Ramesh Iyer

• Over 23+ years’ experience in verification & validation expertise which includes 12+ years of experience in Pharmaceutical, Healthcare and Life Sciences industry. • Extensive experience in Computerized System Validation (CSV) & Commissioning Qualification & Validation (CQV). • Qualification of Pharma Equipment (DQ, IQ, OQ, PQ) used for process of production of pharmaceutical at major Life Sciences/ Healthcare / Pharm companies such Bayer Healthcare, Merz Pharma and AbbVie Pharmaceuticals R&D.

Responsible for managing the overall verification & validation activities for Radiation therapy project Europa Release 2 using Waterfall methodology. Developed test cases based on system requirements, understand SOP(Standard Operating Procedures) and Quality Management system, performed clinical validation in hospitals, responsible for defect management in JIRA tool, created status report for management meetings.

Responsible for managing the overall verification & validation activities for Radiation therapy project Europa Release 2 using Waterfall methodology. Responsible for test planning the integration of Elekta MOSAIQ, Brainlab ExacTrac X-ray imaging system with Elekta Linacs. Developed test cases based on system requirements, understand SOP(Standard Operating Procedures) and Quality Management system, performed clinical validation in hospitals, responsible for defect management in JIRA tool

Managed complete verification & validation for project HeartCentrix which was a device connectivity solution for Cardiac monitoring devices with EMR (Electronic Medical Record) Responsible for creation of test plan, test cases, maintaining traceability matrix, test environment set-up, Clinical validation, defect management Worked with software services team for medical devices software installation. Developed the verification & validation review checklist for cardiac monitoring devices software.

Responsible for managing the testing of health insurance claims processing system to process group insurance policies. Managed a team of 15 test engineers for functional and system testing. Developed test cases based on functional requirement specifications, traceability matrix, defect tracking using Quality centre 9.2, create test report & status report for weekly & monthly meeting.

Responsible for overall testing the Product 'Q' which was a retail forecasting, order planning, allocation and replenishment using Agile Scrum methodology. Test management based on Agile scrum, review feature backlog, created test cases based on user stories, test execution, monitor status of sprints, defect management in JIRA tool, performed regression testing, status reports. Worked with Rally (Agile project management tool) and Confluence(Collaboration and document management tool)

Responsible for overall testing of smart electricity meter, created the test plan & test cases based on system specification, set-up the test environment, worked with software development team to implement Zigbee interface, SMS for electricity usage, FTP and firmware upgrades for smart electricity meter, defect management, weekly testing status reports. This project was based on Waterfall methodology. Developed test lab for testing smart energy meters at National Grid.

Responsible for test management of E-commerce Web application for testing. Responsible for understanding the requirement and creation of Functional Test Plan and Test cases. I was involved in managing my testing team and delegation of tasks to resources and provide daily & weekly status reports. Performed test effort estimation for various testing phases Responsible for User Acceptance Testing

Responsible for understanding system requirements for project Carbook fleet which was an automobile e-commerce application developed in Java JSP, JDK 1.4 and SQL Server 2000. I was responsible for test plan creation, creation & execution of test cases for various customizable configurations and features, test environment set-up, defect management in Bugzilla, worked with development team to implement features and fix defects, provide test status reports for management meetings.

Responsible for test automation using Segue Silk Performer to performance test T-Systems web applications. Responsible for creating performance test scripts for telecom applications Live test –T-COM and CRM-C using Segue Silk performer. Created test scripts for verifying functionalities such as tariffs, products, billing information for internet & telephony. I was responsible for automated performance testing - silk performer.

Responsible for leading the test activities for telekom applications in AT & T, U.S.A Responsible for managing the testing for project Single System Image telecom application which was primarily an IVR (Interactive Voice Response) application developed in Visual Basic 7.0, DB2. Developed test plan, test cases for front end functionalities, work with systems engineering team to review test strategy, test environment set-up, defect management in Test director, weekly status reports.

Computer Science