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Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
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Ashokraj Nataraj

Senior Test Engineer / Production Support SRE
Coimbatore,TN
Ashokraj Nataraj

Summary

Senior Test Engineer and Production Support Engineer (SRE) with 8+ years of experience in the Banking and Financial Services domain, specializing in Manual Testing, Production Support, Incident Management, SQL Validation, and ServiceNow Operations. Proven expertise in managing end-to-end testing activities, ensuring application stability, resolving production incidents, and supporting mission-critical banking applications within the ANZ Banking environment.

Currently working in the LSM Production Support Team, providing L2/L3 application support, monitoring SLAs, resolving complex production issues, and collaborating with business and technical stakeholders. Successfully resolved 400+ production incidents, developed a ServiceNow operational dashboard recognised by the Product Owner, and authored multiple Knowledge Base articles to improve operational efficiency and reduce resolution time.

Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, ServiceNow, Confluence, JIRA, SQL, Teradata Studio, Splunk, Control-M, OpenShift, and Collate UI. Additionally experienced as a sole tester for ANZ Banking projects, managing the complete QA lifecycle including requirement analysis, test planning, System Testing, SIT, TVT, Regression Testing, defect management, and stakeholder reporting.

Passionate about continuous learning with certifications and training in TOSCA, Generative AI for Testing, APIs, and Automation Testing, aspiring to contribute to high-quality software delivery, operational excellence, and automation-driven transformation initiatives.

Overview

3
Languages
3
Certifications
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Wipro Limited/ANZ Bank

Senior Test Engineer (Sole Tester)
11.2018 - 11.2025

Job overview

  • Previous Role: ANZ Banking Project
  • Senior Test Engineer (Sole Tester)
  • Key Responsibilities
  • Sole QA resource responsible for complete testing lifecycle.
  • Requirement analysis and test planning.
  • Creation of test scenarios, test cases, and test execution plans.
  • Execution of System Testing, SIT, TVT, and Regression Testing.
  • Defect logging, tracking, and reporting using JIRA.
  • Backend validation using SQL and AS400.
  • Test documentation and quality assurance reporting.
  • Preparation and presentation of Post Test Summary Reports (PTSR) to business stakeholders.
  • Coordination with developers, business analysts, and release teams.
  • Achievements
  • Successfully managed complete QA ownership as the sole tester for over 3 years.
  • Delivered multiple banking releases with high quality and minimum production defects.
  • Improved defect tracking and test execution efficiency through structured JIRA management.
  • Supported business stakeholders through effective testing reports and release communications.

Wipro Limited/ANZ Bank

Production Support Engineer (SRE)
11.2025 - Current

Job overview

  • Current Project: ANZ Banking - LSM Production Support Team
  • Production Support Engineer (SRE)
  • Key Responsibilities
  • Provide L2/L3 production support for business-critical banking applications.
  • Monitor incidents, alerts, infrastructure health, and application availability.
  • Manage ServiceNow incidents, change requests, and problem records.
  • Perform SLA tracking and ensure timely incident resolution.
  • Collaborate with business users, application teams, and technical stakeholders.
  • Analyse application failures and perform root cause investigations.
  • Execute SQL and PostgreSQL queries for issue analysis and data validation.
  • Monitor applications using Splunk, Control-M, OpenShift Pods, and Collate UI.
  • Support release validation and post-deployment monitoring activities.
  • Create and maintain Knowledge Base (KB) articles for recurring issues.
  • Work with Teradata scripts and database queries for operational support.
  • Major Achievements
  • Resolved 400+ production incidents across banking applications while maintaining SLA compliance.
  • Supported numerous business users by diagnosing and resolving application issues efficiently.
  • Designed and developed a professional ServiceNow Monitoring Dashboard for the team.
  • Dashboard Features:
  • Incident Monitoring
  • SLA Due Tracking
  • Alert Monitoring
  • Change Requests
  • Problem Records
  • Certificate Monitoring
  • Operational Health Visibility
  • Dashboard significantly improved 24x7 operational monitoring and team efficiency.
  • Received appreciation and recognition from the Product Owner for dashboard creation and operational excellence.
  • Authored multiple Knowledge Base (KB) articles that reduced resolution time and improved team productivity.
  • Worked on multiple Teradata scripts supporting business and operational requirements.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)

Master of Technology (M.Tech)

University Overview

VLB Janakiammal College of Arts and Science

Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)

University Overview

Skills

Quality Assurance & Testing

Manual Testing

System Testing

System Integration Testing (SIT)

Test Validation Testing (TVT)

Regression Testing

Test Planning & Execution

Defect Management

Requirement Analysis

Test Documentation

PTSR Presentation

Production Support & SRE

Incident Management

Problem Management

Change Management

SLA Monitoring

Application Support

Service Monitoring

Root Cause Analysis

Knowledge Base Creation

Production Issue Resolution

Databases & Data Validation

PostgreSQL

SQL

Teradata Studio

Data Validation

Backend Testing

Tools & Technologies

ServiceNow

JIRA

Confluence

Splunk

Control-M

OpenShift Pods

Collate UI

Excel Macros

Automation Anywhere

TOSCA

ServiceNow (Admin & Production Support) 4/5

AS400

Accomplishments

Accomplishments
  • Awarded with the Culture Catalyst for contributions to LSM.
  • User Service Now to create our Own 24/7 Monitoring dashboard for the project.

Certification

Learn Gen AI for Testing: Functional , Automation, Agent AI

Timeline

Production Support Engineer (SRE)
Wipro Limited/ANZ Bank
11.2025 - Current
Senior Test Engineer (Sole Tester)
Wipro Limited/ANZ Bank
11.2018 - 11.2025
VLB Janakiammal College of Arts and Science
Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA)
Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)
Master of Technology (M.Tech)
Ashokraj NatarajSenior Test Engineer / Production Support SRE