Senior QA Consultant at Navansoft Technologies
Texas, United States
Jayanth
Mallur
Prasanna
Council Member
Jayanth M. Prasanna is a Senior Quality Engineering Leader and Program Test Manager with over 21 years of global experience delivering enterprise-scale quality assurance, automation transformation, and program management across Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Telecom industries. Based in Round Rock, Texas, Jayanth specializes in capital markets and banking operations, including Sanctions Screening, KYC, AML compliance, SWIFT payments, and Bond Management, supporting highly regulated financial environments and mission-critical platforms worldwide.
Since May 2025, Jayanth has served as a Senior QA Consultant at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking through Navansoft Technologies in New York, NY, leading the PEGASUS (EMEA) project. In this role, he delivered QA and business-technology integration for an Angular-based repository, optimizing pricing and bond management across international deal files and products. He directed validation of complex pricing logic, bond management, and underwriter configurations, safeguarding transactional integrity and minimizing financial exposure risk for multi-currency deals. He designed and executed QA strategies aligned with regulatory and operational priorities, ensuring audit readiness, regulatory compliance, and enabling faster time-to-market for cross-border deals. Through managing release risk and Go/No-Go decisions via TFS, he ensured smooth deployments and eliminated post-release incidents. Jayanth centralized deal approval processes, replacing ad-hoc Excel and email workflows, streamlining operations and enabling higher deal volumes across departments. He established digitization of approval workflows in regions without formal systems, positioning the company as a leader in operational innovation and supporting new business opportunities.
From October 2018 to March 2025, Jayanth worked as a Senior QA Consultant at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking through Marlabs LLC in New York, NY, where he led several high-impact projects. For the KYC Application Upgrade and Enhancements v9.3 (November 2022 – March 2025), he led the bank's largest technology transformation program, delivering end-to-end QA for KYC/AML applications and achieving 70% UI automation coverage, which accelerated release cycles and enabled rapid, compliant customer onboarding under US regulations. He managed global, cross-functional QA teams, ensuring compliant operations in line with KYC/AML mandates and reducing post-deployment defects. He championed the shift from QA to quality engineering, implementing risk-based prioritization that enhanced regulatory compliance and minimized operational and audit risks. Serving as KYC subject matter expert, he ensured full adherence to AML and KYC regulations, mitigating compliance risks and protecting the bank from regulatory penalties. He remediated critical technology currency risk by migrating the KYC application from Internet Explorer–dependent code to Angular, making the platform browser-agnostic and future-proof, thereby safeguarding Lloyds Bank North America's strategic objectives.
For the SWIFT Standards, Eastnets 3.2 and SWIFT 7.4 project (November 2021 - October 2022), Jayanth led the successful implementation and business support of SWIFT messaging and payment platforms, improving operational efficiency and enabling faster, compliant international payments. He validated complex message generation, processing, and routing across on-premise and cloud environments, reducing transaction errors and improving system reliability. His collaboration with international banking stakeholders to define and refine integration scenarios ensured regulatory alignment and system robustness, mitigating compliance risks and supporting audit readiness. He ensured Lloyds Bank New York's compliance with mandatory annual SWIFT upgrades, preventing regulatory breaches and safeguarding cross-border payment operations.
Since May 2025, Jayanth has served as a Senior QA Consultant at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking through Navansoft Technologies in New York, NY, leading the PEGASUS (EMEA) project. In this role, he delivered QA and business-technology integration for an Angular-based repository, optimizing pricing and bond management across international deal files and products. He directed validation of complex pricing logic, bond management, and underwriter configurations, safeguarding transactional integrity and minimizing financial exposure risk for multi-currency deals. He designed and executed QA strategies aligned with regulatory and operational priorities, ensuring audit readiness, regulatory compliance, and enabling faster time-to-market for cross-border deals. Through managing release risk and Go/No-Go decisions via TFS, he ensured smooth deployments and eliminated post-release incidents. Jayanth centralized deal approval processes, replacing ad-hoc Excel and email workflows, streamlining operations and enabling higher deal volumes across departments. He established digitization of approval workflows in regions without formal systems, positioning the company as a leader in operational innovation and supporting new business opportunities.
