Raghavendran T U
Chennai
Summary
With over 15 years of banking experience(BOFA/NatWest/Barclays/JPMC) in QA, including customer payments, account summary, account inquiry, and customer onboarding features in mobile, branch, terminal, virtual card, and browser channels, etc. I have followed automation and the SDLC process in Agile methodology across API, mobile, browser, and backend testing.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Test Architect Associate Manager
Accenture-Bank Of America(Contractor)
chennai
01.2026 - Current
- Working Health Care Payment System for automating APIs and UI for components in the E2E flow from the terminal to the Gateway via the transaction broker, and Settings Reporting validation is also done from different gateways via the HPS system through the reporting API.
- Client interactions for all systems are validated with the Selenium and Rest Assured frameworks.
- Due diligence is done for features and complete end-to-end components via CircleCI and local system runs.
- Agile methodology is followed for all implementation and production incident activities.
Test Architect Associate Manager
Accenture-Natwest/RBS/UBS(Contractor)
05.2022 - 12.2026
- Proposed automation revisit strategy for monthly release from 8 weeks and played an anchor role in pen testing, release anchor, and DBO anchor for release lead activities.
- Handled all 255 web services of the NatWest server testing team and made it as 100% pass rate in every daily run.
- Automated batch job in mainframes and DP testing across all layers in testing. Incorporated health checks, ready API framework for smoke testing.
- Creating and maintaining the CI pipeline in Git check-in for automation execution in regression and daily runs for impact assessment.
- Handled due diligence for any backend change, from analyzing the impacts and finalizing the approach, until feature delivery to the customer.
- The PMO role in Accenture starts from SOW creation, team handling, and the renewal of new projects to maintain client services.
Test Lead
Barclays
06.2018 - 05.2022
- Role-playing as Test Lead in the Barclays App and the Barclaycard App, experienced in Selenium automation with a hybrid framework in automating the ROLB channel and Seetest for the mobile channel in UAT and LCT phases.
- Experienced in implementing TestNG and Cucumber for BDD.
- Experienced in using JIRA as a test management tool.
- Experienced in using Git and Jenkins as CI tools for every build run.
- Leading an in-sprint automation team of four members.
- Role played as the go-to person for escalations and queries regarding Barclays app LCT activities.
- Implemented a high-level approach to the PO agenda, Automation Agenda, Single Team Agenda, and Release Agenda, and documented it in the test strategy.
- Involved in documenting test plans for new features and enhancements across TBA/TBCA, and delivering end-to-end before launching the app to customers.
- Managing overall LCT automation activities, creating automation scripts to make them run against iOS and Android devices, and merging and updating the regression pack regularly.
- Involved in the retrospection of features that are not automated, along with feature test teams, to keep the regression pack updated with the latest information.
- Leading all activities such as scope, Scrum, all-hands, SteerCo, defect, Go/No-Go, retrospective, and review calls.
- Initiated business cases for many features and process changes with digital.
- Overall, accountable for TBA and TBCA defects management, and working as Defect Manager.
- Responsible for maintaining RAID in UAT/LCT test phases.
- Assessing the impact for UAT and LCT for the effort required to implement changes proposed by the Business Proposition teams.
Senior Test Analyst
Barclays
06.2015 - 06.2018
- Role played as Senior Test Analyst in carrying out release testing under a team of four members.
- SME in the Barclays Mobile app and acted as a core member in mobile testing on the digital platform.
- Automating the ROLB channel with Selenium for features and release testing.
- Developing cross-browser test scripts and running them on browsers (Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer).
- Performed a leading role in task allocation, coordinating from offshore, and establishing daily activities for the Barclays app release/features.
- Involved in designing a detailed UAT and LCT test plan listing items in and out of the scope, as well as brainstorming with the test team to come up with test scenarios with high-level test conditions.
- Involved in resource management, including planning, allocation optimization, to ensure timely project delivery with minimal defect leakage through the creation of best practices within the Digital Team.
- Performed regular interactions with the business and technology teams for feedback.
- As lead, I established the testing process and defect management for the team for end-to-end mobile application delivery.
Senior Test Analyst
Cognizant-JPMC(Contractor)
07.2014 - 06.2015
- Create reusable methods. Develop test scripts in the existing framework. Increased productivity by 50% through automation for Bring Your Own Device (Cognizant Product).
- Consolidate the changes made by team members, and merge them in QC.
- Review the test scripts created by team members, and provide review comments for the same.
- Do batch execution on a daily basis on Virtual Machines.
- Analyze failed test cases and fix the same.
- Reviewed defects and was involved in defect triage calls to showcase the severity of defects raised; verified test deliverables before delivering them to the client, with involvement in test execution to understand system behavior and document findings.
Test Analyst
Cognizant-Mobility Product Team
12.2011 - 07.2014
- I wrote and optimized test cases to maximize the success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
- Undertook regression testing of defect-prone areas and regularly reported status during the execution phase to track effectiveness.
- Identified and tracked defects with QC, and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering
Jaya Engineering College
Bachelor Of Engineering05.2011
High School Diploma -
Tamilnadu Higher Secondary Certification
St.Marys.A.I.Hr.Sec.School05.2007
Skills
- Selenium
- Selenium-Grid
- Core Java
- See test
- Jenkins & Gitlab
- Maven
- TestNG
- Cucumber
- Git
- API(Hybrid-Framework & Rest-assured)
- JIRA, Confluence and Share point
- Agile Mobile and Web Tester
- Mainframes-Web3270_GSIDEV
- SME in Banking Domain
- Copilot
Accomplishments
- Best Tester Award from Cognizant.(08/2013)
- Best Team Award from Cognizant.(08/2013)
- Barclays Global Value Recognition Award.(08/2015)
- Barclays Global Value Recognition Award.(11/2019)
- Accenture Celebrates Excellence Award(03/2023)
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance. (11/2018-11/2022)
- ISTQB-Foundation Level.(08/2012)
Timeline
Test Architect Associate Manager
Accenture-Bank Of America(Contractor)
01.2026 - Current
Test Architect Associate Manager
Accenture-Natwest/RBS/UBS(Contractor)
05.2022 - 12.2026
Test Lead
Barclays
06.2018 - 05.2022
Senior Test Analyst
Barclays
06.2015 - 06.2018
Senior Test Analyst
Cognizant-JPMC(Contractor)
07.2014 - 06.2015
Test Analyst
Cognizant-Mobility Product Team
12.2011 - 07.2014
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering
Jaya Engineering College
High School Diploma -
Tamilnadu Higher Secondary Certification