Rajendran Ramar

Background

About Rajendran Ramar

Highly accomplished QA professional with 13+ years of experience (including 9 years in Tokyo) specializing in test automation and team leadership, having served as QA Engineer, Senior QA Automation Engineer, QA Automation Team Lead and Tech Lead. Proven ability to deliver high-quality releases through strategic test planning, robust automation frameworks, and effective defect management within Agile and Waterfall environments. Automation Expertise: Proficient in Selenium WebDriver (Java/Kotlin), Appium, QTP/UFT (VB Script), and Rest Assured for comprehensive test automation across Web, Mobile, API, and PDF platforms. Framework Development: Skilled in designing and implementing hybrid automation frameworks and customizing existing frameworks to meet project-specific needs. Performance Testing: Experienced in developing and executing performance test scripts using JMeter, analyzing results, and generating performance metrics reports. API Testing: Proven ability to automate external and internal API tests hosted in AWS infrastructure. Database Testing: Experience in testing ETL output against databases and APIs, ensuring accurate implementation of business logic conversions. AI-Driven QA Innovation: Hands-on experience integrating LLMs (Claude) via MCP Server with automation tools like Playwright, enabling natural-language-driven test execution. Build Rakuten Shared AI Agent to automate Test Design creation and Jira Bug generation. Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor AI, GitHub Copilot, and Windsurf, enabling faster and higher-quality automation delivery. CI/CD Integration: Hands-on experience setting up and integrating CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Argo for AWS environments to streamline deployment and testing processes. Leadership & Management: Led sprint/release deliverables from the QA perspective, ensuring timely and high-quality product delivery, and prepared QA/Release metrics. Experienced in HP ALM administration.