Rama Appadurai

• Drove successful delivery of high-impact IT and product projects in fintech and payments.
• Led cross-functional teams to ensure timely project delivery while maintaining stakeholder satisfaction.
• Developed agile project plans to foster collaboration and streamline workflows among team members.
• Coordinated project schedules and allocated resources to improve project delivery timelines.
• Conducted risk assessments to proactively address project challenges and minimize disruptions.

Project Name - Partior – Real-Time Cross-Border Payments & Settlement Platform

Environment: Distributed Ledger (DLT), ISO 20022 APIs, Postman, SQL, Jira, Confluence, Kafka

Responsibilities:

• Led end-to-end testing for Partior's distributed settlement platform ensuring accuracy, resilience, and regulatory compliance.
• Defined Test Strategy, Test Plan, resource planning, effort estimation, and release quality gates.
• Managed a team of 5 testers, assigning tasks, conducting daily standup's, and driving defect triage with cross-functional teams.
• Oversaw functional, integration, UAT, performance, and security testing across all Partior modules.
• Coordinated with consortium banks (participant nodes), central bank teams, architects, and compliance owners to align test outcomes.
• Directed ISO 20022 message validation, schema compliance, transaction timestamps, and signature integrity.
• Ensured coverage for high-risk scenarios: node-to-node sync issues, consensus failures, partial settlement, and fallback routing.
• Delivered test summary reports, defect metrics, and go-live readiness signoff to senior leadership

Key Achievements

• Delivered Partior release with zero settlement defects in production.
• Automated 70% regression suite, reducing release cycle time by 40%.
• Ensured successful interbank certification for Singapore, US, and EU corridors.

Test Lead – ecommerce

[Accenture] | 2012 – 2020

• Validated key modules of e-commerce web and mobile app, including product listing, checkout, search, and order workflow.

· Developed and executed API/Web automationfor cart, payments, inventory, and catalogue services. Collaborated with product, design, and engineering teams to improve conversion rate, cart performance, and reduce checkout failures.

Test Analyst – Telecommunication

[Accenture] | 2009 – 2012

· Expertise in E2E testing, Release Management, Network Testing, VoIP/IMS, Fiber rollout (Openreach), SD-WAN, OSS/BSS transformation, and test strategy for large-scale telecom environments.

Skilled at leading distributed teams, coordinating with BT stakeholders, and ensuring defect-free releases aligned with BT quality and regulatory standards