From October 2018 to March 2025, Jayanth worked as a Senior QA Consultant at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking through Marlabs LLC in New York, NY, where he led several high-impact projects. For the KYC Application Upgrade and Enhancements v9.3 (November 2022 – March 2025), he led the bank's largest technology transformation program, delivering end-to-end QA for KYC/AML applications and achieving 70% UI automation coverage, which accelerated release cycles and enabled rapid, compliant customer onboarding under US regulations. He managed global, cross-functional QA teams, ensuring compliant operations in line with KYC/AML mandates and reducing post-deployment defects. He championed the shift from QA to quality engineering, implementing risk-based prioritization that enhanced regulatory compliance and minimized operational and audit risks. Serving as KYC subject matter expert, he ensured full adherence to AML and KYC regulations, mitigating compliance risks and protecting the bank from regulatory penalties. He remediated critical technology currency risk by migrating the KYC application from Internet Explorer–dependent code to Angular, making the platform browser-agnostic and future-proof, thereby safeguarding Lloyds Bank North America's strategic objectives.
For the SWIFT Standards, Eastnets 3.2 and SWIFT 7.4 project (November 2021 - October 2022), Jayanth led the successful implementation and business support of SWIFT messaging and payment platforms, improving operational efficiency and enabling faster, compliant international payments. He validated complex message generation, processing, and routing across on-premise and cloud environments, reducing transaction errors and improving system reliability. His collaboration with international banking stakeholders to define and refine integration scenarios ensured regulatory alignment and system robustness, mitigating compliance risks and supporting audit readiness. He ensured Lloyds Bank New York's compliance with mandatory annual SWIFT upgrades, preventing regulatory breaches and safeguarding cross-border payment operations.
On the Firco Trust Case Management System v5.1.1.0 project (January 2021 – November 2021), Jayanth ensured seamless migration and validation of customer and PEP screening operations, maintaining compliance and integrity of high-risk workflows. He delivered accurate and secure migration of all legacy data to Firco Trust, supporting business continuity and timely regulatory reporting. He validated advanced case management features and operational performance of the new platform, enhancing efficiency and reliability of screening processes. Jayanth led the end-to-end replacement of an obsolete sanctions platform with FIRCO Trust at Lloyds Bank New York, ensuring uninterrupted OFAC-compliant screening, full audit traceability, and preventing regulatory breaches or disruption to U.S. banking operations.
From January 2006 to September 2018, Jayanth served as a Lead Consultant at Wipro Technologies in New York, NY, where he directed large-scale international QA programs and enterprise-wide testing for major clients including Best Buy, Seagate, Citibank, Medavie BlueCross, and Standard Bank of South Africa. He built and managed global Quality Engineering teams of up to 27 professionals, enhancing program efficiency and execution reliability across continents. He led the enterprise adoption of Shunra NV at Standard Bank of South Africa, integrating network virtualization into performance testing for mission-critical banking applications, proactively mitigating risk, enhancing operational resilience, and ensuring reliable customer-facing services under real-world network conditions. For Best Buy, he designed and executed high-scale load testing for peak Black Friday traffic, ensuring platform stability and protecting uninterrupted customer transactions during revenue-critical periods. At Citibank, he conducted progressive load, peak, and endurance testing for mission-critical banking applications during the bank's digital transformation, enhancing operational resilience and maintaining uninterrupted availability of regulated services. He identified and resolved application, database, and infrastructure bottlenecks through end-to-end analysis and cross-functional collaboration, enhancing system efficiency and reducing customer-impacting incidents. He established performance readiness and release governance standards, providing data-driven risk assessments that enabled safer production releases and protected revenue-generating operations during peak usage. As a key contributor to the Testing Center of Excellence, he led customer forums and executive workshops to promote best practices, enhance QA maturity, and drive strategic knowledge sharing across global teams, resulting in improved testing efficiency, stronger compliance adherence, and elevated client confidence.
