Anand Sriachutananda

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Nineteen years of experience in Quality Assurance/Team Management in various roles such as Senior QA Analyst, Test Lead and Validation Analyst for Pharmaceutical, Insurance and Retail organizations. Expertise includes regulatory and compliance systems. Strong in interpersonal, organizational, documentation and communication skills. Self-motivated and ability to take ownership, responsibility and accountability.

Skills summary:

In a Lead QA role worked in the following areas:

Regulatory and Compliance for Pharmaceutical industry

Claims and image/work flow system for Insurance company

SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) review and approval

Coordination between business, development, validation & end user teams

Corporate compliance plan implementation and support

Documentation and process reviews

Risk management and analysis

Business requirements analysis/breakdown to identify test criteria

SME (Subject Matter Expert) for complex applications

Test strategy formulation and implementation of testing methodologies

Communication of issues to key project stakeholders

Defect resolution and management

Technical skills:

Testing tools: HP Quality Center 11.0, QTP, WinRunner, Test Director, LoadRunner

Languages: Visual Basic, SQL, TSL

Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, UNIX

Databases: Oracle 10x, MS Access, SQL Server

Technologies: AWD 10.0, FileNet, .NET, Java, Input Accel, Kofax, Webfocus, VSS

Certifications:

LOMA 280 (Insurance Business Knowledge)

LOMA 290 (Insurance Company Operations)

CSTE (Certified Software Test Engineer)

TestSuite 7.0 Certified Product Specialist

Professional Experience

AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL (Experis Inc.) Aug 2012 – Aug 2014

Worked as a Senior QA Engineer in the Application Quality Regulation and Compliance team for the GPO and PPD divisions at Abbott Labs/AbbVie Inc.

Worked in a seven member SQA team responsible for verification of various critical, non-critical and other quality specific projects for the successful pre-approval and post approval of requirement specification, design documentation and traceability matrix.

Actively participated in Audit processes providing the required information to internal auditors.

Interacted closely with the business analysts from business areas, system analysts from the development team and integration leads from the Data Integration teams during the Requirements and Design phases of the project.

In a Lead role, responsible for coordination with Testing leads and Test manager during the final validation phase prior to production implementation.

Organized and managed defect meetings with the QA, development and business team in order to review, report, resolve and retest the defects.

Ensured that the Project team follows the System Development Life Cycle processes.

Completed the packet masters containing the required documentation as per the standard process taking the project to closure after successful implementation

Ensured that the regulatory requirements are implemented and met to the clients satisfaction

Provided detailed quality risks and updates to the senior leadership on the progress of the projects in a timely manner.

Identified and communicated process improvements to the SQA team.

Allstate Insurance Co., Northbrook, IL (Infosys Technologies) Feb 2007 – July 2012

Automated workflow distributor is a workflow system that captures, stores and routes incoming policy applications to appropriate departments. Kofax is an imaging software for scanning paper applications. Work Flow includes routing and information verification and adjudication of the insurance policy. The electronic format of workflow improves the efficiency and performance of processing an application.

As a Senior QA Lead responsible for the coordination of Application Quality Services team for the workflow system at Allstate Financial Technology. This included projects from new business, annuity and Inforce business areas.

Led a ten- member offshore QA team that was responsible for testing and validation of AWD (Automated Workflow Distributor).

Successfully completed requirements gathering, functional testing, system testing, regression testing, end-to-end testing and implementation testing of the AWD.

SME for AWD, Image and workflow systems.

Coordinated tasks between the QA and Business team members in an efficient manner.

Tracked the testing tasks for on time completion of project deliverables.

Interacted closely with the Infrastructure and Data Integration teams during the System testing and implementation phases of AWD implementation.

Coordinated the testing effort with offshore testing team in Mysore, India and nearshore development team in Northern Ireland.

Organized and managed defect meetings with QA team, development team and business users in order to analyze, resolve and retest the defects.

Provided timely updates to the project management office on the progress of the testing cycle.

Identified and communicated process improvements to the development and business areas.

