1. Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL
INFORMATION
Name: PAULRAJ MADASAMY
Address: 93, 27th A Cross, 14th Main road, 4th Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore, Karnataka,
560011 - India
Contact Number: +91-7200002229
Mail Id: userpaulraj@gmail.com
Skype Name: skypepaulraj
LinkedIn URL: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulraj-madasamy
Sex: Male | Date of birth: 30/05/1987 | Nationality: Indian
PERSONAL
STATEMENT
● An astute, result oriented professional with 13 years of progressive experience in IT
industry revolving around Software Testing for diversified client with core focus on BFSI
and Mobility domains
● Profound capability to create and maintain - delivery, quality & internal metrics and
identifying team-members for Automation testing
● Adept in test effort estimation, designing & implementing test plans, test cases, test
summary report and defect management
● Dexterous working in GUI based Web Applications; Database Backend Testing using SQL
Queries, Web services (XML) Testing using SoapUI
● Proven expertise in managing & mentoring the QA team and collaborating with teams
across geographic locations
● Hands-on experience in Waterfall & Agile methodologies and test management tools-
HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management), HP Quality Center & JIRA
● In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life
Cycle (STLC) and Defect Life Cycle
● Proficient in requirement analysis and test coverage using Requirement Traceability
Matrix (RTM)
● Spearheaded projects with broad domain experience in diverse line of business
entailing – investment/core banking; Point-of-sale terminals, public sector in UK
(taxation) and so on
● Articulate communicator with good organizational and team-working abilities, to be
able to lead cross-functional teams in test execution and defect management
WORK EXPERIENCE
May 2023 – Sep 2023 Test Architect
Intact Green Services, India
Client GCash Philippines
Project & Duration GCash - MOPTel
Role Solution Architect
Responsibilities
● Involved in solution discussion for new projects and new technology implementation
● Supported in appraisal discussion alongside team improvement
● Helped to setup devops for developer who is 3rd party testing practice
● Provided one click approach on day to day build delivery and testing strategy
Jan 2020 – May 2023 Project Manager
Wipro Technologies, India
Client Apple
Project & Duration iTranslate Jan 2020 – May 2023
Role Automation Architect
Testing Approach Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Service Testing
2. Environment JIRA, JavaScript, Protractor, Shell script, Selenium, Cucumber, Java, Jenkins, Git, Splunk,
Maven, Agile
Responsibilities ● Significant role involvement as an Automation Architect engaged in wide scope of tasks
entailing – efficient managing automation & manual testing teams; creating /
streamlining / remodeling the automation testing framework of accommodating
UI/Backend changes in apple core customer systems
● Meticulously created service automation testing framework to validate the locale
contents and alterations happening in services side utilising Postman also automated
using Java
● Instrumental in configuring Jenkins with automation scripts which provides smooth
execution along with development pipeline for Backend changes
Nov 2017 – Dec 2019 Test Lead
HCL Technologies, India
Client Bank of Ireland
Project & Duration PFS - Payment Fraud System Dec 2018 – Dec 2019
Role Automation Architect
Testing Approach Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Service Testing, Mainframe Testing
Environment JIRA, VB Script, Windows Shell script, Selenium, Cucumber, Jbehave, Java, Groovy,
Jenkins, SVN, IBM MQ, Splunk, Maven, Agile, Kanban
Responsibilities ● Significant role involvement as an Automation Architect engaged in wide scope of tasks
entailing – efficient managing automation & manual testing teams;
creating/streamlining/remodeling the automation testing framework of
accommodating backend changes in PFS core
● Meticulously created service automation testing framework to validate the transaction
messages and alterations happening in services side utilising Postman/SOAPUI
● Instrumental in configuring Jenkins with automation scripts which provides smooth
execution along with development pipeline
● Involved in vast gamut of tasks such as – generating a batch file to run the scripts in
systems where IDE is not installed; re-customising the automation approach by
increasing manual testers involvement with automation script contributions in 80:20
ratio (i.e. manual/automation support)
Client CommonWealth Bank of Australia
Project & Duration Custos – Investment Banking Sector (Fenergo and CommSee) Nov 2017 – Dec 2018
Role Test Lead
Testing Approach Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Service Virtualization
Environment LeanFT, JIRA, Adapdivist, VB Script, Windows shell script, Selenium, Cucumber, Node JS,
C#, Java, Groovy, Teamcity, SVN, Kafka, Splunk, LISA, Nuget, Agile
Responsibilities ● Successfully accountable for configuration of MTM (Microsoft Test Management) with
automation scripts; determined bug in the process of AAT/SIT/UAT; provided
development support and assisted development team in fixing the bug
Jun 2017 – Sep 2017 Senior Automation Engineer
Standard Chartered Bank, India
Project & Duration eBBS – RLS MOA (Retail Lending System) Jun 2017 – Oct 2017
Role Senior Automation Engineer
Testing Approach Automation
Environment UFT, ALM, VB Script, Windows shell script, Linux batch script, Selenium, Cucumber, Angular
JS, Protractor, Jenkins, SVN, JIRA, Splunk, LISA, Agile
Responsibilities ● Key role involvement in reinforcing the service potentially utilized by over 50K
