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Akshay Shende

@akshayshende

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QA Automation Engineer specializing in Cypress, Playwright, and API test automation.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek a collaborative engineering team role where I can drive test automation, improve QA processes, and contribute to CI/CD-driven delivery while mentoring junior testers.

I am a results-driven QA Automation Engineer with five years of hands-on experience designing and implementing automated test solutions across web and API layers.

I build and maintain automation frameworks using Playwright and Cypress with JavaScript, and I have integrated these frameworks with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Docker, Bitbucket and GitHub to streamline deployments and test runs.

I have led small QA teams, managed STLC for marketing and enterprise platforms, and reduced manual testing effort by 60% while cutting regression execution time by hours each week.

I collaborate closely with product managers and developers, improve defect detection through root-cause analysis, and focus on increasing test coverage and reliability across cross-browser, mobile and API testing.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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QA Automation Engineer

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Tech9

Sep 2022 - Present (3 years 9 months)

Led QA for a marketing platform used by 100 firms, spearheading STLC and a 2-member QA team while implementing automation that reduced manual testing by 60% and cut defect leakage by 30%.

Playwright Cypress JavaScript API Testing Postman)Cross Browser Testing Jira GitHub Postman

Test Engineer

Neova Solutions

Jan 2020 - Sep 2022 (2 years 8 months)

Implemented automated test practices for web applications using Cypress and Mocha, integrated CI/CD with Bitbucket, Jenkins and Docker, and reduced defect leakage by 15%.

Cypress Mocha JavaScript Bitbucket Jenkins Docker TestRail Jira