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Manager

Rajan Adhikari

San Antonio,TX

Summary

Accomplished Manager with 11 plus years of progressive experience within Information Systems Management, Data quality and Reporting Domains Over 7 years of experience working with data management and analytical platforms within the pharmaceutical and health care industry. Thrives in competitive markets with unsurpassed drive, passion and commitment to exceeding expectations in customer satisfaction, revenue and cost controls. Innovative and goal-oriented Management professional committed to Data Analytics.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Manager

Astellas Pharma
Northbrook, IL
04.2022 - Current
  • Leading cross-functional workstream to support business needs or resolution of complex problems under direct supervision of project lead, as assigned
  • Managing and triaging requests for new reports/visualizations and change requests, as assigned, and execute any testing plans needed for system/tool improvement and/or implementation
  • Collaborating and negotiating with stakeholders, including project teams, functions, and governance, to ensure implementation and use of streamlined "suite" of reports for decision-making.

Associate Manager

Astellas Pharma
Northbrook, IL
05.2020 - 03.2022
  • Led POC efforts in association with ZS Associates for CRQA team on Site Audit Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Participated in design, implementation, and maintenance of key performance indicators across organization, delivering regular reports according to schedule
  • Managed day-to-day reporting needs, implement decisions made and participate in discussions
  • Created conceptual prototypes and mock-ups of reports and analytics prior to implementation based on business needs
  • Created and reported on performance reporting through relevant metrics in line with industry standards/best practices and Astellas objectives, as assigned
  • Generated unique reports for stakeholders as needed
  • Collaborating and negotiating with stakeholders, including project teams, functions, and governance, to ensure implementation and use of streamlined "suite" of reports for decision-making.

Lead BI Data Quality Analyst (Contractor)

Astellas Pharma
Northbrook, IL
12.2018 - 05.2020
  • Successfully implemented ARE3.0 project, responsible for data quality testing of integration of new and deprecation of old data sources
  • Responsible to coordinate, monitor and ensure data integrity in data warehoused and BI reports
  • Reviewed, tracked, and resolved identified data quality exceptions within source systems within defined time frame to ensured consistent review and resolution
  • Provided analytical and quality control support to data management and reporting teams
  • Led and developed multiple analytical QC tools in MS Excel and Qlik platforms
  • Served as SME for multiple data quality improvement and automation projects
  • Trained and supervised new QA resources on quality standards, SOPs, and business rules
  • Developed QlikView test objects, Ad-hoc analyses, SQL queries to ensure data accuracy in reporting platforms
  • Performed data profiling and data validation on the Master Data Management process.

Lead QA Tester (Contractor)

Blue Cross Blue Shields Association
Chicago, IL
06.2018 - 11.2018
  • Led the 4 resources and ensuring all the acceptance criteria were meet for defined User Stories
  • Created Test Strategy and Test Plan for the delivery of the quality build on time
  • Coordinated with SA and the Development team (Dev) for the new changes applied
  • Participated in the deployment guide (DG) review to understand the overall impact of the changes in the build
  • Prioritized the tasks as per the business requirement
  • Coordinated with the delivery manager for the overall status of the testing

Sr. Quality Assurance Tester (Contractor)

Astellas Pharmaceuticals
Northbrook, IL
05.2016 - 05.2018
  • Developed test plans and test strategies based on URS and FRS
  • Developed and executed test scripts, traceability matrix, and anomaly forms
  • Closely worked with compliance team and project management teams to deliver necessary testing documentation as per the SDLC processes
  • Assisted Project Managers on QA resource planning and Test planning
  • Performed back-end ETL testing and data comparison tests utilizing complex SQL queries
  • Maintained a log of defect issues to analyze root causes and suggested potential solutions
  • Closely worked with cross-functional teams, project management teams and analytical teams for successful and timely delivery of projects and SDLC milestones

Sr. QA Analyst (Contractor)

Wells Fargo
San Antonio, TX
07.2015 - 01.2016
  • Responsible for handling quality assurance and test environment problems and issues in Assets Preservation Management Projects
  • Served as a coordinator for all testing activities with offshore and onshore team from India in different projects
  • Developed and Executed Selenium automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Selenium IDE in Java
  • Implemented different automation frameworks like Page Objects Model and TestNG Automation framework in Assets Preservation Management modules
  • Conducted daily defect call with co-ordination with IFT team, UAT team, Development and management and prepared meeting minute and communicated to participants

Software QA Tester

Radiant Infotech Pvt. Ltd
02.2010 - 10.2014
  • Coordinated with onshore and offshore testing team
  • Created and maintained RTM to ensure that all requirements are traceable from top to bottom based on test plan
  • Closely went through and worked on all the stages of SDLC cycle and designed and executed Functional, Integration, Regression, System test scripts

Education

Master of Science - Data Science

Elmhurst University
Elmhurst, IL
08.2019 - 07.2021

Bachelor of Science - Data Analytics

Rasmussen University
Romeoville, IL
09.2017 - 01.2019

Bachelor of Science - Microbiology

Tribhuvan University
Kathmandu, Nepal
12.2003 - 05.2006

Skills

Project Management

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Software

Tableau

Qlik

PowerBI

Jupyter Notebook

MS SQL Server

Netezza

Amazon Redshift

Oracle12c

Jira

ALM

Python

R

SAS

Java

Dataiku

RapidMiner

Timeline

Manager

Astellas Pharma
04.2022 - Current

Associate Manager

Astellas Pharma
05.2020 - 03.2022

Master of Science - Data Science

Elmhurst University
08.2019 - 07.2021

Lead BI Data Quality Analyst (Contractor)

Astellas Pharma
12.2018 - 05.2020

Lead QA Tester (Contractor)

Blue Cross Blue Shields Association
06.2018 - 11.2018

Bachelor of Science - Data Analytics

Rasmussen University
09.2017 - 01.2019

Sr. Quality Assurance Tester (Contractor)

Astellas Pharmaceuticals
05.2016 - 05.2018

Sr. QA Analyst (Contractor)

Wells Fargo
07.2015 - 01.2016

Software QA Tester

Radiant Infotech Pvt. Ltd
02.2010 - 10.2014

Bachelor of Science - Microbiology

Tribhuvan University
12.2003 - 05.2006
Rajan Adhikari