RTRavikumar Tamilmani

ISTQB CERTIFIED / CHENNAI, INDIA AVAILABLE FOR FREELANCE • MANAGED PODS • AI AGENTS

Quality engineering.
Intelligent automation.

I’m Ravikumar Tamilmani, a Quality Engineering Analyst & AI Workflow Builder with 5+ years of experience across banking, fintech, and edtech. I architect resilient test automation, build custom AI agents and automated workflows, and lead an agile fleet of QA engineers delivering managed testing projects.

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01 / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mobile, UI & API.
Across real product journeys.

Five-plus years in quality engineering, with experience in banking, fintech, and education technology.

Quality Engineering Analyst

Infosys

Sep 2025 – Present

firstDirect Mobile First Banking · HSBC / firstDirect, UK

Oct 2025 – Present

Automating iOS and Android regression with Appium, Cucumber, Java, and TestNG; validating APIs and integration flows; using Splunk for diagnostics and production-like error analysis.

Practical AI-assisted QA

  • Story Analysis Agent: reviews JIRA stories for unclear requirements, missing acceptance criteria, and edge cases.
  • Test Estimation Agent: combines historical sprint data with AI heuristics to support QA planning.
  • Test Case Generation Agent: converts JIRA story details into structured BDD/Gherkin scenarios.
  • JIRA-to-Automation Agent: scaffolds Appium + Cucumber code from approved test cases.
  • Bug-Fixing Agent: analyzes failed test logs, suggests fixes, and prepares JIRA defects with diagnostic context.

Daily use of Claude Code and OpenAI Codex for framework development, code review, and prompt iteration.

Senior Test Engineer

Aspire Systems

Aug 2021 – Sep 2025

Vancity Banking Project

Oct 2024 – Sep 2025

  • Worked with a SpecFlow, C#, and Selenium framework supporting approximately 5,000–8,000 automated test cases.
  • Reduced regression failures from about 1,200 to around 90 per cycle through fresh test-data provisioning and improved data reliability.
  • Built custom NPOI reporting to remove a 500-paragraph Word reporting limit.
  • Improved Selenium element extensions, fluent waits, and diagnostic logging.
  • Led automation across Card Management, Payments, Mobile Banking, CRM, and Loan modules; mentored three junior QA engineers.
  • Introduced Sauce Labs testing for Android and iOS within the BDD framework.

SuccessMaker · Savvas Learning Company, US

Aug 2021 – Jan 2024 · K–12 EdTech

Built and maintained UI/API automation with TestNG, Gradle, Selenium Java, and REST Assured. Configured Jenkins pipelines for multi-browser parallel execution, alongside functional, regression, and usability testing, defect reporting, and stakeholder communication.

Earlier project experience

Media Server Admin CMS

Feb 2021 – Jul 2021

Prepared test plans, scenarios, structured test cases, and test summary reports with release-quality insights.

02 / SKILLS & TOOLS

The tools behind the work.

AI & GenAI QA
Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, prompt engineering, AI agents, LLM-assisted test design, workflow automation
Automation
Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Appium, Cucumber, SpecFlow, TestNG, BDD
Languages
Java, C#, SQL, TypeScript
API & mobile
REST Assured, Postman, iOS, Android, Sauce Labs
Delivery & diagnostics
Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, JIRA, TestLink, Splunk
Ways of working
Agile/Scrum, SDLC/STLC, requirement analysis, defect triage, QA pod management

03 / FREELANCE, MANAGED PODS & AI AGENTS

Intelligent automation.
On-demand QA fleet.

From custom AI agents that accelerate engineering to managed QA pods and bulletproof test frameworks, I help teams ship rock-solid software with zero testing bottlenecks.

PROVEN TEAM CAPACITY

Fleet of Seasoned QA Engineers: I lead and manage an agile team of QA specialists. Together, we have successfully delivered end-to-end QA projects across web, mobile, and APIs with release-ready quality, rigorous defect tracking, and transparent reporting.

HIGH IMPACT

GENAI & AGENTIC WORKFLOWS

Custom AI Agents & Workflows

Bespoke autonomous agents and automated workflows built specifically for your engineering and QA lifecycle to eliminate manual toil.

  • Story Analysis Agent: Evaluates JIRA tickets for ambiguities, missing acceptance criteria, and edge cases.
  • Gherkin & Code Scaffolding Agent: Automatically drafts structured BDD scenarios and starter test code from requirements.
  • Defect Triage & Root Cause Agent: Analyzes test logs and stack traces, summarizes failures, and drafts JIRA bugs with diagnostic context.
  • Pipeline Workflow Automations: Seamless LLM tool integrations (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) into CI/CD and developer routines.
  • Custom AI Agents
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • LLM Workflows
  • JIRA Automation

FULL-CYCLE MANAGED QA

Managed QA Pods

An on-demand fleet of experienced QA engineers mobilized and managed directly by me to take complete ownership of your testing cycle.

