Maneesh Kumar
Principal Sdet Quality Engineering- Apple Services @Apple
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WORK HISTORY
Principal Sdet Quality Engineering- Apple Services @Apple
London, GB
Spearheading QA strategy and automation roadmap for high-impact projects across Apple Services including Apple TV, Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness+, App Store, and Arcade, focusing on seamless multi-platform integration and superior end-user experience.Leading cross-functional QA initiatives by collaborating with engineering, product, and design teams; managing globally distributed QA teams; and using Agile practices with tools like Confluence, and Slack for effective execution and communication.Architecting and executing performance, load, and stress testing strategies using tools such as JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana, ensuring backend services perform reliably under production-level concurrency and peak load scenarios.Driving end-to-end test automation across iOS, macOS, web, and backend APIs using XCTest, XCUITest, Playwright, Selenium, Python, Postman, and RESTAssured, integrated with CI/CD pipelines (e.g, Jenkins, GitHub).Implementing shift-left testing practices to detect issues early in the development lifecycle, while promoting API-first QA and contract testing approaches using Swagger validation.Improving test coverage and reporting through tools like JaCoCo, Allure, and SonarQubeMentoring QA engineers and continuously refining QA processes through test optimization, code reviews, and integrating quality gates to ensure high software quality standards and faster release cycles.
EDUCATION
IMS Ghaziabad (University Courses Campus)
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science & Engineering
ABOUT MANEESH KUMAR
A PMI certified Project Management Professional and a technologically inquisitive Software Engineering Lead. Having Honors degree in Computer Science & Engineering and extensive experience in Quality domain. Delivered multiple projects in complex environments and remained hands-on. Passionate about designing Project Strategy, building & developing high-performing teams, driving the product roadmap and developing efficient automated solutions utilizing DevOps tools. Over the years, I’ve lead & delivered several high-quality projects while enabling all activities pertaining to design, development, testing and maintenance of large & distributed systems and I’ve gained in-depth knowledge of Agile methodologies and SDLC standardsI have significant experience in People & Stakeholder Management and have excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.WORK PROFILE:• Over 18 years of extensive work experience in Quality Engineering, Project setup and establishing Automation, Performance and Functional QA strategies• Strong programming/scripting skills using Java, Python, and Bash Scripting• Strong experience in setting up DevOps infrastructure for testing and release qualification process• Strong experience in Automation Framework Designing and Maintenance with Selenium-Webdriver, Selenium-Grid, Java with TestNG and Cucumber• Good experience in RESTful API development and automation• Good working experience in various software development methodologies e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Iterative Model, V-Model, Waterfall• Good experience in managing globally distributed teams of 20+ engineersTECHNICAL STACK:• OS/Platform: Linux, MacOS, Windows• SDLC Methodologies: Agile (Scrum & Kanban), Waterfall• Testing Streams: Automation, Performance, A/B Testing, Manual & Database• Programming skills: Java, Python & Bash• Big Data Technologies: Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Hive, Kafka, Ambari, PIG• Python for Data Science: NumPy, Pandas• Performance and Load Testing: JMeter• Build Tools: Maven• Test Automation and Development: Selenium-Webdriver, Selenium-Grid, Cucumber, Appium, RESTful APIs, cURL, Postman and Mobile (iOS and Android)• DevOps Skills: Jenkins, Docker Toolbox, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes• Cloud Platform: Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services (AWS)• Database: Oracle, MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL and Cassandra• Repository & Tracking: Github, Gitlab, Docker Hub, JIRA, HP-ALM• Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP), Oracle Certified Java Professional, TOSCA Certified, ISTQB-Foundation Certified
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