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Manikanta Kanta

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I'm Manikanta Kanta, a Senior SDET/QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience delivering robust automation for healthcare, telecom, banking, and enterprise apps.

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I’m Manikanta Kanta, a Senior SDET/QA Automation Engineer with 9+ years of experience delivering robust automation for healthcare, telecom, banking, and enterprise apps. I specialize in automation testing, API validation, and backend verification using Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Cypress, Java, Python, and REST API automation with Postman and Rest Assured.

I have hands-on experience with microservices, contract testing with Pact, CI/CD integration with Jenkins and Azure DevOps, and containerization with Docker and Kubernetes. I excel in Agile environments, SQL validation, and performance testing with JMeter, and I enjoy building scalable automation frameworks and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality software.

  • 10 years' experience
  • Joined May 2026

Industry experience

  • Healthcare
  • Financial Services
  • Telecommunications
  • Software & Internet
  • Professional Services

Work experience· 5 roles

SDET Engineer · AmazonSep 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Implemented automated test strategies for web and API applications in banking operations, built frameworks using Selenium, Cypress, Postman, JMeter, and Burp Suite; integrated PyTest, JUnit, SonarQube, and TestRail with CI/CD; designed and maintained scalable test suites (TestNG, Cucumber BDD, Robot Framework); collaborated with DevOps and developers; validated Kafka-based asynchronous workflows; performed backend data validation and regression testing; enabled continuous testing in CI/CD pipelines.

QA Engineer · T-MobileJul 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Developed scalable automation frameworks for web, mobile, and API testing using Selenium, Cypress, and Appium; built REST API automation with Postman and Rest Assured; implemented CI/CD test pipelines with Jenkins/Azure DevOps/GitLab; performed performance testing with JMeter/Locust; security testing with Burp Suite and SonarQube; built BDD frameworks with Cucumber; conducted backend validation across large data volumes, and contract testing with Pact; cross-browser testing with Selenium Grid/BrowserStack.

QA Analyst · State of New YorkDec 2021 – Jul 2022 · 8 mos

Developed automation frameworks for regression testing of citizen-facing web applications; validated migration to React/Node.js; built API tests with Postman and Rest Assured; performed backend validation with complex SQL queries; executed performance tests with JMeter; integrated CI/CD pipelines; designed BDD test frameworks with Cucumber; conducted security testing with Burp Suite and OWASP ZAP; containerized test environments with Docker and Kubernetes; ensured accessibility compliance.

QA Analyst · Blue Cross Blue ShieldJan 2018 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos
QA Analyst · CTSJun 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science · Bangalore University2030 – 2016

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