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Chandrashekar Manchikanti

Summary

  • Highly experienced Sr. Software QA/Lead Engineer with over 20 years of expertise in Quality Assurance and Testing across various domains including mechanical (oil industries), education, healthcare, retail, mobile, and financial sectors [Trading and Capital Markets]. Skilled in both manual and automation testing. leadership in managing QA teams within agile environments, proficient in using a range of testing tools, process methodologies, standards and procedures.
  • Domain Expertise: Mechanical (oil industries), Education, Healthcare, Retail, Mobile, Financial, Billing, Investments.
  • Automation Testing: 10+ years of experience with Playwright,TestNG, Pytest, Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, Silk4.net, K6, Jmeter. Knowledge and experience in testing AWS Cloud and Azure Environments [Services, Security, Dev OPS], SOAP/Rest services.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Quality lead/Manager

Aspentech
bedford, MA
10.2019 - 09.2024
  • Conducted New Feature, Functional, Non-Functional, Integration, System, API, End-to-End, and Regression Testing across multiple releases [Black Box Testing]
    Mobile testing on IOS AND ANDRIOD Using Flutter 1.0
    Playwright, Pytest, Python
    Using javascript and Typescript Automation for the Aspentech Learning portal and deployment portals
    The learning portal provides training videos, content, and other details about all the products of different groups in Aspentech.
    Git, GitHub, GitLab, and Perforce for version control.
    CICD using Azure Devops, Gitlab and Jenkins, Perforce
    Developed detailed and comprehensive test plans using functional, business, technical, system, and security requirement documents via Azure DevOps, JIRA, SharePoint, etc.
    Familiarity with core Azure services, such as Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, and Azure Functions.
    Apentech products deployment, performance testing on different AWS environments setup
    Automation testing on AWS environments.
    Regression testing on AWS environments for the clients requested setup.
    PowerShell scripts for build environment setups for manual and automation testing, and performance testing.
    Automated REST API testing using Pytest, Swagger, and Postman, improving automation coverage from 0% to 70% for complex client-server tests
    JSON Libraries, Frameworks for testing the Restful API testing, Configuration files(YAML), Receiving and Sending data Between Front end and back end systems and for many other reasons
    QA Acceptance Criteria for each small, medium, Large product releases(Patches, Main releases,Sub releases)
    Performed SQL Server database testing and collaborated with security teams to gain third-party environment approvals for testing
    Used SAP HANA, ABAP and other ERP systems configuration,Extraction and used in the Mtell Applications using system manager
    Executed BDD, CI/CD, and DevOps processes, including testing for AI/ML algorithms (e.g., Aspen Mtell for asset performance optimization)
    GIT, GITHub
    AI/ML algorithms testing (supervised, unsupervised learning and Deep Learning)
    Conducted Microservices API testing (Functional, Integration, End-to-End), SonarQube/BlackDuck scans, and resolved high-priority security issues
    C# and VB Used for configuring the product environments
    Azure Service Virtualization
    Azure Devops and Power BI dasboards and Configuring vaious Queries using Azure and SQL-Server
    Delivering Multiple projects parallely with problem solving ability and trouble shooting the crtitical issues
    Copilot, GenAI, Chatgpt....
    Used for various Project process including Development, Testing, Requirements, Automation tools
    Worked with QA leads, product managers, program managers, developers, and security teams for successful deployments
    Mentored junior QA members and coordinated local/offshore QE teams across Shanghai, Mexico, and the US
    Facilitated triage meetings with R&D, PM, and customer support teams, resolving numerous customer issues efficiently
    Led sprint planning, retrospectives, grooming, capacity/release planning, and daily scrums; served as Scrum Master for 8 months
    Blackduck and Sonar Qube Scanning for each release
    Fix all the Critical,High and Major issues to meet the Quality Criteria set by QA Management and Provide all the details in a Power BI reports about found and fixed issues release wise
    Participated in System requirement analysis, Implementations, testing in different systems and Error Evaluation and Fixing the errors
    Test execution and analysis of test results
    Monitoring, Reviewing, and updating the test procedures
    Test Matrix Configuration
    Test Procedure Composition
    Participating in design and code reviews to ensure that quality is built into the development process
    Providing support during user acceptance testing, ensuring all reported issues are resolved before release
    Coordinated with third-party consulting firms for various projects
    Set up and maintained Azure Virtual environments
    Managed sprint planning, retrospectives, grooming, and capacity/release planning
    Provided project status updates from a QE and Team perspective to team management
    Facilitated triage meetings with R&D, PM, and customer support teams
    Provided support during user acceptance testing (UAT) and resolved pre-release issues
    Product Management, Risk Management, Project Road map, Release Road Map updates to VMO team
    Implemented best practices and QA initiatives
    Monitored performance and automation testing
    Using ChatGPT and Copilot tests are created for the new python Algorithms
    Resolved numerous customer issues efficiently
    Utilized tools such as VSTS, PowerBI, Teams, Azure, AWS, SQL Server, Visual Studio (2019 and 2022), VB, and C#, SAP HANA, SAP ABAP
    Data management tools like OSI PI, IP21 ..Snow flakes.
    Part of the team for setting up with Continuous Integrations and Continous deployment which includes Product Management,Devops,Development and IS teams (e.g., Jenkins, GIThub, CICD)
    Practiced shift-left testing, served as Scrum Master for various agile ceremonies (retrospectives, daily scrums, PI planning, SOS meetings) FOR 8 Months
    Collaborated with various internal and external groups to ensure project success
    Developing and presenting strategic plans and presentations to executive and technical audiences with the goal of obtaining feedback and alignment on project goals and delivery strategies
    Kubernetes logs
    Technologies: C#, VB, Java, MVC, REST API, WCF, SQL Server, Cypress, TypeScript, AngularJS, JSON, WinForms, Dockers, Kubernetes, MS OFFICE and MS Project, JIRA, AZure Devops, Grafana

