Abhijith Ganekal
Lead Quality Engineer
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced QA Automation Engineer with a decade of proven success in both manual and automated testing across diverse projects and industries. Adept at designing, implementing, and executing comprehensive test strategies to ensure product quality and reliability. Recent experience includes leveraging Azure DevOps for seamless integration and automation within the CI/CD pipeline.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead Quality Engineer
Thought Focus Private Limited
Bengaluru
3 2023 - Current
- Responsible for creating test plans and strategies for projects
- This includes determining scope of testing, identifying testing objectives, defining test cases, and estimating resources required
- Create and design detailed and effective test cases, covering different scenarios and ensuring maximum test coverage
- This could include writing test scripts and identifying test data
- Identify, report, and track defects using bug tracking tools
- Collaborate with developers and other stakeholders to provide detailed information about defects, including steps to reproduce and expected behavior
- Actively seek opportunities to improve testing processes, methodologies, and tools to enhance overall quality of testing process
- Scripted around 125 Tests for automation using Selenium with C#.
- Led problem-solving activities to quickly identify and permanently resolve quality and productivity issues.
- Evaluated new technologies for potential integration into existing systems, staying at forefront of industry advancements in manufacturing techniques or materials science breakthroughs as they emerged.
Senior Software Engineer
VII Technologies Enterprises Private Limited – Client: Zinc Systems - UK
Bengaluru
7 2022 - 1 2023
- Played a pivotal role as a manual and automated tester, analyzing business and functional requirements, and collaborating with business users to define project scope
- Led the testing efforts across multiple testing types, including Integration, System, Functional, Regression, Sanity, Smoke, GUI, UAT, and Performance Testing
- Developed over 200 test plans and test cases, including performance and security test plans
- Expertise in testing REST APIs using Robot Framework and Postman Tool
- Designed and executed REST/HTTP APIs, including handling JSON data formats.
Senior Member of Technical Staff-I
Mavenir – Client: Rakuten Japan
Bengaluru
6 2019 - 7 2022
- Led a team of 4 engineers in automation testing, ensuring the highest quality product delivery to a Japanese client
- Developed more than 800 automated and manual test cases using Appium and Robot Framework
- Formulated effective test strategies for multiple platforms (Android, IOS) resulting in improved product performance
- Enhanced user experience by translating customer reviews on app stores and conveying feedback to the product management team
- Conducted regular unit and regression testing to maintain product quality.
Software Engineer
Qitasc Gmbh – Client : Vodafone Germany
Vienna
02.2018 - 06.2019
- Automated customer service functions such as voice calls and SMS using Kotlin and cucumber framework
- Created automated test cases to verify customers' network/data bundle usage on various apps
- Prepared comprehensive test plans including unit testing and regression testing based on design requirements.
R&D Engineer
RedKnee Solutions- Client : Vodafone India
Bengaluru
8 2015 - 1 2018
- Recognized for successfully delivering a business-critical project under tight deadlines
- Developed and automated over 500 test cases, utilizing Test@once and Intact(Qitasc) Automation tool
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to ensure zero defects in live systems
- Contributed to successful roll-outs and maintenance of multiple features.
Software Engineer
ISW (Interactive Spectrum Web Tec Pvt Ltd.)
Bengaluru
08.2014 - 04.2015
- Involved in the gathering and developing UI design requirements for logistics application
- Developed and tested active parcel tracking took for logistics website using php and laravel framework
- Hosted and maintained the beta version of website.
Education
Masters of Computer Applications (M.C.A) -
P.E.S Institute of Technology
Bangalore, India 01.2011 - 04.2014
Bachelors of Computer Applications (B.C.A) - undefined
Veerashaiva College, Bellary
Bellary, India 01.2008 - 04.2011
Skills
Software Testing
Manual Testing and Automaion Testing
Test Planning and Defect Management
Cypress, Selenium and Appium
API Testing , Jmeter, PostMan
Smoke Testing
Technical Support
Automated Testing Frameworks
Software Documentation Reviews
Testing and debugging
QA Methodologies
Programming Languages: Java, C#, Net, Python
Accomplishments
- Consecutively ranked among top 5% contributors and received star awards in Mavenir Systems
- Organized the first time ever MCA technical fest at PES Institute of technology “IGNIUM” attended by over 1000 students
Timeline
Software Engineer
Qitasc Gmbh – Client : Vodafone Germany
02.2018 - 06.2019
Software Engineer
ISW (Interactive Spectrum Web Tec Pvt Ltd.)
08.2014 - 04.2015
Masters of Computer Applications (M.C.A) -
P.E.S Institute of Technology
01.2011 - 04.2014
Bachelors of Computer Applications (B.C.A) - undefined
Veerashaiva College, Bellary
01.2008 - 04.2011
Lead Quality Engineer
Thought Focus Private Limited
3 2023 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
VII Technologies Enterprises Private Limited – Client: Zinc Systems - UK
7 2022 - 1 2023
Senior Member of Technical Staff-I
Mavenir – Client: Rakuten Japan
6 2019 - 7 2022
R&D Engineer
RedKnee Solutions- Client : Vodafone India
8 2015 - 1 2018