Akshay Kumar G.
Senior QA AI Automation Engineer | Playwright, API & JMeter Testing
QA Engineer | 10+ Years | AI-Enhanced Automation, API & Performance Testing 1. QA Engineer with 10+ years of experience specializing in AI-enhanced automation, API testing, and performance testing 2. Delivered high-quality results across web, mobile, and gaming platforms within diverse SDLC and Agile environments 3. Architect scalable automation frameworks using modern tools and AI to accelerate the entire testing lifecycle 4. Hands-on experience building efficient frameworks with Playwright and Cursor.ai, designing Page Object Model (POM) architectures 5. Use AI-assisted workflows to generate, maintain, and optimize automated test suites — enabling smarter, faster, scalable QA 6. Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions for continuous testing 7. Strong track record of catching critical issues early, improving QA workflows, and collaborating across cross-functional teams 8. Passionate about combining proven QA discipline with cutting-edge AI capabilities Core Skills: Quality Assurance - Manual, Functional & Regression Testing - Test Planning, Strategy & Risk-Based Testing - Test Documentation (Test Plans, Test Cases, Bug Reports) - Test Management: Jira, Xray, Zephyr Automation & AI - Automation Tools: Playwright, Selenium, WebdriverIO, Appium, Cypress, Protractor, Puppeteer, Jest - AI-Driven Automation: Framework creation with Cursor.ai, AI-assisted test generation & maintenance, LLM-powered test workflows - Frameworks & Patterns: Page Object Model (POM), Cucumber (BDD), TestNG, Mocha, Jasmine - Cross-Platform Cloud Testing: Browserstack, LambdaTest CI/CD & DevOps - Continuous Integration & Testing: Jenkins, GitHub Actions - Version Control: Git, GitHub Performance & API Testing - Performance Testing: JMeter (load, stress & regression suites) - API Testing & Automation: Postman, REST API validation, auth/token-exchange (OAuth/Auth0) Programming Languages: - JavaScript / TypeScript - Java - Groovy Platforms Tested - Windows/macOS/linux - Android/iOS
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $99
Billed in all: $447,090$447k
$99 in the last 6 months
Across 46 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 28% in Test Strategy
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