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Virtusa targets increased hiring in Lanka

Riding on robust business growth, and celebrating its tenth year of operations. Virtusa continues its recruitment drive to boost headcount for the upcoming fiscal year. The company plans to recruit for project management, business analysis, software engineering and software quality assurance roles this year with a 50% growth over last year's hiring levels, which ended with an addition of 200 new Virtusans.

The significant headcount increase is subsequent to the alignment of the company's Business Units last year to own all aspects of Sales, Solutions Development and Client Services under one focused business structure. Post re-alignment Virtusa has also seen a significant growth in existing accounts and new client wins in the US and the UK.

The two business units, Global Enterprise Business Unit and the High Tech Business Unit each focuses on several industry verticals to capture and preserve domain competency, accelerate client acquisitions and build long term trusted advisor relationships.

The Global Enterprise Business Unit provides services in Banking. Financial Services, Insurance, Telecommunications, Healthcare and Retail sectors, while the High Tech Business Unit focuses on Independent Software Vendors who are product companies.

General Manager at the Colombo Advanced Technology Centre Madu Ratnayake said "The two business units create a unique combination of a product company and an enterprise service company environment, giving the opportunity for Virtusans to experience both settings in one company.

A product environment provides a technology and engineering focus while a service environment provides a strong business and IT value focus. In both business units, we have increasingly engaged with the world's best multinational clients who are at the cutting edge of business innovation, enabling them to increase IT efficiencies through our Productisation Methodology.

It is typical to find a Virtusan engaged in product development, working closely with the Vice President of Engineering of a world's leading product company and then moving on to work with a CIO and Enterprise Architecture Group of a Fortune 1000 to build their technology roadmap for the next three years all within a very short time frame."

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