Guna Santhiya Manuvel
Chennai
Summary
Automation Quality Analyst looking to leverage my 9 years of client-facing experience and expertise in technology driven organization that encourages innovative thinking and career development.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
SDET Engineer
Citi
Chennai
07.2022 - 02.2025
- Analyzed user stories and developed precise test scenarios aligned with acceptance criteria.
- Designed and developed automation with BDD Cucumber.
- Handled collaborative coding efforts through organized GIT-based workflows.
- Performed regression script execution, then carried out analysis of results.
- Tracked, documented, and resolved defects using JIRA.
- Provided ongoing updates on testing activities to project manager.
Automation Quality Analyst
Hexaware Technologies
Chennai
02.2020 - 07.2022
- Created test scenarios from user stories and acceptance criteria, developed automated scripts using BDD Cucumber, managed code with GIT, executed regression tests, tracked defects in JIRA, and provided regular progress updates to the project manager.
- Design and develop automation scripts in Selenium WebDriver using the TestNG framework.
- Design and develop API automation scripts in the Talos tool.
- Inspect the X-path of the web elements.
- The project was automated using the Page Object Model and Selenium WebDriver.
Quality Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai
01.2014 - 01.2018
- Engage clients to gather software requirements, business roles, and ensure alignment with development teams.
- Facilitate weekly meetings with clients to document requirements, for the preparation of low-level test design documents, explore potential solutions, and ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications.
- Evaluate risks related to requirements, implementation, testing processes, and project communication.
- Develop test cases, and prioritize testing activities.
- Execute all the test cases, and report defects in JIRA; define severity and priority for each defect.
- To check if testing is going hand in hand with the software development in all phases.
- Carry out regression testing every time changes are made to the code to fix defects.
- Validating the test results to fulfill the requirements, and following client processes and standards to fulfill the same.
- Mentor freshers on the FR/BR documents, and guide them in development and implementation activities.
- Participate in walkthroughs of testing procedures and status reporting to TCS and USAA management.
- I worked closely with the project management team and the development team to facilitate a smooth release.
Application Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai
01.2014 - 01.2017
- Engage clients to gather software requirements, business roles, and ensure alignment with integrated teams.
- Analyzing the FR and BR documents to understand the requirements.
- Facilitate weekly meetings with clients to document requirements, for the preparation of low-level design documents, and to explore potential solutions, ensuring a mutual understanding of processes and applications.
- Development of code that fulfills the requirements and follows client processes and standards to fulfill the same.
- Participating in design/code reviews and status reporting to TCS and Citi management.
- Worked closely with the project management team and the QA team to facilitate a smooth release.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication Engineering
PSNA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING and TECHNOLOGY
Dindigul01.2013
Skills
- Automation testing
- Core Java
- Selenium WebDriver
- Cucumber BDD
- JUNIT
- Test NG
- POM
- Test case design
- User acceptance testing
- Test automation frameworks
- API automation
- Version control-GIT
- JIRA
- Regression testing
- Defect tracking
- Effective communication
- Team collaboration
Projects Handled
- Trade and Treasury - Citi Direct Payments, Citi Corp, Chennai - Delivers a consistent and connected Global Payments experience powered by agile and scalable solutions. TTS is an integral part of Citi’s Institutional Clients group, serving public sector clients, corporates and financial institutions in over 120 countries. TTS’ innovative solutions help clients streamline and automate processes, mitigate risk and expand their reach.
- University of New South Wales, Hexaware Technologies, Chennai- University Student Website, The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is one of Australia's leading research and teaching universities. The University maintains a website for Students to register for admissions and Staffs.
- University of Adelaide, Hexaware Technologies, Chennai - University Student Website, The University of Adelaide is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia. The university maintains a website for staffs and students to access their personal details and upcoming schedules for the sessions, daily time table, and exams, academic results.
- EY Global Tax and Audit, Hexaware Technologies, Chennai - The EY Global Tax Platform (GTP) integrates data from dashboards, reporting, and advanced analytics, offering a scalable and transformative solution. EY Interact Poll and Payroll Control Center Application manages Pay Slip, Tax Document, SLA Reports, Regulatory Documents.
- United Services Automobile Association (USAA), TCS, Chennai - USAA (United Services Automobile Association) is a financial services company that offers insurance, banking, and investments to the military community and their families. SENDS & ECT are two services which are used to deliver documents to the customers, where the latter is introduced to deliver higher volumes of documents compared to SENDS. So, all the documents which were earlier getting delivered via SENDS is being routed to deliver through ECT.
- CITI Bank, TCS, Chennai - Payment and Credit Solutions - Citi Branded Cards and Card Carrier provide payment and credit solutions to consumers and small businesses, with 55 million accounts globally. Citi Bank drives balance throughout its portfolio across proprietary and co-brand products and enhances its product offerings.
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.
Previous Work Experience
- Tata Consultancy Services, from Jan 2014-Jan 2018
- Hexaware Technologies from Feb 2020-Jul 2022
- Citi from Jul 2022-Feb 2025
Areas Of Experience
Banking, Insurance, Finance, Education, Selenium Web Driver, Eclipse, TALOS, HP Exstream Dialogue, POM, Junit, Cucumber, TestNG, Core Java, JIRA, GIT
Timeline
SDET Engineer
Citi
07.2022 - 02.2025
Automation Quality Analyst
Hexaware Technologies
02.2020 - 07.2022
Quality Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2014 - 01.2018
Application Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2014 - 01.2017
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication Engineering
PSNA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING and TECHNOLOGY
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