Meenakshi Sundaram
Summary
QA Engineer with 4 years specialising in test automation for mobile and web applications. Built a Selenium + Appium regression suite at Zoho that cut manual testing effort 65%, maintained 92% automation coverage across 3 product lines, and reduced production defect escape rate from 8.2% to 1.4% over 18 months.
Experience
- Designed and implemented a Selenium 4 + TestNG regression suite covering 1,800+ test cases; automated 92% of regression scope and reduced manual testing effort 65% (saving 40 QA-hours per sprint).
- Introduced API contract testing with Pact for 12 microservices, catching 23 breaking-contract bugs before they reached staging — preventing estimated 3 high-priority production incidents per quarter.
- Built performance test framework using Gatling for the CRM payment module; identified bottleneck at 800 concurrent users and worked with dev to raise threshold to 3,200 users pre-launch.
- Mentored 2 junior QA engineers in automation best practices; both achieved autonomous test-suite ownership within 3 months.
- Executed manual and exploratory testing across 4 sprints per release cycle for a UK retail client; production defect escape rate fell from 8.2% to 1.4% over 18 months.
- Automated 340 regression scenarios with Appium for Android and iOS; release cadence accelerated from bi-monthly to bi-weekly deployments.
- Created detailed defect reports in JIRA with root-cause analysis, cutting average dev triage time from 2.5 hours to 35 minutes per critical defect.
Education
Skills
Certifications
- ISTQB Certified Tester – Foundation Level (CTFL)
- Selenium WebDriver with Java — Udemy (2021), certificate of completion
- API Testing with Postman — Coursera (2022)