Akhil Shevva

Quality Assurance Leadership and Process Enhancement:

• Provided comprehensive training and mentorship to both onsite and offshore team members, ensuring a deep understanding of quality assurance standards, policies, and procedural best practices.
• Addressed identified issues strategically, effectively improving workflows and optimizing operational efficiency.
• Spearheaded the conceptualization and recommendation of development and testing enhancements, significantly elevating usability, functionality, and performance aspects of the project.

Meeting Client Expectations and Timelines:

• Demonstrated exceptional time management skills by consistently meeting demanding deadlines to fulfill client requirements and align with project timelines.

Testing and Automation Proficiency:

• Leveraged Selenium IDE for robust accessibility testing across webpages, ensuring adherence to usability standards.
• Utilized JavaScript to create automated test scripts within the Selenium web browser, enhancing testing capabilities.
• Conducted thorough API Testing using POSTMAN tools, meticulously validating end points systems.
• Executed SQL queries for rigorous testing purposes, contributing to a comprehensive testing regimen.
• Verified SOAP UI and Restful API services to ensure seamless integration and functionality.

Agile Participation and Test Case Delivery:

• Analyzed a diverse array of User stories, Business requirements, and Functional documents, actively participating in Sprint planning and Scrum meetings.
• Took responsibility for the creation and execution of Test cases within the dynamic AGILE software development environment, ensuring alignment with project goals.

Framework Implementation and Automation:

• Successfully implemented a Data Driven Framework with a Page Object Model to systematically test Mobile applications. This approach generated sophisticated client HTML reports, providing comprehensive insight into test execution outcomes.
• Contributed significantly to System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, Ad-hoc, and Smoke Testing by actively executing various test cases.
• Created detailed reports at different stages of Testing, facilitating clear insights into testing progress and results.

Technical Expertise and Continuous Integration:

• Employed the Maven build tool to effectively manage framework dependency jar files, streamlining the development process.
• Configured a Jenkins build job for Continuous Integration and Regression Testing, enhancing the efficiency of testing workflows.

Technical Expertise and Framework Contribution:

• Leveraged Typewrite to create automated test scripts using Typescript, enhancing testing efficiency and script maintainability.
• Played a pivotal role as a member of the framework team, contributing valuable insights and solutions to the project's technical infrastructure.

Versatility in Domains and Tools:

• Demonstrated adaptability by effectively working across multiple domains due to your involvement in a startup company.
• Utilized a wide array of tools, showcasing your flexibility and proficiency in navigating diverse technological landscapes.

Script Preparation and API Testing:

• Crafted scripts using Java, Python, Typescript, and JavaScript, ensuring comprehensive coverage and rigorous testing.
• Executed API Testing for endpoint systems using POSTMAN tools, and automated API testing through KATALON, further enhancing testing accuracy.

Database Validation and Backend Testing:

• Executed SQL queries for testing purposes, enabling rigorous validation of data integrity and application functionality.
• Verified SOAP UI and Restful API services, ensuring seamless integration and robust performance.

Agile Participation and Test Case Execution:

• Actively engaged in Agile processes by analyzing User stories, Business requirements, and Functional documents.
• Assumed responsibility for generating and executing Test cases within an AGILE software development environment.

Framework Implementation and Automation:

• Successfully implemented a Data Driven Framework with a Page Object Model to systematically test Mobile applications, generating detailed client HTML reports for comprehensive test execution.

Cucumber Integration and TestNG Framework:

• Contributed to the creation of an automation framework in Appium WebDriver, utilizing a behavior-driven approach like Cucumber to enhance collaboration and understanding of test scripts.
• Employed Cucumber to create Features and Step Definition files, enabling comprehensive test script execution.

API Testing and Defect Management:

• Conducted manual API/Web services backend testing using Postman and automated processes with tools like Apache HTTP client libraries.

Database Operations and Defect Tracking:

• Effectively performed operations on the database using JDBC APIs, authoring complex SQL queries to validate backend data.
• Collaborated closely with developers using JIRA for defect tracking, defect reporting, and effective communication.

