Krishna Manchala

Email : [email protected]
636-542-8368
A highly competent and results oriented Sr. Automation Test Engineer with 7 years of experience in Mobile
Testing, Software Testing, Selenium Automation, Team leading & training, Client facing. Proven ability
in Selenium Web-Driver automated testing & Frameworks, Page Objects & Hybrid Frameworks, TDD,
BDD, Web testing, Functional testing, Performance & Load testing. Excellent experience in each phase of
Test Life Cycle, Test strategies & Test plans, UAT. Solid experience of Software Development Life Cycles,
Selenium Web-Driver & RC, Selenium Grid, Cucumber, Web Applications, JIRA, SQL, AGILE Methodologies,
Scrum, QTP, Automation & Testing tools.
Professional Summary:
• Excellent experience in automation of Web-based, Highly transactional and large Client/Server/Multi-
tier applications
• Solid experience of AGILE Methodologies and Scrum processes
• Solid experience of Defect/Test Management tools like JIRA, HP ALM,
• Solid experience of Performance/Load/Stress testing with Load-Runner
• Expertise in writing SQL Queries, SQL Scripts and performing Database testing
• Proven skills in Leading and training teams, Test Management and Meeting the deadlines
• Strong communication & interaction with Clients, Developers, Business Analysts, Management
• Proven ability in Windows/UNIX Commands, Scripts and testing on Windows/UNIX platforms
• Proven ability in Working individually or as a part of team, Problem solving, Process improvement
activities, Analytical skills, Reporting and Assisting to Manager
• Experience in Restful web services testing.
• Good analytical and communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision
and also perform as part of a team.
• Highly motivated team player with analytical, organizational and technical skills.
• Unique ability to adapt quickly to challenges and changing environment.
• Assertive, self-motivated, goal oriented, organized and efficient.

Technical Skills:

Defect Tracking Tools HP Quality Center, BugZilla, ALM, JIRA, Test Director, Bamboo.
Selenium Web Driver/IDE/RC/GRID, Mercury Interactive Suite
Automation Testing Tools (QTP, JMeter, Load-Runner, HP QC/ALM),Cucumber, Firebug,
JMeter, Appium.
 Operating Systems IOS,Windows, UNIX (Solaris), Linux (Red Hat)
Programming Languages C, C++,Java, C#,Python,

Web Technologies HTML, CSS.

RDBMS Oracle 10g, My SQL, MS SQL Server.

Frameworks TestNG, TDD, BDD.

IDE Eclipse

Educational Details: Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications.

Professional Experience:
Blue Cross Blue Shield, FL Jan 2018 - Till Date
Role: Sr. Mobile Automation Engineer
Blue Cross Blue Shield is a leading health insurance company that provides health insurance in the United
States of America. Blue Cross Blue Shield companies have provided healthcare coverage to members, allowing
them to live free of worry, free of fear. In every ZIP code, Blue Cross Blue Shield offers a personalized
approach to healthcare based on the needs of the communities where their members live and work. They work
closely with hospitals and doctors in the communities they serve to provide quality, affordable healthcare
Responsibilities:
•Mentor QM team and evaluate mobile tools like Perfecto Mobile, Appium and SeeTest.
•Built alert & monitoring scripts for applications & servers using Python & Shell Script.
•Prepare KSH Shell Script for Automation of administration tasks.
•Tested Mobile Applications using various devices, Emulators and Simulators (such as Xcode, iOS
simulator and Eclipse emulator).
•Created and executed tests on Android Emulator using Android Virtual Devices.
•Involving in daily Scrum Calls, tracking QA Activities and Process adherence.
• Familiar with running tests in parallel or distributed, using the Cucumber framework – knowledge of cloud
based device farm services such as Testdroid, Xamarin, AWS.
• Cross platform Development framework for Android and iOS-Implemented a cross-platform framework
using Xamarin to develop Android and iOS Apps.
• Developed cross platform IoT(Home automation) application for both Android Phone and Tablet, iPhone and
iPAD using Xamarin.
•Rewrite existing Python modules to deliver certain format of data.
•Wrote Python scripts to parse XML documents and load the data in database.
•Creating requirements from the applications, design test cases, estimate effort and test execution using
Perfecto Mobile + UFT.
•Overseen installations, maintenance and upgrades for Perfecto Mobile
•Mentor QM team and evaluate mobile tools like Perfecto Mobile, Appium and SeeTest
•Created Test Automation framework for Web application using modulo driven framework and automated
mobile application using Appium and Selenium.
•Created Automation test framework using Selenium.
•Developed automated regression tests using Cucumber/Appium.
• Writing automation scripts using Selenium- Java and cucumber.
• UI validation using protractor- Java script and cucumber.
•Used web-debugging tools like XPath, Firebug and Firepath to locate elements.
•Good Experience in Shell Scripting for Automation.
•Used Appium to develop automation test scripts for web, Mobile and client server applications.
•Designed Hybrid Appium Test automation framework, Page Object Model for mobile application (Android/
iOS apps).
•Integrated Appium with Sauce Labs for distributing tests on the cloud.
•Integrated Appium with Continuous Integration tool- Jenkins.
•Dynamic parameterization of Desired Capabilities through Maven & Jenkins, Launch Appium
programmatically on Windows & Mac.
•Automated Priceline iOS app using Appium Java-Client library.
•Used Appium to develop automation test scripts for web, Mobile and client server applications.
•Used Appium tool to tested automation test scripts on both IOS and Android platforms for native and mobile
websites on mobile devices.
•Used Jenkins as continuous integration server to run automated test suites.
Environment: Appium, Perfecto, See test, Java, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium RC, Python Scripting,
SOAPUI, Cucumber, Maven, XPATH, Fire path, Firebug, Eclipse, Jenkins, Emulator, IOS Simulator, SQL,
Oracle, JavaScript, GIT, JIRA and Agile.

