Location: Apex, NC

Shailaja Adiga

Phone: 919-***-****

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Profile

Technical leader with 12 years of experience in Software testing, quality assurance, and project management in a highly regulated medical device and health care industry

Result oriented, Team player and execution focused with technology and business strategy background

Strong leadership and communication skills with proven ability to manage multiple projects in multiple locations and achieve organizational goals

Key Accomplishments

Received Restricted Stock Award (RSA) in NextGen Healthcare and Boston Scientific for outstanding contribution

Put together final verification and validation reports for different regulatory bodies – FDA (US Food and Drug Administration), EMA (European Medicines Agency) and MHLW (Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare)

Represented verification and validation team during the audits conducted by different regulatory bodies- FDA and EMA

Areas of Expertise

Project Management, Resource Management

Confluence, MS Word, Excel, Power Point

HP Quality Center

Python, Java, HTML,VB & Java Scripts

SDLC, Agile and SCRUM

Jira, PVCS Tracker, Version Manager

Requirement Analysis, Mobile testing

QTP, SQL and Oracle

Scrum Master

Mentoring and Team building

Manager @ NextGen HealthCare, Bangalore, India May 2016- July 2018

Patient Portal (PP): NextGen Patient Portal is a consumer oriented healthcare website, enables enrolled patients to communicate with their practice over secure internet portal via desktop and mobile devices. Using Patient Portal, patients can schedule appointments, renew medications, view their statements and make payments, view their personal health records.

Managed team of 20+ engineers, ensured all quality metrics and deliverables were met.

Worked cross functionally with other managers, Directors, Sr. Directors to streamline operational processes. Part of stakeholder leadership team that plans roadmap for the product.

Oversaw automation of 80% of regression suite using QTP by automation team

Tracking deliverables to the plan, gather and publish daily/weekly reporting to senior leadership

Performed duties of scrum master, mitigated project risks and collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure quality deliverables.

Ensured Patient Portal website got Certification Level A compliance for WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)

Mentor the team members, help with their career plans, set the goals and objectives and conduct performance reviews

Involved in hiring resources, came up with training plan for fresher group

Worked with multiple teams and ensured environments were ready for Sales team on time for demo.

Team Lead @ Cerner Corporation, Bangalore, India May 2015 – May 2016

MPages: MPages is a highly customizable, knowledge solutions offering that provide a consolidated view of information contained throughout the electronic medical record. Using MPages, customers can create interactive, visually rich views of real time clinical information.

Leading implementation of software testing strategies and processes

Tracking deliverables to the plan, gather and publish daily/weekly reporting to the stakeholders

Performed duties of scrum master, coordinated with other stakeholders and teams to streamline activities and plan for successful execution and delivery

Conduct and support RCA meeting, scrum meetings and Lessons Learnt sessions

Mentor the team members, help with their career plans, set the goals and objectives and conduct performance reviews

Leading additional initiatives in line to the growth of business

Involved in campus recruitment and interview drives to hire required resources

Sr. Software Engineer@ Boston Scientific CRM, MN May 2007 – Nov 2013

Boston Scientific develops web and mobile based digital health products for implanted cardiac rhythm management devices – pacemakers, Implantable Cardiac Devices. The System included a web portal and a Linux based communicator device that uploaded data from the patient’s implanted device to the portal. The products help physicians remotely monitor the health of patients and the status of implanted devices thereby reducing the need for hospitalization and in clinic visits.

Involved in requirement peer review process, gap analysis thereby minimizing the gap between functionality and documentation

Designed test strategy through inputs from marketing, regulatory and development teams

Trained and coached new team members at both onsite and offsite in tools and processes

Involved in resource planning, estimation effort, hardware/software capacity planning for multiple large scale projects and work allocation to global team

Conducted scrum meetings in agile environment and managed multiple teams

Led a team of system evaluation engineers in system design verification team (black box testing) and system validation team (user need based testing) and User Acceptance Testing effort.

Involved in test planning/strategy and RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) preparation

Involved in identification/creation of test scenarios and test cases; sprint planning and presented sprint retrospective to upper management

Developed automated test scripts using python, executed the same

Performed all the testing activities – functional testing, regression testing, performance and exploratory testing, reporting bugs, peer review of test cases, scripts and REA.

Sr. Programmer @ Accenture Technical Service, MN, USA Aug 2005 – May 2007

Clients: Best Buy, Boston Scientific

Generated summary reports on project status, issues & risks from various teams, to be used by ELT

Wrote SQL scripts, extracted and analyzed data from the database to generate reports

Identified and created test scenarios and test cases, developed and executed test scripts using QTP

Prepared knowledge documents to share issues/solutions to be used by the team

Trainee Programmer @ Accenture Technical Service, MN, USA Aug 2005 – Oct 2005

Underwent extensive training program provided by Accenture in Java and HTML

Education & Certification

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) since April 2013

Master of Science in Statistics - 1999 from University of Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

BSc in Computer Science -1997 from Govinda Dasa College, Surathkal, Karnataka, India

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