1. VINOD THIAGARAJAN<br />101, Micasa flora apts<br />Kompally, Off Medchal road<br />Andhra Pradesh Tel: +91-9885191977<br />Hyderabad-500014 Email: emailtovinodt@gmail.com<br />OBJECTIVE<br />To serve in the capacity of a business and test analyst specializing in financial services domain<br />technical skills<br />Databases: Microsoft Access 2007<br />Applications: HP Quality Center 10.0, Microsoft Excel 2007 (Power user), PowerPoint<br />Languages: Basic querying skills (SQL)<br />Professional experience<br />Mahindra Satyam Hyderabad<br />Business and test analyst May 2010-present<br />Reviewing the project requirements and ensuring completeness of requirements from testing perspective.<br />Arriving at initial estimates for testing efforts by creating a detailed work breakdown structure of the work involved in testing all the modules contained in the application<br />Understanding the application with the help of artifacts such as requirement and functional specification documents and using them as an input for writing test cases<br />Manually test the application to validate all the functionality is working as per expected. <br />Review all the deliverables from the testing team and ensure coverage of all functional requirements from the end user’s perspective<br />Reporting the functional defects in the defect reporting system and validate the fixes when they are available. <br />Collaborate with client business analyst team during UAT test phases and addressing issues and concerns, if any<br />Strong MS Office skills - Excel (Formulas & V Lookups, Creating database connections to MS-Access), Access (Database concepts, data management & querying) and PowerPoint (Process flow diagrams, Visual presentation using charts, etc)<br />Hands-on knowledge in using HP Quality Center tool for tracking, analyzing and reporting of defects<br />Good knowledge and understanding of software engineering processes and methodologies<br />sales research analyst July 2008-May 10<br />Prepared sales aids/collaterals from information contained in proposals and effectively used PowerPoint presentations to highlight the proposed solutions to sales relationship manager<br />Created financial models using Microsoft Excel to analyze and compare relative attractiveness of customers against their competition<br />Expertise in using secondary research sources and databases such as Hoovers in collecting public information on prospective companies<br />Supported consulting workforce in conducting financial analysis on prospective customers and coming up with opportunity areas of improvement<br />Education<br />Master of Business Administration, Finance and Operations management, PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore, 2006-2008, CGPA: 7.0/10 <br />Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and electronics engineering, Anna University, Chennai, 2001-2005, Percentage: 70.6<br />certifications<br />NSE(National Stock Exchange) Certified in Mutual funds module<br />Pursuing NSE’s certification in Securities market basic module<br />Certified by APICS (American production and inventory control society) in Basics of Supply chain management module of CPIM (Certification in production and inventory management) (APICS ID: 1722846), April 2010<br />Certified in Oracle 9i: Introduction to SQL as a part of Oracle workforce development program, November 2005<br />Academic projects<br />Risk management in construction projects (With data collection and knowledge inputs from Larsen and Toubro ECC ltd, Manapakkam), July 2007<br />An empirical investigation into the relationship between stock beta (systematic risk) and accounting ratios (Self), April 2008<br />Personal details<br />Date of Birth: 19/05/1984<br />Marital status: Unmarried<br />Current location: Hyderabad<br />Desired location: Anywhere in India<br />Current CTC: 4, 43,000 p.a<br />Expected CTC: As per market norms<br />Languages: English and Tamil<br />Vinod Thiagarajan<br /> Name and Signature<br />