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Harish Rajan

Associate Program Director
Narsingi

Summary

17+ years of experience in strategic consulting, IT Enterprise applications implementation & support, Digital transformation, and Delivery Management, Automation initiatives, collaborating closely with business & IT stake holders at multiple enterprise level.


Dynamic leader with proven track record of successfully managing projects and initiatives and achieving desired business objectives. Skilled in developing and executing strategies, managing budgets and resources, and leading cross-functional teams. Consistently produces tangible outcomes that exceed expectations.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Program Director

Birlasoft
11.2019 - 02.2025

• Collaborated closely with the product owner on backlog grooming to keep the product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring that acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were ready for estimation.
• Created transparency and predictability across teams using appropriate tools and metrics, including story mapping, roadmaps, sprint plans, burn down charts, cycle times, and release plans.

• Protect the development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on the product backlog and sprint timeline.
• Contributed to product roadmap planning, project scheduling, and release management.
• Reduced the number of blockers by 50%, and increased team ability to deliver high-quality features.
• Assisted product owner in CI/CD release planning.

• Facilitated & participated in scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review &
Sprint Retrospective.

• Maintained an updated release cycle every sprint, ensuring feature delivery on committed time.
• Proactively collaborated with the Product Owner for the last year and effectively maintained the team's backlog.
• Gathering input from all team members to uncover potential issues. Raised risk to ensure transparency.
• Monitored team health by using tools like JIRA and Confluence.
• Built trust and positive working relationships with teams to support the delive
• Exposure to DevOps, coordinated cross-functional teams, and improved team's velocity by 50%.
• Coached teams to take ownership of each deliverable (stories, sprint, and release wise).

Test Manager

ClinAsia Labs
04.2018 - 02.2019
  • Involved in End to End Computer System Validation and Testing in CT Renaissance (A CTMS – Clinical Trial Management System Application) and handling project management and people management activities
  • Participate in project scheduling activities and associated risk analysis and derive an agreeable mitigation plan
  • Develop good understanding of the Business and System(s) under test for application related to CTMS
  • Responsible for Requirement analysis, Functional Testing and Computer System Validation activities and delivery of the project deliverables.
  • Tools used are Bugzilla, TestLink, Jmeter, Selenium

Project Manager

HCL Technologies
03.2014 - 04.2017
  • Accountable for project deliverables and managing the project team.
  • Participate in project scheduling activities and associated risk analysis and derive an agreeable mitigation plan
  • Handle the complete Software Development Lifecycle of the applications.
  • Also, performed the role of Test Manager for the Offshore Testing Team, responsible for delivery of all testing and Computer system validation activities.
  • Responsible for training of the team members and people management activities.
  • Tools used are HP ALM, UFT, IBM-RIT (Formerly Green Hat Tester) MS Project

Test Manager

Quintiles
05.2013 - 03.2014
  • Involve in Preparation/Review of Test Plan, Test Strategy, Requirement Analysis, Traceability Matrix, Test Summary Report, Metrics, IQ, OQ and PQ, Validation Summary Report documents in accordance with the customer’s requirements and FDA guidelines
  • Participate in project scheduling activities and associated risk analysis and derive an agreeable mitigation plan
  • As a Test Manage, responsible for delivery of all testing and Computer system validation activities.
  • Handling the daily status calls with various tracks\teams (onsite and offshore) to ensure all adhere to the plan and to address any issues\queries

Senior Software Engineer

Aris Global
03.2012 - 05.2013
  • AgCapture is an Electronic Clinical Data Management tool, catering to various clients and a highly customizable tool, where in it can be modified extensively to suit the client requirements.
  • Participate in project scheduling activities and associated risk analysis and derive an agreeable mitigation plan.
  • Develop good understanding of the Business and System(s) under test for application related to CTMS.
  • Responsible for Requirement analysis, End to End Testing and Computer System Validation activities and delivery of the project deliverables.
  • Involve in Preparation/Review of Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Summary Report, Traceability Matrix, Metrics, IQ, OQ and PQ, Validation Summary Report documents in accordance with the customer’s requirements and FDA guidelines.
  • Handling the daily status calls with various tracks\teams (onsite and offshore) to ensure all adhere to the plan and to address any issues\queries.
  • Identify, research, report, track and verify software defects proactively and comprehensively. Participate in root-case analysis of defects.
  • Tools used are Bugzilla, HP QC, JMeter

Education

Bachelor’s - Computer Science

Osmania University
Hyderabad
01.1999

Skills

Project management methodologies

Scrum Processes, Sprint Planning, Backlog Management

Effective scheduling

Conflict Management, Servant Leadership

Project execution management

Product Management, Risk Management

GAMP 5 Methodology

Computer System Validation (CSV)

21 CFR Part 11, EU Annexe 11

HP Quality Center/ALM

JIRA, Bugzilla, Test Link, Bugzilla

SDLC, DevOps

Professional Synopsis

Good exposure to Life Sciences and Healthcare and BFSI domains.  Tasks include Project Management, Delivery Management and Change Management, Automation initiatives, Computer System Validation, Staff Augmentation. Spearheaded the development and implementation of risk-based validation strategies, ensured compliance with FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU GMP Annex 11, and GAMP 5, 

Projects Executed

  • Invacare – LSH/Clinical Domain, Birlasoft, Associate Program Director, Role: Delivery Manager, Scrum Master) - SAP S/4 HANA Landscape, 2019-11-01, 2025-02-28, Team Size - 200+. The Invacare SKYDIVE project has been initiated with the purpose to optimize and harmonize the technical operations processes.
  • CT Renaissance, Phillip Morris International, 2018-04-01, 2019-02-28, Test Manager, Manual Testing and Computer System Validation, HP ALM, Test Link, Team Sze - 25, Involved in End to End Computer System Validation and Testing in CT Renaissance.
  • Merck – MMD – QCC4 and Deutsche Bank – FMS Project, HCL Technologies, 2014-03-01, 2017-04-30, Project Manager, JAVA, SQL, Team Size - 60, Accountable for project deliverables and managing the project team.
  • ELVIS - Content Management, 2013-05-01, 2014-03-31, Test Manager, Manual Testing, Computer System Validation, Functional, Team Size - 26, Involve in Preparation/Review of Test Plan, Test Strategy, Requirement Analysis.
  • AgCapture – Clinical Data Management Application, Aris Global, 2012-03-01, 2013-05-31, Software engineer, Manual Testing, Computer System Validation, Functional testing, exploratory testing, database testing, Team Size - 23, agCapture is an Electronic Clinical Data Management tool.

Timeline

Associate Program Director

Birlasoft
11.2019 - 02.2025

Test Manager

ClinAsia Labs
04.2018 - 02.2019

Project Manager

HCL Technologies
03.2014 - 04.2017

Test Manager

Quintiles
05.2013 - 03.2014

Senior Software Engineer

Aris Global
03.2012 - 05.2013

Bachelor’s - Computer Science

Osmania University
Harish RajanAssociate Program Director