MANEESH CHANDRA RAJENDRAN

Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Assurance Engineer with 14+ years of experience in manual and automated testing, system validation, and quality engineering strategy. Skilled in building UI and API automation frameworks, leading teams, and improving regression efficiency through reusable testing approaches and strong QA governance. Experienced in defect tracking, quality gates, and applying AI-assisted and predictive testing workflows to enhance reliability.

Weinheim 69469, Germany

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Work Experience

Quality Engineering Associate Manager

Accenture Technology Solutions GmbHGermany

Feb 2021 — Jun 2025

Built and maintained Java, Selenium WebDriver, JUnit and Page Object Model (POM) automation for UI and REST API testing; automated 2,500+ test cases across enterprise applications
Cut regression execution time by 35% through reusable tests and Jenkins/Maven CI/CD integration; reduced manual testing effort by 30%
Led a team of 10 automation engineers; reviewed test designs, guided delivery, and resolved technical blockers while working with developers on coverage, defects, quality risks, and release readiness
Set test strategy, automation standards, and quality gates for enterprise delivery; evaluated generative AI and predictive testing approaches for quality engineering

Automation Test Lead

CapgeminiBangalore, India

Jun 2017 — Jan 2021

Led a six-person automation team delivering web and mobile testing for financial services and e-commerce applications
Automated 1,850 test cases using Selenium, Appium, and Java for web, Android, and iOS; used reusable Ruby/Cucumber BDD and Page Factory components
Reduced regression execution time by 30% using repeatable automated checks in Jenkins and Bitbucket/GitHub workflows; coordinated test coverage, defect analysis, and issue resolution with delivery teams

Senior Test Engineer

Krover TechnologiesJohannesburg, South Africa

May 2015 — Jun 2017

Planned and ran load and performance testing, analyzed application bottlenecks, and reported findings and corrective priorities to stakeholders
Supported QA governance, testing reviews, defect tracking, and quality reporting during delivery

Test Engineer

IBM India Pvt LtdBangalore, India

Feb 2012 — Mar 2015

Designed and executed test plans and cases from requirements, maintaining traceability across functional, regression, smoke, and ad hoc testing
Logged and retested defects, collaborated with developers and business users to confirm fixes, and documented test results

Skills

Selenium WebDriverAppiumTricentis ToscaPlaywrightCypressUiPathJMeterTestNGJUnitCucumberBDDTDDJavaPythonRubyJavaScriptTypeScriptJ2EEJenkinsMavenGitDockerKubernetesPage Object Model (POM)Page FactoryRuby/Cucumber BDD componentsCapybaraPostmanGitLab CIBitbucket Pipelines

Education

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Certifications

Artificial Intelligence Generalist (AIG)

Agile Scrum Master

Tricentis Tosca Automation Specialist Levels 1 & 2

Automation Engineer Level 1

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Manual & Selenium Testing

ITIL V3 Foundation

UiPath Certified

DevOps Master

IBM Watson Cloud Foundation

COBE

Languages

English

Fluent

German

Basic

Training

Outskill

be10x

Selected Projects

n8n-based ATS CV and recruitment workflows

Built workflows covering CV/job-description matching, screening, Jobscan feedback processing, structured JSON checks, and MCP-based ATS CV Recruiter/Humanise integration; included PDF-to-Word and formatting workflows.

AI-assisted workflows

Developed AI-assisted workflows for LinkedIn posts, job searching, Gmail labelling, Telegram communication, calendar retrieval, company research, project enquiries, and lead outreach.

Mapranex career/project-enquiry workflows and business website

Created Mapranex career/project-enquiry workflows and a business website (myaiteam-company.vercel.app); completed practical generative AI learning through Outskill and be10x (approximately six months each).