Vignesh Govindarajan Ravichandran Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Heads Risk, Security Analytics and Investment Science Quality Engineering and Data Quality teams

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Team lead for Risk and Analytics quality teams. Create data quality frameworks for Fixed Income Quant Systems and investment science teams. Utilize python and automation skills to ensure system reliability.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Contracted to an asset management company

Hartford, Connecticut Area

1. Hold accountability and responsibility to improve the overall trends on QA metrics like In sprint automation%, Functional and Regression automation %, Build success rate%, Touch less automation (Data creation and execution automated) %, etc. Prepare and present QA Monthly Operation Reports with VP for the Digital value chains. 2. Built and executed test automation with Cypress and TestNG automation framework for UI automation for new sprint stories and maintained the regression bed.3. Used Karate framework for API test automation with Gatling for performance testing4. Prepare Project level and overall QA strategy to enable max automation and optimize regression across projects.5. Managed QA members for 4 scrum teams part of Digital value chain with a team of 8 people reporting directly to me and tracked risks/issues to the project across all these streams6. Connect daily with team to discuss about the challenges like test data, knowledge gaps, coordination issues, etc.7. Setup bi weekly targets to the team members, review and plan course interventions to address project risks, improve efficiency, automation challenges and help team hit the automation targets.8. Communicated project updates to 80+ people including project sponsors in the scrum of scrum meet.9. Senior member of the project team comprising of 15+ scrum team which built applications from scratch – My Benefits – Web/Mobile, ORMB billing replacement upgrade from Oracle peoplesoft and Automated billing based on the employer HR feeds. Worked in different project models like Scaled Agile, Scrum and waterfall model.9. Built and evangelized the Continuous Integration and Deployment process using Jenkins and Udeploy to reduce the cycle time for identifying an erroneous build for all teams.10. Established git hub PR process for automation scripts that are worked upon by multiple teams as part of in sprint and regression automation, to enable script maintenance and reusability.

1. Acted as a scrum master cum Business Analyst by leading a team of 5 (3 developers, 2 testers) and managed timelines for highly critical claims application and delivered 250+ enhancements over 3 years in Scaled Agile model.2. Create the user stories with Definition of done within user stories in Given-When- Then format (Gherkin language) 3. Participate in user elicitation sessions to collect the user requirements4, Built process maps using Microsoft Visio for My Benefits customer application requirements with different personas5. Guided solutions and Development for below projects to improve process efficiency and customer experienceCustomer One – Application changes to assign a single customer touch point for claims and leave applicationsVoluntary products – Changes for new voluntary products (Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity and Accident)

Simsbury, Ct

Manage Customer expectations, conduct application demos and co-ordinate with the offshore project team.Recruited, trained resources, Manage escalations and achieved quality targets by decreasing the number of production tickets by 20% in the six months. Set goals and expectations by discussing with team membersInvolved in strategic planning and future opportunities. Managed escalations, ensured schedule adherence and streamlined process so as to achieve better quality, increase speed to market and reduce cost.Familiar with designing automated system integration tests using Selenium using Java, Cucumber BDD framework, python, UFT using JavaScript.Involved in various account level initiatives like Six Sigma, lean and process group

Coimbatore Area, India

Established a new foundry that manufactures Gray Iron castings for various industries like Pump, Textile, speciality castings, etc.Was responsible for planning, setting targets and achieving the same.