Akshay Mantha
Toronto,ON
Summary
Demonstrated success in testing and product ownership. Excellent at helping peers in narrowing the scope of a problem. Great understanding of software development lifecycle.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Systems Quality Analyst II
TELUS Health
Toronto, ON
03.2020 - Current
- Demonstrated effective leadership skills while guiding the QA team.
- Handled a portfolio of three customer-facing applications that serve business regions across the globe.
- Spearheaded the Digital Accessibility initiative and contributed to SOC 2 compliance.
- Interacted with stakeholders on a weekly basis to gain insight into client launches.
- Acted as the Product Owner on an ad hoc basis, learning how to prioritize tickets, create releases, organize sprints, and assign story points.
- Developed and wrote concise test plans for engagement projects that encompassed software and wearable technologies.
Test Engineer
Neuranet
Toronto, ON
03.2018 - 09.2019
- Maintained the automation framework to assist future developers and streamline automation.
- Managed the test strategy over 16 sprints.
- Suggested updates to software to improve usability, functionality, and performance of digital design products.
- Documented identified defects, using Jira, and helped developers in resolving issues.
Education
Certification - Product Management
BrainStation
Toronto, ON02.2020
Bachelor of Engineering - Software Engineering And Game Design
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON11.2017
Skills
- Accessibility Testing
- Algorithms/Data structures
- Root cause identification
- Project requirement evaluation
- Test planning
- Automation scripting
- Cross-platform testing
- SQL/Data validation
- Sanity/Smoke testing
- Mocha/Chai/Jest
- Regression testing
- Javascript/Nightwatchjs/Java
- API testing with Postman
Certification
- Python for Data Science, IBM - 2022
- Data Science Foundations - Level 1, IBM - 2022
- Product Analytics, Product School - 2021
- Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator, IBM - 2020
- Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner, IBM - 2020
Internships
Indegene
QA Analyst | Oakville, ON
05/2016 - 08/2016
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Freedom Mobile
UAT and Device Testing Candidate | Toronto, ON
06/2015 - 09/2015
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Indivica
QA Analyst | Toronto, ON
05/2014 - 08/2014
Accomplishments
- Played a crucial part in maintaining quality of a startup's product, helping in being acquired by Telus
- Sprint MVP (2x) at Neuranet - once for consistent performance and once for spearheading the testing efforts for a novel, web-font solution
- Awarded the Community Outreach honour at university
- Highest grade in grade 12 in English
Timeline
Systems Quality Analyst II
TELUS Health
03.2020 - Current
Test Engineer
Neuranet
03.2018 - 09.2019
Certification - Product Management
BrainStation
Bachelor of Engineering - Software Engineering And Game Design
McMaster University
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