Aspire009 wrote:
Hi,
I solicit your help in finding the best colleges as per my profile and based on chances of admission into those colleges. I would be thankful to you if you can provide any insight on this prospect.
Nationality : Indian
Gender: Male
Age 27 Years
Test score: GMAT (Taken on Sep 2, 2013) :680, Q-49,V-34, AWA 5
GRE (Taken in Nov 2010): [OLD Scale] Q-790 , V -530 ; [New scale]: Q-164 , V -155
Education:
B.E (Engg) in Electronics and Telecommunication - 70% from JNV UNIVERSITY
High School (12th): 82%
10th: 88% (Stood First in my school and was in top 25 in the state)
ISTQB - certified Tester (Foundation Level)
NCFM certified in Finance module
NCFM certified in MacroEconomic module
* NCFM modules are conducted by National stock Exchange, India.
Infosys Internal Certification on Retail, CPG and logistics domain
Foundation of Business Strategy course @ coursera.org : Currently Enrolled.
Work Experience: 60 Months (as of 07/30/2014) , by the time of enrollment
50 Months (as of 09/30/2013)
Current Organization : D.E. Shaw & Co. [Since Mar 2012- Till date ]
Firms’ Industry : Hedge Fund
Department : IT Enterprise
Roles and Responsibilities:
-- Co-ordinate with New York based front office team for requirement collection and reporting.
-- Requirement analysis for new enhancement and preparing requirement traceability matrix.
-- Perform data analysis over trading trends to create management reports.
-- Perform post production defects analysis to create reports for higher management.
-- Quality assessment of core trade accounting and Investor relation applications.
-- Identifying business processes that are ideal candidate for automation.
-- Responsible for signing off and user acceptance testing for Investor relation application.
-- Responsible for maintenance of Selenium and Jmeter based automation framework.
-- Part of recruitment pre-assessment team that assesses applicant’s resume.
-- Arrange KT sessions and mentor new joinees about project needs.
-- Have worked for complete application re-write up project in which I was responsible for test planning and impact analysis of the new application in the enterprise application map. This project forfeits requirement of renewing license for third party application and in turn saves $70,000 per license for the firm.
Previous Organization: Infosys Ltd [Aug 2009 - Mar 2012]
Firm’s Industry : IT services
Department: SAP test Automation unit
Roles & Responsibilities:
-- Worked as SAP Test Automation Engineer for three Projects dealing with retail Industry.
-- Worked on SAP test automation project for an European client. Our team automated 923 SAP business flows for regression testing. The automation of the business processes enable to complete testing of the project in a week, activity which used to take 4 weeks of manual testing efforts.
-- Offshore coordinator and point of contact for SAP- STP process area of a project for 8 months.
-- Guided new joinees to ramp them up for the project requirements.
-- Developed macro-enabled Excel reporting system, which is used by project manager to communicate current project progress to the clients.
-- Worked with pre-sales for preparing estimation while bidding for the maintenance activity of the project that we developed.
International Experience:
-- Does not have experience of working on foreign soil but have worked closely with clients from Europe, Southeast asia, mexico and US.
-- For the current project assignments, I communicate and coordinate almost on daily basis with team operating from new york.
Awards, Achievements & Extracurriculars:
-- Was president of student assembly for my senior secondary school during 2001-02.
-- A member of various organizing committee during my school as well as college time such as Techfest ‘ENCARTA’ organizing committee for year 2007-08, farewell organizing committee, Nouveau , the cultural fest, organizing team etc.
-- Awarded as STAR Infoscion for excellence during Infosys foundation training program. I won Shipwreck competition during my training at Infosys leadership Institute.
-- Scored 4.99 GPA out of 5 in Infosys training program.
-- Awarded as Most Valuable player during Q4 of 2010-11 fiscal year.
Other Works:
-- Worked as freelancer for ‘Dreamsncolors’ organization, which sells sells miniature paintings and crafts in state of Rajasthan. Created business development strategy for the organization.
Areas of specialization during MBA course:
Strategic consulting/management
There are few schools that I am currently targeting considering the coursework that those universities are offering in field of data/business analysis and strategic management. Followings are those schools.
1) HEC Paris
2) USC, Marshall school of business
3) Tepper School of business
4) McCombs School of Business
5) Sauder School of Business
6) Kellogg School of business
7) Darden School of business
8) Boston University
Please suggest if these colleges can be a suitable as per my profile and GMAT score.
Please classify options as safe, medium and Ambitious.
I am open for good management school outside US as well. Please suggest few of the good colleges outside US also.
Thank you for posting.
You have a competitive profile HEC, USC, CMU, UT, Sauder, BU, and Darden. I would discourage you from applying to Kellogg; I think it's too much of a stretch. You may also want to consider Rotman. Sauder is a safety school for you. Darden is a stretch.
Best,
Linda
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