Hi, I'm Akash Aggarwal
Test Architect and QA Leader
Quality Engineering Leader
About Me
Test Architect and QA Leader with 14+ years of experience architecting enterprise-grade automation systems for Mobile Applications, Web Applications, and APIs across Fintech, Payments, Gaming, eCommerce, Banking, Travel, and Insurance domains.
Expert at building end-to-end test automation platforms, leading QA organizations, and driving quality strategy for high-traffic global platforms. Proven track record of delivering 0 production defects, reducing execution time by 50%, and leading teams of 120+ engineers across global organizations.
Proven Track Record:
Education
Certifications
Professional Experience
14+ years of driving quality transformation across global product companies
Rakuten
Staff Engineer QA
QA and Automation Leader for Japan Affiliate vertical at Rakuten.
Key Achievements
- Started QA / Test Engineering from scratch in Japan Affiliate
- Consistently released all projects and maintained 0 production Blocker / Critical / Major issues
- Created and mentored team of 8 members
- Built automation solutions from scratch for Web and API
- Designed and developed automation solutions that runs thousands of UI automation cases in span of couple of hours
- Selenium Webdriver, Rest Assured, TestNg, Extent report solution running under dockerised selenium grid
- CI/CD to run send daily reports as well as summary reports to team and leaders
- Enabled members to work independently to add most value in system
Paytm Payments Bank
Senior QA Manager - UPI and Payments
Ownership of QA for UPI and Payments. Worked to improve 3Ps: Product, Process, People.
Feature Launches
- Launched UPI Lite
- Launched UPI 123 Pay
- Launched UPI Auto pay
Key Contributions
- Managed 50+ QA/SDET engineers across mobile, backend, and payments systems
- Introduced automated validation pipelines for UPI flows to improve release reliability
- Implemented early detection systems reducing critical incidents
Tokopedia
Tech Architect - Test Engineering - Engineering Productivity
Tokopedia is Indonesia's biggest marketplace and Digital Platform with 90M+ monthly active users and 9M+ Merchants.
Framework Development
- Developed web automation framework using Selenium, TestNG, ReportNG
- Developed API automation framework using Rest Assured, TestNG, ReportNG
- Developed automation framework for Android app automation using Appium
- Developed test automation framework for automation testing of Rest APIs, gRPC and GQL calls
Automation Impact
- Improved existing Katalon Android App Automation execution time by 50%
- Built distributed, parallel execution system → 50% faster automation runs
- Integration of test automation framework with Kibana
- Continuous integration using CI/CD
Leadership & Innovation
- Leading Tech improvements across Tokopedia
- Mentoring team of 120+ test engineers on tech skills
- Among Tokopedia's top 1% software engineer and part of Tokopedia Tech bench for future leaders
- Identifying improvement areas in SDLC and creating POCs for improvement
- Knowledge transfer and getting POC implemented across teams and verticals
- Identifying complex problems and creating solutions to them
Paytm / Paytm Mall
QA Lead (Paytm, Paytm Mall)
Paytm is India's #1 Payment solution. Paytm Mall is one of the top 5 players of India Ecommerce Industry. Handling two platform components that clock over 400 million transactions a month.
Organization Building
- Started as 1st member in Mobile Apps QA team and extended it to 20 members
- Handling entire iOS, Android, Windows apps for Marketplace, O2O, Travel business
- Handling team of 20 members - Responsible for Manual as well Automation testing
Automation & Testing
- Manual and Automation API Testing by using TestNG framework
- Automation Testing of Paytm Mall iOS, Android apps
- Automated entire jenkin jobs to see and keep track of entire Paytm's activity
- Handling API Automation of Complete CART module individually
Feature Ownership
- Independently handled QA of Hotels, Flights, Digital Gold, Movies, Insurance, Loans etc O2O/Financial features of Paytm for Apps
- Closely work with Product Team and QA team(s) for continuous improvements to offer superior UX
- Requirement gathering and improving requirements with the Product Team
Snapdeal
QA II, Mobile Automation
Mobile automation specialist for one of India's leading e-commerce platforms.
Key Contributions
- Built Appium automation for Android & iOS from scratch
- Delivered apps with 99.8% crash-free rate, validated via automated pipelines
Sopra Steria
Software Engineer QA
QA automation for IoT products.
Key Contributions
- Built SeeTest automation for British Gas Hive IoT smart-home products
LeewayHertz
Software Engineer QA
Started professional career in QA and automation.
Key Contributions
- Delivered QA and automation for enterprise & consumer mobile applications
Technical Skills
Languages
Automation Tools
Frameworks
API & Microservices
DevOps
Observability
Performance and Load Test Tools
AI Tools
Core Competencies
3Ps Leadership
Automation Architecture
Quality Engineering
Technology Expertise
DevOps & Cloud
AI & Innovation
Key Achievements
AI Engineering Impact
Leveraging AI to transform test engineering
System & Automation Architecture Expertise
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