Version Control and Mentoring:

• Efficiently utilized SourceTree for maintaining and managing build scripts, test data, and project documents, ensuring streamlined project management.
• Actively mentored team members in design and analysis activities, fostering growth and knowledge-sharing.

Environment and Tools:

• Proficiently utilized tools such as Typewrite, Katalon, Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, JSON, DOM, Postman, and Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Familiarity with a range of technologies including Agile methodologies, Eclipse IDE, various web browsers, SQL, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), and programming languages like Java, Typescript, JavaScript, and Python.

• Utilized Selenium IDE to ensure comprehensive webpage accessibility testing.
• Employed JavaScript to create efficient automated test scripts within the Selenium web browser.
• Successfully executed API Testing for endpoint systems using POSTMAN tools.
• Conducted SQL queries for targeted testing purposes.
• Validated the integrity of SOAP UI and Restful API services.
• Analyzed User stories, Business requirements, and Functional documents, actively participating in Sprint planning and Scrum meetings.
• Took ownership of Test case creation and execution within a dynamic AGILE software development environment.
• Implemented a Data Driven Framework with Page Object Model to rigorously test the Mobile application, generating insightful client HTML reports.
• Actively participated in diverse test cases including System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, Ad-hoc, and Smoke Testing.
• Generated comprehensive reports to document Testing progress across various stages.
• Managed framework dependency jar files using Maven build tool and configured Jenkins for Continuous Integration and Regression Testing.
• Utilized Eclipse, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, SQL, and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to enhance testing capabilities.

Key Responsibilities and Achievements:

• Developed an efficient Protractor and Jasmine Framework for IOS and Android Hybrid App Automation.
• Utilized ZAPI to seamlessly retrieve test cases from Zephyr JIRA, converting them into JSON files for enhanced efficiency.
• Analyzed and interpreted User stories, Business requirements, and Functional documents, actively contributing to Sprint planning and Scrum meetings.
• Owned the end-to-end Test case creation and execution within a dynamic AGILE software development environment.
• Implemented a robust Data Driven Framework coupled with Page Object Model to comprehensively test the Mobile application, generating detailed and client-friendly HTML reports.
• Actively participated in an array of test cases including System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, Ad-hoc, and Smoke Testing.
• Generated meticulous reports documenting testing progress across diverse project phases.
• Managed framework dependency jar files through Maven build tool and configured Jenkins for Continuous Integration and Regression Testing.
• Spearheaded the customization of system automation for mobile applications by creating an Object-Oriented Test Automation Framework from scratch using Appium WebDriver, Eclipse, TestNG, and Apache POI under the Java platform.
• Actively contributed to the development of an Appium WebDriver automation framework using a behavior-driven approach like Cucumber.
• Leveraged Cucumber to create intricate Features and Step Definition files, enabling seamless execution of test scripts.
• Efficiently employed Appium WebDriver API alongside TestNG for parallel test automation, prioritizing test case execution through the TestNG framework.
• Conducted comprehensive manual API/Web services backend testing using Postman and automated these processes using automation tools like Apache HTTP client libraries.
• Integrated Automation scripts (Appium WebDriver API) seamlessly into Continuous Integration tools, particularly Jenkins for nightly batch runs of the script.
• Applied JDBC APIs to conduct database operations and devised intricate SQL queries to validate backend data.
• Demonstrated adeptness in defect discovery, preparing defect reports, performing status reporting, and conducting Bug Triage.
• Efficiently managed defect tracking using JIRA, fostering effective communication and collaboration with developers.
• Utilized SourceTree for efficient maintenance of build scripts, test data, and project documents within the project scope.
• Served as a mentor to team members, actively guiding them in design and analysis activities while providing consistent encouragement.

Technological Environment:

• Proficiently worked with Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Selenium Grid, Postman, Maven, Jenkins, Eclipse, Cucumber, SQL Server, SourceTree, and Apache POI.