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Muthuvel Ponnuchamy

Muthuvel Ponnuchamy

Sharjah ,United Arab Emirates

Summary

•Highly accomplished UAT Test Manager with 15 years of comprehensive global experience (onshore and offshore) managing end-to-end SIT and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) within tier-1 financial institutions, including Emirates NBD (Dubai) and United Overseas Bank (UOB, Singapore). Certified Scrum Master and ISTQB Tester with a strong background in Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Very Strong experience in Test Strategy, Test Planning, and Test Governance. Have good Experience managing large testing teams. Proven expertise driving large-scale testing strategies across Corporate banking, Cards, POS ,Payroll, Retain banking and Supply chain finance domains. Rich knowledge of Payments, Cards and digital payment channels. Results-driven Test Manager with a proven track record in multi platform digital transformations, expertly managing end-to-end iOS and Android application testing for high-volume, real time transactional systems. Great Experience in End to End to UAT Test planning, execution ,defect management and stakeholder communication. Expert in Customer Digital onboarding and Transaction monitoring and Sanction screening. Hands-on experience with JIRA, Confluence, and Zephyr

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work history

Test Manager

INB Bank
Sharjah , United Arab Emirates
2025.12 - 2026.05
  • Guiding, managing, and governing UAT activities for T24 Core Banking (Temenos Transact) Application.
  • Driving the global UAT strategy, test approach, resource planning, timelines, and release quality gates.
  • Managing, Implementing, and enforcing Agile methodology, documentation protocols, and quality assurance KPIs across all streams.
  • Coordinating comprehensive UAT preparation, including test scenarios, test cases, test data provisioning, entry/exit criteria, and formal sign-off requirements.
  • Maintaining all UAT documentation, progress reports, requirement traceability matrices, and defect logs in compliance with internal audit requirements.
  • Overseeing and standardizing UAT artifacts, including test scenarios, test cases, templates, and traceability matrices, while enforcing strict version control.
  • Directing the testing team to validate end-to-end (E2E) transactional workflows within the Temenos core banking system.
  • Performing continuous test analysis to identify critical testing enhancements required for trading workflows, system integrations, and digital user journeys.
  • Supporting critical post-deployment validation, hyper-care UAT monitoring, and production environment sanity testing.
  • Identifying continuous improvement opportunities within operational workflows, automated testing frameworks, and overall triage methodologies.
  • Acting as the primary point of contact (POC) across Business, Operations, Vendors, and Digital Channels for all Trading Platforms.
  • Leading daily defect triage sessions alongside Managers, Vendors, and Business Product Owners to ensure timely closure with complete transparency on root cause analysis.
  • Acting as the primary escalation point for all SIT & UAT platform issues, delivery risks, and schedule delays.
  • Managing communication with senior management regarding UAT progress, risks, mitigation measures, and deployment readiness for go-live.
  • Providing clear, data-driven UAT progress reports to the PMO and senior stakeholders under tight timelines to ensure absolute alignment with planned release dates.
  • Collaborating with cross functional team for the good product quality delivery

Project: INB Supply chain Finance Client: INB Bank, Sharjah UAE. Duration: Dec 2025 to May 2026 now Team Size: 12

Project Summary:

• In Veefin Backoffice application Invest Bank's Customers and Counterparties are created by Bank Maker and Approved by Bank Checker.

• Bank Admin creates Corporate Admin, Corporate Maker, Checker and viewer in Back office to access Front office. Auth group and Auth matrix are added to the customer for performing finance request operation.

• Short Term loan products are STIN,STPC,LBD ,STLO and STGN. Program setup and Program Mapping are done between Seller and Counterparties.

• Corporate Maker uploads instrument in front office and After successful validation It will be submitted to Corporate checker for approval.

• Once Corporate Checker approves the Invoice / Payment certificate/ Cheque/ Purchase Order. Corporate Maker can initiate Finance request for the same.

• Raised finance request will be submitted to Bank Maker and Bank Checker approval.

• On successful approval of Finance request Loan is to be booked in Temenos -Transact (Core Banking Application). In Veefin front office Loan status will be updated as Disbursed and Disbursemental posting to be shown in Loan accounts.

• Repayment for Loans can be initiated from veefin and processed through CBS.

