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Helsinki Metropolitan Area

Helsinki Area, Finland

• As a primary point of contact for client delivery teams, planned and scheduled testing projects for major pharmaceutical companies and tracked them to completion in time for clinical trials• Handling testing activities of all eCOA products in the company’s portfolio at the platform level, which includes integration with various medical devices, wearables, and sensors to ensure data quality and reliability• Actively involved in Product design discussions to conceptualize and finalize the requirements, implementation, and risk management• Maintained excel reports to monitor and assess progress, resources, status, and quality of products to help management make decisions • Mentored less experienced team members resulting in the quick ramp-up of testing resources

India

Responsibilities as Business Analyst:• Managed the delivery of a competitive pricing tool that enabled clients to streamline revenue opportunities • As a primary interface with clients, gathered, analyzed requirements to check feasibility and discussed limitations and alternate solutions with stakeholders• Documented functional specifications on module level and prioritized user stories to guide the development and testing teams• Demonstrated the product capabilities to customers from various markets to extend the tool’s usability across geographies• Created user manuals for web-based applications to ensure easy usability for the end-usersSenior Test Engineer:• Managed the testing life cycle from creating test plan, estimation, designing test cases, test execution, and reporting• Supervised other testing teams for adherence to process and involved in brainstorming sessions with many projects to bring out maximum test scenarios• Mentored juniors and other senior test engineers in critical projects• Worked in big teams and also as one-person testing team

Chennai, India

• Worked at client location in Nokia, Finland over a year as a Test Lead to roll out an intranet site for over 50K employees• Supervised and mentored offshore testing team of 5 members to meet the client expectations and deliver quality testing• Coordinated and delivered four parallel projects which enabled clients to easily collaborate with their teams and store huge data• Conducted numerous interactive sessions with users to improve user experience• Over 4 years of experience in all aspects of testing - designing test scenarios, test cases, executing tests and reporting test status• Provided technical support to troubleshoot queries from end users in the applications that we developed

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