Vignesh Mahalingan

ISTQB Certified Senior QA Lead with 10+ years of experience in Banking, Mortgage, Healthcare, Insurance, Aerospace, and Logistics domains. Expertise in Functional, Regression, Integration, System, UAT, API Testing (Postman), SQL query writing and validation, Agile Scrum, release management, defect management, and stakeholder communication. Experienced in leading QA teams of up to 12 members.

Working knowledge of Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and Maven through hands-on learning. Familiar with Azure DevOps concepts and experienced using Jira.

Immediate

Joiner.

Senior QA Lead at Photon Interactive Pvt. Ltd. (2025-04 – 2025-10)

• Led QA planning, execution, regression testing, UAT, and release validation.
• Mentored a 5-member QA team.
• Collaborated with automation engineers to improve regression coverage.
• Performed defect triage and release sign-offs.

Lead Engineer – QA at HCLTech | Bank of Ireland (2021-01 – 2023-12)

• Led a 12-member QA team for enterprise banking applications.
• Prepared test plans, reviewed test cases, and coordinated sprint activities.
• Performed SQL query writing and backend validation.
• Conducted API testing using Postman.
• Managed defect triage, release validation, and stakeholder communication.
• Collaborated with automation engineers using Selenium/TestNG.

Test Engineer / Senior Test Engineer at HCLTech (2013-01 – 2021-12)

• Executed end-to-end testing across Banking, Mortgage, Healthcare, Insurance, Aerospace, and Logistics domains.
• Created and executed test cases.
• Validated backend data using SQL queries.
• Supported automation execution and regression activities.

B.Tech – Anna University (2008-01 – 2012-12)