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title: "Akash Aggarwal - QA Leader l Staff Engineer - QA in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Akash Aggarwal, AI Transformation QA Leader|Automation Expert & Innovator| Rakuten| Paytm| Tokopedia | Ecommerce | Fintech | AdTech | Payments | India | Japan | Indonesia Selenium | Appium | Playwright | CI/CD | BDD | AI Agents | Cursor based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude, codex, and..."
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# Akash Aggarwal on Tal

## Headline

AI Transformation QA Leader\|Automation Expert & Innovator\| Rakuten\| Paytm\| Tokopedia \| Ecommerce \| Fintech \| AdTech \| Payments \| India \| Japan \| Indonesia Selenium \| Appium \| Playwright \| CI/CD \| BDD \| AI Agents \| Cursor

## About

I am a QA & Automation Leader / Staff QE Engineer with 14\+ years of experience building automation\-first quality engineering organizations and delivering high\-reliability software at global scale\. My career has been shaped around one core mission: Transform QA into an engineering discipline powered by automation, AI, and innovation\. I specialize in architecting end\-to\-end automation frameworks, building AI\-driven test intelligence, and leading high\-performing SDET and QE teams that support platforms serving 90M\+ monthly users across e\-commerce, fintech, payments, and ad\-tech\. 🚀 What I’m Known For Architecting distributed, self\-healing automation frameworks across Web, Mobile, API & Microservices Driving 50% faster automation execution and 70%\+ reduction in manual regression Delivering 0 production defects and preventing multi\-million\-dollar revenue leakage Leading and scaling global QA/SDET teams from 10 to 120\+ engineers Using AI for test generation, intelligent selection, auto\-refactoring & flaky\-test reduction Designing test data platforms, observability\-driven QA, and high\-confidence release pipelines 🧠 Core Strengths Automation Architecture • SDET Leadership • Quality Strategy • AI in Testing • Microservices QA • CI/CD • Observability • Distributed Testing • Engineering Productivity • QA Org Scaling 🏆 Highlights & Impact 15–25% revenue uplift through quality\-driven tracking accuracy \(Rakuten\) 35% flaky\-test reduction using AI\-based self\-healing Built automation systems supporting 400M\+ monthly transactions \(Paytm\) Published 3 Defensive Publications \(IP\) in automation & optimization Awarded Top 1% Engineer for test engineering innovation \(Tokopedia\) I thrive in organizations that value automation, engineering excellence, and innovation, and I enjoy mentoring teams to become strong automation\-first SDETs capable of delivering faster, safer, high\-quality releases\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

codex

cursor

deepseek

gemini

openai

## Work experience

QA Leader l Staff Engineer \- QA at Rakuten, May 2023 \- Present · 3 y 3 mo, Bengaluru

Senior QA Manager at Paytm Payments Bank, Dec 2022 \- Apr 2023 · 5 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Technical Architect at Tokopedia, Oct 2019 \- Dec 2022 · 3 y 2 mo, India

Technical Architect at Tokopedia, Oct 2019 \- Dec 2022 · 3 y 2 mo, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, 3 Innovations I did along with BAU https://priorart\.ip\.com/IPCOM/000270556 https://priorart\.ip\.com/IPCOM/000267877 https://priorart\.ip\.com/IPCOM/000268270

QA Lead at Paytm, Jun 2016 \- Oct 2019 · 3 y 4 mo, Noida

Senior QA Engineer at Snapdeal, Apr 2015 \- May 2016 · 1 y 1 mo, Gurugram

Test Engineer at Steria India Ltd, Sep 2014 \- Apr 2015 · 7 mo, Noida

QA engineer at LeewayHertz, Jan 2012 \- Sep 2014 · 2 y 8 mo, Gurugram

## Education

Master of Computer Applications, Computer Science, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University \(GGSIPU\), Delhi

BCA, Computer Science, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

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