Followed Sarbanes-Oxley methodology for all projects.

Responsible for validating test strategy, test plan, test inspections and test results.

Mentored and motivated QA team members.

Environment: AWD 10.0, Kofax, Quality Center, QTP, LoadRunner, Visual Basic, C#, Oracle 10.0, Windows 7/XP, Java, .NET

AllState: Enterprise image and work flow system Jan 2001 - Jan 2007

Worked as a QA Lead responsible for coordinating the testing effort of the application for projects involving Life new business, Annuity, Payout Annuity, Contract change, Inforce, Broker Dealer and AWD business areas.

Led a five-member QA team responsible for validation of IW (Image and Workflow) projects.

Interacted closely with the business users from project initiation to the implementation phase Subject Matter Expert for IW, testing functions and methodologies.

Interacted closely with the Infrastructure and Data Integration teams during the System testing and implementation phase of IW project.

Coordinated the testing effort with the offsite testing team in Northern Ireland.

Organized and managed defect meetings with QA team, development team and business users in order to identify and resolve defects.

Participated in change request meetings to document changes and implement procedures to test changes.

Responsible for validating test strategy, test plan, test inspections and test results.

Environment: .NET, FileNet, AWD, Input Accel, Quality Center, TestDirector, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Visual Basic, C#, Oracle, Windows NT/2000, Webfocus, Visual Source Safe.

Sears Holdings Corporation., Hoffman Estates, IL Feb 2000 - Dec 2000

The Sign Management System is a new state-of-the-art system for signs electronically transmitted and printed in the retail stores to replace process currently in use. This eliminates any signing errors resulting in price integrity violations thereby improving customer service. It also reduces the amount of work for store associates while printing, putting up and taking down signs and improves sales through better value proposition to the customer.

Worked as a Validation Analyst in a four-member QA team, responsible for testing the application.

Created test plans, test cases and test data based on the requirements and design.

Executed and validated the test results.

Performed extensive manual and automated testing for ensuring the functionality of the system.

Interacted with the offsite development team in United Kingdom on a regular basis to report the discrepancies found during structured and random testing and followed up on the same to get the fix based on the severity and priority.

Verified that the issues reported are in sync with the reporting system followed by the development team.

Interacted with the business users to see that the business requirements are satisfied and tested as per their specifications.

Analyzed user requirements, attended change request meeting to document changes and implement procedures to test changes.

Involved in the end-to-end testing of the application.

Worked closely with vendors, interfacing system (POS) and business partners to ensure accuracy of the software.

Environment: Windows NT, Visual Basic, Oracle 8.x, WinRunner

FedEx Corporation., Memphis, TN Jul 1999 – Jan 2000

The web based order entry system allows the employees of the company to order regular office as well as other supplies over the company Intranet.

Worked as a Test Analyst in a six-member test team.

Analyzed system requirements, developed test plans and scripts for testing this Netscape based Intranet Order Entry System.

Responsible for establishing the overall test environment.

Performed functional, GUI, security and performance testing of this Web based application.

Performed data sourcing and integrity testing using SQL.

Interacted with the developers as well as business users on application bugs.

Involved in the end-to-end testing of application.

Environment: Oracle8.0, Windows NT, Java

Cranes Software International Ltd., Bangalore, India Feb 1996 – Jun 1999

Worked as a Software Tester in the testing team responsible for user acceptance testing of MATLAB range of software.

Developed test cases based on requirements provided by users and development team.

Tested interactive GUI based demonstration packages used by end users to evaluate the MATLAB product line and provided written analysis of the test case results to the development team.

Simulated and tested electronic circuits using PSpice. Interacted on a regular basis with the development, tech-support, sales, marketing and operations teams.

Developed test procedures, test plan and test cases for all modules.

Executed the test cases both manually and also by using automated testing tools for regression testing.

Prioritized the defects and kept track of them through bug fix database.

Environment: Oracle, Windows 3.11/95, Winrunner.

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering, Bangalore University

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