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Dhyanitha Manavya
Calgary,Canada
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Summary
Product-focused delivery leader with over 9 years of experience guiding complex enterprise platforms from requirements through release. Brings a rare blend of Product Ownership discipline and QA leadership, enabling clear product definition, strong delivery governance, and automation-led quality. Recognized for aligning business intent with technical execution, driving UAT and release readiness, and ensuring reliable outcomes for cloud and data-intensive systems.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead QA/BA
Hitachi Solutions Canada
Calgary, Canada
05.2021 - Current
- Senior QA / Product-Focused Delivery Consultant
- Client: Revantage Pvt Ltd (A Blackstone Portfolio Company)
- Product-focused delivery consultant working across Product Ownership, Business Analysis, and Quality Engineering for a large-scale accounting platform.
- Led requirements elicitation and analysis to align business objectives with financial data integrity and user expectations.
- Performed end-to-end validation of user workflows and complex financial data pipelines to ensure accuracy and reliability.
- Conducted source-to-target data analysis and validation using Azure Databricks, Azure Storage Explorer, and Master Data Services (MDS) to ensure feature completeness and support go-live decisions.
- Used Azure DevOps (Boards and Test Plans) for requirements traceability, delivery tracking, and test management. Implemented strong quality governance resulting in zero production defect leakage.
- Led automation strategy using Selenium, Playwright, Java, and BDD, improving regression coverage, release confidence, and delivery speed.
- BA/QA consultant (Client: Microsoft)
- Led requirement elicitation and stakeholder discovery to consolidate capabilities from Automation Anywhere and Power Automate into a unified in-house platform.
- Defined functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with business and operations teams.
- Prioritized the product backlog based on business value, operational impact, and delivery feasibility to support phased rollout.
- Partnered with engineering teams to clarify requirements and ensure alignment between business intent and technical implementation.
- Performed functional, regression, and integration testing to validate feature parity, usability, and platform reliability.
- Validated release readiness and governance using Azure DevOps and Jira.
Quality Assurance Lead
Dynamicly
Montreal, Canada
08.2019 - 05.2021
- Develop customized automation framework to perform automation testing to achieve continuous integration and testing for conversational AI applications.
- Perform continuous automation testing with integration of GitLab, docker and Jenkins.
- Experience in testing NLU (in-house), Azure Cognitive services and Microsoft Luis (Machine learning based service) to validate intents, confidence score and pattern matching.
- Analyze functional requirements, create issues on GitLab and derive test cases from functional requirements.
- Write test cases, develop test scenarios and automation scripts based on functional requirements. Document IQ, OQ protocols and scripts.
- Managed client and in-house projects from project kick-off through to termination and maintenance phases.
- Communicated with clients to meet project milestones, enhance quality based on feedback, and ensure client satisfaction and project completeness.
- Created change requests to address client requirements and improve project deliverables. based on client's requirements.
- Perform smoke tests during the initial builds of application to test the build validation.
- Perform sanity tests to verify new functionalities and bug fixes.
- Conduct stand up meetings for different projects to discover any blockers/challenges, track progress of issues and what developers are working on.
- Perform regression tests to ensure that code changes does not adversely affect existing functionalities.
- Oversaw project deadlines, tracked issues, and managed issue boards to facilitate timely resolution.
- Hands on experience on Microsoft Azure DevOps practices and implementation.
- Review and analyze test cases for pattern matching written in python.
- Hands on experience on testing data analytics and insights that are implemented in power BI dashboards to ensure data integrity, improve VA performance by analyzing the utterances that are misclassified, disambiguated and which intents are weak and need more training.
Quality Assurance Lead
ADDA Tech Systems Inc.
11.2018 - 08.2019
- Lead the Quality assurance team and oversee the projects, team members and issue boards to ensure that they adhere to specifications.
- Perform regression testing, end to end testing using the automation framework and ensure that the application is ready to release.
- Perform sanity testing using the continuous testing methodology to ensure 100% test coverage with CI/CD pipelines.
- Test plan development, Test case and scenario development. Create and deploy test plans.
- Managed multiple projects simultaneously to streamline QA processes and prevent bottlenecks in deployments.
- Write tasks, assign tasks and manage the day-to-day activities of QA team members.
- Onboarded and trained junior QAs on application, environment, deployments, and QA processes to enhance team capability.
- Communicate with clients and third parties to ensure the project functionalities are traceable and guarantees the completeness of the application.
- Communicate with clients after each sprint to ensure the milestones and deliverables are met.
- Ensure to maintain documentation and testing schedules based on deployments.
- Coordinated bug fixes with development teams and conducted subsequent testing to ensure application stability and usability.
- Manage risks identified with testing, maintain and evolve processes in every aspect of product development.
Quality Assurance Specialist
ADDATech Systems Pvt Ltd
Montreal, Canada
05.2018 - 11.2018
- Automate functionalities of Clinicmaster using a customized automation framework (Selenium, TestNG, Maven and Jenkins).
- Perform Cross Browser Testing using Selenium Grid with Docker Containerization.
