Manikandan Kannan

Test Consultant

 

Professional Experience

• Subject Matter Expert & Senior Automation Tester with 11+ years expertise in Product based organizations & working with global clients – HMRC, State Street, FedEx, Allianz Australia Insurance , KPMG, Belgium Post Group, Standard Chartered, Yokowa Rental Limited, Hoshino Resorts (Japan) & Konica Minolta (Japan).
• Good Hands on experience in Functional Testing, Automation test script, Test Management, proficient in testing Web & Window based applications.
• Expert in development methodologies, tools and processes contributing to the design and rollout of cutting-edge software applications.
• Profound Knowledge in Selenium Web Driver, IDE,API, Web Service, Mobile Functional Testing & performance Testing [ JMeter, Sahi,Gattling ]
• Implement best practices and optimized solutions, helping team in resolving critical bugs and issues, helping team in implementing best practices and scalable architecture.
• Experienced in Requirements Gathering, QA Process Management, Release Management, Product delivery, designing testing proposals, Test Planning, Risk Analysis, Effort estimations, Resource allocations, delivering on schedules, mentoring team members.
• Competent in all phases of the Testing life cycle & CICD - from test planning and estimation, test execution and defect management, to supporting UAT efforts.
• Profound knowledge in designing Business Components, Designing Components, working with Parameters & Linking parameters.
• Proven experience in handling multiple projects and managing Onsite/Offshore model.
• Accurately assesses problems and actively played the role of intermediary between the Business & Technology Teams.
• Motivated, reliable individual that maintains a high level of trust within organization & consistently gives positive results.
• Highly recognized for CXO Relationship, excellent communication, people skills, project management capability, and the ability to successfully influence and drive harmony across cross-functional teams.
• Passionate leader, skilled at building top-performing teams focused on impeccable quality assurance & accountability.
• Proficient in doing client interaction, providing business solutions and delivering the project in Agile environment.
• Excellent written, verbal articulation skills /presentation skills and ability to work Independently and part of big teams.
• Having a good knowledge on Banking Domain [ Payments, Swift Messages, AML, KYC, Onboarding .

Technical Skills

• Technologies & Tools : Selenium(IDE, WebDriver),Testing Anywhere, UFT, JMeter, Sahi, Cucumber, Postman, Tortoise SVN ,GIT,

Jenkins, XPath, Silvernium, winium, SOAP UI, REST, Browser Stack, Gattling, Appium.

• Test Management Tools: Team Track, Bugzilla, Jira, Zephyr Redmine, HP Quality Center, TFS
• Technical capabilities : Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, MS office, Open office, SnagIt, Windows 10
• Project methodologies : Agile, Waterfall, Scrum and SDLC

Educational Qualification

Name of the highest degree

University

Percentage (%)

Year of passing

B.E CSE

Government College of Technology, Coimbatore

63.80%

2011

Higher Secondary

St. Joseph’s College Higher Secondary School, Trichy

86.75%

2006

S.S.L.C

St. Joseph’s College Higher Secondary School, Trichy

79.60%

2004

Domain Experience

• Banking (Payments & AML)
• Health care
• POS
• Consumer Product (Printer)
• Insurance
• Retail

 

Certification

• ISTQB - ISEB Certified Tester Foundation Level [ CTFL ]
• ISTQB - Intermediate Certificate in Software Testing
• Certified Scrum Master [ CSM ]

Roles & Responsibilities

• Understanding the project requirements, converting them into user stories, Review requirements and confer with software development team for specifications.
• Responsible for enhancing test frameworks and develop