Suresh Kumar Velishala

Projects: SWIFT GPI , SWIFT ISO 20022 (MT–MX) , UAEFTS , AANI , Remittance Systems , Mastercard , Visa , JP Morgan Chase

Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

• Deputy Manager – QA with ownership of end-to-end testing for payment and remittance platforms.
• Led SIT, Integration, Regression, and UAT for domestic and cross-border payment systems.
• Executed SWIFT GPI testing, validating end-to-end tracking, acknowledgements, and reconciliation.
• Delivered SWIFT ISO 20022 MT to MX migration testing, ensuring message transformation and schema compliance.
• Performed end-to-end remittance testing including FX, fees, AML, sanctions, clearing, and settlement.
• Led testing for UAEFTS and AANI, covering real-time/batch payments and regulatory compliance.
• Managed integration testing with Mastercard, Visa, and JP Morgan (APIs, message formats, settlement).
• Coordinated UAT, defect management, root cause analysis, and business sign-off.
• Collaborated with business, compliance, and development teams to ensure quality delivery.
• Supported go-live and post-production validation, including monitoring and reconciliation.

Project : State Street Banking - Client Onboarding, Back-office operations

Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

• Led a QA team for 3 years, overseeing automation strategy, resource planning, and quality governance across large-scale BFSI projects.
• Provided mentorship, performance feedback, and technical direction to ensure high-quality delivery and team growth.
• Led the design and implementation of automation frameworks for web, mobile, and API testing, significantly improving test efficiency and reducing manual effort by over 60%. With 8+ years of experience in software development and automation, I have hands-on expertise in driving automation strategies and delivery excellence.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing automated testing and deployment processes, collaborating with development and DevOps teams to integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Azure DevOps, ensuring faster and more reliable deployments.
• Developed and maintained robust automation scripts using Java, Python, and Robot Framework for regression, functional, and API testing. Applied programming best practices to build reusable, scalable test components across multiple platforms.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Selenium, Appium, and TestNG to ensure coverage of core workflows in customer-facing and internal banking applications.
• Led performance and load testing initiatives using JMeter, validating the scalability and resilience of mission-critical financial systems during peak usage periods.
• Led the Client Onboarding process testing for institutional clients, ensuring seamless integration into State Street's global banking infrastructure and alignment with internal compliance and risk requirements.
• Drove Agile ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives) and ensured Agile best practices were adopted and followed within the QA team, accelerating sprint delivery and improving collaboration across squads.
• Mentored and guided cross-functional QA teams, ensuring proper implementation of automation frameworks, reviewing test code, and enabling a high-performance, quality-driven culture over the 2.5 years of leadership.
• Executed test cases across critical BFSI modules such as payment initiation, validation engines, SWIFT message generation, and settlement systems, ensuring complete functional and business rule validation.

Project : M&G Prudential TCS BaNCS- BFSI

Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

• Execute E2E scenarios to ensure policy issuance, premium collection, claims processing, and fund management workflows operate smoothly.
• Create regression suites to validate core BAU flows automatically after patches or releases.
• Led a cross-functional QA team, managing daily operations, performance tracking, and mentoring to drive team efficiency and engagement.
• Manually test the end-to-end flow of creating new insurance policies — from quote generation, customer onboarding, proposal submission, underwriting, and policy issuance.
• Verify payout amounts, payment method selection, taxation applied (if any), and confirm settlement entries in financial systems. Ensure proper closure of the claim and notification to policyholder.
• Validate various premium payment options including Direct Debit, Cheque, Bank Transfer, and Online Payment. Confirm correct allocation of payments.
• Track issues raised by users or clients in BTS, monitor their progress, verify that the development team has provided the necessary fix, and retest the issue after the release to ensure successful resolution and no regression impact.
• Participate actively in the Change Request (CR) lifecycle, including impact analysis, test case updates, test execution, regression testing, and deployment verification to ensure smooth rollout of enhancements or fixes.
• Reduced Manual Testing Effort by automating 80% of regression test cases, leading to a 40% faster testing cycle
• Develop and maintain test scripts using Playwright with Java for functional, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Utilize Playwright's capability to run tests across different browsers (Chrome, Firefox, and WebKit) to ensure compatibility.

