Akash Kumar

QA Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India4 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Built automation frameworks for 10+ microservices.
Enhanced CI/CD pipelines for faster validations.
Improved observability with advanced monitoring tools.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused SDET with expertise in automation and CI/CD.

Contact

akashkrcse1@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Api TestingKafkaTest AutomationPythonCi/cdAutomationObservabilityMonitoringInfrastructure AutomationTestingQuality AssuranceSoftware Development

Other Skills

REST APIsPython (Programming Language)Test Automation / Automation FrameworksGo (Programming Language)Jenkins (CI/CD)DockerAPI Testing (Postman / REST)SwaggerFastAPISplunkGrafanaTerraformKubernetesFunctional TestingPerformance Testing

About

I’m an SDET with 6 years of experience building automation frameworks, synthetic test suites, API and Kafka test pipelines, and CI/CD systems for microservice-based architectures. Skilled in Python (OOP, Pytest) and Go, I’ve automated and maintained testing across 10+ services—reducing manual effort, improving regression reliability, and enabling early defect detection.Hands-on with Jenkins (Groovy scripting), Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS for infrastructure automation, deployment validation, and reproducible testing environments. Experienced in observability tools like Splunk, Grafana, and CloudWatch for monitoring, log analysis, and performance troubleshooting.I also explore Generative AI and local LLMs (Ollama, LM Studio) to enhance debugging, analytics, and workflow automation.Always open to opportunities in SDET, Python Automation, or DevOps-oriented testing where I can build scalable, resilient, and testable systems with measurable impact.

Experience

4 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

6 mos

Current Experience

Ust

Lead II - Software Testing

Dec 2025 – Present · 6 mos · India · Remote

QA ownership of API integrations, backend workflows, and data services
Testing Kafka-based message pipelines, consumer behaviour, and data flow consistency

REST APIsKafkaAPI Testing

Xperi corporation

3 roles

Engineer, SDET

Promoted

Sep 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Designed and maintained automation frameworks and test suites using Python (Pytest) and Go across 10+ microservices, improving regression reliability and reducing manual verification effort.
Built and integrated Jenkins multibranch pipelines (Jenkinsfile) with Docker-based ephemeral test runners for CI/CD, enabling faster and more stable PR validations.
Implemented comprehensive API and integration test suites (Postman, Insomnia) and leveraged Swagger / FastAPI docs for contract verification and regression validation.
Validated Kafka-based ETL flows — produced and consumed test messages and verified data loads into RDS, MongoDB, and DynamoDB, ensuring data integrity across services.
Created Splunk searches and Grafana dashboards for test-run log analysis and root-cause detection; improved observability by monitoring Kubernetes pod CPU/memory usage and alerting on anomalies.
Managed local and custom test deployments using Terraform and Kubernetes, creating reproducible, isolated test environments for functional verification.
Mentored new engineers and interns on automation setup, CI/CD workflows, and debugging practices, improving onboarding efficiency and code quality.
Collaborated across product and platform teams to map content delivery and data-ingestion workflows, enabling faster debugging and independent validation.
Proactively cleaned up unused Kafka topics, ephemeral environments, and AWS resources (IAM roles/policies, DynamoDB, API Gateway, RDS, log groups), reducing partition load by ~20% and improving cluster performance.

Python (Programming Language)Test Automation / Automation FrameworksTest AutomationPython

Associate Engineer, SDET

Aug 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr

Collaborated with Service Eng QE Team for testing the services using python automation.
Focused on testing the service and found bugs using debugging and troubleshooting techniques.
Efficiently provided KTs and showcased demo to team members

Functional TestingPerformance TestingTestingQuality Assurance

Software Engineer Intern

Sep 2020 – Aug 2021 · 11 mos

Worked with Service Eng QE team using Python, Jenkins, Git/Github, Docker, Bash scripting, Helix Perforce P4V, Jira, Scrum/Kanban boards, Jmeter for load testing, Slack bot notification.
Worked professionally, following AGILE methodology, with regular stand-ups, sprints, and 1:1 meetings.
Introduced E2E automation suits for some services mainly focused on data/messages flow.
Made an enhancement to existing services and implemented three chaos use cases in some microservices as part of resiliency testing
Collaborated in virtual Hackathon 3.0 with four members team and toiled on PWA and AR filters.

Manual TestingObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)TestingSoftware Development