Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Extra-Curricular Activities
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TEAM MANAGEMENT
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Mathivanan Anbazhagan

Senior BA/SDET Lead
bangalore

Summary

A result oriented professional with 10+ yrs of qualitative experience in Information Engaged in various process improvements within the team Technology and Team Management, Experience on various domains such as Banking, Telecom and Financial services.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Founding BA| Lead SDET

PICE
07.2022 - Current

Product Description.

Worked extensively in the banking domain, focusing on critical financial products, including Transaction summary and processing, secure vault setup, payment gateways, settlements, and repayment mechanisms. Hands-on experience with UPI-based real-time payment systems, managing digital wallet integrations, and monitoring transactional flows to ensure compliance, accuracy, and security. Involved in automating and validating settlement engines handling periodic netting, fund transfers, and exception reconciliations. Managed repayment workflows encompassing loan EMIs, credit adjustments, and penalty calculations to optimise customer experience and financial accuracy. Leveraged deep domain knowledge of transaction lifecycle, reconciliation processes, and regulatory requirements to ensure robust end-to-end solutions aligned with banking standards RBI and NPCI guidelines.

Roles and Responsiblity:

  • Established comprehensive BA function from inception for fast-scaling startup.
  • Drove business and technology alignment in a hybrid Business Analyst and SDET Lead capacity, gathering and analysing requirements from cross-functional stakeholders in the banking, telecom, and financial domains.
  • Collaborated with business, technology, and product stakeholders to analyze requirements for high-impact projects.
  • Developed business requirement documents, functional specifications, and user stories to align business needs with technical implementation.
  • Facilitated requirement-gathering workshops and stakeholder meetings; created process flow diagrams using Draw.io and Lucidchart.
  • Maintained QA and business metrics dashboards to track sprint progress, defect trends, and release quality using Jira and Metabase.

Founding QA| Senior QA(Lead)

Cleartax
01.2018 - 07.2022
  • Led test planning and execution by creating test cases based on evolving business requirements; performed Sanity Testing, UAT, and Regression to ensure product readiness and quality assurance.
  • As a Lead Collaborated closely with product owners and business analysts to translate raw data into actionable business intelligence through engaging visual reports and dashboards.
  • Took initiative in analyzing test requirements and assessing automation feasibility, influencing the test strategy for multiple product modules.
  • Mentored junior team members while writing and executing automated test cases using JIRA, Selenium WebDriver, and SoapUI, streamlining regression coverage and increasing test reliability.
  • Acted as a key point of contact for inter-team communications by coordinating with peers and business stakeholders to ensure clarity on test requirements and delivery expectations.
  • Authored complex SQL queries for test data validation and reporting, and led REST API testing efforts using Postman with a focus on automation and reusability in JSON workflows.
  • Conducted root-cause analysis measures to identify basis of defects and finding solutions to fix problems.
  • Reviewed and studied customer feedback to implement changes and modifications in products.

Test Analyst

IBM(Bell Canada)
05.2017 - 11.2017
  • Requirement analysis for new enhancements, identifying all possible test scenarios for business functionality newly added to the application.
  • Writing Automation TestCase in Java(Selenium)for web service oriented module
  • Developing a test plan, which contains detailed schedules, environments and resources required for certifying an application enhancement.
  • Developing test cases with steps for performing action in the application under test.
  • Effort estimation for test designing, test execution and test automation for new application enhancements, this in turn serves as an input for project planning.
  • Test Automation requirement analysis, identifying potential test scenarios which are repeated for every software version increment periodically.
  • Executed the test case (subscriber creation, call flow design, call triggering and automating the call triggering) and analyzing the logs in different servers.
  • Audit of tested cases and submitting the detailed analysis and logs.

SDET

Smartrip
01.2016 - 05.2017
  • Analyze the Business problems and estimate the feasibility of Automation.
  • Developing Script to ease the process flow for the business.
  • Scheduling Script execution using Jenkins to clear the claims backlog on a daily basis.
  • Designed Automated and Manual Tests, created Automated test cases, test plans and executed tests using Selenium Web driver.
  • Executing the functional test cases.
  • Have worked on test script automation using UFT.

Test Engineer

Barclays Shared Services
08.2013 - 04.2014
  • Performed Manual testing pre and post validation.
  • Performed Patching and validation.
  • Performed End to End testing, Regression testing and Defect retesting.
  • Prepared Status report and shared the same with the client.
  • Provided Technical KT to client and received appreciation for the same.
  • Was involved in providing KT to team members.

Education

Master of Technology - Computer science

Vellore institute of technology(VIT)
05.2016

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Gojan school of business and technology(Affiliated to Anna University)
05.2012

Skills

  • Power BI
  • Metabase
  • JIRA
  • SQL Work Bench
  • PG admin
  • Dynamo
  • Click house
  • Data validation
  • Business analysis
  • Operational analysis
  • SQL database management
  • Data analysis and visualization
  • Resource allocation mastery
  • Process improvement strategies

Extra-Curricular Activities

President award winner in scouting(Rastrapathi award).

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that above particulars given are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

TEAM MANAGEMENT

Effectively interfacing with people at all levels, managing healthy work environment and inculcating bonded teamwork with high work ethics.

Timeline

Founding BA| Lead SDET

PICE
07.2022 - Current

Founding QA| Senior QA(Lead)

Cleartax
01.2018 - 07.2022

Test Analyst

IBM(Bell Canada)
05.2017 - 11.2017

SDET

Smartrip
01.2016 - 05.2017

Test Engineer

Barclays Shared Services
08.2013 - 04.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Gojan school of business and technology(Affiliated to Anna University)

Master of Technology - Computer science

Vellore institute of technology(VIT)
Mathivanan AnbazhaganSenior BA/SDET Lead