About

Snehal Akhouri is a Lead SDE at Disney+ Hotstar with over 8 years of relevant experience in software engineering, testing, and automation. She is currently focused on problem-solving through the development of tools, automation framework, and performance testing using Gatling and Locust. Prior to joining Hotstar, Snehal worked as a Software Development Engineer Test 2 at Ola and as a QA Engineer at SuccessFactors/SAP for over a year. Snehal is experienced in developing tools using various programming languages such as Java, Python, HTML, Struts, Ajax, Javascript, Django, Flask, Jetty, Thrift, and DropWizard. She has developed many utilities for QA support, virtual driver, and support portal using Jetty, Struts, and JSP. She is also experienced in developing and maintaining test scripts using Jersey, Rest-assured, Java, TestNG, Python, and Hamcrest. Snehal is well-versed in developing automation frameworks such as BDD and Data-driven framework using tools like Testng, Java, Cucumber, Rest-assured, Jersey, Mysql, Psql, Mongo, Python, Behave, hamcrest, and Boto depending on the use-case. She has also been involved in developing and maintaining performance scripts in Gatling using Scala and Locust using Python. Snehal is an expert in hosting and running automation jobs in build tools Jenkins and GoCd pipeline. She has good knowledge of performance, building tools, load, stress, and memory analysis. She is also familiar with Agile methodology and Scrum and Sprints (Version One Tool). Snehal holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information Technology from Trident Academy of Technology. She specializes in test/automation, API testing, API automation, Java, Python, BDD, Cucumber, Behave, GoCd pipeline, Jenkins, Selenium, UI automation, Appium, and more. She has worked as a Senior Software Development Engineer Test 2 and Senior Software Development Engineer Test 1 at Hotstar before her current role as a Staff Software Development Engineer. Snehal is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a passion for developing tools and automation frameworks that improve the testing and execution process. She has a proven track record of delivering high-quality results under stringent timelines and meeting predefined project goals.