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HUMAN
RESOURCE ANALYSIS
(Explained
in detail)
Organisational
Setup:
Company
profile
Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU) is a global
information technology (IT) services company providing IT consulting,
technology and outsourcing services.
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Virtusa Corporation is a leading
provider of enterprise class Products and Solutions for Global 1000 companies
and leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Based in Westborough, MA,
Virtusa employs the finest technology talent in the US, UK, India, and Sri
Lanka.
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Virtusa's client list includes industry
leaders across several domains, such as Vignette, Pegasystems, Oracle, IBM,
Aetna, BT, Convergys, Xerox and Siemens. Product development imperatives are
deeply embedded in Virtusa's process framework and institutionalized as best
practices.
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Their process includes a focus on
modularity of design, component technology, re-usability, scalability,
portability, extensibility, maintainability, and supportability. Virtusa is
currently a 3500+ strong organization with offices in US, UK, Sri Lanka and
India (Hyderabad and Chennai).
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Headquarters -Westborough,
Massachusetts, USA
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Offices -Throughout US, Europe and Asia
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Technology Centers -US, UK, India, Sri
Lanka
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Number of Employees -Over 5500
Corporate
Governance - Management and Board
Kris Canekeratne - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Raj Rajgopal -
Executive Vice President of
Business Development and Client Services
Ranjan Kalia - Senior
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary
Samir Dhir - Senior
Vice President /Global Delivery Head and Head of India Operations
Senior
Leadership Team
Jim
Francis - Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Unit Leader
overseeing Virtusa's Insurance, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Government and
Energy segments
Sameet
Gupte - Sr. Vice President & Managing Director, Europe
Stefan Fraas - SVP & Managing Director
John
Gillis - Executive Vice President of Client Services and Business Development
Paul
Tutun - Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary
Culture and Values
Team
and performance based culture
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Team
impact is greater than the simple aggregation of individual members
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Performance
is the top driver for growth and rewards
Spirit
of enterprise and growth
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Virtusans
are empowered to take on challenges
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Clear
growth path for Virtusans
Leadership
philosophy
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Assign
success to team members
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Take
personal responsibility if things go wrong
Values:
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Pursuit of Excellence
–expand the contours of what is possible
o Demonstrate innovation, creativity, and resourcefulness
o Help create high performance teams, predictable results,
rigorous execution
o Seek continuous self-improvement and constant learning
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Integrity
– be forthright and honest in all interactions
o Demonstrate genuine sincerity and personal honor; work
without a hidden agenda
o Hold oneself to a high degree of accountability and assume
responsibility for actions
o Establish realistic expectations and meet commitments
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Respect
– respect clinets and fellow team members
o Treat clients and colleagues with genuine respect and value
the intrinsic qualities of each
o Enhance client respect for Virtusa at every opportunity,
build strong trusted advisor relationships
o Support team members, find solutions not fault
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Leadership –
inspire others through empowerment
o Lead by example (Inspire), encourage others to take ownership
(Empower)
o Engage with the team to collaborate and develop the best
Solution through collective wisdom
o Assign success to the team, take personal responsibility if
things go wrong
Work Approach:
Help
clients conceive strategic IT solutions.
Transform
their IT assets by rationalizing and consolidating them into enterprise-class
application platforms.
Optimize
their applications by investing in them as appreciating assets.
