About

Manish Kanal is a Software Validation Architect at Intel Corporation, based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. With 17 years of experience in Software Test Automation, Framework Design, and Development, he has a proven track record of delivering technically sophisticated software/product features, enhancements, and applications using Python, C, and C++. He is an Automation Solutions Architect experienced in coordinating the organization-wide Automation efforts. Manish specializes in coordinating organization-wide Automation efforts through Automation Scrum of Scrums Forum, Automation Framework Development, Python 2.7, C, C++, Data Structures, Object-Oriented Programming, Windows (All Flavors), Linux (RHEL, SuSE, Ubuntu), Mac (10.8+), Project Management, Automation Expert, experience with SVN and GIT, good understanding of Agile Methodologies, VersionOne, Jira-based Scrum Management, building teams of engineers who can design and develop highly performing solutions, providing support and mentoring development for engineers, and helping them design and solve complex problems. Currently working at Intel as a Software Validation Architect, Manish has previously worked at FireEye as a Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer in Test, where he was responsible for QA Release Lead for the client-side Agent application for the Endpoint solution, complete responsibility for the Release testing, planning, schedule management, and execution, adding and enhancing automation for the agent application, charting out the automation plan and execution for quarterly to yearly plans, redesigning Automation to make it more robust and reliable, merging Platform Centric Automation Code to make it Platform agnostic, organization-wide Automation Framework and infrastructure creation and maintenance, maintaining and enhancing the various small Frameworks in use throughout the organization, maintaining the Automation infrastructure, Jenkins, Ansible, Virtual Labs, and Physical infrastructure, leading organization-wide Automation Scrum of Scrum effort, creating the Automation SOS forum, organizing and leading the biweekly meeting to discuss the organization-wide automation efforts, automation innovations, and support requirements, and tracking the resultant tasks and getting them to a conclusion. Manish has also worked at McAfee as a Software Development Engineer in Test, where he led the automation effort for McAfee Agent, designed and developed a Multi-Platform Object-Oriented Automation framework for McAfee Agent, written in Python 2.7 based on the REST APIs exposed by the server, guided the team in automating End-To-End System tests for McAfee Agent, based on the above Framework, and collaborated with other teams in increasing the framework adoption and