Akhil Vijay

Tata Consultancy Services is a global leader in IT services, consulting & business solutions with a large network of innovation & delivery centers.

• Collaborated with teams to define, strategize and implement Test strategies.
• Adapted quickly to changing project priorities and job specifications with analytical thinking and task prioritization skills.
• Scheduled meetings for all relevant stakeholders whether in-person or via Teams
• Aligned closely with business owners and employees to gather information and gain operational insight.
• Monitored emerging test automation frameworks, technologies and best practices for useful developments.
• Researched and selected automation tools, prioritizing cost-effective solutions to shorten diagnostic workflows.
• Identified appropriate situations for implementing test automation, accounting for situations where automated testing was counterproductive.
• Discussed requirements and processes with project managers and developers.
• Designed standardized processes and protocols to continuously improve operational efficiency through positive iteration.
• Supported DevOps integration to align software development and information technology efforts.
• Encouraged collaboration and growth of individual QA team members to take ownership of features
• Provide leadership, performance feedback, mentoring, and career development planning to team members.

Doing business as EY, a leading multinational headquartered in the United Kingdom and offers assurance, audit, tax, financial, and business advisory services to automotive, financial, government, entertainment, mining, real estate, technology, and telecommunication industries

• Established, implemented, and improved QA test procedures, process, and quality standards in accordance with overall development and product releases
• Mitigated QA risks including escalation to senior management and collaborated with cross- functional teams to ensure testing quality
• Supervised and led 5 QA engineers to ensure quality releases under aggressive schedules
• Created and Maintained TDD-based Automation framework and scripts using Protractor – Typescript.
• Preformed Data Analytics using PowerBI.
• Maintained open communication with project leaders and upper management to ensure that QA was informed of priorities, deadlines, project status, and release plans.
• Identified dependencies between applications to eliminate/reduce risks and potential conflicts during releases.
• Worked closely with change management to ensure only approved changes are assigned to a release.
• Communicated with functional and technical stakeholders, to schedule system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and provide input on planned production deployment dates.
• Participated in test automation code review meetings and provided input on colleagues' coding efforts.
• Authored automated testing reports and presented findings to manager for review.
• Planned and prioritized test efforts and resolution of defects based on the trade-off between severity of the defect, impact to committed release and delivery dates, and customer needs and expectations.

A leading multinational headquartered in the United Kingdom and specializing in tools related to the Human Resources services.

• Working with Agile environment and ceremonies in SCRUM projects Creating Automation scripts using Robot Framework and Java Selenium Designing & Reviewing test plans, cases scenarios and scripts.
• Feature files creation using cucumber and adding step definitions Designing, creating and maintaining framework structure using Robot including parallel execution and automation of regression cases using Jenkins.
• Representing the Test Engineering group internally and externally ensuring smooth flow of project-based test cases.
• Reviewing and analyzing business requirements, functional specifications and design documents to ensure test-ability and reporting of discrepancies.
• Actively involving in UAT and production testing aspects.
• Participating in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems.
• Develop testing programs that address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests, or usability
• Ensure end to end testing of all web applications.

Finastra is the third largest Fintech company in the world and headquartered in the United Kingdom and offering innovative technological solutions to Financial Institutions

• Creating and moderating API tests & Testing the RESTful APIs interfaces using SOAPUI and
• WebTest(VS 2017) Automating Web Applications using C# Selenium
• Test driving BDD frameworks using SpecFlow/Cucumber Estimating Time, Identification of scenario, test creation and execution Provide estimates (time, staff) to support Quality Services and projects
• Test Management using Agile Central (Rally), VSTS and TFS Participating in the review and analysis of business requirements and functional specification Designing documents to ensure testability, reporting of gaps and discrepancies
• Preparation and execution of documentation related Quality Assurance and Quality control Representing the overall Test-Engineering Group both internally and externally
• Ensuring end-to-end testing of all web applications for validation and integration of data

• Preparing and executing Test scripts in manual and automated formats.
• Testing of infotainment system of VOLVO IHU (Automotive Domain)
• Reporting of defects and Defect Management using MANTIS
• Performing tests such as GUI testing, Acceptance, Regression testing
• Performing testing of graphics, alignment of objects and component display perfection and scaling of objects(Pixel Perfection).