Premkumar Thomas Augustine

Premkumar Thomas Augustine has a strong background in software testing, quality assurance, and leadership roles. Premkumar most recently served as the Vice President of Engineering Services at Finvi, starting in 2022. Prior to that, they worked at Wolters Kluwer as the IT Director for Engineering Quality from 2018 to 2022. In this role, they were responsible for information security, privacy, compliance, quality, and performance testing of various products supporting corporate legal departments. Premkumar also had experience in optimizing cloud infrastructure operations.

From 2016 to 2018, Augustine was the Testing and Quality Practice Leader at UST Global, where they focused on strategic innovation, value addition, and solution roadmaps for testing and quality practices. Premkumar also contributed to the company's testing community and delivered big data and data science testing capabilities.

Earlier in their career, Augustine held positions at Entertainment Partners, ADP, Intuit Inc (Consumer Tax Division), WellPoint Inc, NextSet Inc, Comnet International Inc, and IndoSoft International Ltd. Premkumar'sresponsibilities in these roles included driving quality transformations, managing teams and resources, implementing agile methodologies, and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Premkumar Thomas Augustine's education history is as follows:

- In 1984, they obtained a Diploma in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Sankar Institute of Polytechnic.

- From 1987 to 1990, they studied Electronics & Communication Engineering at the Institution of Engineers (India), earning an Associate Member of the Institution of Engineers (AMIE) degree.

- In 1992, they pursued a Post Graduate Diploma in Statistical Quality Control & Operations Research at the Indian Statistical Institute and completed it in 1994.

- From 1998 to 2001, they studied Business Administration at the University of Madras and obtained an MBA degree.

- In 2001, they enrolled in the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, where they pursued a Master of Science degree in Software Systems. Premkumar completed their studies in 2003.

- In 2015, they attended UC Irvine and obtained a Certificate in Data Science. Premkumar'sstudies in data science and big data, as well as predictive analytics, were completed in 2016.

In addition to their formal education, in December 2020, Premkumar Thomas Augustine obtained a certification in Unconscious Bias from LinkedIn.