Manikandan KG

● Skilled and motivated Automation & Data analyst consultantwith a strong background in multiple programming language, CI/CD tools, SQL, python, data warehousing, data analysis and ETL pipelines, seeking to leverage my technical expertise and passion for solving business problems.

● Manage a team of Developers, QA, Business Analysts as well as contractors in leading E2E cloud migration programs (onshore/offshore).

● Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meeting, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.

● Exposure to Salesforce admin activities.

● Support and guide to set up the Micro Services testing for other team members.

● Expertise in analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze and disseminate significant amounts of data with attention to detail and accuracy.

● Conducting data validation to ensure high data quality, identifying data quality issues, analyzing root cause and fixing the issues by coordinating with the team and business.

● Ability to meet deadlines and handle multiple tasks, decisive with strong leadership qualities, flexible in work schedules and possess good communication skills.

● Understanding the pulse of specific customer needs ensuring adherence to quality parameters and delivery deadlines.

● Having exposure on Power BI tool to visualization of data sets.

● Experience in coordinating with multiple stakeholders for Component Testing, System Integration Testing, E2E Testing and UAT.

● Experience in developing automation frameworks for Microservices.

● Experience in CI/CD setup for component, Integration and Acceptance automation tests.

● Experience in Web service automation for REST APIs using RestSharpand Spec Flow Framework.

● Having experience in behaviour-driven development using Cucumber, Behat & Behave.

● Having exposure to the OpenAItool for automation testing.

● Having experience in Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Appium, Robotium, Playwright, Test Complete & WebDriver IO using C#, Core-JAVA, Type Script and Java Script.

● Having minimum exposure to Python, Azure Kubernetes, Cognitive service and Data analytics tools.

● Knowledge on Prepare, Model, Visualization, Data Analysis and Manage Workspaces & Datasets in Power BI.

● Experience in Data Analyst tasks: Data Cleansing, Data Wrangling with Python Pandas, Data Validation, Pivot table and Visualization, ETL pipelines with SSIS.

● Responsible for managing the Automation Proof of Concept performed for Automation

● Ensured the scripting was in line with defined coding standards

● Worked on verifying and troubleshooting services in the Azure portal.

● Experience in automating integration test cases for packaging systems.

● Contributed with the DevOpsteam for test automation development.

● Proficiency in Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Team City and Octopus.

● Proficiency in AWS, Contentful, CodeBuild, Admin Panel.

● Contributed on Megatron, Google Analytics tracking and sitemap.xml.

● Having a basic understanding of Database validation after data migration.

● Having knowledge of creating and running scripts for Performance Testing.

● Having a good understanding of Postmanand Swagger Playground tools to test different API methods.

● Having experience in Agile methodology/Scrum techniques.

● Having experience in Creating and scheduling new jobs in Jenkins.

● Experience in writing XPath expressions and identifying object locators.

● Experience in working on Page Object Model Design patterns with a Hybrid framework.

● Good at identifying business components and designing the same.

● Created Generic and WebDriver Generic classes function for the entire Project.

● Experience with TestNG Annotation, Grouping, and Parallel execution.

● Reporting bugs using TFS, Quality Center, Jira and Mantis.

• Jogging, Hiking, Travelling and Learning new things for my carrier growth.

Azure Fundamentals, Azure Data Fundamentals, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Salesforce Administrator and ISTQB.