Meghana Mekala
7-Eleven
Dallas
8
years of professional experience
QA automation engineer with experience testing retail mobile apps, healthcare web applications, and banking risk systems. Builds and maintains automated tests with Java, Appium, Selenium, TestNG, and Cucumber. Combines UI, API, and database validation with network analysis and defect investigation to support release testing in Agile teams.
Work History
Software Tester
3 Years 6 Months- Maintained Appium tests in Java and TestNG for iOS and Android customer journeys, leveraging reusable page objects to streamline updates to screens and test flows.
- Run mobile regression and end-to-end suites on BrowserStack, review failed executions, and verify fixes across devices and operating systems.
- Validate authentication, rewards, promotional overlays, deeplinks, and feature-controlled content against user stories and configured conditions.
- Cover native screens and embedded webviews with platform-specific locators and context switching for login and navigation tests.
- Inspect mobile requests and responses in Charles Proxy to isolate issues and attach reproducible network evidence to defects.
- Maintain functional, smoke, regression, and exploratory coverage in Zephyr Scale; log defects in Jira and retest resolved issues.
- Monitored application events and user-action analytics with New Relic and Mixpanel to analyze behavior beyond visible UI.
- Apply Java object-oriented concepts, exception handling, and data structures when maintaining automation scripts.
- Utilized Git for managing automation updates, collaborating with developers and QA colleagues on requirements, issue investigation, and sprint testing.
QA Test Engineer
4 Months- Built Selenium WebDriver automation with Java, TestNG, Page Object Model, and data-driven tests; implemented BDD scenarios with Cucumber and JUnit.
- Translated requirements into test scenarios, cases, and reports; collaborated in design reviews and defect triage to enhance testing accuracy.
- Tested a centralized web application for patient medical needs through manual, automated UI, API, and integration testing.
- Configured Selenium Grid for parallel cross-browser execution, validating UI elements, pop-ups, navigation, and browser interactions to ensure cross-platform consistency.
- Checked API responses in Postman and validated SOAP and REST services in SOAP UI using request and response assertions.
- Translated requirements into test scenarios, cases, data, and reports; participated in design reviews and defect triage.
- Used TestNG DataProvider to run scenarios with multiple input sets and maintained smoke and regression suites for application changes.
- Executed functional, system, database, and end-to-end integration tests, collaborating with development and operations teams to promptly resolve identified issues.
- Managed dependencies with Maven, maintained code in Git, and tracked user stories and testing tasks in Jira.
- In-house healthcare project
QA Test Engineer
2 Years 11 Months- Reviewed business and functional requirements with stakeholders; developed test plans, cases, and data while providing comprehensive testing status reports.
- Executed smoke, sanity, functional, integration, system, and end-to-end tests, including positive and negative scenarios.
- Validated UI behavior across browsers and operating systems; maintained regression scripts after application changes.
- Tested banking applications used to assess market and credit risk, including Value at Risk calculations and trade-related exposure.
- Reviewed business and functional requirements with stakeholders and prepared test plans, cases, data, and testing status reports.
- Used SQL queries to verify database records against frontend values and tested web services with SOAP UI.
- Coordinated testing assignments and release activities, reviewed and refined test cases with peers, and resolved source-code merge conflicts.
Skills
Mobile: Appium
iOS
Android
BrowserStack
AWS Device Farm
Web automation: Selenium WebDriver
Selenium Grid
TestNG
Cucumber
Maven
Page Object Model
Languages and data: Java
SQL
JDBC
JSON
Gherkin
API and diagnostics: REST Assured
Postman
Swagger UI
SOAP UI
Charles Proxy
Tools and delivery: Git
GitHub
Jenkins
Jira
Zephyr Scale
Azure DevOps
New Relic
Mixpanel
Additional frameworks: Protractor
Jasmine; BDD and data-driven testing
Timeline
Software Tester
7-Eleven
04.2023 - CurrentRead More
QA Test Engineer
Swift Technologies Inc.
11.2022 - 03.2023Read More
QA Test Engineer
Bank of America
10.2018 - 09.2021Read More
Personal Information
Title: Software Development Engineer in Test