Karthickram Ramanathan Valayapathy

Senior Quality Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience delivering enterprise software solutions for global Banking and Financial Services Institutions. Expertise in Quality Engineering, Test Program Management, Data Quality, AML, Big Data, Cloud, and enterprise transformation. Proven success leading global teams, comprehensive delivery, establishing QA governance, modernizing testing practices with automation, and improving release quality across complex regulatory and business-critical programs.

Big Data QA Lead (Official Title) - Iris Software / SSA Infosystems

(2021-03)

Lead the Data Quality Implementation for Citi's Global Credit cards AML Data Acquisition & Transaction Monitoring program to migrate the Anti-Money Laundering data from Legacy Data warehouse system into Big Data Enterprise Analytics Platform ("EAP") environment across North America, LATAM, EMEA and APAC regions.

• Directed the Data Quality implementation for multiple enterprise initiatives including Cards AML, Markets, Mexico Legacy, and End-to-End Reconciliation programs.
• Defined QA governance, enterprise test strategy, release planning, quality metrics, and risk management practices. Led globally distributed QA teams & partnered with business stakeholders.
• Improved Data Quality through automation using Python, Shell scripting, Hadoop, Hive, and Spark. Supported production releases, change management, defect prevention, and release readiness.
• Expertise in leading & managing teams with the team sizes varying from 5-20 in a challenging multivendor, multi lingual environment.
• Identified Functional risks and provided advice for the production implementation of releases.

Big Data QA Lead - Ocher Technology Group

(2017-12 - 2021-02)

Led Quality Engineering for enterprise Big Data initiatives by standardizing QA processes, expanding automation, improving Data Quality validation, and strengthening Agile delivery and release governance.

Test Lead / QA Coordinator - L&T Infotech

(2012-02 - 2017-12)

Managed end-to-end Quality Analysis for AML and Investment Banking platforms, overseeing test strategy, UAT, release management, production support, and regulatory initiatives.

Software Test Analyst - Infosys Technologies Ltd.

(2004-09 - 2012-01)

Coordinated the User Acceptance Testing solutions for Internet and Mobile Banking platforms, managed monthly release cycles, led offshore QA teams, and automated approximately 600 regression test cases, reducing execution time from ~2 weeks to a few hours. Contribution to build the domain & technology competencies for onboarding QA projects.

Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications - Madurai Kamaraj University, India (2011-04)

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology - Madurai Kamaraj University, India (2004-04)