VIJAYARAGHAVAN VASUDEVAN

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Highly motivated self-starter with exceptional interpersonal skills and strong leadership skills: Change leader, training,

mentoring new engineers and co-workers ; 9+ years of experience in working on medical devices & life sciences

products with the global leader in Healthcare(GE Healthcare)

Expertise in gathering, analyzing and prioritizing business requirements, managing stakeholder and developing

verification strategy compliant to organization quality management system & regulatory standards

Strong customer focus with uncompromising attitude towards product quality ; Adept at manual & automation testing

Proficient in Agile methodolgy, backlog grooming, sprint planning, user story sizing

Thorough understanding of medical imaging modalities (CT/MR/PET/NM) with practical exposure to IEEE 829, ISO

13485, ISO 14971, 21 CFR Part 820 processes, FDA V&V guidelines and medical device V&V practices

“Uncompromising attitude towards product quality and an eye for detail during verification of the product and excellent collaboration

with the MR team during the entire product lifecycle”

– Vineet Gupta –Senior Engineering Manager, GE Healthcare Bengaluru

“Vijay received extremely good feedback from our client on his attitude as well as his deliverables.

Considering the high expectation from GEHC and getting such feedback is really commendable. It shows his commitment on the job as

well as to deliver better and better…”

– Silambu Chelvan P, Associate Vice President–Healthcare, Mphasis an HP Company, Bengaluru

Skill Set:

Leadership: Certified Change Acceleration Leader

Test Automation Tool: QTP, QFTest

SDLC Management Tools: DOORS, Quality Center, IBM RQM

Defect Tracking Tools: ClearQuest

Configuration Management tools: Visual Source Safe, Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio 2012 Team Edition

Databases Known: SQL Server 2008, PostgreSQL, Oracle

Operating Systems: Unix, Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7

Others: VMware Virtualization Environment, Scaled Agile Framework

Experience Summary

GE Healthcare: 2009 Dec – To Date:

Advantage Workstation (AW) & AW Server

AW: A workstation available in a standalone as well as Client-Server architecture, which hosts a suite of 3D software

package providing Volume Analysis, rendering, navigation and whole suite of volumetric visualization and analysis tools for

images acquired from CT, MR, 3D, X-ray and PET scanners

Business Analysis Skills

Designed system requirements and collaborated with SME in analyzing the user feedback, thereby contributing towards

preparation of use analysis reports and complete design of validation procedure with relevant clinical workflows

Analyzed and classified customer complaints, reproduced the complaint scenarios for the engineering team and carried

out the verification and validation activities, aiding the QA team to approve and close the design transfer of the product

for shipment

Initiated the analysis of a legacy system & fixed existing defects which increased system reliability and prevented a

potential stop shipment of the software product.

Leadership Skills

As a key Change Leader, mentored a team of 8, transitioning the team to Agile methodology and making it one of the

best Scrum teams in our business group.

Reduced the turnaround time by 20% in hardware procurements by coordinating with cross functional sourcing team,

directly impacting the productivity of the 20 member verification team

As hardware manager, setup assets management process, which reduced the turn-around time of hardware setup &

allocation by more than 50% for 4 dependent engineering teams

Hired and mentored a team of 8, to deliver the product without dip in quality in spite of reduction in number of resources

Reduced manual test execution time by 10% by developing a strategy for the entire team to contribute in test automation

and automated 10% of the Verification document.

Trained and strengthened the team members application portfolio knowledge resulting in crucial reduction of time in

system test execution

Impacted the productivity of a 10 member team, by taking ownership and setting up a complex virtualization

environment, required for our product testing and also trained the team members in the same

Rewarded with nomination for the prestigious GE Crotonville training on “Foundations of Leadership” for practicing

strong leadership skills

Setup an efficient test environment setup process, eradicated the person dependency and reduced the installation time by

more than 25%

Agile Skills

Moderated between marketing & engineering teams and facilitated backlog grooming & user stories definition

Set a benchmark in user story sizing technique, which was used across multiple scrum teams

Formulated the “Definition of Done” with all stakeholder inputs, resulting in completeness of a user story every single

time.

Customer Interactions

Drove new business acquisition by interacting with potential clients and providing them a comprehensive demo of the

software

Initiated and encouraged the culture of frequent customer visits for young team members, thereby improving the domain

knowledge of the team

Interacted directly with the customer as the engineering team representative, in the usability testing team

Requirements Analysis, Verification & Validation Tests Design

Analyzed use cases, prepared system test cases and traceability matrix for advanced 4D visualization software used by

the doctors and radiologists in diagnosis

Entirely owned and conceptualized validation workflows with application specialists, resulting in better product

validation

Verification & Validation Test Effort Planning & Test Execution

Took up complete ownership of the installation of PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System), a very

critical component that enhances patient safety in hospital radiology departments and trained the team members in the

same

Entirely owned the hardware management (Servers & VM environment) for a 80 member team and other modality

teams.

Ensured system test execution happens without hassles and strictly time bound by preparing test execution dispatch for

the team based on the individual’s competency level

Brought down the regression defects by more than 50% through effective impact analysis for various verification

rounds

Led a cross functional team to complete a testing phase so that it got ready for FDA approval in time. This in turn,

enabled the product to reach the customers soon

Demonstrated excellent collaboration with different functional teams thereby ensuring work gets accomplished always

within stipulated time

Validated and authorized the release of a software patch resulting in the lift of “stop shipment” thereby directly

impacting the revenue generation

Agile Skills

Effectively planned in Release Train planning sessions that resulted in consistently completing 85% of planned tasks in

more than 15 sprints.

Collaborated with 8 scrum teams and handled clear communication of dependencies between the teams during release

train planning, resulting in tracking of dependencies 100% without any miss.

Mphasis an EDS Company (2005 – 2009)

UNICORN STONES (December 2005 – October 2009)

UNICORN is a GE Healthcare product. It is a complete package for control and supervision of chromatography systems. It

consists of control software and a controller card for interfacing the controlling PC to the chromatography liquid handling

module. Liquid chromatography is used in separation processes, for analytical purposes in the biochemical process industry .

On-site Consultant

Setup a validated environment and carried out end to end testing, effectively troubleshooting whenever there was a crisis.

Completely handled source management of the off-shore code and ensured seamless integration of code on daily basis

Assessed Windows Vista OS - Performed Interoperability testing, trouble-shooted and provided solutions and a detailed

report to the client on the software’s behavior in Windows Vista OS

White box Testing

Prevented defect leakage by following test driven approach using NUnit to write c# code for unit level testing

Achieved code optimization and easily maintainable code by setting up a process for the team to use appropriate code

coverage and coding standards monitoring tools

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

May 2004 - Secured First class with distinction in B.E. EEE from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, TamilNadu, India

#1674, 20th Main, HSR Layout Sector 1, Bengaluru-560102

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