John Vijay Thomas E-Mail: ***********@*****.***
Phone: 961*******
OVERALL SUMMARY
. Total 10 yrs and 4 months of Working experience in Software Quality
Assurance, Leading development and testing projects in CMMi-Level 5
Companies.
. Currently working as a Quality Lead in Tata Consultancy Services for
the past 2 yr for product implementation for a leading European Bank
across 50 countries.
. Around 5.5 yrs of Working experience in Software Quality Assurance.
. Having experience in process implementation and International Quality
Standard like CMMI.
. Experience in Planning, execution, monitoring and tracking of projects
right from estimation stage till closure.
. Around 4.7 yrs of Working experience in Software application
development and testing in US Technology Resource (now UST Global).
. Experience in Requirements Gathering, Analysis and Design .
. Skills Asp.Net, VB.Net, C#.Net with Visual studio.Net and SQL Server
2000 with Enterprise Architecture.
. Knowledge and experience in Object Oriented Analysis and Design
. Windows Xp, NT 4.0 / Windows 9x as Operating Systems
. Posses good Communication skills and Problem solving Skills.
Skills:
Domain Knowledge: Tools
Finance Enterprise Architecture
Entertainment Microsoft Visual Source
Health Care Safe
Quick Test Pro.
GUI/Languages:
ASP.Net, VB.Net, C#.Net, JavaScript.
Operating Systems
Windows NT 4.0
DBMS / RDBMS: Windows 9x /Windows 2000
SQL Server 2000 Windows Xp
Academic Qualifications:
B.Tech with first class (66.65%) in Industrial Engineering from College of
Engineering, Trivandrum (2002 Pass Out)
12th from Vikram HSSC, Bhopal with 64.88% - First Class (1996 Pass Out)
10th from Campion School, Bhopal with 78.61% - Distinction (1994 Pass Out)
Present Organisation:
Tata Consultancy Services Limited.
Vydehi Hospital, Bangalore.
http://www.tcs.com/homepage/Pages/default.aspx
Projects Executed
1. Quality Lead for a leading European Bank
Position : Quality Lead(PMO)
Designation : Asst. Consultant (Process
Quality Group).
Duration : 2 Year.
Organisation : Tata Consultancy Services
Client : Deutsche bank.
Responsibilities : Quality Lead, Process
consultant, Project SQA, PMO activities, Change
Management.
Description: Involved in
Addressing customer related process concerns.
Defining, generating and reporting monthly and weekly
metrics to the client.
Reporting monthly metrics internally within the
organization.
Single point of contact for all process related
consultation and queries within the project.
Internal verifications and reporting of process
compliance within the project.
Coordinating and facilitating reviews and audit for
the project.
Coordinating and facilitating closure of issues and
non compliance raised by customer and internal audits
and review.
Coordinating and tracking change management process
within the project.
1. Project SQA for leading US Bank.
Position : Project SQA
Designation : Manager Business Planning
-Operations (Process & Quality Management Group).
Duration : 3 Years.
Organisation : Oracle Financial Services
Software
Client : Citibank & Central Bank of
Barbados.
Responsibilities : Project SQA, Auditor.
Description: Involved in
Review and closure of estimates.
Conducting and participating project kick off
meeting, task kick off meetings, Causal Analysis
meetings.
Review and closure of project plans (Combined Plan as
well as schedule in MPP.)
Review of monthly metrics.
Involved in Project Monitoring and Tracking, Risk
Tracking, review of project metrics.
Conducting of Process and baseline audit and
circulation of audit reports to all stakeholders.
Release verification and certificate circulation.
Review and closure of final metrics and project
closure documents.
Managing and tracking activities of SQA's(Jr.
SQA's)
2. Project SQA for leading US Bank.
Position : Project SQA
Designation : Associate Consultant (Process &
Quality Management Group).
Duration : 6 months.
Organisation : Oracle Financial Services
Software
Client : Citibank and Barclays Bank.
Responsibilities : Project SQA.
Description: Involved in
Conducting and participating project kick off
meeting, task kick off meetings, Causal Analysis
meetings.
Review and closure of project plans (Combined Plan as
well as schedule in MPP.)
Review of monthly metrics.
Involved in Project Monitoring and Tracking, Risk
Tracking, review of project metrics.
Review of project deliverables like functional
specification, design document, code, unit test plan,
system test plan, system test cases etc.
Conducting of Process and baseline audit and
circulation of audit reports to all stakeholders.
Release verification and certificate circulation.
