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Hi, I'm Akshaya. I bring over a decade of hands-on experience in software quality assurance, specializing in test planning, manual and automated testing, and leading QA efforts across financial services and e-commerce platforms. I excel at building robust QA processes, collaborating with product and development teams, and mentoring teammates to deliver high-quality software on time. I'm passionate about UI/UX testing, AI/NLP initiatives, and driving continuous improvements through testing best practices.…Hi, I'm Akshaya. I bring over a decade of hands-on experience in software quality assurance, specializing in test planning, manual and automated testing, and leading QA efforts across financial services and e-commerce platforms. I excel at building robust QA processes, collaborating with product and development teams, and mentoring teammates to deliver high-quality software on time. I'm passionate about UI/UX testing, AI/NLP initiatives, and driving continuous improvements through testing best practices.

Akshaya Karunakaran Bagyalakshmi

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Hi, I'm Akshaya. I bring over a decade of hands-on experience in software quality assurance, specializing in test planning, manual and automated testing, and leading QA efforts across financial services and e-commerce platforms. I excel at building robust QA processes, collaborating with product and development teams, and mentoring teammates to deliver high-quality software on time. I'm passionate about UI/UX testing, AI/NLP initiatives, and driving continuous improvements through testing best practices.…Hi, I'm Akshaya. I bring over a decade of hands-on experience in software quality assurance, specializing in test planning, manual and automated testing, and leading QA efforts across financial services and e-commerce platforms. I excel at building robust QA processes, collaborating with product and development teams, and mentoring teammates to deliver high-quality software on time. I'm passionate about UI/UX testing, AI/NLP initiatives, and driving continuous improvements through testing best practices.

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Hi, I’m Akshaya. I bring over a decade of hands-on experience in software quality assurance, specializing in test planning, manual and automated testing, and leading QA efforts across financial services and e-commerce platforms.

I excel at building robust QA processes, collaborating with product and development teams, and mentoring teammates to deliver high-quality software on time. I’m passionate about UI/UX testing, AI/NLP initiatives, and driving continuous improvements through testing best practices.

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Work Experience

Senior QA Engineer at Intercontinental Exchange / NYSE

September 1, 2025 - February 1, 2026

Front-end UI QA for ICE Bonds front-end UI, including ATS like TMC, Bondpoint, Creditex; tested RFQ, risk modules, inventory management, trade blotters, MDX, and pre-trade visualization; performed end-to-end, integration, functional, regression testing; collaborated with product owners and developers to validate business rules and data flows.

Senior QA Analyst at Rent.com (A Redfin Company)

December 1, 2018 - April 1, 2025

Led testing for Rent.com, ApartmentGuide.com and Rentals.com; developed test plans and test cases from product requirements; configured test environments; managed 900+ releases; led migration to unified AG platform and coordinated across pods; performed extensive UI/UX testing and AI-driven validation.

Senior Manual QA at Landis+Gyr

January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2015

Led QA for IoT smart meter platform; managed a team of testers; performed database validations using SQL, backend testing, security testing; worked in Agile/SCRUM; demonstrated strong knowledge of IoT and energy domain.

Senior Manual QA at Commonwealth Department Of Massachusetts (Shakti solutions) - Unemployment Insurance division

January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2014

SIDES web UI testing; backend validation with Oracle; regression testing; authored complex SQL queries for data validation; defect reviews and data analysis; supported payments workflow.

Manual QA Tester at Atos Syntel

January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2009

Manual QA testing for Pioneer Asset Management Inc; ETL testing with TIBCO; Latent Zero OMS; end-to-end trade validation for fixed income and OTC products; utilized Minerva, Tesseract and related Latent Zero tools.

Manual QA Tester at GE Asset Management

January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2010

Manual QA testing for asset management UI; backend database testing; validated OTC products, pricing feeds, and Golden Source data; regression and data validation across multiple workflows.