Automation Testing Quality Assurance

Chandrashekar Manchikanti

Visa status: US Citizen

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Cell:781-***-****

Summary:

Sr. Software QA and Automation engineer with 20+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and Testing.

Domain areas: Mechanical (oil industries), Education, Health care, Retail, Mobile and Financial.

Automation testing: 7 years’ experience in using (Selenium, Silk test, Pytest, Python, UFT,Cypress...)

Over all Responsibilities:

•Automation testing -7 years.

•Leading the group of QA Team in different SCRUM environments - 9 Years

•JIRA, HP -Quality Center/ALM, Test director and Jira Administration,VSTA

•GIT-hub, Maven, JAVA, Rest -API's

•AWS cloud testing and Azure Environments - Environment setup and Testing.

•Web application automation testing using Selenium Web driver.

•Error Management (Triage, bug tracking, bug filtering) using Jira,VSTA [Devops]

•Working with offshore teams worldwide.

•Setting and configuring the testing Environments for different Cross platforms in the Lab environment.

•Sofware and Hardware testing [Kiosk,Mobile and clinical hardware]-Embedded Systems.

•Buidling out and reimaging the computers using ghost, citirix, Azure ...

•Various Market Tools for better implementation of QA process.

•Creating the test plans, Test scripts, bug reports and Release Notes.

•Taking owner ship for some of the projects for QA and reporting the status to the project management.

•Mobile apps and Browser testing for different commercial Mobile phones (iPhone, Android, Nokia, I-pad)

•Worked with UNIX and Windows systems.

•Working Experience with web services, XML

•Working experience in working with Embedded Environment’s (VB, C#, C++, JAVA, HTML, JavaScript, VB Scripting, etc.)

•Did Performance testing using Jmeter and K6

•Experience with Network sniffers (like ether peek, ether real, win shark)

•Experience testing with file transfer protocols (like ftp, http, etc..)

•Ability to configure virtual test environments using VMware, Symantec ghost, Citrix

•Experience with MYSQL, SQL-Server, Oracle, DB2,

•ETL Migration project for merging of two products for FRESENIUS Medical care

•ETL, Business objects, Reporting and Database testing.

•Created JAVA Automated tests AND load this test in the test harness on different Unix servers, Windows

•Environment: Oracle, DB2, Toad, Squirrel, Windows XP, Silk test, Java, LotusNotes8.0, Unix (Solaris, Linux, AIX) servers, Windows Servers, Windows(XP, 2000,2003,VISTA ) and Macintosh clients, Eclipse 3.0

•Environment: C, C++, Symbian, HTML, HTML5, XHTML, XML, Java script, QTP, WINNT/2000 Professional, Windows 2003, Linux, Performance and Memory tools, SVN, Mercury Quality center 10.0, QTP, Selenium, Memory and Performance tools.

•BrowserStack Testing.

•Experience with log management tools (Splunk and Monitoring systems (NewRelic)

Professional Experience:

Aspentech OCT 2019 – July 2024

SQA QA Lead – Mtell,Fidelis -APM group

Responsibilities:

•I was representing as a working QA lead for 5 agile scrum teams.

•Collaborated many releases during span of 5 years

•Daily communication with Local and Offshore QE teams from Shanghai and Mexico.

•AZure environments and physical product installations

•Working with third party consulting companies.

•API, Perfromance, Regression,New feature, Smoke, SUT testing

•Azure enviroment setup.

•Sprint planning, retrospective, grooming …

•Test planning, Capacity, Release planning, Scrum of Scrums.

•Providing Project status to the Team Management in a QE perceptive

•Conducting Triage meetings with R&D, PM,Customer support teams and Customer meetings.

•Implementing best practices and QA initiatives.

• Performance and automation testing.

•AI and ML algorithm testing.

•Building team with new QE.

•Resolved so many customer issues

•Tools: VSTS, Powerbi, teams, AZURE, AWS … etc.

•Working with many internal and external groups.

•Shift left, CI/CD, BDD, ISO

•Scrum Master - Retrospectives, Daily scrum meetings, PI planning meetings, SOS meetings and Scrum/Kanban.

•SQL Server, Visual studio 2019 and 2022, VB, C#, Python, UFT, Cypress..

•Worked with VMO [Project Management teams for the roadmap and process.. ]

Harvard Business Publishing SEP 2015- July 2019

SQA QA Lead – Harvard Corporate Learning Group (HMM, Spark, CL….)

Responsibilities:

•Working with agile project managers, UX and product owners

•Working experience in Agile Scrum, Kanban and Kanban Plus

•Migration to AWS testing

•Test NG Automation

•Blaze meter and JMeter Performance testing

•API Level testing using ARC

•Leading a team of QA engineers working on shore and off shores teams from India, Mexico and third part teams

•Being part of team management for releasing many products.

Catalina Marketing, Boston, MA Aug 2012 – Feb 2015

SR. SQA Analyst

Responsibilities:

•HP -Quality center/ALM Administration and JIRA Administration for the Mobile Project.

•Leading the team in improving the QA Process and Automation testing.

•Planning, scheduling, and execution of QA Tasks

•Mobile testing using (Android, iPhone, MC17) for scan it (Modiv) app.

•Implementing Agile Methodologies using JIRA for the QA team

•Bug reporting and Verification using Jira

•Functional, Regression testing, Database testing, UAT, Automation, Web services and API Level Testing using Rest client, Postman

•Creating Mobile QA Metrics for the Mobile Project and Creating Test Plan for the releases.

•Creating Sign-0ff documents for the Releases and Reviewing and updating the Release notes.

•Install latest builds on QA setup on a weekly basis.

•Automation testing using selenium (web driver)

•Environment: HP-Quality Centre/ALM, Jira, SharePoint, Java, Oracle, JMeter, Rest-Client (postman), Eclipse, Linux, Selenium web driver (UI), Junit

I-Ready, Robert half Technologies, Billerica, MA Oct 2011 – Aug 2012

QA Consultant [Curriculum Associates]

Krijal softeck inc 2000 to 2011[ w2 Consultant]

Worked for various clients [Nokia,Thomson, Carekey, IBM,FMC.. ]

ETL Migration project for merging of two products

Education:

Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

B.S., Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)

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