Francis xavier Chelladurai

Client: Credit Suisse

Head of Automation & DevOps within regulatory programs.

Technical responsibilities

• Assessed existing automation and automation approach and submitted proposal to enhance the strategy and thus by coverage
• Delivered scalable and shareable Automation framework for the current and future regulatory program to use (Java, SpringBoot)
• Delivered automation framework using Protractor for web testing
• Built services for trade booking simulation
• Built services for test data management
• Integrate automation with Jenkins and also set the vision for Automation & CI/CD at the organisation level
• Explored and done a POC on an RPA tool (Curiosity)

Management responsibilities

• Recruited and managed large offshore team of SDETs (based in India & US)
• Continually identified areas that needed improvement and guided the team in measuring the level of adjustment required
• Planned the delivery for new requirements and estimated feasibility performance analysis by forecasting risks
• Performed executive duties including frequent updates to the Client as well as the leadership team.
• Consistently met my short and long-term targets.
• Mentor junior engineers in technical & professional areas

Complete ownership of the technical deliveries within bigmo product stack

• Increased test coverage at unit, integration and end-to-end levels using automation tests from 0% to 75%, 60% and 40% respectively. This leads us to a faster and reliable delivery cycle
• Written Unit & Integration tests for the backend services using Mocha
• Written end-to-end tests for the React Native App using Detox
• Written end-to-end tests for the ios App using XCUITest
• Written end-to-end tests for bigmo.app website using cypress
• Developed & managed bank transaction test data simulation
• Developed & managed bigmo mobile application (Android-React-native & iOS-Swift)
• Developed & managed bigmo website
• Built services
• Open banking integration with Plaid
• Direct debit payments using GoCardless
• Payout services using TransferWise
• Activity tracking services using Fitbit, Google Fit & Apple Health Kit
• Built & manage mobile & Website analytics using GTM, Google Analytics and Firebase
• Manage and ensure quality assurance for all the services provided by bigmo
• Manage release processes for Android, iOS & Website
• Design and implement back-end microservices within bigmo
• Added various abstraction layers within the architecture which will allow bigmo's future growth in terms of technology
• Executed iOS App delivery to AppStore using GitHub Actions

Help/Support Teams/Projects within HSBC to achieve faster & better delivery cycles.

Key responsibilities

• Engage several application teams in parallel to understand current and achievable maturity levels
• Trained multiple teams within HSBC to become TRUE Agile in the way of working
• Ownership of transformation approach/strategy, governance & automation tooling across applications within Asset Class
• Devise a roadmap and solution plan that can enable teams to achieve higher levels of Agile & DevOps maturity by Coaching, mentoring and helping teams to operate in an agile way- working closely along with the business.
• Travelled to India multiple times to train and support offshore teams
• Implemented tools such as Jira, Nexus, Stash within the Delivery cycle of Projects to help them to get better in their delivery cycle.
• Improved Jira’s overall performance by design and implementing strategy without affecting existing users/teams
• Help Projects/Teams to implement their CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins & Teamcity
• Contributed to the tooling library which has utility functions for the crowd, Jira and confluence. The scripts were written using Clojure, and Batman will use it for the support activities.
• Written automation to support other teams faster and better. For example, Jira Project creation, group creations, reindexing jobs, etc.,
• Co-coordinating and working with other parts of the bank for major programs like global & regional regulatory changes, Risk Changes, trade & transaction reporting (MiFID II). Leading the test strategy, regular updates and improving the process continuously.
• Deployed Jira & Elastic Cluster within Internal Infrastructure & Internal Cloud platforms using Ansible

Key achievements

• Manage to save 7 days of human resources within a team by automating non-functional Test activities within each release cycle (3 weeks)
• Lead Jira cleanup activity within the bank which resulted in 25% faster reindex time & overall responsiveness of Jira

Client: Barclays

Leading Testing activities and QA team in delivering Barclays Chatbot project

Technical responsibilities

●     Strategizing and delivering Test automation for chat APIs

●     Ensuring smooth onboarding of the new team into the project

Leading test activities in ensuring services are delivered to Cloud (AWS).

Technical responsibilities

●     Leading Test Strategy across large ETL migration projects

●     Strategical test and automation design for ensuring the highest quality across Services

●     Test framework built using Python & pytest

●     Integrating test automation within CI/CD pipeline (Gitlab) and ensuring testing is tracked through Zephyr

●     Building automation frameworks for ETL projects

●     Meeting company standards for taking service to production.

●     Introducing and ensuring various Quality standards are met.

●     Guiding team members on quality and systems

●     Co-ordinating testing in all phases of testing

●     Strategizing and leading Non-Functional testing activities(Performance, Compatibility & DR)