Prabanand Rathnam
Prabanand Rathnam

Senior QA Test Consultant and Data Migration Specialist

Actively looking · Member since 4 Mar 2026
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Location
Johannesburg, South Africa
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Remote Only / Full Time, Contract
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a Senior QA Test Consultant and Test Manager with more than 21 years of IT experience, primarily in banking, financial services, core banking modernization, data migration, and quality assurance delivery.

I lead end-to-end functional testing across SIT, UAT, market testing, client testing, regression, sanity testing, and production support. I develop test strategies, test plans, test suites, execution schedules, reporting, defect-management processes, and risk controls.

I have extensive experience with core banking platforms including TCS BaNCS, Finacle, Flexcube, Temenos T24, Bank Master, and GRC solutions. My domain background covers retail banking, corporate and investment banking, personal and business banking, lending, deposits, mortgages, payments, and investor services.

I specialize in data profiling, transformation, migration, archiving, and validation. I have delivered migration and HR transformation work involving Workday, SAP HCM, AWS-based AMBER archiving, Flexcube migration utilities, and enterprise integrations.

I manage cross-functional and distributed test teams, coordinate vendors and stakeholders, facilitate defect triage, and communicate testing risks and delivery status to senior management. I am experienced in Agile Scrum, SAFe, SDLC, ITIL, ITSM, project management, and DevOps practices.

I also have hands-on exposure to test automation, CI/CD, cloud, and infrastructure tools including Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Katalon Studio, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud. I am immediately available and based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Notice period: Immediate

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Experience

Career history

Senior Test Consultant (Quality Assurance) Standard Bank of South Africa

Managed the Standard Bank BAU Test portfolio, including day-to-day functional testing and quality assurance across SIT, UAT, market testing, client testing, regression, and sanity testing.

Coordinated test planning, execution, reporting, defect management, environment changes, and QA team adherence to SDLC processes. Supported lending systems in the BaNCS lending stream and managed test-team structure, skills development, and knowledge transfer.

Senior Test Consultant (Quality Assurance) Nedbank

Delivered QA consulting for the CBM Modernization Project, a core banking modernization programme focused on real-time, seven-day banking and improved digital capabilities.

Prepared pilot migration test strategies and plans, managed functional testing, ensured requirements coverage, coordinated test cycles and reporting, and supported transaction, deposit, and lending portfolios.

Senior Test Manager (Quality Assurance) Standard Bank Group

Led testing for the Investor Services BaNCS Replacement Programme across South Africa and African regional markets. The programme involved 12 markets and a team of approximately 50 to 60 test engineers.

Prepared migration test strategies and plans, managed functional testing delivery, maintained test governance and reporting, coordinated environments, and supported lending-stream testing within the BaNCS implementation.

Test Consultant (Quality Assurance) Stanlib

Worked as a QA Test Consultant on the STANLIB LISP data migration project, a component of the Group Investment Platform implementation.

Supported testing and data migration activities for the investment-platform programme.

Test Lead (Quality Assurance - Professional Services) IsoMetrix

Served as Test Lead for IsoMetrix software solution implementation in the governance, risk, and compliance domain.

Led quality assurance activities for the integrated GRC software product and professional-services implementation.

Data Migration Archiving Consultant / QA Test Consultant ABSA

Worked on the ABSA EDGE Separation Programme Titanium archiving project. Supported delivery of an AWS AMBER-based archiving solution for HR applications and organizational retention requirements.

Worked with applications including My Performance, Oracle Cloud Platform, Siebel, Taleo, and Livelink.

Data Migration Consultant / QA Test Consultant ABSA

Supported the ABSA EDGE Separation Programme data migration stream for the Barclays separation and Workday HCM implementation.

Contributed to migration of South African and Rest of Africa HR data, integrations, SAP payroll changes, and lending-product migration. Worked with GSAP, VIP, MBL, Taleo, Hoover, Workday, and Finastra Loan IQ.

Production Support Test Manager Standard Bank

Managed production application support and testing for the Africa IT Production Support portfolio.

Provided test-management support, issue coordination, and quality assurance for banking applications and production environments.

Performance Tester Maveric Systems Ltd.

Performed performance testing for the PHP Collab project using HP Mercury LoadRunner in web and client-server environments.

Worked with load generators, controllers, localhost configurations, and servers.

Testing / Data Migration Consultant Oracle Financial Services Ltd.

Delivered testing and data migration consulting across BIP report migration, Bank Danamon Indonesia BDI 3.0, and Allied Irish Bank projects.

Used Flexcube, PL/SQL Developer, Oracle 10g, Java runtime environments, Flexcube migration utilities, Crystal servers, and Jira for defect management.

Testing / Data Migration Consultant Barclays Bank (ABSA)

Supported the Barclays FCR implementation as a testing and data migration consultant.

Worked with Flexcube, PL/SQL Developer, SQL Navigator, Oracle 10g, Java runtime, Flexcube migration utility, FTP servers, and production environments.

Testing / Data Migration Consultant Oracle Financial Services Ltd.

Worked on Flexcube versions 1.2 and 2.4 as a data migration and testing consultant.

Used PL/SQL Developer, Java runtime environments, Flexcube migration utility, and FCR testing and data-migration environments.

Test Engineer Maveric Systems Ltd.

Tested the Loan Advisor application, which supported loan repayment calculations based on loan amounts, interest rates, and lending periods.

Completed QA activities for the lending-domain application.

Graduate Engineering Trainee Lenovo India Pvt Ltd.

Worked as a Graduate Engineering Trainee in desktop and laptop manufacturing.

Transitioned from manufacturing into the IT domain after the engagement.

Education

Learning history

Bharathiar University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

ST Johns Mat Fairlands Salem

Senior Certificate (Grade 12 / Matric / High School Diploma)

Completed Senior Certificate / Grade 12 education.

ST Johns Mat Fairlands Salem

Senior Certificate (Grade 10 / Matric / High School Diploma)

Completed Grade 10 education.

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