Pradeep Kumar Sandra

Contact No: 91-9963787010

E-Mail: p.sandra.08@aberdeen.ac.uk

Objective

Looking for an IT Pre-sales role so as to utilize all my skills, experience and education in
a team environment and work for the potential growth of the organization and myself.
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Professional Summary

 Overall 2 .5 years of IT experience including 1 year as a Technical Presales

Engineer.
 Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, target oriented and team
oriented, systematic approach, Quick adaptability to new Technologies.
 Demonstrable competencies in negotiating & decision-making and ability to work in
high-pressure environment and achieve time bound goals.
 Good Knowledge in sales of Business Intelligence (BI) and Testing services. 

Areas of Expertise

Quality Assurance Business Analysis IT Presales

IT Strategy Documentation Data Analysis
Financial Services Business Intelligence IT sourcing
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Educational Qualifications

MBA (STRATEGY), University of Aberdeen, Scotland,UK (Merit) 2009 - 2010

Courses include Managing change and Innovation, Accounting & Finance for
Managers, Business strategy, Strategy Implementation, Strategic Marketing
B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) JNT University, India (78%) 2002 - 2006
Courses include Power Electronics, Computer organization, Power
systems, Electrical Systems, Engineering Mathematics.
Higher Secondary from Andhra Pradesh State Board, India (96%) 2000 – 2002
Courses include Physics, Chemistry, English and Mathematics
Software and job related Skills

 Accent Neutralization & Enhancement training to help communicate better with

international clients based in UK & Asia pacific regions.
 Have undergone Presentation S ki ll s , Time management andTeam
working training. 
 .  Proficient with Microsoft Excel, Power Point, Word, MS Projects and Visio.
 Conversant with BI tools such as SAS, SAP Business Objects.
 Conversant with SQL and Oracle Databases.
 Good knowledge on Automation testing Software’s.
Work Experience
1. Pre-sales Engineer, Hexaware Technologies, India. (Jan 08-jan 09)

Responsibilities:

 Assisting Sales Force operations, both international and local, by

preparing & reviewing detailed Request for
Proposals/Information(RFP/I) that involved thorough knowledge of all
the existing range of products to propose a solution based on the
Client's current infrastructure and requirements.
 Prepared customized product presentations and Demos, manuals to
increase brand awareness and sales.
 Building vertical specific demos to boost sales and revenue.
 Prepared extensive customized marketing reports using excel to
monitor the impact of the various marketing events on product /service
sales, identify bottlenecks in the sales process, performing benchmark
analysis.
 Calling International customers for Lead generation and to increase
product awareness, send campaigns to customers using Hexaware
Campaign tool.
 Worked closely with domestic/international clients like
Citibank, Virgin Atlantic, Hewitt Associates, Deutsche Leasing and
others.

2. Test Analyst, Hexaware Technologies (Apr07-Jan 08)

Project Title Deutsche Leasing – DL UCS III

Company Hexaware Technologies
Client Name Deutsche Leasing -Germany
Technologies Java, EJB, and Oracle
Role Test Analyst
Duration Apr 2007 to Nov2007(Off Shore: Chennai )
Dec 2007 to Jan 2008(Onsite: Badhomburg,Germany)
Responsibilities:

 Understanding the Requirements and writing test cases. 

 Involved in Prepared weekly and daily Test Execution Plan 
 Review of the Integration and System Test Cases 
 Involved in Executing the Integration, System Integration and Regression Test
Cases and identifying the Defects. 
 Logging the defects in the Defect Tracking System. 
 Preparing ITR's for various defects. 
 Deploying and executing the Batch files on daily and monthly basis. 
  Identification and Preparation of End to End Test Scenarios. 
 Preparation of business scenarios for Performance testing and Involved in
preparation and Execution of Load Runner Test Scripts

3.Test Engineer, Hexaware Technologies (Aug06-Mar 07)

Project Title Title Resource Database(TBD)

Company Hexaware Technologies
Client Name First American Group,USA
Technologies Java, EJB, and Oracle
Role Test Engineer
Duration Aug 2006 to Mar 2007(Off Shore: Chennai )

Responsibilities:

 Analyzed and identified the Test Cases based on requirement document of the
application.
 Reviewing and modifying the Test Cases.
 Accomplish the Test Case on AUT for different Modules.
 Performing Smoke, Functional, Compatibility and User Interface testing.
 Regression testing was performed after each new build of the application..
 Creating the Object repository.

Achievements

 Act as a volunteer in Tech summit organized by Hexaware Technologies. Duties

include explaining methodologies and new developments in Business intelligence
technologies to clients. Got good appreciation from Management in organizing
this event. 
 I was send to client station out of the team to assist the client in deploying and
Testing of application during UAT to Frankfurt Germany. 
 College topper in High school level examinations.
Personal Profile

Languages Known : Telugu, English, and Hindi

Date of Birth : 25 August 1985
Nationality : Indian
Marital Status : Single
Contact Number : 91-9963787010

Declaration

I hereby declare that the above written particulars are true to the best of my knowledge
and belief.

(Pradeep Sandra)