Manasa Malla

About Manasa Malla

Result-focused and versatile leader with 16+ years of professional expertise in driving delivery and lead growth of large scale ERP systems. Designing test strategies, and establishing quality practices, for multiple teams along with enhanced skills on Azure, AWS & DevOps.Drive decision-making processes and ensure that steps are taken to deliver high-quality business solutions.Expertise in leading processes of continuous improvement and instrumental in driving shift left activities in the organization.Highly effective at managing relationships with leadership and preserving balance within the teams.Hire, supervise, and mentor team members to step up to the next level.I believe in \"Doing it right, the first time\"Accomplishments- Streamlined regression testing process to increase efficiency and reduce manual effort by 90%- Developed POCs to mitigate the external dependencies of the tests and move 80% of these tests to execute on the CI/CD pipeline- Established the process of Sprint-0 which reduced the release hardening phase by 20%- Establishing the process to improve the coding standards across the organization- Established defect RCA process using 5 Whys technique to prevent defects and deliver with high quality- Developed framework and scripts for automatic reporting of the test analysis.Core Competencies- D365 F&O and CE - Easy Repro- Java/Junits- Selenium- AWS/Azure- Azure Devops- Grafana- Tomcat- Oracle/DB2/SQL Server/Postgres- SQL Queries- Jmeter- Pega

Experience

1. Senior Test Architect Lead

   Microsoft

   Apr 2021 — Present · IN

   Responsible for driving the quality of large-scale ERP D365 projects by - leading, monitoring, and coaching ateam of 20 plus enthusiastic quality evangelists. Bringing out the best practices for testing, automation effective testing techniques. Effectively collaborating and communicating with the 100+ team locatedgeographically across the world. Foreseeing any risks and outlining the mitigation plans. Evangelizingthe quality practices and driving the quality initiatives for the client. Presenting the quality KPIs andcoming up with effective approaches to improve the quality standards. Automation of the quality KPI\'sby enabling the quality gates in the CI/CD pipeline

Education

• MVR College of Engineering

  Bachelor's Degree, Chemical Engineering

  2003 — 2007

Skills

• Websphere Application Server
• Oracle
• Perl
• Sql
• Tomcat
• Java
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Ant
• Jmeter
• Db2/Zos
• Selenium
• Test Automation
• Team Management
• Junit
• Testing
• Db2 9.1