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