QA Lead consultant

Patient Keeper
waltham, MA
07.2019 - 09.2019
  • Development of Convsersion tool for Health care reports and templates
  • Pulling the Patient detail reports,coverting them with the Internal Developed tool
  • Validating Templates after conversion
  • Validated so many reports for various different formats and Fixing many defects in Coversion tool
  • Along with validating the templates
  • This is a complex project hired for the purpose for 3 months
  • Validating health care codes
  • HIPAA, EDI Rules

QA Lead/Manager

Harvard Corporate Learning Group
allston, MA
09.2015 - 07.2019
  • Collaborated with agile project managers, UX designers, and product owners
    Gained extensive experience in Agile Scrum, Kanban, and Kanban Plus methodologies
    In Build Content Management tools testing
    Conducted migration testing to AWS
    AWS EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Redis, SQS, Load balancers, IAM, EKS, and other AWS services, SPLUNK
    Implemented TestNG(JAVA) automation, Maven using Page Object Models, CUCUMBER, Cypress
    Restful API's USING Jmeter, Java
    Performed performance testing using BlazeMeter and JMeter
    DB testing (Oracle), PL-SQL for migration project
    Web services REST, Postman
    Conducted API-level testing using ARC
    SSO testing, OWASP, Security testing
    Testing the Vulnerabilities, Risk assessments for LMS, Third party tools[Reporting]
    Creating a VNC environments for Citi bank and Testing the Vulnerabilities for the citi
    Created tests for Cross site scripting and few other tests doing Research on Security testing and getting approval from team
    Led a team of QA engineers, coordinating with onshore teams and offshore teams in India, Mexico, and third-party vendors
    Participated in team management, contributing to the release of multiple products
    Collaborate with security teams to implement security testing practices and ensure the robustness of the applications
    Work closely with DevOps teams to implement and maintain test automation in CI/CD environments
    Jenkins for scheduling the automation scripts
    Appium Mobile web testing using Browser Stack
    Production Environment testing

Sr. SQA (Consultant

New England Journal of Medicine
, MA
04.2015 - 06.2015
  • Medical leave)
  • Tested email alerts for jwatch.org, ensuring doctors, medical students, and other users received notifications for their selected specialties, topics, and articles
  • Conducted production ETOC testing
  • Performed browser compatibility and parameterization testing
  • Collaborated with offshore teams
  • Executed mobile testing, regression tests, and functional testing
  • Utilized SQL Server, .NET, XML, Java, and Adobe in the testing environment.

Sr. SQA Analyst

Catalina Marketing
Boston, MA
08.2012 - 02.2015
  • Retail Apps, Embedded systems], Administered HP Quality Center/ALM and JIRA for the Mobile Project and hardware testing Like MC17, Kiosks and Andriod and iOS
  • Configuration of lab environments using Admin portals and manual help documentation testing
  • SDK's, Simualtors, UI testing, Debugging tools
  • Led the team in improving QA processes and automation testing using selenium webdriver
  • Tested Scan it App for the Stop and Shop and Krogers.
  • Bar code testing for discount algorithms
  • Planned, scheduled, and executed QA tasks
  • Conducted mobile testing for the Scan It (Modiv) app on Android, iPhone,KIOSK and MC17 devices
  • Mobile Andriod and ios testing using Appium 1.0 (alpha)
  • Native, Hybrid and Web app Sdk's
  • Implemented Agile methodologies using JIRA for the QA team
  • Reported and verified bugs using JIRA
  • Performed functional, regression, database, UAT, automation, web services, and API level testing using Rest Client and Postman
  • Created mobile QA metrics and test plans for releases
  • Prepared sign-off documents for releases and reviewed and updated release notes
  • Installed the latest builds on QA setups weekly
  • Conducted automation testing using Selenium WebDriver
  • Worked in an environment utilizing HP Quality Center/ALM, JIRA, SharePoint, Java, Oracle, JMeter, Rest Client (Postman), Eclipse, Linux, and Selenium WebDriver (UI), JUnit, SLACK

