Akshay R.

Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India11 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

8+ years of diverse testing experience
Expert in automation frameworks and CI/CD
Proven track record in mentoring and team leadership

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and FinTech testing expert with strong automation and CI/CD capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesCi/cdRest ApisAutomation TestingUi AutomationMentoringTesting

Other Skills

API TestingAWS SQSAgile MethodologiesChai.jsCode ReviewCypressDatadogDockerDynamoDBGradleJavaJavaScriptJenkinsJiraLinux

About

ISTQB Certified Professional with 8+ years of experience and having worked in various domains such as E-commerce, FinTech, SaaS based startup. Expertise: * Testing - Regression, UAT, Integration, API, Black-box, White-box * Automation Frameworks - JUnit, TestNG, Pytest, Mocha * API Automation using Java, RestAssured * UI Automation using Cypress, Selenium Webdriver, Typescript * Performance Testing using JMeter * BDD (Cucumber), ATDD (Robot Framework) * CI/CD Deployment using Jenkins * Test Automation Planning * Microservices REST APIs development using SpringBoot * Cloud - AWS * Bug Tracking - JIRA Always open to learning new technology if the need be. Don't mind getting out of my comfort zone and trying something new.

Experience

Indeed

Software Engineer

Feb 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Led discovery, design and development of service LBA that enabled backfilling of millions of invoices & payments to legacy systems to allow migration without breaking existing solutions
Implemented solutions involving new integrations, sync (REST APIs) and async events (AWS SQS)
Built microservices to automate approval process of thousands of Insertion Orders that brought down approval time from 1 hour to 15 seconds and save hundreds of manual hours
Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions, contributing to project innovation
Actively participated in code reviews, advocated for implementing tools to enforce coding standards
Investigated prod issues, identified root causes, formulated recommendations for corrective actions
Collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams, product managers for smooth delivery of projects
Mentored QAs and Developers on writing Automation tests
Applied shift-left testing strategies to enable CI/CD deployment using Jenkins pipeline
Introduced new processes in the team to improve testing and team velocity

AWS SQSMicroservicesREST APIsCI/CDJenkinsAutomation Testing+1

D. e. shaw india private limited

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

May 2020 – Feb 2021 · 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Worked in the DESIM team and my responsibilities included -
Leading a team of 4 members in Hyderabad
Building UI automation framework using Cypress and JavaScript
Verifying the financial data from multiple vendors for improving the business logic
Mentoring QAs on writing automation

CypressJavaScriptUI AutomationMentoring

Sirionlabs

Senior Automation Engineer

May 2017 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Joined as the first automation engineer in the company. SirionLabs is a SaaS-based Contract Life-Cycle Management Company where my responsibilities included -
Writing back-end APIs automation suite from scratch. Automating REST APIs using Java
Bring new processes on improving the testing quality and reducing manual testing effort
Mentor other QA engineers on testing APIs & transitioning to Automation engineers
Collaborate with Product Managers and Developers and come up with Automation roadmap

JavaREST APIsAutomation TestingMentoring

Snapdeal

SDET-II

Jul 2016 – May 2017 · 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

Worked in the Supply Chain team on projects Shipment Tracking (ShipTrack) and Customer Response Engine (CRE). My responsibilities included -
REST API Automation using Java, RestAssured and TestNG
CI/CD deployment using Maven and Jenkins
Collaborating with third party vendors for integration testing
Collaborating with multiple internal teams for integration and E2E testing

JavaRestAssuredTestNGCI/CDREST APIs

Thales digital identity and security

Associate Software Engineer

Jul 2014 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs · Noida Area, India

Worked in the Software Monetization (SM) team and Advanced Security sub-team. Projects included License Development Kit (LDK) which looks into the licensing and enveloping security onto the applications. My work here included -
Testing desktop applications on Windows, Linux, Mac and mobile testing on Android devices
Enveloping variety of applications with the LDK software and testing security of it on multiple platforms
Writing automation for testing on Windows platform

Windows TestingLinux TestingMobile TestingTesting