Client: Ritchie Bros., Auctioneers

Project: Iron Planet

Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

• Auction Platform Testing : Automated tests for critical auction platform functionalities, such as user registration, bidding process, inventory management, auction listing, payment processing, and real-time updates, ensuring seamless user experience and system reliability
• End-to-End Testing : Developed and executed end-to-end test cases covering key auction scenarios such as placing bids, auction time countdowns, bid increment validation, and winning notifications, ensuring that each feature works seamlessly across different browsers and devices
• Continuous Integration (CI/CD) : Integrated the automation suite into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to enable automated regression testing with each code commit, reducing manual testing effort and providing quick feedback to developers on code changes
• Mentoring and Knowledge Sharing : Provided leadership and mentoring to junior and mid-level QA engineers on test automation best practices, ensuring the team followed coding standards, clean architecture, and effective test strategies
• Designed and executed performance test plans using Apache JMeter to evaluate system behavior under load, stress, and endurance scenarios for web-based and API-driven applications.

Client: Broadcom

Project: SaaS Product (DXI Platform, DOI, DX Dashboards)

Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

• Cloud Testing Automation : Developed automated tests for a cloud-based SaaS product, testing for multi-tenant environments and handling different user roles, permissions, and data isolation
• Docker & Kubernetes Integration : Utilized Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration for creating isolated test environments, improving test reliability and scalability
• Cross-Platform Testing : Automated tests across various environments and platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux), ensuring consistent product behavior on both cloud-hosted and on-premises systems
• Automated Regression Suite : Built and maintained an automated regression suite for continuous testing of new releases, ensuring minimal impact on product quality

Client: Excelra Knowledge Solutions pvt ltd

Project: GOSTARNext

Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

• End-to-End Testing : Developed and executed automated end-to-end tests for pharmaceutical applications, including LIMS (Laboratory Information Management Systems), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, and eHealth systems, validating everything from drug manufacturing to distribution processes
• Test Automation for Validation and Verification : Automated test scripts for validating batch records, production systems, and lab environments, ensuring that systems were functioning according to regulatory guidelines, and supporting efficient audits

Client: JP Morgan Chase & Co

Project: SDK & MSDK

Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

• Developed and Maintained Automation Framework : Designed and implemented reusable and scalable automation frameworks using Selenium, Appium, TestNG, and Jenkins for testing IoT-based banking applications, including mobile banking, ATM systems, and connected financial devices
• IoT Device Integration Testing : Automated end-to-end testing of IoT devices integrated with banking systems (e.g., connected ATMs, smart payment terminals, and kiosks), validating their connectivity, data exchange, and compliance with banking protocols
• Test Strategy and Planning : Developed comprehensive test strategies for banking IoT solutions, ensuring alignment with business and security requirements, regulatory compliance, and performance expectations
• Performed end-to-end functional, integration, and regression testing on the Fusion by J.P. Morgan custody services platform, including custody, fund accounting modules.
• Conducted test case reviews, ensuring quality, traceability, and alignment with business requirements.
• Maintained and presented detailed reporting through DSR (Daily), WSR (Weekly), and MSR (Monthly) to stakeholders and senior management.

Project: VCC (Video Control Center)

Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

• Created and enhanced test automation frameworks using Selenium, Appium, and Flutter Driver.
• Used tools like Appium Inspector or UIAutomator Viewer for element identification.
• Create and organize reusable test cases using Robot Framework's keyword-driven syntax.
• Write Python-based test libraries to implement specific business logic or custom actions not covered by default Robot Framework libraries.
• Use PyCharm to develop test cases for functional, regression, and integration testing.
• Regression Testing : Performed regression testing on video publishing platforms and content delivery systems, ensuring that new features or updates did not break existing functionality such as playback, content delivery, and user interface
• CDN and Delivery Testing : Tested the integration with Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), ensuring videos were properly cached and delivered with low latency and high availability, reducing buffering and downtime
• Optimized Testing Process by creating a comprehensive test suite for video publishing workflows, including encoding, CMS management, and playback, leading to faster release cycles