strategy and key scenarios.. Participated actively on a regular basis in focus groups and steering committees. Updated stakeholders on problem status and ensured speedy resolutions. Coordinated test strategy development, project planning, generation of test reports, communication of test status, and networking to coordinate test activities & PQ Test Cases in PROTON and supported Business in UAT _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Cenduit India Pvt. Ltd － Bangalore, India Team Lead              May 2007 to Jul 2013 Liaison between functional teams and ensuring the Integration testing activities are carried out from application to Boundary systems Preparation of Test scenario /Test Cases in Quality Center for System, Regression and Performance testing and maintaining the test cases in Quality Center. Planning and allocating resources to tests/dates in Quality Center. Test Lead for Defect Management and Migration in Test Management office using Quality Center. Total Test management for the Project and tracking activities to completion and managing Issues and Risk that occur during the Pre and Post Upgrade testing. Acted as Business SME for CIRT 2.0 (IRT System on new platform) and clarified business requirements to the stakeholders. Performed UAT for CIRT 2.0 application. Implemented Base project (Rapid Approach). This reduced the overall delivery timeline and improved the quality. Introduced new process for quality improvement. Introduced the concept of Base project and implemented Base project v1.0. This provided the idea of Base project for different Clients. Built complex projects in IRT system (IWR & IVR) for various clients. Introduced & implemented new QC processes for bespoke functions. Demonstrated ability to motivate team to maximum productivity and implemented new ideas. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Quintiles India Pvt. Ltd － Bangalore, India Senior Software Engineer Nov 2004 to May 2007            Functioned as a Test Management Lead in managing Manual, Automation and Performance test teams both at on-site and Offshore and estimation planning of resources in the team based on the scope of work. Requirement Analysis and maintaining Requirements Trace matrix and Preparation of Test scenario /Test Cases /Test Data ,MS Team Site is used for maintaining the documents Quality Center is used for test case preparation, test case execution, report generation and defect tracking for the Agile Testing Process. Executed System integration testing/Regression Testing using agile methodology. Defect Management and Test Execution in Quality center/Test Summary Preparation Project Planning and allocating resources and tracking project progress. Effectively reduced the testing cost by more than 50% by using automation of the manual test scripts for the sprints in Regression testing and also for Multilanguage testing. Production support testing for Enhancements and bug fixes in functionality, Involved in the implementation of new processes. Demonstrated ability to motivate team to maximum productivity and implemented new ideas. Mentored & trained juniors. And led a group of 3 engineers. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Teknocord India Pvt. Ltd － Bangalore, India Oct 2001 to Nov 2004 Software Engineer      Lead Programmer in analyzing the Assembler code for Production support and enhancements. Developed profound knowledge of the program and was efficient in fixing the issues in a very short time well within the SLA. Proficient in using Remedy, Test director and Prolite tools to track the issues and problems in the project. Provide 24X7 support for any enhancements and bug fixes in the program Created T-SQL objects & scripts used to maintain data integrity across all databases throughout database servers (Stored Procedures, Triggers, and Functions). __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Key projects: Supply Chain Management System: [ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, Java Script, Telerik] Web based product for warehouse, depot, and site inventory management with extensive customized resupply algorithms to maximize IP supply efficiencies. Program level, pooled supply, management capabilities IP Accountability, through site returns, reconciliation, and destruction. IVR-based Clinical Supply chain and Inventory Management. Managed a budget exceeding 3 million USD. Data Integration with Oracle Safety: [XML, Java Script, SQL Server, APIs] Validated Data integration with Oracle Argus Safety with Clinical System. And implemented real-time XML messaging to enable messaging across the system landscape in the clinical context. This is including real time messaging with Partners (B2B = Business-to-Business). [Real time Integration Broker (RIB)] IRT System: [PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Ajax, JQuery, JSON, JS] This system is more user friendly and easy to access from anywhere in the world through web. The system has a feature of automated callouts or audio instructions with 24 × 7 coverage where subject gets prompt about medication that needs to be taken or navigating through different modules that makes the innovation user friendly. This decreases subject's dependability on site staff to a greater extent. This is a shift in change for better site-centric to patient-centric trials. Data warehouse System: [Informatica, Oracle, SQL Server, XML, and Business Objects] Offers user-friendly reports, making it easy for project coordinators and investigators to learn and use. Provide almost real time management of drug distribution at the site, distribution centre and warehouse level. The client can access up to date patient & drug data for all protocols at a time. This will help the client to analysis the data and can take proactive action like drug recall, if required. Configuration Management System (CMS): [ASP MVC, C#, HTML, Bootstrap, JQuery, SQL Server] Tool collects configuration details of the entire stack from OS to client application. This was used to migrate a non On-Demand to On-Demand customer. Also used by operations and problem management to determine the root cause of problems or incidents. Xpress Base Product: [VB, SQL Server] This is very important project for Cenduit and created a revolution. This enabled, most of the functions are made standard, so that for new project, these components are reused which reduced overall delivery time. This system includes 108 functions. Validated POC (proof of concept), made presentation to management, obtained approval and implementation. Now this system has been used for many trail design for the Clients. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Awards & Recognition:  Appreciation letter from Group Head - Novartis  Three times ‘Star of the Year’ - Cenduit.  Best Team of the Year -2011 – Cenduit  Appreciation Letter from Intervoice, Texas, USA