Akhil Panicker

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India16 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

15 years of QA experience in diverse domains.
Expert in test management and automation strategies.
Strong collaboration with technical and non-technical teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a QA Manager with expertise in SaaS and test automation.

Contact

panicker.akhil@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Test ManagementTest AutomationPerformance Testing

Other Skills

API TestingAgile MethodologiesAgile TestingApp DemosApplication TestingCSSChecklistsFunctional TestingHTMLHigh Performance TeamsIndividual ContributorIntegration TestingJIRAJMeterJavaScript

About

QA manager with 15 years of manual/automation testing and test management experience across domains. Passionate about contributing cross-functionally to projects. Meticulous without missing out on the big picture. Capable sounding board. Effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Foster learning that helps improve both work quality and skillset of the team.

Experience

Jio platforms limited (jpl)

3 roles

General Manager - Service Validation

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

Deputy General Manager - QA

Apr 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos

1. Test Documentation – Creating and reviewing test plans, test strategies, checklists, test cases, test reports. Was also
involved in creation of project related documentation, like internal app handbooks, user guides, wire-frames etc.
2. Individual Contributor – Frequently testing the products under development for VnV and to confirm UX. If unsatisfactory, finding alternatives with the design team and developers, keeping priority-vs-cost-vs-effort in mind.
3. Test Management – Coordinating with, and guiding, a team of testers (assigned to different environments), to test apps being built by our team. Monitoring and continuously reviewing the entire test activity.
4. Test Automation – Creating regression test scripts (Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, jUnit) for both existing web apps and ones being developed.
5. Performance testing
a. Writing load tests in jMeter, to confirm teacher and student volume scenarios for our LMS.
b. Performing network analysis to ensure sites load quick and feel snappy (front-end performance).
6. API testing – Performing API tests, using both Postman and SoapUI, to test both internal and vendor APIs.
7. Project management activities – Coordinating and tracking tasks with other teams (dev, deployment, network, vendor, infosec etc). Ensuring that things get done both within and outside the team.
8. KT and app demos – Taking sessions for the team for both knowledge transfers and self development and providing app demos to other teams, stakeholders and vendors.

Test DocumentationIndividual ContributorTest ManagementTest AutomationPerformance TestingAPI Testing+3

Sr. QA Manager

Jun 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

Zeus learning

3 roles

QA Architect

Promoted

Jul 2014 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos

1. Test Management - Managing a team of 50 members across multiple projects. Creating, monitoring, and modifying test plans and strategies/executions/reporting (as per project and process dynamics).
2. Test Automation - Creating test automation scripts and frameworks, for Functional, UI, Performance and Security tests. Hands on experience on automation tools like Selenium WebDriver (Junit/TestNG/Maven), JMeter 3.0 (Load testing), OWASP ZAP (Security testing) along with some BDD testing experience (Spock framework).
3. Working in Agile, Waterfall, VnV project models. Ability to work in, or devise, custom implementations as per project requirements.
4. Test Estimation - Working with higher management and sales teams to provide accurate test pricing, after analyzing project-optimum test practices (manual and automation), resource strategies, risks etc.
5. Individual contributor - Working on individual projects and/or providing necessary support to the team.
6. Requirement analysis and test coordination - Sound experience in critiquing Business, Technical and Functional requirements. Gathering requirements, understand end-to-end application functionality and devise / build, test strategies depending on the project needs along with test activity coordination.
7. Recruitment - Recruiting junior and senior-level quality engineers for both generic and project-specific requirements.
8. Ensuring standards compliance - Experience in validating compliance to regulatory standards and/or company standards. Hands-on experience in accessibility compliance testing with various tools like JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, TalkBack along with a firm understanding of WCAG 2.0/508 accessibility guidelines and its applications.