About

Akshay Kumar Hegde is a highly skilled Software Test Engineer with 3.5 years of experience in manual, API, and automation testing of web and mobile applications. He is seeking a challenging and responsible position in a competitive IT field where his knowledge, ability, and personal skills will be effectively utilized. Akshay has extensive experience working on Healthcare, Retail, and Marketing domains using Agile methodology. He is skilled in understanding Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and identifying all possible scenarios. He has good knowledge of SDLC and STLC and hands-on experience in GUI functional testing using Blackbox Testing techniques. He is also experienced in requirements analysis, test case preparation, test data preparation, test execution, raising defects, and defect follow-ups till completion of processes. Akshay has hands-on experience in API testing using Postman tool and good knowledge of http methods, Client-Server architecture, http Request, and http Response. He has basic knowledge of JSON and XML and a basic understanding of Serialization and Deserialization. He is experienced in performing CRUD operations for various APIs and documenting and executing API test cases. Akshay has performed Database Testing manually on different databases for validating data in the backend. He has good knowledge of DDL, DML, TCL, Oops concepts in Java, Object Class & String Class, Arrays, Generics, and Collections. He is experienced in writing Automation Test Scripts using Selenium Web Driver and handling WebElements and Finding X-Path of dynamic objects. He can automate in different browsers like Edge, Safari, Mozilla, and Chrome. Akshay has developed API test scripts using Rest Assured Tool for testing REST APIs and executed SQL queries in Eclipse using JDBC connector tool for retrieving data for testing. He has good exposure to generating and configuring Extent Report through properties file and continuous integration (CI) with Jenkins. He has a good understanding of end-to-end flow of application release that includes handling of GitHub repository. Currently, Akshay works as a Software Test Engineer at Excotron Solution Private Limited, where he has experience in manual and automation testing of web-based applications, worked on ERP and CRM applications. He has also worked as an Associate Software Engineer at the same company, where he has experience in manual and API testing of web-based and mobile applications, worked on Healthcare domains. Akshay holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Civil Engineering from N M A M Institute of Technology, Nitte. He is proficient in test, S