Rachana Nair, Project Lead

Rachana Nair

Project Lead

Oberthur Technologies

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Bachelors of Engineering Information Technology
Experience
15 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 6 Months

Project Lead at Oberthur Technologies
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since October 2012

Responsibilities:
- Assist in the project initiation process and project scoping.
- Requirements gathering and analysis.
- Project planning, executing, monitoring & controlling and closing.
- Meet cost standards by monitoring expenses; implementing cost-saving actions.
- Assure quality solution by developing and completing test plans, maintaining project and technical documentation.
- Provide project status reports.
- Close follow ups with all the work stream owners and external dependencies.

QA Team Lead - Smart Cards at Cupola Plastic Cards
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2011 to October 2012

Responsibilities:
- Profile validation testing.
- Personalization validation testing.
- Understand customer’s operational requirements and ensure the implementation of effective solutions in the production department by:
- Testing the technical implementations done to ensure minimal manual interventions in the operations process.
- Creating process flows and procedures for the operations team.
- Ensuring the understanding as well as willingness to follow the processes defined for the operations team.
- Manage the testing projects with the QA team and monitor performance.
- Create testing project reports, resource utilization reports, sign off documents and set up weekly meetings with the reporting manager.

Software Test Engineer at Infosys Technologies Limited
  • India - Pune
  • September 2008 to July 2011

Responsibilities:
- Gather project requirements and analyze the same to define test cases.
- Execute test cases and circulate test reports along with test monitoring dashboards to test lead and test managers.
- Defect logging and tracking.
- Regression suite enhancement.
- System integration testing, regression testing and UAT support.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Bachelors of Engineering Information Technology
  • at Engineering from Mumbai University
  • June 2008

First Class with Distinction in Bachelor's degree (Information Technology).

Specialties & Skills

Client Communication
Project Management
Payments
Software Testing
Card testing, project reporting & management, client communication, software testing
Project Management

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Marathi
Expert
Malayalam
Expert

Training and Certifications

PRINCE2 Practitioner certificate in Project Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2015
Valid Until:
May 2020
PRINCE2 Foundation in Project Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
ISO 9001:2008, QMS Internal Auditor (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013
Valid Until:
September 2016
ISTQB - Foundation level (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2010
Valid Until:
June 2010

Hobbies

  • Drawing, writing, anchoring, reading
    Elementary certification completed in drawing with B+ grade at school level. Hosted various functions at school level