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Rohit Manekar

London,City of London
Rohit Manekar

Summary

Skilled Test Lead with 12+ years of experience in the IT industry.

Highly adept at handling various responsibilities by prioritizing my tasks, establishing clear deadlines and finding creative solutions to eliminate obstacles. My experience has equipped me with the necessary tools to succeed in this position:

  • Test Automation across DB, API, GUI layers
  • Product and Process Automation
  • API – Micro services Testing
  • DB and ETL Testing
  • E2E Test Management
  • BDD driven testing using Cucumber BDD
  • Performance Testing

Overview

13
years of professional experience
4
years of post-secondary education

Work history

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Job overview

Has overall 12.5 years of experience into QA Testing.

  • Extensive experience in Functional, Automation and PSR (Performance, Scalability and Reliability) testing
  • Good experience in testing all the layers of the application, viz, DB, API, GUI
  • Good experience in Smoke, Regression, Integration and System testing
  • Extensive experience in design, execution and reporting of test cases, both manual as well as Automation
  • Good experience in leading and managing test teams of size varying from 5 members to 65 members
  • Experience in setting up testing processes
  • Good experience in testing OLAP application, starting with ETL, DB, API, GUI functional manual as well as automation and performance testing
  • Experience working with Qlikview applications
  • Worked on testing microservices on AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud
  • Testing experience in BFSI, UK Government Public Safety domains
  • Merit of executing projects for prestigious clients like “Commerzbank”, “Home Office”, “Symantec”, “Citibank” and “Unisys” with an exposure to work at Onshore Client location (Frankfurt, Germany)


Automation & Performance testing:
❖ Experience designing a test automation framework using both Java and Python covering all the layers of testing, viz, DB, API and GUI.
❖ Sound knowledge of BDD driven testing using Cucumber BDD.
❖ Designing and execution of daily smoke and regression scenarios for Web and Windows applications using Selenium WebDriver and AutoIT.
❖ Good experience in delivering Automated SoapUI scripts for testing micro services on Cloud (AWS) within a short Sprint duration of 10 days.
❖ Experience in automating web based applications, mainframe applications, windows based applications using Tricentis TOSCA test suite.
❖ Experience in doing Performance, Scalability and reliability testing using Apache JMeter, Selenium Webdriver-Java, Selenium GRID.
❖ Monitored server health using tools like JVisualVM and designing shell scripts to monitor CPU and Memory usage.
❖ Experience in testing microservices using stubs.


Manual testing:
❖ Good experience in managing small to large test teams and improving the test Metrics.
❖ Well acquainted with SDLC, STLC and Defect life cycles.
❖ Experience on reporting and tracking defects using Quality Center 10.0, ALM, TFS, JIRA and Bitbucket.
❖ Experience of executing SQL queries for database testing.
❖ Handled multiple modules in the project simultaneously with multiple team leads both on onsite and offshore.
❖ Given product & tool demos and presentations to Client.

Citi
Pune, India

AVP | Test Automation Lead
11.2019 - 04.2023

Job overview

  • Tools Used: Eclipse, Anaconda Spyder, Bitbucket, GIT
  • Responsibilities:
    ❖ Lead and managed the test automation of the project.
    ❖ Managed the test delivery of multiple projects parallelly.
    ❖ Managed Sprint and Final releases of the project.
    ❖ Involved in architecture discussions and managing test activities around it.
    ❖ Actively involved in improving processes related to the entire BCM and Non-BCM deliveries of the project.

Accenture
Pune, India

Test Automation Lead
10.2016 - 11.2019

Job overview

Tools Used: SoapUI, Localstack, Bitbucket. Gerrit, AWS, Jenkins, Kubernetes
Responsibilities:
❖ Leading and managing test team of 5 to 65 members.
❖ Handling the overall test delivery of the project.
❖ Managing Sprint and Final releases of the project.
❖ Involved in architecture discussions and managing test activities around it.
❖ Involved in giving demos to Client for every microservice delivered.
❖ Experience working with Kubernetes for managing microservice build pods on AWS.
❖ Experience in creating SQS queues, S3 buckets on localstack.
❖ Involved in setting up testing activities for the project.
❖ Involved in setting and improving test metrics of the project.
❖ Created many innovations that improved the overall testing efficiency and reduced time.
❖ UI Test Automation using Selenium with Java and TOSCA tool.

