Akhil Sharma

About Akhil Sharma

Seasoned Software Test Architect with over 14 years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in manual and functional testing, team leadership, and quality assurance delivery across complex enterprise platforms. Currently leading a team of 10 QA professionals and managing the testing of Policy Administration Systems in the Property & Casualty Insurance, Marine Insurance, and Reinsurance (Inward/Outward) domains. Skilled in driving successful product releases for high-profile clients by streamlining QA processes, enforcing best practices, and aligning cross-functional teams toward common goals. I’m actively involved in Agile ceremonies, defect triage, and regression testing, ensuring robust and scalable testing strategies.Tools & Skills: Test Planning • Regression Testing • Defect Management • Agile & Scrum • RCA • QA Strategy • Insurance Domain (P&C) • Azure DevOps • Postman • Test Complete • API Testing

Experience

1. Test Architect

   Coforge

   Apr 2023 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Successfully delivered multiple complex product releases for a major client in the global insurance sector, achieving high client satisfaction.2. Conducting regular Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for critical bugs and ensuring corrective actions are taken during retrospectives to reduce defect recurrence.3. Tracking and reporting key metrics such as Planned vs Actual Efforts, Defect Trends (Severity-wise), and delivery KPIs to senior stakeholders and project management.4. Managing end-to-end defect lifecycle, ensuring thorough and prompt reporting, tracking, triaging, and resolution with development and business teams.5. Collaborating with cross-functional teams including Development, Business Analysts, and 3rd-party vendors to align on testing strategies and release priorities.6. Facilitating collaborative defect triage meetings with the business team to prioritize and streamline defect resolution efficiently.7. Active participant in Agile ceremonies (Daily Standups, Retrospectives, Sprint Planning), providing risk-based inputs to manage sprint scope and improve delivery velocity.8. Implementing and enforcing standardized QA processes, ensuring compliance and consistency across the QA lifecycle for all releases.9. Driving regular regression testing cycles to maintain product stability and identify potential risks to existing functionalities.10. Supporting automation teams by identifying high-priority smoke test areas and integrating them into daily execution pipelines for continuous feedback.11. Creating and maintaining real-time dashboards using Azure DevOps, enabling transparent tracking of QA metrics for internal and client-facing updates.12. Delivering client demos post every release cycle, showcasing new features and improvements to internal/external stakeholders.13. Supporting API testing using Postman, assist the automation team in identifying regression candidates for Test Complete, and ensure key workflows are validated in daily smoke tests.

Education

• University of Jammu

  Graduation, Electronics

  2005 — 2008

• SRI RANBIR HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL

  12th

  2003 — 2005

• University of Jammu

  Bachelor of Science, Physics

Skills

• Analysis
• Financial Risk
• Reinsurance
• Commercial Insurance
• Process Improvement
• Insurance
• Underwriting
• General Insurance
• Business Analysis
• Software Quality Assurance
• Brokers
• Casualty Insurance
• Risk Management
• Team Management
• Software Engineering
• Hp Qtp
• Property