MANISHA CHINTHALA
US
Summary
QA Automation Engineer with over 5 years of experience in web and mobile application testing. Expertise in developing automation frameworks using Java, Selenium WebDriver, and Maven. Demonstrated success in enhancing test coverage, reducing release cycles, and improving product quality. Proficient in CI/CD integration, API testing, Jenkins, Sauce Labs, Git, and data-driven automation frameworks.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
QA LEAD
Oigetit.ai
11.2023 - Current
- Led the quality assurance efforts for mobile and web application testing within the intern team.
- In-depth knowledge of all QA phases, such as Smoke, Sanity, System Integration, and Regression.
- Designed and implemented test cases for functional, regression, and UI testing.
- Coordinated with developers and product managers to report and track bugs in Jira, enhancing communication and resolution timelines.
- Provided mentorship and support to junior QA interns, promoting best testing practices.
- Contributed to improving test coverage and reducing release cycle time by 20%.
- Established detailed test documentation and regression checklists to standardize validation steps, reducing recurring issues and easing onboarding of new testers.
- Mentored junior testers through hands-on pairing and code review of test scripts, strengthening team skills, and improving overall testing quality.
- Refined release gating criteria and pre-release audits to catch critical regressions early, yielding noticeable improvements in post-release stability.
- Spearheaded QA strategy for mobile and web platforms, introducing risk-based test prioritization to accelerate delivery and ensure higher-confidence releases.
- Designed targeted test frameworks to validate complex user journeys, uncovering edge-case failures, and improving regression reliability through structured approaches.
- Advances QA tooling and integration with CI pipelines to enable faster validation cycles and continuous quality checks, yielding noticeable improvements in release confidence.
- Introduced lightweight test automation patterns for frequent workflows to accelerate validation cycles, and free engineers for higher-value tasks.
- Partnered with product and engineering to co-create acceptance criteria and reproducible bug reports, improving fix velocity and cross-team transparency.
- Implemented regression gate procedures and checklist-driven sign-offs, catching critical issues earlier, and producing noticeable gains in post-release stability.
- Analyzes defect trends across mobile and web releases to identify root causes, then implements targeted test scenarios that yield marked reductions in repeat failures.
- Facilitated cross-functional bug triage sessions with engineering and product teams, streamlining fix processes and clarifying acceptance criteria.
- Developed lightweight automation patterns for frequent workflows, integrating them into CI checks to speed validation, and free engineers for higher-value development.
- Guided engineers in writing maintainable test scripts, and shared best-practice patterns, promoting team autonomy, and ensuring consistent test reliability.
- Champions integration of smoke checks into CI pipelines to catch build-level failures early, shortening feedback loops, and stabilizing nightly releases.
QA ENGINEER
Innroad
Hyderabad
12.2020 - 05.2023
- Conducted training sessions and demo presentations on the application to enhance team understanding and usage.
- Proficient in creating test cases based on product release features, and client requirements.
- Performed execution for test cases on multiple browsers, analyzed the test reports, and was involved in raising and tracking the defects.
- Experience in performing web service (API) testing using the Postman tool and database testing for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Managed testing processes and tracked test progress using JIRA and TestRail, ensuring clear visibility of testing activities.
- Maintained effective communication and coordination with developers and QA teams to facilitate project progress.
- Responsible for writing, reviewing, and execution of test cases.
- Participated in functional, system, UI, regression, and mobile testing.
- Based on new release retested all fixed defects and tracking defect in JIRA.
- Initiating and Attending Bug-Triage meeting to discuss about raised bugs and assign priority respectively.
- Prepared and shared daily dashboards with team members to communicate testing status and project progress.
- Designed end-to-end automated test prototypes to accelerate release validation, reducing manual cycles, and enabling faster feedback to product and dev teams.
- Championed the adoption of API contract checks in the pipeline to catch integration mismatches early, supporting more reliable connections with external booking platforms.
- Implemented structured regression packs for critical reservation paths, shortening verification cycles and delivering steadier build quality during sprints.
- Led cross-team defect triage sessions to align priorities and acceptance criteria, enabling quicker remediation and smoother release rollout.
- Designed, developed, and maintain automation frameworks using Java, Selenium WebDriver, and Maven.
- Developed and ran automated test scripts to validate functionality and regression in features.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define test strategies, acceptance criteria, and automation scope.
- Integrated automation test suites into Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing, and faster feedback.
- Executed automation scripts in SauceLabs for cross-browser, and cloud-based validation.
- Utilized Git version control for maintaining automation code, and enabling team collaboration.
- Implemented data-driven frameworks by integrating external data sources for scalable test execution.
- Used to apply advanced Selenium techniques including dynamic locators, XPath, strategies, implicit/explicit waits, and browser capabilities.
Education
MASTER'S -
Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion
01-2025
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY -
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
01-2020
Skills
Automation and tools
Selenium WebDriver (Java)
Maven
Jenkins (CI/CD)
SauceLabs
Git (Version Control)
Testing and QA
Functional, regression, smoke, sanity testing
API testing (Postman)
Mobile testing
Cross-browser testing
Automation framework concepts
Page Object Model (POM), TestNG
Data-driven frameworks (External Data Integration)
Dynamic locators, XPath
Implicit and explicit waits
Chrome capabilities
Database and tools
SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL
JIRA, TestRail, Kibana
Programming
Java
Timeline
QA LEAD
Oigetit.ai
11.2023 - Current
QA ENGINEER
Innroad
12.2020 - 05.2023
MASTER'S -
Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY -
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad