Narendran Maheswaran
Coimbatore
Summary
- Test Manager / QA Delivery Lead with 14 years of diverse experience across Banking, Healthcare, Pharma, Life Sciences, and Digital Marketing domains. Specialized in managing end-to-end testing lifecycles covering SIT, UAT, and regression phases within Agile and Waterfall environments.
- Proven expertise in test planning, estimation, risk assessment, defect management, traceability, and stakeholder reporting.
- Hands-on experience overseeing ETL testing, data validation, API testing, and automation oversight using Postman, SOAP UI, and Jenkins.
- Strong collaboration with onshore and offshore teams to ensure quality delivery and compliance to SLA and governance standards.
- Adept in test governance frameworks and QA metrics (KPI / DRE / Defect Leakage / Coverage).
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, mentor test engineers, and establish continuous improvement initiatives.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Delivery Manager / QA Governance Lead
Accenture
12.2024 - Current
- Leading testing and validation of AWS-based archival framework for structured and unstructured data migration.
- Defined end-to-end test strategy for multi-environment pipelines (Jenkins, Lambda, Step Functions).
- Coordinated SIT/UAT cycles with onshore stakeholders and validated functional and regression scenarios.
- Governed defect triage process and daily QA dashboards using JIRA and Excel trackers.
- Client: Bank of New Zealand
Associate Consultant (QA/ETL Testing Lead)
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2022 - 12.2024
- Managed ETL testing teams for Informatica migration and production support activities.
- Created test plans, test data designs, and traceability matrices ensuring alignment to business requirements.
- Supervised L2/L3 defect management and production hyper-care post cloud migration (Azure).
- Reported SLA metrics, test progress, and defect density to client QA governance board.
- Client: GSK Pharma (Poland)
Senior Associate / Technical Lead (Testing and Delivery)
Cognizant
09.2021 - 05.2022
- Led validation cycles for large-scale data warehouse jobs using UC4 scheduler.
- Conducted end-to-end SIT/UAT testing, data reconciliation, and defect management through JIRA.
- Owned QA artifacts – test plan, RTM, defect log, closure reports — ensuring zero leakage to UAT.
- Client: Pacific Gas & Electric
Module Lead / Test Coordinator
Mindtree Ltd
10.2017 - 08.2021
- Directed a team of 11 test engineers in functional and data validation projects.
- Defined test scenarios and test cases across Agile sprints and ensured UAT sign-offs.
- Managed defect triage meetings and status calls with onshore product owners.
- Client: Catalina Marketing (US)
ETL Test Engineer and Analyst
Cognizant / UST Global
01.2011 - 01.2017
- Performed requirement analysis, test case design, and data validation for DWH applications.
- Executed test scenarios for data integrity and transformation rules in Informatica and Teradata.
- Developed SQL queries for test automation and regression testing of critical interfaces.
- Clients: JPMC, US Bank, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, WellPoint Anthem
Education
B.Tech -
Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology
Pollachi06.2011
Skills
- Test Strategy & Planning
- SIT/UAT Execution
- Defect, Lifecycle Management Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
- Automation Oversight (Selenium / Postman / SOAP UI) ETL & Data Testing
- Test Estimation & Workload Planning
- Stakeholder Reporting & Governance
- Continuous Integration (Jenkins / AWS Pipelines)
- Risk & Issue Management
- Category Tools / Technologies
- Test Tools JIRA, HP ALM, Jenkins, Postman, SOAP UI, Selenium (Basic UI Validation)
- ETL / DWH Informatica (9/10), DataStage 117, Talend, Teradata 14, Oracle, Netezza
- Cloud / DevOps AWS (Lambda, S3, Athena, EventBridge), Azure Basics
- Languages / DB SQL, Python (basic), C/C
- OS Windows, Unix/Linux
- Reporting Excel Macros, PowerPoint Dashboards, QA Metrics Templates
Certification
- ISTQB Foundation (Level 1) – (Recommended to add if completed or planned)
- AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials – In Progress
- Agile Testing and Scrum Basics – Coursera/LinkedIn Learning
Timeline
Delivery Manager / QA Governance Lead
Accenture
12.2024 - Current
Associate Consultant (QA/ETL Testing Lead)
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2022 - 12.2024
Senior Associate / Technical Lead (Testing and Delivery)
Cognizant
09.2021 - 05.2022
Module Lead / Test Coordinator
Mindtree Ltd
10.2017 - 08.2021
ETL Test Engineer and Analyst
Cognizant / UST Global
01.2011 - 01.2017
B.Tech -
Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology
Key Achievements
- Led multiple cross-geo testing teams with zero critical defects post go-live.
- Automated daily regression validation using SQL and Postman collections.
- Awarded ‘High Performance Delivery’ for QA Governance excellence at BNZ project.