YAMUNA KANNAN

• Comprehensive Test Strategy & Planning: Spearhead the end-to-end QA lifecycle by authoring detailed Test Plans, scope documents, and validation strategies for core banking and digital wealth management platforms.

• Strategic Bug Prevention: Drive a "Quality-First" culture by collaborating with development teams during the design phase to identify logic gaps, successfully shifting quality "left" to prevent defects before coding begins.

• Payment Domain Mastery (SWIFT): Serve as a Subject Matter Expert for the validation of SWIFT MT/MX messaging, ensuring 100% adherence to global standards and the ISO 20022 evolution for cross-border payments.

• Domestic Rail Expertise (Fedwire/ACH): Lead the functional testing of US domestic payment rails, including Fedwire and US ACH, to ensure high-accuracy transaction processing for e-money advisor tools.

• Restful Web Services Validation: Execute advanced integration testing of Restful APIs using Postman and SoapUI, verifying data integrity between secure backend banking systems and advisor-facing frontends.

• Regulatory & Compliance Auditing: Directed rigorous testing of financial workflows to ensure strict adherence to GDPR data privacy standards, Sanctions Screening, and international regulatory benchmarks.

• Analytical Root-Cause Discovery: Utilize expert-level SQL and Oracle database queries to perform deep-dive troubleshooting on complex defects, ensuring absolute data integrity within financial records.

• End-to-End Defect Orchestration: Manage the complete bug lifecycle using Jira and BugDB, facilitating triage meetings to prioritize critical fixes and ensuring transparent communication across the Scrum team.

• Functional Design Advocacy: Partner with Product Owners to analyze functional requirements, providing technical feedback that enhances system testability, security, and overall software maintainability.

• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Facilitation: Lead UAT sessions with business stakeholders, translating technical system behavior into user-friendly outcomes for financial professionals and advisors.

• Agile/Scrum Leadership: Actively participate in all Scrum ceremonies, providing task estimation and ensuring that quality milestones are met within fast-paced sprint cycles.

• Cross-Functional Team Integration: Collaborate closely with developers to foster a shared responsibility for quality, helping to deliver software solutions that are both efficient and performant.

• Documentation Excellence: Author and maintain vital project documentation, including Validation Plans and traceability matrices, to support long-term system stability and compliance audits.

• Validated complex financial transaction workflows to ensure data integrity, resulting in improved customer trust and regulatory compliance.