About

Akshay Kumar is a result-oriented professional with over 7 years of extensive experience in manual, automation, and performance testing of mobile, web, and desktop applications. He has worked with Siemens R&D, Accenture Digital (Mobility R&D), and currently works as an Associate - Projects at Cognizant. Akshay has 4+ years of experience in web and mobile automation testing using Selenium and Appium. He has handled more than 50 POCs, including 5 client projects, and analyzed around 100 apps (Android & IOS) across all domains for performance bottlenecks and provided recommendations for improving performance. He has expertise in BDD Cucumber and TDD Page Object Model automation frameworks, functional testing, regression testing, and UAT testing. Akshay has experience in team handling and as an individual contributor role. He has expertise in SeeTest, Perfecto, Appium Studio, TOSCA, and Ranorex Tools, as well as network sniffing tools like Charles Proxy and Fiddler. He has knowledge of API testing, load testing, and Postman, and good experience in SDLC/STLC, Agile, and Waterfall methodologies. Akshay is a team player with excellent communication skills and good analytical and problem-solving skills. He has worked as a Senior Software Engineer in Test R&D at Siemens and as a Software Engineering Analyst at Accenture. At Siemens, he was involved in test plan and test advocacy for mobile apps, setting up test environment and test design, and automated test flows using Appium and Katalon mobile automation tools. At Accenture, he interacted with clients and stakeholders to obtain the Business Requirements Specification, analyzed CPU utilization, memory usage, garbage collection, and DB connections to verify the performance of the applications, and analyzed the network traffic between the server and client, providing recommendations to minimize data usage and time spent on processing the request, using Charles and Fiddler proxy debugging tools. Akshay holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University and has completed his PUC from Seshadripuram First Grade College. He completed his High School education from Bangalore Higher Secondary School, Bangalore. His tech stack includes test, mobile, web, Android, iOS, Selenium, SDET, software engineer, product manager, and infra. Overall, Akshay has 7.69 years of relevant experience in the