QA Consultant

Curriculum Associates
Billerica, MA
10.2011 - 08.2012
  • Experienced in agile Scrum using Rally
  • Conducted cross-browser testing, smoke testing, regression testing, performance testing, and new functionality testing
  • Verified production issues and provided feedback
  • Tracked bugs using Rally
  • Performed testing on QA, staging, production, and other servers
  • Evaluated automation tools for i-Ready modules
  • Automated tests using Selenium WebDriver
  • Tested modules for grades 1 to 9 with complex business rules
  • Tested applications during migration from physical servers to Amazon Cloud virtual environments
  • Utilized SQL scripting
  • Environment: Flex, Flash Builder, MySQL, Rally, Java, Eclipse 3.0, Maven, JBoss, Bugzilla, Hudson, Agile methodologies, Windows 7, Mac

Sr. QA Consultant

Krijal Softek Inc[FMC, Netnumina,Nokia,IBM ]
Needham, MA
06.2000 - 10.2011
  • Mangement Care, Member systems [Care Key]
  • Finance and Capital Markets [ETF's, Bonds,Shares, Trading....
  • Fresenius aquistioned texas based health care company
  • So they want into incorporate reports into FMC database Schema, So we have migrated the schema and generated reports [6 months Project]
  • ETL TESTING, PL-SQL
  • Experience Data Analysis, Data validation, Data Cleansing, Data verifcation and Data Mismatch
  • Embeded systems: Clinical Medical Equipment testing [Safety,Functional, Performance, Calibration, Ventilation, Monitoring.....]
  • Case Managment and Content Management
  • Testing on Lab Environent with various operating systems, Simulators for Nokia phones
  • Enabling various Debugging options via Configuration settings
  • Network Sniffers like EtherPeek, Etherreal, Shark...
  • Billing application testing for Financial, Banking, Healthcare and telecom clients
  • Load runner testing
  • Bluetooth configurations, Drivers installation and testing the integration of all other components
  • Led a team of four for the Digital Incentive project
  • Collaborated with product management and engineers to conceive features, tasks, use cases, and designs
  • Developed an understanding of product requirements to create test plans and test cases
  • Followed agile process-driven testing
  • Conducted basic performance testing using JMeter
  • Performed cross-browser and cross-platform testing
  • Managed consumer web testing, including executing test plans, reporting and tracking bugs, mentoring teammates, and creating reports
  • Created an automation testing framework using Selenium WebDriver
  • Utilized bug tracking tools such as JIRA and Testopia
  • Coordinated with teams in Finland and Poland
  • Nokia phone Simulators and SDK development with debugging UI options
  • Embedded Environments: Worked with C, C++, HTML, JavaScript, and VB scripting....., Snow Flake ....

Education

B.S - Engineering (Mechanical Engineering

Osmania University
01.1995

Skills

  • Software Quality Assurance and Testing: 20 years of experience
  • Automation Testing: 7 years using Selenium, TestNG, Silk, WinRunner, UFT, and Pytest
  • LEADERSHIP: Led QA teams in various SCRUM environments
  • Tools and Administration: Proficient with JIRA, HP Quality Center/ALM, Test Director, JIRA Administration, and VSTA
  • Development and CI/CD: Experienced with GitHub, Maven, Java, and REST APIs
  • Cloud Testing: Skilled in AWS and Azure environments
  • Web Application Testing: Automated testing using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG Error Management: Triage, bug tracking, and filtering using JIRA and Azure Devops Global Collaboration: Worked with offshore teams worldwide
  • Cross-Platform Testing: Set up and configured testing environments in lab settings Market Tools: Expert in utilizing various market tools for QA process implementation Documentation: Created test plans, test scripts, bug reports, and release notes
  • Project Ownership: Took ownership of QA for specific projects and reported status to project management Mobile and Browser Testing: Tested mobile apps and browsers on commercial devices (iPhone, Android, Nokia, iPad)
  • Systems Experience: Worked with UNIX and Windows systems
  • Cybersecurity: testing using tools like pen testing, Client security Vulnerabilities, black scan,Sonar Qube
  • HL7/FHIR
  • Web Services and XML: Experience with web services and XML
  • Embedded Environments: Worked with C, C, HTML, JavaScript, and VB scripting
  • Performance Testing: Conducted performance testing using JMeter
  • Network Sniffers: Experience with network sniffers like EtherPeek, Ethereal, and Wireshark
  • File Transfer Protocols: Tested with FTP, HTTP, and other protocols
  • Virtual Test Environments: Configured environments using VMware, Symantec Ghost, and Citrix
  • Database Management: Experience with MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2

Timeline

Senior Quality lead/Manager

Aspentech
10.2019 - 09.2024

QA Lead consultant

Patient Keeper
07.2019 - 09.2019

QA Lead/Manager

Harvard Corporate Learning Group
09.2015 - 07.2019

Sr. SQA (Consultant

New England Journal of Medicine
04.2015 - 06.2015

Sr. SQA Analyst

Catalina Marketing
08.2012 - 02.2015

QA Consultant

Curriculum Associates
10.2011 - 08.2012

Sr. QA Consultant

Krijal Softek Inc[FMC, Netnumina,Nokia,IBM ]
06.2000 - 10.2011

B.S - Engineering (Mechanical Engineering

Osmania University
Chandrashekar Manchikanti