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Pune, India

Automation & Performance Test Engineer
02.2015 - 09.2016

Job overview

Tools Used: Selenium WebDriver, Selenium GRID, Apache Jmeter, Cobertura, Toro, Code collaborator, Perforce, JIRA
Responsibilities:
❖ UI Test Automation using Selenium with Java.
❖ Webservice Test Automation using HttpClient and Curl.
❖ Performance, Scalability and Reliability testing using Jmeter, Selenium GRID, JVisualVM and JConsole.
❖ Production logs monitoring through SPLUNK.
❖ Code deployment and code coverage analysis using Cobertura tool.
❖ Static code analysis through HP Fortify.
❖ Scanned web applications for vulnerabilities and finding Security loopholes using Cenzic Hailstorm.
❖ Defects creation and tracking using ETrack.
❖ Automated Database testing by developing library for Maria DB.
❖ Developed automation libraries for Couchbase DB and RabbitMQ messaging bus.

Hexaware Technologies
Chennai, India

Automation Test Engineer
11.2012 - 09.2014

Job overview

Tools Used: Selenium WebDriver, AutoIT
Responsibilities:
❖ Analysis of business requirements and functional specifications.
❖ Provided POC for Automating CRE application.
❖ Developed a customized framework for the application.
❖ Automated daily executing scenarios using Selenium WebDriver and AutoIT.
❖ Worked as Team Lead for team size of 4.
❖ Collected and measured quality metrics for monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
❖ Worked as Offshore co-ordinator.
❖ Involved in Client review meetings.

L&T Infotech
Bangalore, India

Test Engineer
09.2010 - 10.2012

Job overview

Tools Used: QC 10.0, Filezilla, SQL Developer tool, Mindmap
Responsibilities:
❖ Study & Analysis of functional and business requirements for different modules of application.
❖ Business scenarios and End-to-End testing for Citi Investment Research and Analysis.
❖ Creation of Requirements traceability matrix & Test cases in HP QC 10.0.
❖ Execution of regular & regression test cases for Quarterly releases.
❖ Defect Reporting, Tracking and Defect Retesting in HP QC 10.0.
❖ Automated regression scenarios.

Education

University of Mumbai
India

Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Engineering
07.2004 - 06.2008

Skills

Testing Methodologies

  • Agile
  • V model
  • Waterfall model

Test Management Tools

  • HP Quality Center 100
  • HP ALM 110
  • JIRA
  • TFS
  • TOSCA
  • Toro

Defect Management tools

  • JIRA
  • Bitbucket
  • ETrack
  • HP QC

Automation Tools

  • Selenium WebDriver
  • TOSCA
  • SoapUI
  • AutoIT
  • QTA (Hexaware Proprietary Automation Tool)

Performance Tools:

  • JMeter
  • SoapUI/LoadUI
  • JVisualVM

CI Tool

  • Jenkins

Repositories and version control

  • Bitbucket
  • Gerrit
  • TFS
  • Perforce

Databases

  • SQL Server 2005
  • Maria DB
  • Couchbase DB (NoSQL)

Programming/Scripting Languages

  • Java
  • Python basics

BI Tools

  • Oracle BI Tool(for Readership Querying)
  • Qlikview
  • RQT(Research Query Tool – Citi- Proprietary)

Domain

  • BFSI (Banking and Financial Services)
  • ERP – Oracle Apps R12

Operating Systems

  • Windows
  • Unix

DevOps Tools/skills

  • Kubernetes

UML Design Tool

  • Rational Rose

Other Tools

  • Postman
  • Cobertura (Code Coverage)
  • FileZilla 3401
  • Putty
  • Microsoft Project
  • EDraw MindMap

Certifications

  • ISTQB (Foundation Level)
  • TOSCA AS1, AS2, AE1, TDS1, TDS2
  • NCFM (Financial Markets-Beginner’s Module)

Languages

English
Fluent
Hindi
Fluent
Marathi
Native
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Timeline

AVP | Test Automation Lead

Citi
11.2019 - 04.2023

Test Automation Lead

Accenture
10.2016 - 11.2019

Automation & Performance Test Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2015 - 09.2016

Automation Test Engineer

Hexaware Technologies
11.2012 - 09.2014

Test Engineer

L&T Infotech
09.2010 - 10.2012

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Engineering
07.2004 - 06.2008

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Rohit Manekar