Prajwal K Manjunath

September 2021 Current

Test Automation Lead

Toronto, ON, Canada

• Collaborated with developers and project managers to assess program capabilities, features, and testing demands.
• Created automated solutions and played a strategic role within the Test Engineering Practice.
• Responsible for test automation development and translated business requirements/user stories into automated tests.
• Responsible for End-to-end testing through multiple applications, creating/updating/re-testing/closing bug tickets, and regularly updating test progress.
• Ensured plans and deliverables are coordinated with the offshore team.
• Invented biweekly sync up calls with the offshore QA team to ensure that onshore and offshore teams are on the same page.
• Used Jenkins Continuous Integration tool for the automatic build process and running smoke and regression tests.
• Integrated Automation scripts on Continuous Integration tool Jenkins for a nightly batch run of the Script.
• Tested critical bug fixes and coordinated with developers in the release of bug fixes meeting in tight timelines.
• Developed automation framework from scratch, responsible for verifying and confirming pull requests to the automation framework from the offshore team.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix to show the test coverage requirement Test scripts.
• Wrote Gherkin language test case scenarios using Cucumber.
• Configured Selenium WebDriver, Junit, Maven, and Cucumber.
• Created an automation framework for visual testing using Java, Selenium.
• Automated API testing using Karate/REST assured library.
• Updated the framework with the ability to read from excel sheets using Apache POI.
• Environment: Windows, IntelliJ IDE, Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Junit, Postman, SQL developer, Azure DevOps, JDBC.

November 2016

October 2018

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Involved both directly and indirectly with Test Requirement Identification, Project Setup, Planning Estimation.
• Analyzed System Requirements and created detailed test Cases.
• Executed Automated Smoke Suite daily and emailed reports to the team.
• Configured Maven for Selenium automation projects.
• Collaborated with the engineering team to identify and address issues.
• Designed, developed, and implemented Automation framework for Data-driven development using Selenium WebDriver with Java, Maven, TestNG.
• Implemented Page Object Model pattern in automation Framework.
• Implemented screenshot taking on the failure of automated tests and included them into reports.
• Developed automated tests for continuous regression testing and reducing manual testing.
• Conducted User Acceptance Test (UAT) with users and customers and wrote issues log based on the outcome of UAT.
• Performed manual Back end testing using SQL queries to ensure that data entered has been uploaded correctly into the database tables.
• Performed Database/Backend testing by writing SQL Queries for data validation and integrity.
• Automated back-end test cases using Selenium LeanFT .
• Used Jira to open bugs, create tasks, and test cases.
• Responsible for updating and maintenance of existing selenium scripts.
• Maintained Jenkins projects for hands-free, scheduled test runs.
• Performed API testing by utilizing the Postman tool.
• Environment: Windows, IntelliJ IDE, Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Postman, SQL developer, Jira, GitHub.

February 2015

July 2020

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked closely with the Project Management team in Waterfall and Hybrid Agile software development environment.
• Participated in daily stand-up meetings with cross-functional teams.
• Developed and executed test cases, scripts, plans, and procedures (manual and automated).
• Actively involved in all stages of STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle).
• Created and maintained test plan, test cases, and automation test documents.
• Worked on user stories discussed in Scrum meetings, followed Agile methodology to collaborate with developers and project managers for quick and effective software testing in a timely manner.
• Designed manual testing strategy and performed Manual Testing of the application as per the requirements.
• Created Smoke and Integration test cases.
• Automated Regression and Smoke test suites by using Selenium WebDriver and Java.
• Worked on software Verification and Validation manually and used Assertions for automation.
• Tested application in various browsers using CSS selector and XPath in Selenium.
• Involved in updating and maintaining existing Test Automation Framework based on Java, Selenium WebDriver, and TestNG.
• Used Jira to open bugs, create test cases and test sets.
• Extensive use of Git commands for pulling code for each platform after each new build through the Agile process.
• Environment: Windows, IntelliJ IDE, Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Bitbucket, Jira.