RAJ KUMAR RAJENDRAN
COIMBATORE
Summary
- Progressive 17+ year career spanning enterprise Quality Engineering, automation architecture, and technical program oversight.
- Directed multi-location teams (8–30+ members) across Construction SaaS and Healthcare platforms.
- Orchestrated large-scale legacy framework transitions to modern automation ecosystems with structured migration roadmaps.
- Implemented enterprise-grade validation frameworks covering regression, smoke, integration, and environment readiness controls.
- Improved deployment efficiency through optimized CI/CD orchestration and parallel execution strategies.
- Strengthened release assurance by introducing structured validation gates across multiple production regions.
- Delivered measurable gains in execution throughput and defect containment through continuous process refinement initiatives.
- Integrated analytics-driven monitoring to enhance transparency and stakeholder visibility.
- Enabled capability uplift through structured mentorship, technical coaching, and hiring participation.
- Promoted a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, including AI-assisted quality acceleration and secure engineering practices.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Delivery Manager – Quality Engineering
TRIMBLE, INC
Chennai
02.2021 - Current
- Lead end-to-end QA delivery for a regulated SaaS platform, managing offshore engineering teams and driving release predictability across multiple production environments.
- Spearheaded automation modernization initiative, migrating 3,200+ legacy tests to a scalable .NET-based framework aligned with enterprise technology lifecycle strategy.
- Stabilized regression suites to achieve sustained 99% pass rate, significantly reducing release risk and production defects.
- Established release governance model integrating smoke, regression, and environment validation gates, ensuring compliance and quality across 6+ PROD regions.
- Reduced release validation cycle time from 60 minutes to under 10 minutes through parallel execution and CI/CD optimization, improving deployment efficiency.
- Introduced AI-driven automation accelerator, doubling migration throughput and accelerating in-sprint automation adoption.
- Implemented proactive monitoring workflows with automated incident management integration (PagerDuty/Slack), enhancing real-time release visibility and response.
- Strengthened delivery resilience by eliminating test flakiness (
- Partnered with Product, Engineering, DevOps, and Operations to realign commitments based on capacity planning and execution readiness, improving project alignment.
- Drove continuous improvement initiatives, enhancing security and automation through AI-assisted vulnerability detection, secure credential governance, and analytics integration.
Automation Test Manager
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
Coimbatore
05.2018 - 02.2021
- Led a 30-member automation engineering team, driving end-to-end regression, smoke, BVT, and system integration delivery across multi-technology enterprise applications.
- Owned automation strategy and execution across web, oracle, mainframe, API, windows, and desktop platforms, ensuring release stability and quality governance for diverse applications.
- Designed and implemented scalable automation frameworks (UFT, Selenium, BDD Cucumber) integrated into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
- Championed in-sprint automation adoption, accelerating feedback cycles and improving defect detection early in the development lifecycle.
- Initiated and implemented self-healing automation concepts to improve script stability and reduce maintenance overhead.
- Led automation feasibility studies and POCs for 25+ applications, expanding automation coverage and enabling additional business opportunities.
- Up-skilled 30+ functional testers into full-stack automation engineers through structured training and mentorship programs (including client teams such as Humana).
Senior Automation Lead
HEXAWARE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Chennai
11.2015 - 04.2018
- Led an 8-member automation team, delivering quality assurance for 5 enterprise applications across Oracle, Web, and Java-based platforms.
- Automated complex Oracle-based applications using UFT, improving regression efficiency and execution consistency.
- Designed and implemented automation using Business Process Testing (BPT) framework, creating reusable and scalable test components.
- Developed environment validation automation for end-to-end workflows, enabling early defect detection and reducing downstream production risk.
- Conducted automation feasibility assessments and POCs for multiple applications, facilitating transition to full automation coverage per client roadmap.
- Delivered automation estimations, ROI analysis, and traceability matrices, enabling informed decision-making and effective delivery planning.
- Performed peer reviews and quality audits of automation scripts to ensure coding standards, maintainability, and framework compliance.
Automation Test Engineer
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
Chicago
12.2012 - 10.2015
- Developed automation solutions for web, Windows, and Silverlight applications, enhancing regression testing and validating release quality.
- Supported automation tool evaluations and implemented CRAFT 2.0 framework, standardizing testing processes across projects.
- Built Excel-based reporting utilities for HP QC/ALM to track daily release metrics and administered QC for onsite/offshore teams, ensuring governance and transparency in reporting.
Automation Test Engineer
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
Chennai
01.2009 - 11.2012
- Conducted automation feasibility analysis and developed reusable scripts using component-based framework (UFT/QTP) to enhance testing efficiency.
- Delivered automation across Web, Siebel, Windows, OpenVMS, and PEGA applications, supporting functional and regression quality assurance.
- Coordinated framework enhancements, metrics tracking, and task management to ensure structured and measurable test delivery.
Education
Bachelor of Technology -
Kongu Engineering College
01-2008
Skills
- QA delivery
- Automated testing
- Automation frameworks
- CI/CD pipelines
- Proactive monitoring
- Risk assessment
- AI Adoption
- Kanban methodology
- Team leadership
- Training and mentoring
Career Profile
Technology leader with 17+ years of experience in Quality Engineering across Construction SaaS (past 5 years) and Healthcare domains. Proven expertise in leading offshore teams, modernizing automation frameworks, and strengthening release stability in complex multi-environment platforms. Strong foundation in CI/CD enablement, quality governance, and cross-functional collaboration. Recognized for a hands-on leadership style, practical problem-solving approach, and consistent delivery of reliable, efficient, and measurable quality outcomes aligned with business objectives.
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master
- ISTQB
Hobbies and Interests
Cycling
Timeline
Senior Delivery Manager – Quality Engineering
TRIMBLE, INC
02.2021 - Current
Automation Test Manager
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
05.2018 - 02.2021
Senior Automation Lead
HEXAWARE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
11.2015 - 04.2018
Automation Test Engineer
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
12.2012 - 10.2015
Automation Test Engineer
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
01.2009 - 11.2012
Bachelor of Technology -
Kongu Engineering College