About

Akshatha S. is a seasoned Software Testing and Quality Assurance Engineer with over 9 years of experience in Automation and Manual Testing. She has a strong background in test plan analysis, test script automation, test case design, and coding. Akshatha is proficient in Python, Tcl, Perl, Linux, GIT, HP ALM, QC, Jenkins, JIRA, Autotest, and pyATS. Akshatha has hands-on experience in Web UI automation using Selenium WebDriver, JavaScript, and Python. She is skilled in all phases of SDLC, defect life cycle, version control, Quality and Testing methodologies. Her expertise includes Functional, Integration, System, Performance, Regression, V&V, and GUI testing. Akshatha has also worked in the Networking domain using Cisco, HP switches/routers using Ixia, Wireshark, Spirent iTest. Furthermore, Akshatha has 4.5 years of hands-on testing experience in Medical Device (Health Care Service) products following ISO standards. She has also worked on web application testing in Banking and Financial domains. Currently, she is working as a QA-Engineer-Software Test II at Cisco, where she is responsible for Web UI Automation and Testing of Cisco IoT software platform using Selenium WebDriver, JavaScript, and Python. Akshatha's past experience includes working as a Network Test Engineer/QA Engineer at World Wide Technology, where she worked on test automation framework development and automation of test scripts using Cisco switch/router in Python. She also contributed to the extension of the automation framework by writing functions, configuration files in Python. Prior to that, she worked as a Systems/Software Engineer II at Hewlett Packard, where she performed manual and automation testing on HP switches and routers using TCL, network testing tools IXIA, Wireshark. Akshatha holds a Master's degree in Software Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Her tech stack includes Selenium, Python, SDET, UI, Javascript, Web, Docker, Jenkins, Integration, Software Engineer, and Infra. Akshatha's relevant experience is 8.87 years.