Usha Thirumalaisamy
Bangalore
Summary
Result-driven QA professional with 14+ years of IT experience, in BFSI domain. Strong Expertise in various aspects of Quality Assurance and ETL Testing Methodologies. Leading initiatives to optimize QA test processes and promote a collaborative BizDevOps mindset within the domain. Skilled in Agile and Sequential Development Models. Experience in leading technical projects teams at Nordea,Bank of New York Mellon and Standard Chartered Bank
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
QA Lead
Nordea Bank(Tata Consultancy Services)
Bangalore
08.2021 - Current
- Ensured overall accountability on QA aspects of the CFT(Cross Functional Team)
- Promoted Left shift STLC in the overall SDLC process, assessing testability of requirements and test approach planning during refinement (LLD phase)
- Timely test planning with a bird's eye view of upcoming features to plan test effort and test schedule, identifying and involving the QA team in a early stage. Enabling a quality test design
- Developed functional and technical understanding of features under development. Thereby able to technically and functionally guide QA team
- Identified test approach, plan, measure and evaluate test designs prepared by the test team, ensure 100% test coverage
- Measured test effectiveness through the quality of defect detection. Efficient defect management, triage, closure of defects across all test level, promote the culture& ownership of RCA on defect slippage
- Hands-on Validation/re-validation in areas where test coverage is observed weak/challenging Measured, Monitored and tracked the performance of individual QA team members, for an optimum and efficient team. Escalating gaps if any on performance, availability, throughput, and attitude
- Measured automation throughput, derive designs, solutions for an automated test development, design and execution supporting Service domain's bizdevops journey
- Seamless Test Reporting for enabling transparency in test progress to relevant stakeholders. CFT(Cross Functional Team) level test summary during Release Decision Meeting with details on QA Process the change subjected towards, provided a degree of confidence to the stakeholders in decision making
- Maintained high quality standards of QA artifacts in par with standards of Nordea internal and external audits
- Steering the test environment and test data towards NQS (Nordea Quality Standards) compliance setup.
Project lead - 6 years 5 Months
Bank of New York Mellon
Chennai
- Developed overall test strategies for unit, process, functional, integration and acceptance testing.
- Experienced in Effort Estimation and preparing Test Metrics.
- Hands on Project Lead with responsibilities include analyzing the problem/task at hand and assigning to the appropriate testers for execution.
- Identified control and compliance issues, assesses and document the related risk, identify the root cause and made recommendations for resolution.
- Defined criteria for testing, analyzed results of testing sessions and presented results across the organization; created a culture of continuous improvement (CI) through reporting, monitoring data flows, program delivery and project management.
- Drove Agile methodologies to evaluate and define future product technologies and interface enhancements.
- Led several project planning phases including gathering requirements, definitions and functional specifications, User Acceptance Test (UAT) and planning system release sequencing.
- Experience in ETL Testing/Validating the Source, Stage and Target (End-to-End).
- Performed Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Cleansing, Data Masking and identifying data mismatch.
- Facilitated Scrum activities including conducting daily standups, release planning and retrospectives.
- INAUTIX TECHNOLOGIES INDIA PVT LIMITED
Test Engineer - 2 Years
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
Chennai
- Technically verify the end-to-end connectivity from the point of source file arrival till the reports get generated in the reporting solution.
- Applying ETL process to access & manipulate data and load them into target database.
- Reporting defects into Test Management tools and do continuous tracking till its closure.
- Involved in preparing Final Test Report on every SIT closure.
- Handling/Coordinating the efforts of other testers.
- Training new joiners to help them understand the project quickly.
- ESQUIRE SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED
Test Engineer - 2 Years
INFOED TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
Chennai
- Requirement Analysis and Understanding the business scenarios.
- Prepared the test cases and conditions.
- Test execution and Defect tracking till closure of the test phase.
- Participating proactively in daily standup meetings, suggesting and implementing improvements.
Education
B.Tech - Information Technology
Raja College Of Engineering And Technology
MaduraiSkills
- Quality Assurance
- Data warehouse components
- ETL Testing
- Snowflake
- Project Management
- Agile Delivery
- Oracle SQL
- HP ALM
- JIRA
- qTest
Certification
• BDA (Business Domain Academy) Certification on Credit Risk Management; Dec, 2023
•SnowPro Core Exam; June, 2022 (Certificate # 422895263)
•SnowPro Core Exam; June, 2022 (Certificate # 422895263)
Timeline
QA Lead
Nordea Bank(Tata Consultancy Services)
08.2021 - Current
Project lead - 6 years 5 Months
Bank of New York Mellon
Test Engineer - 2 Years
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
Test Engineer - 2 Years
INFOED TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
B.Tech - Information Technology
Raja College Of Engineering And Technology