Harika Bodala
Regulatory Affairs & Quality focused professional with specialized training in pharmaceuticals, natural health products, and global regulatory frameworks
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Regulatory Affairs & Quality focused professional with specialized training in pharmaceuticals, natural health products, and global regulatory frameworks. Currently completing a Post-Graduate Diploma in Regulatory Affairs at AAPS, with hands-on experience preparing CMC dossier sections, reviewing labeling requirements, and ensuring compliance with Health Canada, FDA, and EMA guidelines. I am detail-oriented, compliance-driven, and genuinely interested in pharmaceutical manufacturing and Natural Health Product environments.
Experience
Pharmacy Technician - Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy - Winnipeg, MB
(2023-02 - 2025-11)
- Processed incoming medication orders, counted, and labeled prescriptions with high accuracy and efficiency in accordance with pharmacy policies and Health Canada industry regulations.
- Utilized electronic database systems (Kroll) to input precise data entry profiles, ensuring a 98% error-free verification rate under strict GxP operational guidelines.
- Managed the pharmacy inventory tracking, ensuring proper stocking and verification of expiry metrics for controlled substances and narcotics.
- Collaborated with pharmacists and healthcare professionals to resolve prescription discrepancies and maintain audit-ready daily registries under strict PIPEDA privacy guidelines.
Quality Analyst - Hetero Drugs Limited - Hyderabad, India
(2018-01 - 2020-11)
- Administered comprehensive quality assurance reviews over commercial processing lines, ensuring all materials and final technical data packages met strict international specifications.
- Spearheaded internal quality self-inspection programs, cataloging operational variances and producing compliance reports to maintain permanent site readiness for health authorities.
- Verified raw data records, certificates of analysis (CoA), and manufacturing batch logs prior to quality release routing.
- Enforced strict facility adherence to cGMP guidelines by monitoring documentation workflows and evaluating personnel training modules to minimize operational non-compliance.
Research & Development (R&D) Analyst - Dr. Reddy's Laboratories - Hyderabad, India
(2013-03 - 2016-10)
- Led root-cause investigations alongside cross-functional QC and plant production personnel to resolve unexpected analytical testing and chemical contamination anomalies, deploying CAPA strategies.
- Authored and revised high-stakes technical documents, standard operating procedures (SOPs), working guidelines, and Batch Manufacturing Records (BMR) to enforce rigid compliance and remove processing ambiguities.
- Facilitated the seamless technical transfer of optimized manufacturing methodologies and critical parameter data packages from benchtop R&D laboratories to commercial scale-up production units.
- Maintained laboratory infrastructure and instrument logs under strict cGLP/cGMP parameters, immediately documenting out-of-specification (OOS) trends to support product integrity.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - Clinical Research, Pharmacovigilance and Regulatory Affairs (CRPRA) - Academy of Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences (AAPS) (2026-09)
PG DIPLOMA - Pharmacy Technician - NBCC (2024)
Bachelor of Pharmacy - B.Pharm - Osmania University (2007)