  • Full-Cycle Coverage: Functional, exploratory, regression, and cross-browser validation on real mobile and desktop environments.
  • Mobile & Web Expertise: Deep hands-on testing across native iOS, Android, responsive web, and complex business workflows.
  • Zero Management Overhead: I handle test planning, daily execution triage, sprint reporting, and defect life cycles.
  • Proven Delivery: Track record of completed client QA projects delivered on schedule with high defect escape prevention.
  • Dedicated QA Pod
  • iOS & Android
  • Sprint Regression
  • JIRA / TestLink
  • Release Certification

TEST ENGINEERING

Automation Framework Architecture

Scalable, production-grade test automation frameworks designed from scratch or refactored for speed and maintainability.

  • Modern Web & Mobile: Playwright (Java/TypeScript), Selenium WebDriver, and Appium for native iOS and Android.
  • BDD & Maintainability: Cucumber / SpecFlow integration with reusable step definitions and clear living documentation.
  • Speed & Parallelism: Isolated parallel execution, thread-safe test instances, and resilient locator strategies.
  • Rich Reporting: ExtentReports and Allure integrations with synthetic logs, screenshots, and trace recordings.
  • Playwright
  • Appium
  • Selenium
  • Cucumber BDD
  • TestNG
  • Java / C# / TS

STABILIZATION & DEVOPS

Suite Health Audits & CI/CD Gates

Rescue flaky, sluggish automation suites and turn them into trusted release gates in your continuous delivery pipelines.

  • Flakiness Elimination: Diagnostic audits, fluent wait refactoring, race-condition fixes, and dynamic element handling.
  • Test-Data Provisioning: Reliable test data strategy that drastically reduces false-positive regression failures (proven 90%+ failure drop).
  • CI/CD Gate Integration: Seamless execution pipelines in GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins.
  • Production Log Diagnostics: Splunk and log monitoring integration for production-like error reproduction.
  • Flaky Test Rescue
  • Test Data Strategy
  • GitHub Actions
  • Azure DevOps
  • Jenkins
  • Splunk

04 / PUBLIC GITHUB PROJECTS

Explore the code.
See the thinking.

Alongside my professional QA work, I maintain public projects in test automation, personal finance, productivity, fitness, and Android utilities.

QUALITY ENGINEERING SHOWCASE

Playwright Java
Quality Lab

A runnable UI and API automation framework around a local banking demo, with isolated parallel TestNG execution, authentication reuse, network fault injection, and business-level assertions.

  • Java
  • Playwright
  • TestNG
  • ExtentReports
Explore the repository

View screenshots, videos & test reports

EVIDENCE YOU CAN INSPECT

01UI + API assertionsTransfers, authentication, validation
02Parallel isolationIndependent browser and app per test
03Failure diagnosticsScreenshots, video, traces and logs
04Cross-browser CIChromium, Firefox and WebKit

PERSONAL FINANCE / OPEN SOURCE

Buddy — Community Edition

An offline personal finance and expense-sharing app. It brings together multi-wallet transactions, budgets, group expense splitting, loan and debt planning, savings goals, and portable JSON backups.

  • React Native
  • Expo
  • TypeScript
  • Tamagui
Explore Buddy-FOSS

ANDROID / AMBIENT DISPLAY

Thing

An Android StandBy-style clock built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. The project explores clock faces, motion-based stand detection, and display behavior.

  • Kotlin
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Android
Explore Thing

PRODUCTIVITY / OPEN SOURCE

Flash

A habit and task tracker extending Streak with recurring tasks, notes, duration planning, and task analytics.

  • Flutter
  • Dart
  • Productivity
Explore Flash

Built on Streak by InlitX. Upstream credit preserved.

FITNESS / OPEN SOURCE

Zeus

An offline gym log extending GymMane with exercise guidance, fitness calculators, and accent customization.

  • Android
  • Offline-first
  • Fitness
Explore Zeus

Enhanced fork of GymMane by InlitX.

05 / EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

A foundation in
software and
information security.

M.Sc — Cyber Forensics & Information Security

University of Madras, Chennai
Oct 2022 – Jun 2024

B.E — Computer Science Engineering

Tagore Engineering College, Chennai
Aug 2017 – Mar 2021

ISTQB Foundation Level Certified Tester

International Software Testing Qualifications Board

Languages

English — Professional proficiency
Tamil — Native

06 / LET’S CONNECT

Good software starts
with good conversations.

Need a custom AI agent built, a managed QA pod to test your release, or an automation framework architected? Let’s talk about your project and team requirements. Based in Chennai, India.

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