Akash Kawale

QA Automation Engineer with 3.9 years of experience in manual and automation testing of web-based applications, primarily in the banking domain. Currently working at Digitate, where I design and implement test automation solutions using Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber, Postman, and REST Assured. Experienced in CI/CD integration (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and agile collaboration to ensure efficient, high-quality releases.

Built and maintained automation frameworks covering 500+ end-to-end UI and API tests, reducing manual effort by 30% and improving regression efficiency.

• Developed and Executed UI and API test cases across multiple banking and enterprise projects, minimizing manual intervention by 50%.
• Linked 200+ suites to Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines, enabling daily and PR-based checks and reducing release issues.
• Worked closely developers, business analysts, and product owners in 10+ Agile sprints, completing QA tasks on schedule for 12+ releases.
• Performed functional, regression, and UAT testing on 500+ cases, catching 95% of defects pre-release and lowering production issues by 20%.
• Verified API integrations by analysing response data and contracts, improving overall system reliability.

Shri Bapurao Deshmukh College of Engineering, Wardha (Jul 2018 - Jun 2021)

Bachelor’s in mechanical CGPA: 8.44