Review and closure of final metrics and project
closure documents.
ECommerce Website Enhancement
3. Position : Test Lead.
Duration : 4 Months.
Organisation : US Technology Resource
Client : Costco Retail, US.
Responsibilities : Test Lead. Tracking the
execution of test phase including test case
preparation,
Execution through continuous monitoring.
Status reporting and Issue escalation
Technologies : Asp.net, VB.Net, SQL
server 2000.
Description: This enhancement project involves the
retail site to be optimised for search engines so
that the rating of this retail Ecommerce website goes
up in all search engines as well as to make this site
compatible with the American disability act
Promotion Management
4. Position : Team Member.
Duration : 4 Months.
Organisation : US Technology Resource
Client : International Trucks
and Engines
Responsibilities : Development and Technical
Lead.
Technologies : Asp.net, VB.Net, SQL
server 2000.
Description: This application is used by internal
user as well as by users like dealers etc. This is
basically developed to track the effectiveness of a
promotion being issued for certain products. This
enhancement project included certain additions of
fields as well as functionality. To track the
promotions more effectively.
5. ACSC Migration Project
Position : Team Member.
Duration : 4 months.
Organisation : US Technology Resource.
Client : American Automobile
Association
Responsibilities : Test Lead and Defect
Prevention Controller.
Technologies : Asp.net, VB.Net, SQL
server 2000.
Description: All asp applications had to be
migrated to Asp.net 2.0. The website had to be tested
and had to be compared with applications hosted
at different locations to maintain consistency in its
functionality
6. Account Management Portal
Position : Team Lead.
Duration : 10 months
Organisation : US Technology Resource.
Client : US Technology Resource.
Responsibilities : Technical Lead, development
and testing.
Technologies : Asp.net, VB.Net, SQL server
2000.
Description: To act as a repository of account and
project information. To track and automate the
process of allocation and various other activities
like birthday alarms team info etc. This tool was
able to capture defects and reduced time for tracking
defects.
7. Directors Guild of America
Position : Team member.
Duration : 1 year and 2 months
Organisation : US Technology Resource.
Client : Deloitte & Touche.
Responsibilities :
Coding, Debugging and testing.
Technologies : Asp.net, C#, SQL server
2000.
Description: Directors Guild of America is a
non-profit organization working for directors
involved in the Film and TV Industry. This online
application is for high end business integration of a
complex system using ASP.Net in C# and SQL Server.
DGA staff, members and signatory companies have
access to their specific areas in the system. This
system gives a single point of contact for all these
users to create member, Deal Memo as well as sending,
calculating dues and Earnings, acquiring
8. Amersham Dermatology Information System.
Position : Team member.
Duration : 1 year.
Organisation : US Technology Resource.
Client : Geologistics, US.
Responsibilities :
Coding, Debugging and testing.
Technologies : Asp.net, C#, SQL server
2000.
Description: The product named "ADIS" is a hospital
management system, which stores all the
appointments, paintient records, clinical history,
allergy history of patients. It helps the hospital to
maintain all patient record and history with search
options to get access to similar clinical cases
occurring previously. It also helps in scheduling
appointments with doctors.
9. Geovista- Customer tracking system.
Position : Team member.
Duration : 8 months.
Organisation : US Technology Resource.
Client : Geologistics, US.
Responsibilities :
Coding, Debugging and testing.
Technologies : Asp.net, C#, SQL server
2000.
Description: The product named "GEOVISTA" is a
customer tracking system, which handles all the
interaction with the customer, through an online
mechanism. Geovista has four main modules - Admin,
Enquiries, Booking and Reports. The front end is
developed using Asp.Net and database is DB2. The
admin module deals with the user maintenance part.
This is hosted on SQL server. The enquiries module
deals with the customer tracking part. A customer can
track the details of his shipment. The booking module
allows the user in making bookings, edit them and
view them. This is the most complicated part of the
whole application. The Reports module, as the name
suggests, deals with the reporting part.
Personal Information:
Date of Birth : 22/08/1978
Sex : Male
Personality : Creative, analytical, passionate, motivated.
Permanent Address : G-6, Abhinav Homes, Phase -4 Extn, Ayodhya Bypass
Road, Bhopal(M.P).
Current Address : #37, 1st Cross, Venkateshwara Layout, Munnekolala,
Marathahalli, Bangalore.
DECELRATION
I hereby declare that the above stated particulars are true to the best of
my knowledge and belief.
Place: Bangalore. John Vijay Thomas.