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title: "Akshat Garg - Software Engineer in Test-2 in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Akshat Garg, Otto Money || Ex SDET-1 @ Razorpay || Ex Associate SDET@ Bajaj Finserv Health based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude, and codex. Explore public work links including github."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/akshat-garg-2/share-image"
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# Akshat Garg on Tal

## Headline

Otto Money \|\| Ex SDET\-1 @ Razorpay \|\| Ex Associate SDET@ Bajaj Finserv Health

## About

As a skilled SDET with 3\+ years of experience, I specialize in UI and API automation, performance testing, and microservices using Java, SQL, Python, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS\. AI innovation Integration for Daily work and efficiency in work \.Proficient in Postman, REST Assured, Selenium, and GIT, I excel in test planning, test case writing, and framework development\. With experience in AI projects, scrum methodologies, and CI/CD, I ensure high\-quality software delivery through strong logical handling and innovative testing strategies\. \#TechProfessional \#AutomationTesting \#Web\-MicroservicesDevelopment \#testplan \#ci/cd

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude

codex

cursor

github copilot

grok

## Work experience

Software Engineer in Test\-2 at Otto Money, Jan 2026 \- Present · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, As a Software Development Engineer in Test at OTTO Money, end\-to\-end testing strategy for a wealth management and advisory platform designed to help users plan, grow, and manage their financial future with clarity and discipline\. I handle complete E2E validation across the application ensuring seamless experiences across customer journeys including: • Portfolio tracking & wealth progress monitoring , AI Testing • investment flows • Advisory & goal\-based planning • Asset consolidation & maintenance • Financial exploration & decision\-making tools Key Responsibilities: Designing and implementing robust automation frameworks \(UI \+ API\) Validating complex wealth advisory workflows and financial calculations Ensuring system integration reliability across microservices Test planning, execution, and defect lifecycle management CI/CD integration for continuous quality delivery Performance & regression validation for high\-trust financial transactions Working in the fintech domain requires precision, reliability, and trust and I ensure the platform delivers secure, scalable, and high quality experiences that empower users to make better financial decisions for a stronger life ahead\.

SDET\-1 at Razorpay, Sep 2024 \- Jan 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Microservices, Frontend–Backend Automation, CI/CD, WebdriverIO \(ES6\), Product Testing, DB Automation, AI Tooling, AWS \(S3, CodeBuild, CodePipeline\) • Conducted Comprehensive API and UI automation for critical payment flows, improving coverage by 35% and reducing regression effort by 40%\. • Enabled automatic labeling of impacted microservices during transaction failures, reducing debugging time by 30% and improving cross\-team turnaround\. • Revamped the WebdriverIO framework from CommonJS to pure ES6, boosting framework maintainability and cutting execution time by 25%\. • Automated, tested, and validated 7–8 products with complex payment flows across a microservices architecture, while integrating AI\-powered debugging and traceability tools that improved defect detection speed by 20% across dev and production environments\. • Developed a secure and scalable Trino client to run analytical queries on large cloud\-backed datasets, accelerating data validation cycles by 2×\. • Implemented ZenDuty for incident workflows and Spinnaker\-based CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment reliability and reducing manual interventions\. • Designed automation workflows for a new different payment products using AWS S3 for real\-time file creation/storage and CodeBuild/CodePipeline for consistent \- reliability , high\-speed CI/CD across environments\. • Executed thorough API/UI testing across multiple payment methods—cards, transfers,,refunds, subscriptions, mandates, settlements—ensuring production\-grade reliability for end users\. • Worked and Enhanced Web\-Driver IO\(mocha,JS\) Framework and executed end\-to\-end scenarios for multi\-product payment interactions, ensuring high\-quality experience to end user in high\-volume payment systems\.

Associate Software QA Engineer at Bajaj Finserv Health, Jun 2023 \- Sep 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos, Microservices, SQL, UI\-API Automation, Locust\-Performance testing,Security Testing Report Automation \(DB\) • Successfully orchestrated End\-to\-End Automation of Manual Reports through Microservices Development, Integrating Azure DevOps, Firebase Analytics, and Elastic Search\. • Implemented and accelerated UI automation of the Salesforce web using Selenium and Java resulting in 50% less bug leakage\. • Setup and executed long\-haul testing using Locust Python which increased scalability of pods to 10x load\. • Increased API tests coverage to more than 95% using REST Assured framework and maintained the execution of the same on UAT and PROD environment \(30 API’s = 576 test cases\)\. • Developed a comprehensive bug and overlimit failure reporting within the Salesforce and others team at BAJAJ Finserv Health, leading to a remarkable reduction in bug cycle time and the prompt resolution of overlimit failures\.

Automation Engineer at Bajaj Finserv Health, Jul 2022 \- Jun 2023 · 1 yr, Java, SQL, API\-UI Automation, Salesforce Automation, Selenium, Postman, Azure • Independently handled UI & API automation for Salesforce web from scratch using Selenium and Java, significantly accelerating delivery time\. • Optimized API automation using REST Assured and POM frameworks based on performance analysis, ensuring bug\-free releases for new Salesforce features and user stories\.

Freelance at Freelancer\.com, May 2020 \- Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos, India, Hi\.\.\. Hope you are doing well\. I am Professional, Trustworthy and Reliable and offer Quality Service\. Let me know if you're interested & looking forward to any services\. Share your requirements ; I'll be happy to share further details with you\. Your prompt response will be highly appreciated\. Thanks & Regards WHY CHOOSE US: \* I offer you unlimited revisions for our work through constant communication until and unless you are 110% satisfied\. \* Reliable for long term relationship\. \* Fast turn around and delivery On Time\. \* Excellent communication skills to carry out every project successfully\.

Frontend Web Developer at Freelancer\.com, May 2020 \- May 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo, India, Akshatportfo\-lio\.netlify\.app

Advertisement Specialist at Freelancer\.com, Apr 2020 \- Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo, I am able to run your ads at Facebook\.com

Coder at Work From Home Jobs, Jan 2020 \- Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Delhi, India

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Science, Chitkara University

graduation, study, Mata Rukmani Rai Arya Senior Secondary School

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/Akshat\-026

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