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Thamizhselvan Rajan

Ottawa,Canada

Summary

Having 17+ years of experience in Software Quality Engineering with Functional and Automation testing of various applications for Client/Server, Web based and Mainframe environments. 10+ years of experience in managing the automation, functional and Performance testing team from North America (USA & Canada), with the team located globally. Manage Quality Engineering aspects of Planning, Estimation, resourcing, releases, providing QA services, Coordinate with PO's, offshore, Business, and project stakeholders. Agile – SAFE certified and good working experience in agile methodology; 5 years of hands-on experience with Agile methodology projects. QA Amigo. Framework/Database – Worked on various Framework methodology to test the software built along with the DB integration. B2B eProcurement – Process flow - setup the Automation Framework to onboard the customer/supplier in the B2B marketplace and completed the automation POC followed by the automation implementation. EDI – validation – valuable experience in the EDI data validation and automation on various transaction types. Good Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and knowledge of various Levels, types of software testing and Software Test Life Cycle (STLC). Automation Framework – Developed an own Framework/approach to continuously monitor the production servers (Data Driven Framework) and to display them in dashboard with auto alert notifications. Extensively worked on Creation of Data Driven, page object model using Java & Selenium WebDriver. Hands on Maven, TestNG and Jenkins. Expertise in Smoke Testing, Black-Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, System Testing, integration, Data migration, Regression Testing and Prod Smoke testing. API, micro services testing, and automation using SOAP UI and REST Assured. Performance Testing – managed the performance testing team and strong knowledge on the performance/non- functional testing concepts. Excellent Communication, Interpersonal and Presentation skill. Had basic hands-on knowledge on UNIX and embedded C.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

QA Project Manager

Infosys Technology Solutions
05.2022 - Current
  • QA Project manager for Divestiture services for the acquiring company and managing the automation resourcing onboarding estimation, timeline, releases, and delivery
  • Managed entire QA workstream for both functional and API Automation
  • Managed Quality Engineering aspects of Planning, Estimation, resourcing, releases, providing QA services for NA and working on another Divestiture module for EMEA region.

QA Project Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2009 - 04.2022
  • Playing both PM and BA role in implementing the B2B EDI integration for the supplier/customer projects and for end-to-end testing
  • Implemented X12 automation framework to validate the EDI standards across various supplier
  • Automated the setup process of onboarding which is monotonous work across supplier in the B2B platform for the Mainframe and window-based application using UFT
  • Initiating the project, kickoff, Co-ordination with Supplier/customer team, EDI support team, offshore, support team and go live
  • Managing US and Canada region eProcurement EDI onboarding for various suppliers.

Quality Assurance Automation Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2014 - 02.2020
  • Automation lead for implementing the API test automation
  • Various components of Microservices functionalities built were evaluated functionally and automated using different automation frameworks for regression testing
  • Cucumber step Definitions, Scenarios and Feature development for the stories in the Agile sprint
  • Overall Release regression automation using selenium and TestNG, including co-ordination with the offshore team
  • Testing artifacts management till closure using various tools like JIRA, HP ALM.

Offshore Team Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2009 - 02.2014
  • Offshore team lead for both Automation and Functional testing
  • Developed an automation framework to continuously monitor the PROD servers using data driven framework in UFT
  • Test case creation, maintenance, and execution – includes both functional and automation
  • Test execution includes testing of the web application as well the test defects logging through QC/HP ALM and integration of reports and report generation
  • VB macros to integrate with HP ALM for various reports.

Associate Projects

Infosys Technology solutions
12.2006 - 12.2009
  • Test Management – Requirement Analysis, Planning and Execution of Functional Test Cases using HP QC / HP ALM
  • Create Requirement Traceability Matrix Creation and Maintenance of Test Automation Scripts using WinRunner with Terminal Emulator for AS400 Create Test Plan / Test Strategy along with Test Estimation
  • Coordinate with Customer / Stakeholders and plan allocation of tasks, mentor team members and track activities to closure Defect Management – Creating, Updating, and tracking defects to closure
  • Using HP QC / ALM

Software Engineer

Yelamanchili
06.2006 - 12.2006
  • UNIX training with C - using real time Bank ATM application
  • Debugging the existing code for production support.

Education

Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Madurai Kamaraj University
Chennai
11.2009

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Madras University
Chennai
05.2006

Skills

  • Automation Tools: Selenium, UFT
  • Scripting Language: VB Script, Java Script, Gherkin
  • Automation Framework: BDD Cucumber, ADAPT, Keyword driven, Data driven, X12 Framework
  • Web Services Automation: SOAP UI, REST Assured API
  • Query Language: SQL
  • Languages / Scripting: C, C, Java, VBScript/Macros, HTML, XML, Java Scripting
  • CRM technologies: Siebel, Salesforcecom
  • ERP: E1, SAP, Mainframe
  • Test Management/ Defect Management Tool: HP ALM, Jira, Slash and Confluence
  • Domain: Insurance, Life science, Banking, Telecom

Timeline

QA Project Manager

Infosys Technology Solutions
05.2022 - Current

Quality Assurance Automation Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2014 - 02.2020

QA Project Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2009 - 04.2022

Offshore Team Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2009 - 02.2014

Associate Projects

Infosys Technology solutions
12.2006 - 12.2009

Software Engineer

Yelamanchili
06.2006 - 12.2006

Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Madurai Kamaraj University

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Madras University
Thamizhselvan Rajan