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Manikandan Poongavanam

Bengaluru

Summary

  • Strong experience in manual and automation testing.
  • Good experience in test case design and development.
  • Extensive testing experience in stress and stability.
  • Executed API testing using Postman, validating responses, and integrating tests.
  • Participated in all Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning and Kick-offs.
  • Created and maintained detailed test cases, logged defects, and tracked resolutions using GitHub.
  • Experience in Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Postman, and JMeter.
  • Expertise in Scenario and Test Case design, Test Planning, Test Environment Setup, Test Data Setup, Defect Management, and execution of test cases in TFS and reporting.
  • Good understanding of SDLC, STLC, and Bug Life Cycle.
  • Experience in functional and non-functional testing, including smoke testing, database testing, integration testing, system testing, regression testing, and sanity testing.
  • Experience in working with Agile Scrum Methodology and delivering products on an iteration basis.
  • Expertise in analyzing and understanding the requirements.
  • Good exposure in the preparation of process-oriented documents, like status reports, traceability matrix, test metrics, and defect metrics.
  • Actively involved in Daily Standup Call, Retrospective Meeting with the Team and Onshore.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Test Lead

HCL Technologies
Bengaluru
06.2017 - Current

Project: KYC Enterprise-wide Program – Regulatory Compliancee

  • Identifying Test Scenarios from the Requirement documents.
  • Automated Test cases using Selenium Web driver & TESTNG.
  • Execution of Selenium Test cases and Reporting defects.
  • Executing test cases using Postman collection
  • Adding checkpoint in Postman to automate postman collection
  • Automated with the Page object model
  • Used GITHUB to generate the Test reports
  • Good at managing the GITHUB repository and Jenkins.
  • Prepared Daily Status Report.

Test Engineer

UST-Global PVT LTD
Bengaluru
06.2017 - 08.2021

Project: Analytics and DevOps Kitting.

  • Kits and packages transition through various states from creation to deployment.
  • Each state transition may involve specific automated processes, such as integration tests, security scans, and deployment scripts.
  • Monitor the support mailbox and ensure emails from users are acknowledged within half an hour.
  • Provide initial communication to the user about the receipt of their issue.
  • Analyze Jenkins logs to identify any errors or issues related to the specific kit.
  • Check One-kit application logs for any errors or issues associated with the kit’s posting process.
  • Identify if the kit is stuck in the posting state due to SBOM failure.
  • Attempt to re-trigger the SBOM and scan process through the One-kit application’s UI.
  • If the UI method fails, use the One-kit API to re-trigger the SBOM and scan processes
  • Provide updates to the user throughout the troubleshooting process. Expertise in analyzing and understanding the requirements.
  • Good exposure in the preparation of process-oriented documents, like status reports, traceability matrix, test metrics, and defect metrics.
  • Actively involved in Daily Standup Call, Retrospective Meeting with the Team and Onshore.

IT consultant

TECHNOSOFT CORPORATION
CHENNAI
05.2014 - 05.2017

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Direct Client interaction with respect to the requirements.
  • Interacting with Client Engagement Managers, Project Managers, Delivery Manger.
  • I do look after other clients like Deloitte, Fidelity, Sears Holding, State Clients.
  • Getting & understanding the requirements from different clients through different modes (Direct / VMS).
  • Posting advertisements on different Job sites
  • Searching & short listing the resumes through different job sites or internal databases and taking preliminary interviews.
  • Conducted preliminary phone interviews screening with US Citizens, Green card holders, EAD (OPT, CPT, GC), TN and H1B and check their suitability towards the requirements to decipher their expertise on various skills.
  • Coordinating with our internal sales team about bench consultants, their expectations, interview feedback and regular follow-ups
  • Strong in maintaining vendors and shortlisted consultant database.
  • Involved in contract, contract-hire & full-time placements. Mentoring and training new and junior recruiters.
  • I am solely responsible for negotiation rates with consultants and vendors before submitting to the client and coordinating for scheduling interviews for short listed candidates.

IT consultant

KRG TECHNOLOGIES
CHENNAI
07.2012 - 05.2014

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • My prime responsibilities include sourcing, interviewing, and hiring of IT Professionals for multiple projects and assignments in the IT Industry
  • I engage in creating and managing a vendor’s network with a wide variety of IT skills.
  • Trained new Hires and made them accustomed to the new work environment and process.
  • Effective communication skills, people networking abilities, a good deal of aggression and customer orientation skills were key to my success in the job.
  • Used to screen candidates according to the requirement.
  • Maintained an efficient database, with the help of which I could successfully deliver the right IT people at the right time.
  • I worked with IT consultants of various experience levels on .Net, Java/J2ee, Oracle, SAP, People soft, data warehousing, mainframes, testing tools, etc.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technolog
India
04-2011

Skills

  • API testing
  • Postman
  • Jenkins integration
  • JMeter
  • GIT repository
  • Automated testing
  • Defect tracking
  • Continuous integration
  • Selenium WebDriver

Timeline

Test Lead

HCL Technologies
06.2017 - Current

Test Engineer

UST-Global PVT LTD
06.2017 - 08.2021

IT consultant

TECHNOSOFT CORPORATION
05.2014 - 05.2017

IT consultant

KRG TECHNOLOGIES
07.2012 - 05.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technolog
Manikandan Poongavanam