From September 2004 to January 2006, Jayanth worked as a Consultant at Sonata Information Technology Limited in Bangalore, India, focusing on internal QA and automation projects. He performed regression and functional testing using QTP, employing descriptive programming to streamline QA processes and improve testing efficiency, enabling faster release cycles and reducing potential operational downtime. He developed and executed test scenarios, test cases, and comprehensive Test Plans in Test Director based on business requirements, ensuring high-quality system delivery that minimized post-release defects. He designed and implemented automation testing strategies, enhancing team productivity and reducing manual testing effort. He provided training and mentorship on QTP and LoadRunner, building team capability and increasing QA maturity across the organization.
Throughout his career, Jayanth has achieved several notable recognitions. In Q1 2023, he received three awards from Lloyds Bank: a Recognition Award for the KYC Angular Project winning Best Team, and two "Being Bold" valued awards recognizing outstanding hard work and commitment to complete the FCM Continuity Implementation project and the KYC Angular upgrade project. In Q2 2013, he was admitted as a Member of the Computer Society of South Africa.
From January 2006 to September 2018, Jayanth served as a Lead Consultant at Wipro Technologies in New York, NY, where he directed large-scale international QA programs and enterprise-wide testing for major clients including Best Buy, Seagate, Citibank, Medavie BlueCross, and Standard Bank of South Africa. He built and managed global Quality Engineering teams of up to 27 professionals, enhancing program efficiency and execution reliability across continents. He led the enterprise adoption of Shunra NV at Standard Bank of South Africa, integrating network virtualization into performance testing for mission-critical banking applications, proactively mitigating risk, enhancing operational resilience, and ensuring reliable customer-facing services under real-world network conditions. For Best Buy, he designed and executed high-scale load testing for peak Black Friday traffic, ensuring platform stability and protecting uninterrupted customer transactions during revenue-critical periods. At Citibank, he conducted progressive load, peak, and endurance testing for mission-critical banking applications during the bank's digital transformation, enhancing operational resilience and maintaining uninterrupted availability of regulated services. He identified and resolved application, database, and infrastructure bottlenecks through end-to-end analysis and cross-functional collaboration, enhancing system efficiency and reducing customer-impacting incidents. He established performance readiness and release governance standards, providing data-driven risk assessments that enabled safer production releases and protected revenue-generating operations during peak usage. As a key contributor to the Testing Center of Excellence, he led customer forums and executive workshops to promote best practices, enhance QA maturity, and drive strategic knowledge sharing across global teams, resulting in improved testing efficiency, stronger compliance adherence, and elevated client confidence.
From September 2004 to January 2006, Jayanth worked as a Consultant at Sonata Information Technology Limited in Bangalore, India, focusing on internal QA and automation projects. He performed regression and functional testing using QTP, employing descriptive programming to streamline QA processes and improve testing efficiency, enabling faster release cycles and reducing potential operational downtime. He developed and executed test scenarios, test cases, and comprehensive Test Plans in Test Director based on business requirements, ensuring high-quality system delivery that minimized post-release defects. He designed and implemented automation testing strategies, enhancing team productivity and reducing manual testing effort. He provided training and mentorship on QTP and LoadRunner, building team capability and increasing QA maturity across the organization.
Throughout his career, Jayanth has achieved several notable recognitions. In Q1 2023, he received three awards from Lloyds Bank: a Recognition Award for the KYC Angular Project winning Best Team, and two "Being Bold" valued awards recognizing outstanding hard work and commitment to complete the FCM Continuity Implementation project and the KYC Angular upgrade project. In Q2 2013, he was admitted as a Member of the Computer Society of South Africa.