Crozer Keystone Health system Sep 2016 to Dec 2017

QA Engineer
Crozer-Keystone Health System is a management health and medical care information technology company. It
develops web-based applications and mobile applications for patients, physicians and healthcare companies to
help monitor and manage medical problems, medical history, lab results and other issues related to health and
medical care. Crozer-Keystone health "Individual/ patient signup", "Physician and other provider signup" and
"Services" web functionalities automation testing had been scripted using Java and Selenium Web-Driver.
Worked within a team of test engineers, supporting automation and manual testing activities with several
module developments
Responsibilities:
• Responsibilities:
•Effectively implemented QA methodologies, strategies and plans in all stages of SDLC.
•Used TFS for Test case management, and Defect Management purposes.
•Created and executed automated (Coded UI) scripts in Visual Studio and in TFS Test Manager.
•Involved in SOAP & REST based web services testing using SOAPUI PRO-Web services testing tool.
•Performed functional testing of SOAP and Restful Web Services using SOAP UI Tool.
•Involved in creation of Automation test framework using Selenium.
•Used Firebug Tool to identify the Object's id, Name, XPath, link in the application.
•Added annotations to the test. (TestNG).
•Worked on JDBC as a data source to fetch data from My SQL database in Data driven testing.
•Automates Smoke and Functional test cases using Selenium Web driver, TestNG and Java.
•Working with Java to use Selenium Web-Driver API library to write automation scripting with Cucumber
Feature and Scenario.
•Proven ability in developing BDD/TDD scripts with Cucumber and writing step definitions for behavior.
•Performed Automation acceptance testing using Cucumber by writing test scripts in Java.
•Cucumber was used for the entire regression testing and functional testing with Selenium as primary tool to the
Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test conditions identified by Selenium Web-Driver with TestNG.
•Developed automation test cases using TestNG framework and Selenium Web driver.
•Tested application compatibility for dynamic and static content under various cross browsers using HTML IDs
and XPath.
•Running test scripts on Jenkins automation server.
•Used GIT as code repository and Code Collaborator to manage code reviews.
•Conduct UAT testing for different teams and different projects..
•Executed various SQL Queries to perform the backend testing.
•Used JIRA as the defect-tracking tool. Updated JIRA with all the changes made to the test case and closed it
when all the requirements were met as specified.
•Performed functional testing using Microsoft Test Manager.
•Coordinated with business users for design, test plan, and test case reviews.
•Coordinate with development team in understanding the requirements, design documents, and issues.
•Generated Test data for positive and negative test scenarios.
•Participated regularly in review meetings with Project Manager, Architect, Business Users, and Business
Analyst.
• SOA Testing, Validation and Virtualization, Extended Web Services Tests in a Low -impact way using CA
LISA.
• Created and executed LISA& SOAP UI Scripts for the Web Services testing.
• Built effective test data covering all possible scenarios and added in datasheets for LISA testing.
• Involved in Testing LISA VIRUALIZATION for Web SOAP Services.
•Conduct Sanity testing before start our actual execution.
•Preparation and maintenance of defect log report.
•Defect tracking maintenance and closure of defects.
Environment: Eclipse, Selenium IDE, Selenium Web-Driver, JDBC, LISA, Manual Testing, TestNG,
Bugzilla, JIRA, ATU, JAVA, Quality Center 10.0,Jenkins,Git, SOUP UI,X-Path, Oracle 11g, Apache POI,
HTML, XML, , SQL Server, Web Services, Agile Methodology.

Sybase (R and D Centre) Pune, India June 2014 to March 2016

QA Manual Tester:
Sybase IQ is a relational database software system used for business intelligence and data warehousing,
produced by Sybase, Inc. One server one database architecture with simplex and multiplex server environments.
Responsibilities:
•Analyzed the user requirements by interacting with system architect, developers and business users.
•Suggested improvements in test process by gathering and analyzing data.
•Reviewed and analyzed Detail Designed Specification and Technical Specification documents.
•Analyzed the SRS (System Requirement Specifications) and developed Test Suites to cover the overall quality
assurance testing.
•Created test plans and test cases in concert with system engineers and web designers.
•Involved validating sites across browsers and operating systems, the accuracy of links, visual presentation and
its alignment with design specifications, and database updates.
•Tested the application manually prior to automation for functional testing.
•Well versed with complete life cycle of Manual Testing process with both Agile and waterfall methodologies.
•Experience in leading a Manual Testing assignment and successfully tracked progress of Manual testing effort.
•Used Quality Centre for preparing the Test Plans and manual Test scripts.
•Perform functional, exploratory and manual tests.
•Implemented and developed Test Plan, Test Cases, Test and Test Reports, Defect Reports for Manual tests.
•Experienced in formulating Test plans, designing manual Test Cases to support Quality-oriented
deliverables.
•Identify test cases that need to be automated by reviewing existing manual test cases.
•End-to-end testing with Test Planning, Manual Testing, Regression Testing and Defect reporting.
•Preparation of test cases.
Environment: Manual Tester, Java, Quality Center, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Oracle, VSS, Windows XP.