Ramachandran Tamilmaran
Senior Manager, Quality Engineering
Toronto
Summary
- Canadian Permanent Residence Holder.
- Senior Manager, Quality Engineering with 10+ years of experience across domains such as Healthcare, Airlines & Banking and Financial.
- Expertise in preparation of Test Deliverables like Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Traceability Matrix, Test Summary Report.
- Have experience in Functional and Automation testing of Web applications, APIs, ETL and Files such as XML, Json and Flat files.
- UI Automation experience with Playwright, Selenium, Java, Cucumber and TestNG.
- API testing using tools like Postman, SOAP UI, Swagger, Katalon and Parasoft SOATest and automation using Rest Assured, Java, Cucumber and TestNG.
- Experience in ETL & Big Data testing using Hive, Cinchy and automation using Java, Apache POI, Cucumber and TestNG.
- Experience in Automation framework design such as Data Driven using Apache POI & TestNG, Behavior Driven using Cucumber & TestNG and reporting using Extent reports.
- Experience in Test Management tools like HP ALM & Jira
- Experience in Test Data Management like Masking, Virtualization and sub setting using Delphix
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
- Experience in driving the team and conducting meetings with stakeholders such as Defect Triage, Review and Closure reports.
- Forward-thinking Senior Manager adept at managing teams of 35 employees to accomplish challenging objectives. Imparts clear vision to guide cohesive, high-performing teams.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Senior Manager, Quality Engineering
Royal Bank of Canada, RBC
Toronto, Ontario
07.2023 - Current
- Managed Team of 35 members including Full timers, offshore and nearshore for 6 Applications including GUI, APIs and Back end components.
- Reduced costs, optimized resource allocation, and improved efficiency in managing projects.
- Solution & framework design for complex business use cases.
- Achieved operational excellence by streamlining processes and implementing best practices.
- Managed end-to-end testing projects from inception through delivery, ensuring timely completion within budget constraints.
QE Lead, Senior QA Analyst
Royal Bank of Canada, RBC
Toronto, Ontario
02.2022 - 06.2023
- Led the team of 15 QE resources for testing complex Onboarding application including different components like eSign, PDF Forms, GraphQL and MongoDB components.
- Managed QE deliverables using Model Based Test design approach using tools like ConformIQ and Hexawise.
- Improved software quality by executing thorough test plans and identifying defects before release.
- Expanded team knowledge base, mentoring junior QA analysts on best practices and industry standards.
SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER
WIPRO LIMITED
07.2019 - 02.2022
- Test UI, API and ETL components.
- Verify ETL Ingestion in EDPP framework and verify in Hive.
- Design automation framework, develop and maintain regression suite for each release.
- Maintain defect report and track the status. Work closely with Dev team and Business team for all the requirements and analysis.
- Designed custom mapplets for Test Data Management tool - Delphix masking and saved around 14k US Dollars.
- Migrated existing API framework from licensed tool to Open-source framework, saved 25K US Dollars.
- Optimized existing ETL Regression suite by replacing excel files to APIs and saved around 30K US Dollars.
SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER
WIPRO LIMITED
Chennai
11.2016 - 06.2019
- Testing of 150+ Retail banking APIs.
- Maintains regression suite for APIs and run for each release.
- Conducting review, triage and touch point meetings with my Testing Team, Developers and Business Analysts.
- Test estimation, resource management and mentoring team members for Technical and Domain knowledge.
- Updated existing regression suite with more functional scenarios which reduced manual efforts in functional testing.
- Have let team on many critical releases and handled ad-hoc requests in between.
SYSTEMS ANALYST
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
11.2015 - 06.2016
- Testing of ticket booking APIs and ticket booking UI.
- Mock API calls from middle layers to Amadeus servers using stub-o-matic server for regression suites.
- Designed VBScript to update the test result and status in HP QC which is used across the Account level.
SYSTEMS ANALYST
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Chennai
09.2012 - 10.2015
- Testing of EDI claim engines and Data mining.
- Functional testing, automation of UI components and reports extraction from BI tools.
- Test data management involves data creation and mining.
- Developed excel macro to validate claim status from different engines. Saved 90% of efforts which was done manually for every day.
Education
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING - COMPUTER SCIENCE
ANNA UNIVERSITY
Chennai 07.2009 - 05.2012
Skills
- Testing UI
- Test strategy development
- Regulatory compliance
- Jira
- qTest
- BDD Cucumber Framework
- Page Factory
- Page Object Model
- Prompt Engnieering
- TestNG
- Postman
- Rest Assured
- Selenium
- Playwright
- Oracle
- MySql
- Test Data Management
- ETL
- API
Certification
ISTQB - Certified Tester
Awards
- Quarterly Award
- Made a Difference Award
- Best Consultant/Technical Lead
- Creating Magic with customers
- Best Team Player
- Round of Applause
- Pleasure to work with you
- On the spot Award
Timeline
Senior Manager, Quality Engineering
Royal Bank of Canada, RBC
07.2023 - Current
QE Lead, Senior QA Analyst
Royal Bank of Canada, RBC
02.2022 - 06.2023
SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER
WIPRO LIMITED
07.2019 - 02.2022
SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER
WIPRO LIMITED
11.2016 - 06.2019
SYSTEMS ANALYST
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
11.2015 - 06.2016
SYSTEMS ANALYST
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
09.2012 - 10.2015
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING - COMPUTER SCIENCE
ANNA UNIVERSITY
07.2009 - 05.2012
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