About

Akhil Vijay is a Technical Consultant with over 5 years of experience in Cypress Automation, JavaScript/Python/Selenium Automation Testing, GraphQL & Rest API testing, Database Testing, Performance testing, Load Testing, Network testing and Robot Framework. He is a B-tech Graduate in Computer Science and has hands-on expertise in application testing and the ability to automate web-based applications using Cypress, JavaScript, Python, Selenium. Currently working at Zebra Technologies, Akhil is actively involved in Cypress Automation testing, GraphQL & API testing, Database Testing, Performance testing, and Load Testing for SaaS Platforms. He has hands-on expertise in building up the Cypress Automation Framework from scratch for agile projects. He can automate any challenging scenarios (both web-based & API based) with minimal support and can handle the complete Cypress Automation Framework. Akhil also has experience in Linux debugging for manually testing IoT platforms using CLI commands and has worked in CI/CD pipeline using GitLab. In his previous role as a Senior Software Engineer at Thinkpalm Technologies, Akhil worked mostly on Automation testing, Rest API/UI testing, Performance testing, Network testing, and Robot Framework for various agile projects. He also worked as a Senior Project Engineer at Wipro, where he worked on Testplan preparation, Automation, Defect Verification, Manual and Regression Testing for UI/API testing and Network Protocols. Within a short period of time, he took over the complete ownership of the Web-based Application (Device Manager used for configuring network protocols) in all departments. He handled almost 8 Cisco Ethernet Platforms & 4 Allen Bradley Ethernet Platforms and did testing for all the 12 platforms. Automation for the GUI is done for Chrome & Firefox using chromedriver & geckodriver in Python & Selenium. Full Regressions are executed for all the features every month. Manual testing was performed using Linux-based CLI commands for testing and configuring Network protocols. Akhil Vijay completed his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram, in 2016. He has a relevant experience of 6.86 years and is skilled in Selenium, Python, Web, JavaScript, CI/CD, UI, Software Engineering, and testing.