Test Lead

Emirates NBD Bank
Dubai
2023.09 - 2025.06
  • Worked on Payment and Transfer module which includes Own account transfer, Local Transfer, Direct Remittance and SWIFT transaction types and Card Payments.
  • Initiated Transaction will be sent to Payment Hub- PH((TCS BANCS) through Bawaba and Kafka middleware.
  • If The Transaction type is Own account transfer then It will be processed and The Posting will happen in Finacle.
  • If The Transaction type is Local account transfer then It will be processed by CBUAE and Debit and Credit posting entries will be available in Finacle.
  • IFT transactions will be routed SWIFT Application through Payment Hub-PH(TCS BANCS) and It will be processed.
  • In Finacle Application The below listed operations are done.
  • Account Number creation, Accounting Modification Exchange rate currency pair creation Debit and Credit entries validation Narration Validation Charges validation Reversal post validation.
  • Have strong experience in Credit Card Payment types and Verifying business rules, limits, fees, and exception handling scenarios.
  • Experience in Payment and Transfer Standing instruction creation and execution.
  • Done ATM testing for Cardless withdrawal for each release and Change request.
  • Tested AANI Payment registration, Amount transfer and email, sms notification.
  • Have performed Integration Testing between ENBD-X and Payment Hub, Finacle application.
  • Was Involved in Testing ENBD-X mobile banking application in iOS and Android devices.
  • Have Payment and Transfer API Testing experience in Insomnia tool.
  • Good experience in Mongo DB testing of Payment and Transfer request.
  • Did Sprint automation for assigned feature.
  • Performed regression testing through playwright automation.
  • Roles and Responsibilities as a Test Lead
  • Leading and managing the QA testing team.
  • Planning and scheduling testing activities.
  • Developing test strategies and test plans.
  • Overseeing the execution of test cases.
  • Providing guidance and support to QA testers.
  • Identifying and resolving testing issues.
  • Reporting on testing progress and results.
  • Collaborating with other teams to ensure quality standards are met.
  • Staying updated on industry best practices and tools.
  • Participating in the recruitment and training of QA testers.

Test Lead

Bangkok Bank
Chennai
2018.10 - 2023.08
  • Customers are onboarded with Organization, Domain, Products, Sub products and Accounts in CIM.
  • After Customer onboarded successfully Customer is registered, Maker and Checker are created and profiled in CBX BO Application.
  • IDigital Banking system is an own product of Intellect which includes Payments, Account Services, Contacts, Liquidity and Reports Modules.
  • Corporate User can utilize this application to Initiate Book Transfer, Third Party, Direct Credit, Domestic Fund Transfer and International Fund Transfer and Card Payment Types.
  • BHATNET, Smart Pay Next Day, Smart Pay Same Day, Prompt Pay Same Day, Smart Pay Next Day Payment Types are Thailand Specific Payment Types.
  • Beneficiary Contacts for DC, DFT and CBFT Payments will be created and Approved in Contacts Module.
  • Corporate User can create a Batch Type Payments (Single Debit Multi Credits) and upload a File with Multiple Transactions (Multi Debit, Multi Credit) into Application for processing.
  • Initiated Payments are verified by Maker and Authorized by Checker.
  • Authorized Payments are released and Sent to Bank.
  • IPSH is a bank end application in which Sent to Bank status Payments are processed and Amount will be credited to the Beneficiary.

Senior Test Engineer

ICCS
Chennai
2017.03 - 2018.08
  • Outward Cheques deposited by Presenting Bank are scanned using Smart Source machine.
  • Individual/Bulk batch cheques will be available for Data Correction where Cheque No/Routing No/Account Number will be verified.
  • After Data Correction Batches will be available for Supervisor Review.
  • Once Supervisor Approve Package file will create and The same will be sent to Central bank.
  • Payment will be made for Central bank accepted items.

Senior Test Engineer

Contract Access Management System
Chennai
2016.12 - 2017.01
  • Open Society Foundations (OSF) has many vendors who provides services i.e. Development, Testing etc.
  • Agreement are made between the OSF and its vendor using Contract Access (CX) Application.
  • There are 30 Agreements that are created in CX Applications.
  • Business Owner and Legal Owner have privilege to create the Agreement.
  • Agreement is always created for a particular Region (Global or US) and Division.
  • Created Agreements are subjected to CCCS Validation and auto-submitted to Approvers.
  • Submitted Agreements are approved by Budget owner, Department Admin and Procurement Approver.
  • Agreement Document is generated by Legal Owner After Legal Compliance Passed.
  • Internal and External Signer signs the Agreement Document via E-Signature or Manual Signature.
  • Agreement is activated by Legal Owner Once It is fully signed by applicable signers.
  • Payments are created and Approved for the activated agreements in CX Application.
  • Approved Payments are processed to make payments in Net Suite Application.
  • Activated Agreements can be Terminated/Closed and Expired Agreements can be renewed.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Production Engineering

PSG College of Technology
Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

Skills

  • TEST MANAGEMENT
  • UAT TESTING
  • CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER
  • AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Personal Information

  • Title: Test Manager
  • Date of birth: 04 Jan 1990
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Marital status: Married

Timeline

Test Manager

INB Bank
2025.12 - 2026.05

Test Lead

Emirates NBD Bank
2023.09 - 2025.06

Test Lead

Bangkok Bank
2018.10 - 2023.08

Senior Test Engineer

ICCS
2017.03 - 2018.08

Senior Test Engineer

Contract Access Management System
2016.12 - 2017.01

Bachelor of Engineering - Production Engineering

PSG College of Technology
Muthuvel Ponnuchamy