Akash Yevale

Automation Test Engineer with 4+ years of experience in designing and developing scalable automation frameworks using Playwright, Selenium, TestNG, JavaScript, Java, and Python. Strong expertise in UI, API, and database testing, CI/CD pipelines, AWS services, and financial data validation. Experienced in building automation solutions that improve product quality and accelerate release cycles in Agile environments.

Technical Associate at Sears IT & Management India Pvt. Ltd. (2024-10 – 2025-01)

• Developed a Playwright-based automation framework from scratch aligned with real-time financial data flows.
• Automated 100+ financial validations across multiple dashboards, improving data verification accuracy.
• Designed reusable page components, fixtures, and utilities to improve framework maintainability and scalability.
• Leveraged Playwright workers and sharding strategies to distribute large regression suites across multiple GitLab Runner jobs, enabling faster feedback and scalable test execution.
• Used ClickHouse for backend data validation, executing complex SQL queries to verify revenue, expenses, orders, and analytics dashboard data.
• Worked in an Agile setup, collaborating with developers to improve frontend reliability and data accuracy.
• Executed automation 50+ tests on AWS EC2 instances integrated with Jenkins for CI execution.
• Implemented validations for revenue, expenses, open/cancel orders, and analytics dashboards.
• Scheduled test runs using Jenkins and collaborated on issue tracking via JIRA.
• Stored automation reports, logs, and screenshots in AWS S3 for centralized access and historical tracking.
• Implemented screenshot, video, and trace capture for failed test executions, significantly reducing debugging effort.
• Developed reusable Playwright Fixtures and Browser Context strategies to support isolated, maintainable, and scalable test execution.
• Utilized Playwright Trace Viewer, Video Recording, and Screenshot Capture for efficient debugging and failure analysis.

Associate Engineer at Sears IT & Management India Pvt. Ltd. (2021-06 – 2024-10)

• Developed and maintained 100+ automation scripts using POM and Hybrid frameworks reducing manual regression efforts by 70%
• Conducted regression, smoke, and sanity testing for major releases and features.
• Development Automated flows for cart operations, guest/user sessions, and multiple payment methods and optimizing the flow.
• Performed API testing using postman and provided detailed feedback to the dev team.
• Troubleshot & resolved test scripts, scheduled & managed automation test build using Jenkins to ensure continuous testing & integration and tracked defects in JIRA.
• Performed cross-browser testing using Selenium WebDriver to ensure application compatibility across multiple browsers and environments.
• Participated in Agile/Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Supported production validation and post-release verification activities to ensure smooth deployment of new features.
• Analysed automation execution reports, identified root causes of failures, and improved script stability by reducing flaky tests.

MCA – Bharati Vidyapeeth (2021)

BCA – Bharati Vidyapeeth (2019)