bankers/70 countries
● Diligently created automation testing to provide backend changes in the application
and on-the-go user interface (UI) modifications utilising UFT (Unified Functional
Testing), Selenium and Protractor
● Proactively created automated local box to extract the essential libraries that supports
testers/developers to test the application in the localhost
3. ● Significantly responsible for presentation of newly created framework mainly for
upload/download transaction verification in flat file/database level to the entire
testing team
● Involved in creation of an application to automate the SQL query generation
Feb 2017 – Jun 2017 Testing Consultant
Checkealos, Spain
Client Checkealos – Spain & Newcastle
Project Checkealos – User Research Team
Testing Approach Automation
Environment Selenium, Cucumber, C#, Ruby, Angular JS, Protractor, Appium, AWS, Grinder, Github,
JIRA, ZAP, Google Analytics, Agile
Responsibilities ● Played a vital role in supporting the service significantly that is utilized by 100K+
testers and researchers universally
● Key role contribution for analysing bug in live service; created performance test suite
using Grinder; created MOCKS for web services and acceptance tests using Ruby
● Prudent with functional web services tests using Postman
Aug 2013 – Feb 2017 Application Development Analyst
Accenture Services, India
Client Her Majesty’s Revenues and Customs - Newcastle upon Tyne
Project & Duration Digital Inheritance Tax (IHT) Oct 2015 – Oct 2017
Role Software Developer in Test
Testing Approach Automation, Manual
Environment Selenium, Cucumber, Scala, TestNG, Angular JS, Protractor, Ruby, Github, SBT, JIRA,
Gatling, ZAP, Dashing, Kibana, Grafana, Splunk, Agile
Responsibilities ● Significantly accountable for providing support the service potentially used by 1 million
UK citizens
● Key role contribution in broad spectrum of activities encompassing – simplified /
efficient usage of automation testing for accommodating on-the-go user interface (UI)
changes; redesigned the framework for effective knowledge transfer benefitting
learning for new resources / team members; identified bug in live service; catered to
development support and assisted development team in fixing the bug
● Actively involved in creation of performance test suite using Gatling enabling to test
over million users; analyzed the performance of the application using Graphite
dashboard and hands-on involvement with functional web services tests using Postman
● Played a vital role in many tasks such as - creation of MOCKS for web services;
acceptance testing using Scala; creation of Dashboard for the live service with
complicate metrics in Raspberry PI and so on
Client Bank of America
Project & Duration Ecommerce Banking (Mobile Banking) May 2013 - Sep 2015
Testing Approach Automation, Manual
Environment Selenium, Cucumber, Core Java, Python, C#, Perforce, Perfecto, TestNG, SOAP UI,
LoadRunner, JMeter, Maven, HP Quality Center, JIRA, Agile, Waterfall
Responsibilities ● Essayed the paramount role of spearheading the team; active involvement in various
tasks entailing - requirement analysis, designing of test plan/test scripts from the BRD
documents, development of automation scripts using Selenium/Cucumber & scheduling
with Jenkins, raised several high severity and priority defects
● Efficiently validated the code changes before the build is transferred to the SIT testing
team/production certification team
● Responsible for extending support to the vendor development team for ascertaining
the root cause/helping in fixing issues; handled several calls viz. defect/status/client/
framework change control calls
● Proficient with functional web services tests using SOAP UI; maintained tasks which run
periodically in Jenkins; conversant with using Load Runner in web/web services
Feb 2013 – Aug 2013 Intern - Accenture Services (via Magna Infotech), India
4. May 2007 – Jul 2010 Software Engineer
Xenus Technologies, India
EDUCATION
2010 - 2013 ● Masters in Computer Applications from Karunya University, India
2004 - 2007 ● Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University,
India
CERTIFICATION
2016
2015
2015
● Completed Basic and Advanced Scala Training from CA Technologies
● Application Tester Certification, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
● Certified Selenium Professional from V Skills (Reg. no. 7753)
AWARDS &
RECOGNITION
● Awarded for Technology Innovations from Accenture
● Awarded for training with TEX Academy in HCL
GLOBAL EXPOSURE ● Worked in UK
TECHNICAL SKILLS
SDLC Waterfall, Agile
Operating Systems Windows, Linux, Unix, Macintosh
Databases Oracle, SQLite, DB2
Testing Automation tools Selenium, Cucumber, Jbehave, Protractor, UFT
Cloud Platform Perfecto, Browserstack, Soucelabs, AWS, Perfecto
Test Management tools
Quality Center, Application Lifecycle
Management, JIRA
Reporting / Unit Testing tools Junit, TestNG, Nunit
Programming Language(s) Java, Scala, VB, C#, HTML
Scripting Language(s) VB Script, Java Script
Web service testing tools SOAPUI NG Pro, Postman,
Continuous Integration tools Jenkins, Travis, Teamcity
Performance Testing Gatling, JMeter, Grinder, LoadRunner
Framework(s)
Splunk SDK, Android SDK, Selenium,
OBIEE, .Net, Play, Ionic
Code Version Controller Tool(s) Perforce, SVN, GitHub, Bitbucket
IDE(s) Eclipse, NetBeans, Visual Studio, QT, Atom
Analytics Dashing Board
Dashing, Kibana, Grafana, Splunk,
Google Analytics
KEY SKILLS
● Metrics & Reports
● Effort Estimation
● Defect Management
● Requirement Analysis
● Requirement
Traceability Matrix
● BFSI, Telecom
-domain
● Agile & Waterfall
Methodologies
● Client Interaction
● Leadership &
Mentoring