Maninder
From Canada (UTC-4)
Maninder – Cypress, QA Automation, CircleCI
Maninder is a senior QA Automation Engineer with over 10 years of experience in test automation, framework architecture, and both UI and API testing. His core stack includes Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and REST API automation, with commercial use of AI tools like Copilot and Claude. He has demonstrated strengths in automation framework design, CI/CD integration, and pragmatic problem-solving, and is comfortable with direct client communication and ownership in agile environments. His experience spans banking, insurance, healthcare, and ecommerce domains.
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Test Automation Lead
A privately held IT services and IT consulting organization that specializes in full-lifecycle software development, cloud/mobile technology deployment, and enterprise staffing solutions. Founded in 1996, the firm acts as a strategic delivery partner to Fortune 500 enterprises, mid-sized companies, and tech startups.
- Designed and implemented a robust automation framework for various applications.
- Developed a unified framework supporting mobile and web testing across Android, iOS, and mobile browsers.
- Utilized Playwright to enable cross-browser and cross-platform testing.
- Leveraged Mocha and Cucumber for flexible test execution strategies.
- Enabled API testing to validate backend endpoints within the same test suite.
- Integrated network request and response monitoring, mocking, and failure simulation.
- Enabled parallel test execution to reduce execution time and improve CI/CD feedback loops.
- Maintained CI/CD workflows via GitHub Actions and CircleCI for nightly runs, pull request validation, and regression gates.
- Built desktop and mobile web automation using Playwright device emulation.
- Designed and implemented AI-driven automation workflows using agentic AI concepts.
- Integrated MCP servers with automation frameworks for dynamic test orchestration.
- Leveraged AI-based validation techniques to reduce flaky tests and improve reliability.
- Validated end-to-end SSO login flows integrated with Okta for Twilio Flex.
- Tested authentication lifecycle scenarios, including login, session persistence, logout, and re-authentication.
- Verified redirection between the application and Okta during SSO handshake.
- Set up BrowserStack execution for Android and iOS applications using Appium.
- Created a dashboard app to track KPI-based automation results across multiple brands.
Senior AI Automation Engineer
A leading online marketplace platform that conveniently connects users with local independent contractors (called "Taskers") to handle everyday home to-dos. It specializes in mobile technologies, location-based platforms, and sharing economy solutions.
- Architected and maintained scalable AI-driven end-to-end automation frameworks using Playwright and Typescript.
- Leveraged Claude Code, Augment Code, CodeRabbit, Google Gemini, and OpenAI GPT models to accelerate automation development and improve code quality.
- Applied AI-assisted software testing techniques to analyze requirements, logs, and existing test suites to identify coverage gaps and generate test cases.
- Designed AI-enhanced automation workflows combining LLM capabilities with Playwright and Typescript.
- Built and maintained REST API automation covering authentication, request and response validation, schema verification, negative testing, and integration testing for Stripe APIs and other backend services.
- Developed reusable automation utilities, helper libraries, fixtures, and Rake tasks to streamline execution and CI/CD workflows.
- Integrated automated test suites into CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
- Worked with cloud-based environments and CI/CD infrastructure to execute scalable automated test suites.
- Implemented AI-assisted debugging and failure triage using LLMs to interpret logs, stack traces, and API responses.
- Used Testomat for test planning, execution, reporting, traceability, and coverage management.
- Collaborated with developers and cross-functional teams to investigate production issues and validate backend workflows.
- Applied AI-first engineering practices to optimize automation architecture and reduce flaky tests.
- Evaluated emerging AI coding assistants, LLMs, and agentic development tools for testing and quality engineering use cases.
Senior Automation Consultant
Canada's largest Indigenous-owned software testing and technology services company. It delivers high-quality QA solutions to clients worldwide and focuses on creating meaningful technology careers for Indigenous people.
- Developed and executed automated test scripts using TestNG, Selenium, and Rest Assured to ensure software quality.
- Created Postman API collections and automated API testing to improve coverage.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to create test plans, test cases, and test data.
- Conducted functional, regression, and integration testing.
- Tested Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM features, functionalities, and workflows.
- Performed end-to-end SaaS platform testing and validated multi-tenant user workflows.
- Tested third-party API integrations to ensure data consistency across systems.
- Used Azure DevOps to manage test cases, test runs, and defects.
- Developed GUI automation using Playwright, Cucumber, JavaScript, and Chai.
- Implemented the Page Object Model design pattern to improve test maintainability and scalability.
- Developed automated test scripts using webdriver.io, Cucumber, and Mocha for web applications.
- Integrated webdriver.io automation with Jenkins to trigger execution on code commits.
- Maintained automated regression test cases in Selenium WebDriver and Appium using Java.
- Facilitated mobile testing with Appium on emulators and simulators.
- Automated Android applications using Appium, Espresso, and UIAutomator2.
- Performed mobile testing for iOS and Android applications.
- Integrated Appium with Sauce Labs and BrowserStack for cloud-based test distribution.
- Configured Java, WebDriver, and Maven, and created Selenium automation scripts using TestNG.
- Created Cucumber feature files, scenario outlines, and step definitions.
Test Automation Developer
A leading global financial services organization dedicated to helping individuals achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. It operates primarily as a publicly traded company in the financial services and insurance industry.
- Developed and maintained automated regression test cases in Selenium WebDriver and Appium using Java.
- Created test scripts to automate testing using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG.
- Integrated automation scripts into Jenkins for continuous execution after builds.
- Identified mobile elements using Appium Inspector and UI Automator Viewer.
- Designed and developed test strategy, test plans, and test cases, and generated defect reports.
- Collaborated with developers to understand WSDL and XSD requirements and prepare test data.
- Tested web services and XML using SoapUI.
- Conducted test case reviews and presented test scenarios to team members.
- Utilized SQL queries for backend testing and custom reporting.
- Performed API testing using Postman and developed API automation using Rest Assured.
QA Automation Engineer
- Designed, developed, and implemented a POM-based automation testing framework.
- Worked on a hybrid automation framework using WebDriver, TestNG, and Java to optimize regression testing time.
- Configured Java, WebDriver, and Maven, and created Selenium automation scripts using TestNG and page object model.
- Used Cucumber for browser-based testing.
- Created feature files, scenario outlines, step definitions, and methods for different functionalities.
- Applied data-driven and hybrid automation approaches to convert manual test cases into automation.