Akhilesh Gundad

I’m a Python GUI Test Automation Engineer focused on building reliable Selenium WebDriver frameworks and improving GUI automation quality with maintainable test architecture. At Robert Bosch, I’ve been ownership-driven—building a complete Selenium WebDriver 4.x / Python 3.x automation framework using the POM design pattern to achieve 90% GUI automation coverage across ETAS web apps.

My work centers on reducing flakiness and speeding up delivery: I automate forms, modals, dropdowns, buttons, alerts, and data tables using XPath/CSS selectors and explicit waits, supported by reusable components and a Base Page approach. I use Pytest fixtures, @pytest.mark.parametrize, and conftest.py for scalable, data-driven test suites, and I validate end-to-end behavior with Python requests alongside Selenium assertions.

Beyond execution, I optimize the pipeline—running cross-browser suites (Chrome, Firefox, Edge) using WebDriverManager and Selenium Grid, and driving faster feedback through Jenkins nightly regression, pytest-html, and XML failure reports for rapid root-cause analysis. I’m also growing into CI/CD and REST API testing with GitHub Actions, Allure reports, and SonarQube API, while learning UI/UX fundamentals (Figma, Nielsen’s heuristics, WCAG accessibility) to improve the quality of what we test.