Joshua Anderson Thomas

Energetic, driven, and accomplished Project Manager with 10+ years of experience managing complex IT modernization and system integration projects. Prince2Agile Foundation Certified who devises strategies that solve business problems and provide business results

Key Skills

IT Project Management
Business Analysis
Agile Scrum
Robotics Process Automation
Test Automation
Product Owner

Professional Experience

Apr 2015
Present
Expert IT Business Analyst
ZF Group Chennai, IN
  •  Work with Business and end users to gather, understand, and define business requirements
  • Develop user stories and to-be process flows to support the design and development of Salesforce solutions
  • Work collaboratively with team members to design a solution that will meet business requirements and fulfil user stories
  • Collaborate with developers to test and verify that solutions will meet the business requirements
  • Participate in key meetings with business including requirement sessions, system demos, user acceptance testing, and end-user training
  • Perform business analysis to support complex changes in local, regional or global context by capturing, defining and managing requirements in all project phases as well as by support solution design that delivers value to the stakeholder
  • Design solutions aligned with Enterprise Architecture
  • Design integration solutions in SOA manner to maximize asset reuse and to avoid redundancies for services, interconnects and data 
  •  Manage multiple implementation projects, including developing project objectives, prioritizing project responsibilities, tracking projects to successful and on time completion.
  • Act as a vital link between the Business and the Technical team. Lead the Scrum calls.
  • Interact with Business frequently and communicate feedback to the Technical team.
  • Level one escalation point for the Business and the senior management.
  • Coordinate the Technical issues for timely completion of all deliverables.
  • Responsible for quality and timely completion of all projects. 
Jun 2014
Apr 2015
Associate Consultant
IGate Global Solutions Chennai, IN
  •  Test Scenarios Identification, Test Script designing, execution, Reporting.
  • Work across different modules in SAP and Automate the same with SAP TAO
  • Component Based Test Automation for SAP
  • Using Bugzilla for Defect Tracking
  • Test case preparation and execution of the same in HP ALM
  • Manual Test case execution, defect identification and reporting in ALM
  • Test scenario identification for SAP SRM and Test case design 
Jul 2010
May 2014
Senior Software Engineer
Hexaware Technologies Chennai, IN
  •  Expertise in SAP TAO, Automation Tool for SAP have knowledge in PeopleSoft and SAP ERP and also fair knowledge in Telecom Domain.
  • Test case preparation, Test script design and execution of test cases
  • Automation test script design using SAP TAO
  • Execution of SAP Test suite in HP ALM
  • Creation of Test Cases and Test script for PeopleSoft Application.
  • Execution of the test script in ALM
  • Defect Identification and Reporting 

Education

Jul 2006
Mar 2010
Bachelor of Engineering in Karpaga Vinayaga College of Engineering and Tech
Anna University
Jun 1998
Mar 2006
HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION in St.Fransis De Sales Matriculation Hr.Sec.School

Certifications

2020
Prince2Agile Foundation
AXELOS
2020
Six Sigma Green Belt
Exemplar
2020
Business Analysis
Agora Insights

Achievements

2018
Pinnacle Award
Award for the Team work done by Robotics Process Automation Team
2020
Individual Winner
Was awarded Best Project Manager and Business Analyst for the Global Warranty solution roll-out 

Languages

Tamil
(Native)
English
(Fluent)

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