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PUSHKAR RANA

Quality Assurance Manager
Pudong, Shanghai

Summary

To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Audits skills: - MHRA, ANVISA, WHO, EU GMP, UL, NSF.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Head of Quality (QA & QC)

Amol Biotech Limited
Shanghai
11.2018 - Current
  • Oversee quality operations activities; incoming quality control, production process control, quality engineering ensuring process validation and verification compliance, review of deviations/ investigation and escalation of quality issues to address the root cause and implement corrective and preventative actions
  • Collaborate with the operations team to identify process improvement opportunities
  • Responsible for conducting GMP trainings to train the QC, QA and other department based on the organizational training program
  • Coordination with the HO and R&D centre for the new product introduction and transfer of technology to the unit for commercial manufacturing
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
  • Sampling, testing and release of all the raw materials, packaging material, in process, finish product and stability testing
  • Complaints, OOS/OOT, deviations and non-conformances resolution.

QA Manager

Gracure Pharmaceuticals Limited
Delhi
04.2017 - 05.2018
  • Manufacturer of Oral solid dosage, oral liquid, external preparations and sachets.
  • Ensure that the procedures and specifications of vendors under contract are also appropriate and followed, i.e., maintain control and take responsibility for external services providers (contract manufacturers, contract laboratories, etc.).
  • Ensure that appropriate manufacturing in-process controls are implemented and are followed during manufacturing operations and results are satisfactory.
  • Approve or reject drug products manufactured, processed, packed, or held under contract by another company, i.e., final product release is not delegated to a contractor.
  • Validation of HVAC, water system and compressed air. Review and approval of site master file, validation master plan and other QMS document.

Assistant Quality Assurance Manager

Cipla Limited
Chandigarh, Mumbai
07.2015 - 04.2017
  • Product Handled: Tablets, Liquid Oral, Dry Syrup, Ointment, sterile, dry powder injection and Oral Hygiene
  • Responsible for the development/ implementation of the quality strategy plan in compliance with CGMP and CFR requirements at third party manufacturer
  • Managed 21 CMO sites for data integrity and CFR part 11 compliance.
  • Quality oversight of 5 CDMO sites of incoming quality control, manufacturing quality assurance, analytical & microbiology laboratories, quality engineering (statistical quality control), and document control departments.
  • To ensure that manufacturing unit documents and procedures are in line with the latest regulatory requirement.
  • To assess the feasibility of new product and to perform the technology transfer of new product at third party manufacturing sites.
  • To assess the feasibility of new product and to perform technology transfer of new product at third party manufacturing sites.

QC Executive

Indoco Remedies Limited
Chandigarh
11.2010 - 07.2015
  • To prepare and review analytical documents, standard operating procedure, user requirement specification
  • Review and investigation of laboratory incidents and change control
  • Analysis of Finish product, RM/PM and stability samples as per respective SOP
  • Review of QC records, reports of finish product, water analysis and Calibration records of instruments in QC lab
  • Planning, analysis, approval or rejection of all the packing material received at site
  • To conduct training Good Laboratory Practices in the Lab
  • Preparation of QC internal and external calibration schedule and to ensure that the calibrations are performed as per the approved schedule.

Sr. Officer QC

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited
06.2010 - 11.2010
  • Analysis of in-process, finished product and stability product and packing material samples
  • Analysis of cleaning and process validation samples
  • Planning and analysis of packaging materials
  • Calibration of instruments asper written schedule
  • Preparation and standardization of volumetric solution
  • Data recording and review of stability chambers
  • Data entry in SAP.

Sr. Officer QC

Indoco Remedies Limited
Chandigarh
05.2008 - 05.2010

Sampling and testing of raw materials, finish products and packaging material samples.

Preparation of testing reports and certificates of analysis.

Recording and release of material in ERP software.

Calibration of QC instruments.

Officer QC

FDC Limited
Chandigarh
04.2006 - 05.2008
  • Sampling and analysis of raw material finish product, stability and packaging material samples.

Education

Master of Science - Chemistry

Vinayaka Mission University
Salem
05.2010 - 07.2012

Bachelor of Science - Medical Stream (Chemistry, Botany And Zoology)

Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla
Dharamshala
07.1998 - 06.2003

Skills

Product knowledge

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Timeline

Head of Quality (QA & QC)

Amol Biotech Limited
11.2018 - Current

QA Manager

Gracure Pharmaceuticals Limited
04.2017 - 05.2018

Assistant Quality Assurance Manager

Cipla Limited
07.2015 - 04.2017

QC Executive

Indoco Remedies Limited
11.2010 - 07.2015

Sr. Officer QC

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited
06.2010 - 11.2010

Master of Science - Chemistry

Vinayaka Mission University
05.2010 - 07.2012

Sr. Officer QC

Indoco Remedies Limited
05.2008 - 05.2010

Officer QC

FDC Limited
04.2006 - 05.2008

Bachelor of Science - Medical Stream (Chemistry, Botany And Zoology)

Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla
07.1998 - 06.2003
PUSHKAR RANAQuality Assurance Manager