RENJINY RAECHEL THOMAS

Associate Manager SQA at Reflections Systems Info PVT LTD since November 2021, with prior experience at IBS Software from July 2010 to October 2021. Led compliance and audit initiatives across organizations, ensuring adherence to CMMI V1.2, ISO 9001:2008, ISO 42001:2023, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 9001:2015, SOC 1, and SOC 2 standards. Managed over 30 concurrent projects, including SDLC, enhancements, maintenance, and product implementations. Facilitated process improvement initiatives and delivered training on software engineering processes, project management, and agile practices.

• ISO Lead Auditor ISO27001:2013 Certification
• DSCI Certified Privacy Professional.
• Certification on Introduction to Information Security.
• Workshops on Agile Practices
• Obtained CMMI V 1.2 High Maturity training from KPMG Lead Consultant.
• Recognized as the organisation wide trainer for Defect prevention, and Agile Methodology.
• Hands on experience in implementation lean projects to improve productivity.

English, Hindi, and Malayalam

Will be provided on request.

Consultant

• Experience in leading the team in performing the following activities.
• Provide consultation to projects across projects in defining Project Plans, Process tailoring, Estimation and Metrics. Identification and sharing best practices.
• Identify measurable parameters of the processes and devise methods to analyse these parameters so that they can be effectively controlled and managed
• Conduct/trigger milestone analysis during important points of project execution and analyzing the reasons for variation if any in estimated parameters like effort, schedule and defects and helping the project team in implementing proper corrective actions.
• Conduct Process framework and Quality Management System trainings & Role Based Trainings for Project Quality Analysts, team members and new entrants.
• Prepare and publishing the monthly status report for the department. Reviewing the QA activities for individual projects
• Coordinate weekly quality meetings in the projects and create snippets/presentations for generating quality awareness in the organisation.
• Participate in DP and helping the project team for deriving Corrective & Preventive action plans.
• Mentoring the team members who join the team as fresher.
• Support and provide consultancy to the project in moving to agile mode of working.
• Coordinate with external auditors and internal teams in SOC1 and SOC 2 audits. Currently working as the owner of SOC audits in the organisation.
• CMMIv1.2 L5 Certification Implementation(2010-2011)
• Part of PIID review task force
• Providing necessary guidance and support to the project teams for implementing the different process areas of CMMI.
• Performed the role of High Maturity Champion for implementation of CMMI high maturity process areas.
• Created the CAR reports 25 to 28, proposed corrective & preventive actions & published the reports to the QS.
• Highlighting to senior management the progress of the projects in terms of CMMI process area implementation.
• Part of CMMI appraisal in performing the gap analysis as part of the PIID exercise.
• Prepared the Show & Tell presentations for the different process areas assigned.
• ISO 27001:2022,ISO 42001:2023 and ISO 9001:2015 Certification Implementation(20102019)
• Implementing projects to make them ISO ready for external certification audits and performed pre-sustenance audits to check for compliance.
• Conduct periodic audits to check the compliance of various units in the organization.
• Striving for continuous improvement by sharing and implementing organization best practices in various units in the organization.
• Supporting audit readiness and evidence collection for internal controls related to financial reporting (SOC 1) and data security, availability, and confidentiality (SOC 2)
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams (e.g., IT, Security, Compliance) to align processes with audit requirements
• Maintaining and improving controls documentation, risk assessments, and remediation plans
• Assisting in coordination with external auditors and managing responses to audit requests

• Recognized as:
• Member of the Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG)
• Member of Defect Prevention Council (DPC)

• Age & Date of Birth : 39 years, 28th Dec, 1985
• Marital Status : Married
• Passport Number : F8983472 (02/08/2016)
• Languages known : English, Hindi, and Malayalam
• Address : Rajagiri, Perunna P.O, Changanacherry, Kottayam.
• Pin : 686102