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Benchamin Akkara is a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience in Agile methodologies, software project management, and testing. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Applications and has worked with various companies, including Australian Payments Plus, NAB, oOh!, Coates Group, Seven West Media, EMC, Virtusa, and NeoSoft technologies. Benchamin has expertise in languages such as Java, Test Automation, and Web Services, and has certifications in AppDynamics, TypeScript, JavaScript, and more.

Credentials

  • AppDynamics Verified Core APM
    Cisco
    Oct, 2022
    - Apr, 2026
  • TypeScript Essential Training
    LinkedIn
    Sep, 2022
    - Apr, 2026
  • JavaScript Essential Training
    LinkedIn
    Aug, 2022
    - Apr, 2026
  • GraphQL Essential Training
    LinkedIn
    Feb, 2022
    - Apr, 2026
  • Overcome Overthinking
    LinkedIn
    Dec, 2021
    - Apr, 2026
  • Creating Great First Impressions
    LinkedIn
    Oct, 2021
    - Apr, 2026
  • Learning React.js
    LinkedIn
    Oct, 2021
    - Apr, 2026
  • End-to-End JavaScript Testing with Cypress.io
    LinkedIn
    Jul, 2020
    - Apr, 2026
  • TypeScript Essential Training
    LinkedIn
    Jul, 2020
    - Apr, 2026
  • Learning Docker
    LinkedIn
    Jun, 2020
    - Apr, 2026
  • Mobile Testing with Appium
    LinkedIn
    Jun, 2020
    - Apr, 2026
  • AWS Essential Training for Architects
    LinkedIn
    May, 2020
    - Apr, 2026
  • Learning AWS CloudFormation
    LinkedIn
    May, 2020
    - Apr, 2026
  • Learning Bash Scripting
    LinkedIn
    May, 2020
    - Apr, 2026
  • Databases for Node.js Developers
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2020
    - Apr, 2026
  • HTTP Essential Training
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2020
    - Apr, 2026
  • Java Deep Dive
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2020
    - Apr, 2026
  • Learning TypeScript
    LinkedIn
    Feb, 2020
    - Apr, 2026
  • Multinational Communication in the Workplace
    LinkedIn
    Feb, 2020
    - Apr, 2026
  • Programming Foundations: Databases
    LinkedIn
    Feb, 2020
    - Apr, 2026
  • Node.js Essential Training
    LinkedIn
    Dec, 2019
    - Apr, 2026
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
    Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Nov, 2021
    - Apr, 2026

Experience

    • Lead automation test engineer
      • Nov 2022 - Present

  • NAB
    • New South Wales, Australia
    • Senior Analyst, Quality Engineer
      • Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
      • New South Wales, Australia

  • oOh!
    • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    • Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
      • Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
      • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

      Role Responsibilities: • Manual testing of new features and product support bug fixes. Participate is story reviews, attend planning meetings, estimate testing efforts, UAT testing. • Monitor CI/CD pipelines, deploy releases on different environments, analyse automated test execution failures, improving Cypress test automation framework, adding new tests in automation suites.• Ensure high quality deliverables starting from requirements until features are released to production.• Mentor dev on test automation and instil quality focus in software development

  • Coates Group
    • Sydney, Australia
    • Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
      • Apr 2019 - Jun 2020
      • Sydney, Australia

      • Major responsibility was developing automation framework, automating tests using Cypress. Automation includes both UI and api.• Testing product features and releases. Participate is story reviews, estimate QA testing efforts of sprint stories.

  • Seven West Media
    • Sydney, Australia
    • Developer in Test
      • Aug 2017 - Apr 2019
      • Sydney, Australia

      Testing leading media apps which cater live and VOD content through various platforms(mobile, web, ttv and the list goes on).Responsibilities include manual and automated testing of microservices and UI application which consume various services to deliver content to end user seamlessly.Skills required to performs responsibilites include- Strong knowledge of agile process and software development.- Interaction with various teams.- Javascript, typescript, node, webdriverio, UI automation, mocha, docker, aws services like s3 bucket, kinesis stream, EC2

    • Principal Engineer Software Quality Assurance
      • Sep 2014 - May 2017

      Developing new and enhancing existing automation frameworks. Automating UI test cases using Java, Selenium, Jbehave. Automating REST services tests using BDD tests (JBehave), Java, RestAssured and various third party java libraries.Review functional requirements, test cases, automation scripts. Mentoring team members.

    • Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer
      • Apr 2008 - Sep 2014

      Handling manual and automated testing activities of of Documentum D2, WebTop products. Automation responsibilities include evaluation of test frameworks, improving test frameworks, adding new modules to test framework, automating test cases, execution of test suites, analyse failures and maintaining test suites, mentoring team members..Manual testing responsibilities involves writing test plans/test strategy documents, writing test based on requirements, execution of tests, reviewing tests written by peers, attending bug review board meetings, generating test metrics for report generation.

    • Senior Software Engineer
      • 2004 - 2008

      This role included following responsibilitiesRequirement analysis, Writing and executing test cases, Automation of test cases, system test environment preparation.

  • NeoSoft technologies
    • Bangalore, India
    • Software Engineer
      • Jun 2003 - Aug 2004
      • Bangalore, India

      Roles & Responsibilities: • Development of transactions, master and reports pages. Technologies used are java servlets, java beans, jsp, java script, EJB, xml.• Delivering enhancements and modifications

Education

  • 1998 - 2001
    Coimbatore Institute of Management and Technology - Coimbatore, India
    Master’s Degree, Computer Science
  • 1993 - 1998
    St. Thomas College - Thrissur, India
    Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry
  • 1988 - 1993
    St. Antoney's Ammadam - Thrissur, India
    High School

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