About

Akanksha Aggarwal is a highly skilled Staff Engineer at Nagarro with 8 years of experience in quality assurance. She has a strong technical background with expertise in various estimation methods and reports/metrics created/used in Agile. Akanksha has experience in mentoring team members of an agile team, making them aware of the Agile manifesto and training them on how to use it in day-to-day activities. She has also been involved in requirement analysis, test estimation, and test plans creation, as well as managing test execution. Akanksha has developed and executed test scenarios for manual testing (black box), database testing, and gray box testing (component testing). She has experience in releasing products to UAT and production and maintaining product releases. Her domain experience includes BFSI, E-commerce, BPM, CRM, and Accounting Services Domain for Non-Profit Organization. Currently, Akanksha works at Nagarro as a Staff Engineer. She is involved in projects from kick-off to final stabilization, planning and implementing various testing activities/tasks. She prepares test cycle/progress reports, reviews test cases, analyzes defect metrics, and takes improvement actions for the next iterations. Akanksha works along with functional analysts to ensure data requirements are defined to support software development and undertake testing. She is also the point of contact for retrospection for any production defects/testing delays and has done root cause analysis, taking corrective and preventive actions facilitating CSAT. Akanksha works in an agile model, attending stand-up meetings to update the status and discuss issues on a regular basis. She identifies and delivers training for new teammates to keep them motivated towards project goals and their constant upgrade of skills and reduced dependency on individuals. Akanksha's past experience includes working as an Associate Lead Quality Assurance and Senior Associate, Quality Assurance at Nagarro. She holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Advanced Institute of Technology & Management. Akanksha has a strong tech stack that includes test, Java, QA, Microservices, AWS, Spring, Spring Boot, Software Engineer, Docker, Web, Parts-of-speech, Kubernetes, MySQL, SQL, Jenkins, Terraform, CI/CD, Research Scientist, Kafka, and Integration. With her relevant experience of 9.95 years, Akanksha is a valuable asset to any organization she works with.