Vinod Thiagarajan is a business and test analyst with over 3 years of experience in the financial services domain. He has expertise in database querying, testing applications, and reporting defects. He is proficient with tools like HP Quality Center, Microsoft Excel, and SQL. Vinod holds an MBA in Finance and Operations and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He is pursuing additional certifications in securities markets and supply chain management.

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 />