Manjunatha R
Melbourne,Australia
Summary
Automation QA Lead/Manager with over 15 years of expertise in quality assurance and test automation for critical digital channels (including Web, Mobile, API’s) across the Telecom, Banking, Insurance and Healthcare industries.
I specialize in strategizing complex engineering and automation solutions, and developing and managing end-to-end execution at the highest quality standards for mission-critical projects. I am a strong communicator with exceptional interpersonal skills, adept at coordinating with stakeholders to resolve issues efficiently. I have a proven track record of leading and managing teams to deliver successful project outcomes.
- Collaborate with data scientists, software development teams and other AI professionals gather insights into their testing needs and challenges, guaranteeing that the AI based approach in driving Ecosystem quality.
- Evaluate and select third-party GenAI QA automation tools and services, ensuring they align with our technological environment and testing requirements.
- Overseeing the work of 8 automation and functional validation engineers who challenge the quality of highly-performant, scalable and distributed applications.
- Experienced SDET in developing highly efficient Test automation frameworks for API, web and mobile applications
- Experience with development and maintenance of test automation tools using popular open source technologies(Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO)
- Coaching and mentoring teams on test automation frameworks, mobile and API automation tests setting strategies and roadmaps.
- Extensive experience in driving QA Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test deliverables by collaborating with development teams to help architect effective test automation solutions.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to build roadmaps, tool usages and strategize the long-term automation solutions for cloud services.
- Ability to Manage Multiple Automation Projects on Multiple Automation Tools, Manage the Complete Automation phases from Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Reporting.
- Extensive research and POC experience on testing tools and frameworks.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Test Engineer
Client: Telstra (Tech Mahindra)
05.2020 - Current
- Lead the adoption of automation for the software system tests
- Having complete ownership for preparing test automation solution, designing automation frameworks and lead the implementation of test strategy, test plans & test execution of product
- Lead the effort to implement a modern CI (Continuous integration)/CD (continuous delivery) /CT (continuous testing) pipeline working closely with development teams on troubleshooting potential deployment issues, taking into consideration existing system inter-dependencies and regulatory aspects necessary for compliance
- Working on DevOps, Continuous Testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Understanding of non-functional testing and ability to integrate the same within automation solution Test Environment setup/management, monitoring and streamline release management to higher Environments
- Building test frameworks for real-time, large web based/API applications
- Collaborating with product teams to strategize & align long term solution for test automation including roadmap, tools, framework & approach
- Evaluate, select and formulate best usage of test automation tools and future alignment for different products and applications
- Provide technical oversight and guidance to implementation teams while working in a coordinated manner to deliver and deploy the designed architecture
- Influence roadmaps and participate in planning/prioritization activities, coordinate work across multiple development teams
- Managing QA/SDET team, Working on various Test Automation Frameworks as a Test Automation Specialist/Architect for different product portfolios (WebApp, Mobile App and BackEnd)
- As an SDET Automation Expert defining solutions for various projects across the organization on test automation framework creation, productivity/process improvements & driving organization-wide Quality Process initiatives, suggesting best practices, code reviews etc
- Lead automation tool analysis, make recommendation, and selection
- Manage the Complete Automation phases from Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Reporting
- Conduct in house technical trainings and automation sessions
- Integral part of talent acquisition initiatives for identifying the right candidate for the quality team based on the project needs and setting guidelines
- Design, develop, and implement automated software testing framework based on the business demand, DevOps and Continuous delivery plans
- Work on technologies such as Java, Jenkins and cucumber to write business logic and create automated test scripts
- Design and maintain an automation framework to provide integrated testing in an Agile environment
Automation Test Lead
Client: ANZ Bank (Wipro Technologies)
11.2018 - 05.2019
Technical Test Lead
Client: Optus (Wipro Technologies)
03.2018 - 11.2018
Autoamtion Test Engineer
Cisco
02.2018 - 03.2018
Education
Bachelor Of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Visveswaraiah Technological University
Skills
Java
JavaScript
Cypress
BDD
Serenity
Cucumber
Karate
TOSCA
AzureDevops
Python
Playwright
Selenium WebDriver
Mobile Testing
Appium
Rest assured
Katalon
Postman - Insomnia
Docker
Azure - AWS
Selenium Grid
SuperTest
Certification
- Certified SAFe 6 Scrum Master
Timeline
Lead Test Engineer
Client: Telstra (Tech Mahindra)
05.2020 - Current
Automation Test Lead
Client: ANZ Bank (Wipro Technologies)
11.2018 - 05.2019
Technical Test Lead
Client: Optus (Wipro Technologies)
03.2018 - 11.2018
Autoamtion Test Engineer
Cisco
02.2018 - 03.2018
Bachelor Of Engineering - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Visveswaraiah Technological University
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