Manikandan Palanisamy
Senior Consultant
Chennai
Summary
Dynamic Senior Consultant with extensive experience at Capgemini Technology Services, specializing in QA for banking and Healthcare applications. Proven expertise in Selenium and Java for automation, enhancing testing efficiency. Strong leadership skills foster collaboration across teams, ensuring compliance with industry standards. Successfully implemented scalable test frameworks, driving timely project delivery and high-quality outcomes.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Consultant
Capgemini Technology Services
02.2022 - Current
- Working in the Banking domain on two critical applications, overseeing QA activities across project lifecycle
- Led QA teams by assigning tasks, tracking progress and ensuring timely delivery of testing milestones
- Designed and implemented automation framework, enabling scalable and maintainable test automation solutions
- Responsible for maintaining automation scripts, ensuring they remained up to date with evolving application features and requirements
- Acted as a key point of contact by coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders including developers, business analysts and product owners for requirement discussion and clarifications
- Ensured testing practices aligned with industry standards,project timelines, and compliance guidelines specific to the banking domain
Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
06.2019 - 02.2022
- Served as a Subject Matter Expert(SME) for a key healthcare application, providing domain expertise and functional guidance to QA and development teams
- Worked extensively in the healthcare domain, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements such as HIPAA
- Involved in end-to-end manual testing including test planning,design,execution, and defect management to ensure high-quality product delivery
- Performed in-sprint automation testing using Selenium with Java,contributing to faster feedback cycles and improved test coverage during agile development
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams including dev,BA and Product owners to validate requirements and ensure product alignment with business goals
- Maintained and enhanced the automation framework and test scripts to support regression and smoke testing across multiple releases
Associate Analyst
Wipro
02.2017 - 07.2019
- Worked in Healthcare domain, contributing to projects involving electronic health records(EHR),benefit selection like annual enrollment.
- Responsible for end-to-end manual testing including test planning,test case design, execution, defect logging and verification
- Collaborated with cross functional teams including developers,business analysts, and product owners to ensure requirements were understood and implemented correctly
- Actively participated in regression testing by executing and maintaining Automation regression suites, ensuring stability across builds and releases
- reported and tracked bugs using Jira and worked closely with dev team for resolution
- Ensuring testing complied with HIPAA regulations and industry best practices for data privacy and integrity
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering
K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology
Namakkal 04.2001 -
Skills
Selenium test script development
Proficient in Java programming
Git and Bitbucket(Version control)
Lightspeed ECS(CI/CD)
GitHub
Cucumber
Jira
Page object model
Playwright
Maven
Agile
Page Object Model
Accomplishments
Awarded the Project Star Award for outstanding perfomance and contributions during the period 01 July 2023 to 30 September 2023, recognizing leadership, ownership, and delivery excellence in banking domain project
Certification
ISTQB certified
Work Availability
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Timeline
ISTQB certified
01-2024
Senior Consultant
Capgemini Technology Services
02.2022 - Current
Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
06.2019 - 02.2022
Associate Analyst
Wipro
02.2017 - 07.2019
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering
K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology
04.2001 -