Hi, I’m
Manivannan Gajendran
Vancouver,BC
Summary
Enthusiastic IT professional with 15+ years of Quality Assurance and Release management
experience, demonstrating successful leadership in strategy, delivery, and people management
practices. Flexible self-starter with proven ability to contribute to an industry leading organization by
improving their ability to deploy high quality software.
Overview
17
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
Bank of America
QA Consultant V
04.2023 - Current
Job overview
- US Fedwire Payment Processing
- It’s a mix of Management of Offshore team + Hands on regression testing of E2E Payments flow manually as well as through Ui/API Automation
- Tools: Winscp/Putty, SQL Developer, Postman
- Automation Framework: Selenium web driver, JAVA, Maven, TestNG, Cucumber
Canada Drives – E
QA Director
10.2022 - 03.2023
Job overview
- Commerce – Online Used car retailer
ECommerce
QA Manager
09.2017 - 10.2022
Job overview
- Online Used car retailer
- Hired, Mentored and Lead self-driven teams of QA Managers, QA Leads
- Automation Engineers, and QA Analysts across multiple locations in Canada and Overseas
- Worked closely with the Engineering teams to develop the processes to ensure that quality is built into everyday work from Requirement Analysis to Release
- Ensured that the contents of each release are understood, scheduled, tested, and aligns with the established quality standards
- Defined OKRs/Key metrics that drive accountability of the teams and provide transparency to the quality of our code, releases and effectiveness of our QA process
- Researched and adopted various QA Automation and Management Tools to augment Quality Assurance efforts.
Istuary Innovation Group
Senior QA Lead / Release Manager
07.2016 - 08.2017
Job overview
- Deep Vision / Machine Learning
- Recruit, mentor and manage team of QA Analysts and DevOps
- Test deep learning models for accuracy and performance on
- Kubernetes/Docker based environment
- Responsible for designing custom test automation solutions that can be seamlessly integrated into organization existing and new projects using
- Selenium Web Driver, Rest Assured API test framework
- Implement build/deployment automation using Jenkins
- Knowledge management and training of resources
- Prepare status and metrics reports for the management.
Boeing
Technical Test Lead / Onsite Co-Ordinator
01.2015 - 07.2016
Job overview
- AeroInfo, a, Company – Infosys – Aerospace
- Established new and improved QA processes by developing test processes, test cases and assigning and executing tests
- Managed testing initiatives, establishing metrics, standards, methodology and necessary testing precautions and scheduling execution
- Prepare status and metrics reports for the management
- Directed day-to-day quality assurance department activities, establishing rapport with team members to facilitate effective communication and coordination
- Worked collaboratively with the developers, business analysts, and project managers in weekly team meetings
- Coached and motivated QA team to develop competencies
Bank of America
QA Analyst / Lead
06.2007 - 01.2015
Job overview
- Infosys – Banking/Financial Services
- Requirement analysis and Test estimation, Test case preparation and requirement traceability matrix to map requirement to test cases
- Team management, Knowledge management, training of resources and
- Task allocation and Review of deliverables
- Maintain QA Process such as configuration management and defect prevention as per CMMI model
- Raise defects in JIRA, triage and track it to closure
- Create quality assurance documentation and reports using test management tools such as HP Quality Center and JIRA.
Education
Anna University
Bachelor of Engineering from Electronics & Communication
2007-04
University Overview
Skills
- Hiring, Onboarding, Mentoring, Leadership & Collaboration Skills
- Expertise in building Selenium/Cypress based Automation Frameworks
- Expertise in Release management, implementing CI/CD pipelines
- A wealth of experience in QA on Deep Learning, Banking and Aerospace
- Domains
- Advanced command on a wide variety of tools and applications including
- GitHub, Postman, Browserstack, GenRocket, LaunchDarkly, Docker, Jenkins
- Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence and Testrail
Certification
Certified Salesforce Administrator
ISTQB (Technical Test Analyst) Certified
SAFe 5.0 Certified Practitioner
Timeline
QA Consultant V
Bank of America
04.2023 - Current
QA Director
Canada Drives – E
10.2022 - 03.2023
QA Manager
E
09.2017 - 10.2022
Senior QA Lead / Release Manager
Istuary Innovation Group
07.2016 - 08.2017
Technical Test Lead / Onsite Co-Ordinator
Boeing
01.2015 - 07.2016
QA Analyst / Lead
Bank of America
06.2007 - 01.2015
Anna University
Bachelor of Engineering from Electronics & Communication
Similar Profiles
Mariel VigilMariel Vigil
Research Representative III at Bank of AmericaResearch Representative III at Bank of America
Karalyn MannKaralyn Mann
Business Banking Relationship Manager at Bank of AmericaBusiness Banking Relationship Manager at Bank of America
JULIAN BURGOSJULIAN BURGOS
Business Solutions Advisor at Bank of AmericaBusiness Solutions Advisor at Bank of America
Nicholas ShakanNicholas Shakan
Vice President, Portfolio Manager at Bank of America Private BankVice President, Portfolio Manager at Bank of America Private Bank
Shunsuke SuetsuguShunsuke Suetsugu
Flight Instructor at Professional Flight CentreFlight Instructor at Professional Flight Centre