Including:
-Time-to-market
- Maximize
total operational productivity
-Enhance
their customers’ experience
Welfare – Work and Fun environment
for employees:
Work Environment:
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Global
company
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Rapidly
Growing
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Challenging
work
•
Marquee
Clients
•
Great
Career Growth
•
People
Focused
Sports & Recreation
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Games
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GYM
& Physical Fitness
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Yoga
& Meditation
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Activities
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Ice
Cream Socials
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Movie
Nights
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Fundoo
Club
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Wheels
Club
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Writer’s
Club
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Virtuoso
Music Band
Recruitment
Eligibility Criteria:-
Qualification:
Graduation:
B.C.A./ B.C.S./ B.E./ B.Tech/ B.Sc (PCM/IT/Comp)
Post
Graduation: M.C.A./ M.E./ M.Tech/ M.Sc (PCM/IT/Comp)
Role:
Software Engineer
Functional
Area: Software Programming
Selection Process :
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Written test
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Technical Interview
-
HR Interview
Work Location : Hyderabad / Secunderabad / Chennai
Training & Development
Campus Reach Initiative
As
part of a Campus Reach program, Virtusa partners with engineering colleges,
universities and academic institutions across many initiatives. Improving
collaboration between academia and industry is a core area of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
program. Some of these activities include:
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The Virtusa Practitioner Series - A program in which Virtusans conducts seminars and
knowledge sharing talks to university students on areas relevant to their
university courses. Recent topics in this series include Enterprise Integration
Architecture, Software Engineering: The Virtusa Way, Organizational Structures,
FOSS, User Interface Training and IT Career Guidance.
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Adding to the Teaching Capacity - Virtusa’s Software Testing Practice developed a course
structure, prepared handouts and delivered presentations to supplement the
software testing and quality assurance modules offered at universities and
academic institutions. The course included lectures and workshops on Software Quality
Principles, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Quality Management, Quality
Strategy, Test Planning and Test Design.
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Industrial Internship Program - To provide
opportunities for graduates and undergraduates to work at Virtusa and enjoy the
benefits of working in a professional and growth-oriented environment.
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Virtusa Academic Excellence Award - Virtusa Academic Excellence Award is presented to several
students for topping their respective batches and excelling in their final year
projects.
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Sponsorships
- Virtusa assists various events at
universities and educational institutions by way of program sponsorships,
mentoring and career guidance to develop leadership, planning and organizing
skills.
2.
MARKET IMAGE
Services: (A
pure service providing company)
Consulting Services :
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Improve
effectiveness and efficiency of IT application environments by adopting
re-useable software platforms
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Design
platform-based solutions, based on business and technology problems
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Plan
and implement IT initiatives
Product
Design Services
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Enhancements,
Upgrades, Porting & Migration Services
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Product
Maintenance, Sustenance & Support Services
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Professional
Services
Application Development Services
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Re-engineering
and Migration Services
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Enhancements,
Upgrades and Transformation Services
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Application
Maintenance and Support Services
Legacy Asset Management Services
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Asset
management strategy and roadmap
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Legacy
architecture design services
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Development,
implementation, maintenance & support services
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Identification
of core processes and support processes—Establishing “as is” process models and
defining “to be” process models
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Sustenance,
change management and enhancement services, to maintain current application
portfolio
Growth of the Organisation:
Founded - 1996- Colombo,
Sri Lanka
Revenue - $218 million
(FY11)[1]
Employees - More than 5,000 (As on 31 March 2011)
Centers - U.S., U.K.,
India, Sri Lanka and Netherlands.
Timeline:
1995: Founded as 'Software Solutions' in Colombo, Sri Lanka
1997: Renamed as Technology Providers International
1998: Opened office in Massachusetts, USA
2000: Technology Providers International was renamed as
eRUNWAY, Inc.
2002: eRUNWAY was re-launched as 'Virtusa Corporation'
2004: Spearheaded the design and development of an open
source system for disaster relief, Sahana in the wake of the 2004 Asian
Tsunami. Sahana received the biggest award so far, the Free Software
Foundation's award for the social benefit on the 24th of March 2007. The awards
ceremony at the annual FSF meeting, held at MIT in U.S.A, where they received
the award from the founder of the FSF, Richard Stallman. The award, which is
only one of two awards given by the FSF each year, was inspired by Sahana a
year ago. The recipient of last year's award was Wikipedia, and Sahana follows
in its footsteps this year.