- Perform testing on Migration tools such as document migration service (Migration of data via windows service written in C# from On Premise Microsoft SQL Server to Azure blob storage).
- Review logs of migrating data, checkpoints on migration and ensure that resource monitoring and utilization is reliable and scalable.
- Experience with window service installation, troubleshooting and perform end to end testing corresponding functionality of the windows service.
- Perform Regression test for changes in Database update procedures.
- Perform Security Test using ZAP Owasp.
- Perform end to end testing for every release.
- Perform automation on Microsoft Azure hosted web applications and desktop application.
- Write Use cases for requirements in confluence and create stories for use cases.
- Attend scrum meetings and prioritizing user stories.
- Defect logging with JIRA.
- CI/CD Integration with Jenkins and GIT. Clone the repository to integrate with DevOps environment.
- Escalating Production issues by installing client's environment and testing.
- Perform smoke test for every build using framework.
- Install new versions from Deployment Packages to test, Converting the environment from PROD to QA.
- Backup and restore Database.
- Write SQL Queries to validate data integrity and to test data setup.
QA Analyst
Cloudsoft Solutions Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad, India
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Worked in Functional testing teams with responsibilities for planning, designing & executing Test cases based on system and functional requirements.
- Executed automated test scripts using selenium and Test NG.
- Worked extensively on agile development model and performed manual testing as part of the project validation.
- Developed and executed various types of tests such as Integration, Blackbox, Regression, Smoke, Unit, Performance tests on production and prototype products and involved in creating test cases using JUnit for Java classes and performed test automation using Selenium - Java.
- Identified software and system risks and defects during testing.
- Drafted comprehensive reports using JIRA to document bugs and design flaws.
- Designing the training contents and conducting sessions on testing and python.
- Writing the technical content and documenting the content for the product.
Graduate Trainee - Test Automation
CLOUDBYTE INDIA TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
Bangalore, India
08.2013 - 09.2014
- Automated Cloud Byte Virtualization Service (CVS) plug-in, the plugin is an array based backup, recovery, and cloning solution for virtual machines on CloudByte ElastiStor. The plug-in integrates CloudByte ElastiStor Storage services with VMware technologies and provides a single console to manage the virtual infrastructure. The plug-in can direct VMware virtual machine level backup, clone, provision, and recovery operation using snapshot, restore, clone, and QoS capabilities of CloudByte ElastiStor and thus providing an end-to-end storage monitoring and management for VMware infrastructures.
- Developed framework for performing automation tasks.
- Performed smoke testing, unit testing, build verification testing for every build.
- Worked on several customer Use case escalations.
- Gained sound knowledge about agile planning, priorities of use cases, defect logging, automation testing and about cloud environment.
- Performed functionality testing and worked on Jenkins integration for continuous integration.
Education
Master's Degree - Computer Software Engineering
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada01.2018
Bachelor's Degree - Information Technology
Bharath University
India01.2013
Skills
Product & Business Analysis
Product Ownership, Backlog Management, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Requirements Elicitation, Stakeholder Management, Business Rules Definition, UAT, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Agile / Scrum
Quality Engineering & Test Strategy
Test strategy, product-focused quality, risk-based testing, end-to-end testing, regression testing, integration testing, system testing, release readiness, production validation, defect management, and traceability
Automation & Frameworks
Playwright, Selenium, TestNG, BDD (Cucumber / Gherkin), Automation Framework Design, CI/CD-Driven Testing, Data-Driven Testing
Programming & Scripting
Java, Python, SQL, JavaScript (Basic)
Cloud, Data & Enterprise Platforms
Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps (Boards, Test Plans), Azure Databricks, Azure Storage Explorer, Master Data Services (MDS), SQL Server, Financial & Accounting Systems, Enterprise SaaS Platforms
DevOps & CI/CD
Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Docker, CI/CD Pipelines
API, Security & Non-Functional Testing
API Testing, Postman, REST Assured, Security Testing, OWASP ZAP, Performance Testing, Load Testing
AI & Intelligent Systems
Conversational AI Testing, NLU Testing, Microsoft LUIS, Azure Cognitive Services, Virtual Assistant Validation
Tools & Collaboration
JIRA, Confluence, TestRail, GitLab, GitHub, Microsoft Office
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant
ISTQB® Foundation Level
Microsoft Azure DevOps Assessment
Certification
- Microsoft Azure Devops Assessment
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- Cyber Crime security
- ISTQB Foundation Level
- Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant Associate
Timeline
Lead QA/BA
Hitachi Solutions Canada
05.2021 - Current
Quality Assurance Lead
Dynamicly
08.2019 - 05.2021
Quality Assurance Lead
ADDA Tech Systems Inc.
11.2018 - 08.2019
Quality Assurance Specialist
ADDATech Systems Pvt Ltd
05.2018 - 11.2018
QA Analyst
Cloudsoft Solutions Pvt Ltd
01.2015 - 01.2016
Graduate Trainee - Test Automation
CLOUDBYTE INDIA TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
08.2013 - 09.2014
Master's Degree - Computer Software Engineering
Concordia University
Bachelor's Degree - Information Technology
Bharath University