2007: Listed on NASDAQ under the symbol 'VRTU'
2008: Finalists 2008 U.S. Secretary of State’s Award for
Corporate Excellence (ACE)
2009: Announces the acquisition of InSource, a specialist
technology consulting company
2010: Announces the acquisition of ConVista Consulting, LLC,a
U.S.-based, privately-held, market leader in finance transformation in BFSI
2011: Acquires ALaS Consulting LLC, a Financial Services
Consulting Firm.
Industry
Accolades
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One
of New England’s Fastest Growing Technology Companies (2006),
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SiliconIndia
100 (2006),
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Hyderabad
Software Exporters Award (2005),
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Global
Services: 100 Most Innovative Service Providers (2006),
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Quality
Award for Open Reach product (2006),
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Pega
Partner Excellence Award (2003, 2005)
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Bank
One Excellence Award (2003)
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Virtusa
Named One of '100 Fastest Growing Public Companies' by Boston Business Journal
Corporate Social Responsibility:
The
company has a community support program that focuses on education and uses its
IT competencies for meeting the needs of the community.
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Virtusa
recently facilitated setting up IT laboratories for fifty schools in the Uva
province of Sri Lanka. The program was carried out in partnership with a local
university in Sri Lanka.
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In
the wake of Tsunami in 2004, its employees actively participated in the
development of Sahana, an open source based disaster management system.
•
Virtusa
assists various events at universities and educational institutions by way of
program sponsorships, mentoring and career guidance to develop leadership,
planning and organizing skills.
•
Virtusa’s
Software Testing Practice developed a course structure, prepared handouts and
delivered presentations to supplement the software testing and quality
assurance modules offered at universities and academic institutions. The course
included lectures and workshops on Software Quality Principles, Quality
Assurance, Quality Control, Quality Management, Quality Strategy, Test Planning
and Test Design
•
The Virtusa Practitioner Series - A program in which Virtusans conducts seminars and
knowledge sharing talks to university students on areas relevant to their
university courses. Recent topics in this series include Enterprise Integration
Architecture, Software Engineering: The Virtusa Way, Organizational Structures,
FOSS, User Interface Training and IT Career Guidance.
•
Virtusa
Academic Excellence Award is presented to several students for topping their
respective batches and excelling in their final year projects.
Company Reviews:
1. “Good Place to kick start your career”
Pros
Compensation is good.Management team is friendly and
helpful.Since it is a relatively small organisation,your efforts are easily
visible.Recognition and Appraisal is easier compared to an infosys or TCS.
Cons
The
number of mainframe projects is quite less.Change of Domain can be a difficult
task in here.
2. Virtusa Software Engineer:
(Past Employee - 2010)
“Good company for
starting”
Pros
work culture
Knowldege Sharing
Training and leadership
Cons
location
is very far in Hyderabad
3. Virtusa Anonymous:
(Past Employee - 2010)
“Excellent, I love it
there”
Pros
Excellent work ethics.
Good motivation. Market comparable pay packages. They take care of all employee
needs. Travel, accommadation everythign is good.
Cons
Busy schedules some times
makes the employees stretch too much. Senior management should get hands on
experience such that a manager exactly knows what his staff is doing instead of
just going by third party feedback.
3.
POSSIBILITIES OF THE COMPANY:
Expansion
and potential of the organisation:
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Virtusa
to spend $20 million on Indian expansion. The company plans to expand its
software development centres in Hyderabad and Chennai and add about 1,000
professionals.
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In
2010, the company bought ConVisa Consulting for $24.8 million.
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Virtusa
Corporation VRTU +1.79% , a universal IT services firm that offers a extended
spectrum of business consulting and outsourcing services, voiced that on July
1, 2011, Virtusa acquired significantly all of the properties of ALaS
Consulting LLC (“ALaS”), a heading provider of consulting and instructive
services to financial services companies. Virtusa will bring on all 150 Alas
employees and will offer them a combined $4 million worth of Virtusa shares.
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Virtusa's
revenues last year grew by 33 percent year-over-year to $218 million, while
profits also increased from $12 million to $16 million.
