Los Angeles Software Engineer

Karan Mehta

Los Angeles, CA 617-***-**** ************@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/karanmehta1992 EDUCATION

Northeastern University, Boston DEC 2016

Master of Science in Information Systems

University of Mumbai, India JUN 2014

Bachelors of Engineering in Information Technology TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

LANGUAGE : Java, JavaScript, Ruby (Intermediate), SQL TEST FRAMEWORKS : Selenium Webdriver, Cypress, Junit, TestNG, Appium, Protractor, WebdriverIO, Cucumber OTHER : JIRA, Splunk, Postman, Jenkins, Codeship, Git, RBCommons, Jasmine, Mocha CERTIFICATIONS : ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level, Leadership Principles from Harvard Business School WORK EXPERIENCE

Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineer in Test, PayPal (Los Angeles, CA) AUG 2019-PRESENT At core PayPal E2E testing team:

• Achieved automation of End-to-End (E2E) flows and spearheaded high-priority initiatives within PayPal's Payments domain using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, and Java

• Mentored 3 interns during Summer '23 to develop our internal quality dashboard, expand automation coverage, and integrate TestRails mapping

• Led the team in increasing test coverage from 12% to 60% within a year, significantly reducing manual testing workload, expediting project delivery, and identifying regression bugs

• Implemented KPIs on our internal quality dashboard to effectively pinpoint and track product/feature vulnerabilities, project deliverables, and regression test results

• Enhanced release quality through the adoption of shift-left practices and parallel automation strategies At Honey Science Corporation (a PayPal subsidiary):

• Architected framework to test API/GraphQL functional scenarios using RestAssured and Java

• Automated mobile and web features using Appium, Selenium Webdriver, and Cypress

• Architecting CI pipeline to run tests and manage releases using CircleCI and Jenkins

• Implemented Code Climate to enhance code maintenance and measure test coverage effectively

• Set up a minimum viable product for load testing GraphQL queries using Locust

• Orchestrated Bug Bash events to proactively identify and resolve issues before critical code freezes

• Mentored a colleague to successfully transfer from a manual tester to an automation tester Software Development Engineer in Test, eHarmony (Los Angeles, CA) MAR 2018-AUG 2019

• Performing REST API automation to test microservices using Groovy and Spock framework

• Led a team of 4 to develop a test strategy, perform releases, and maintain the framework

• Deploying code and chef configurations on Production and test environments using Jenkins (CI/CD)

• Be a part of a cross-functional global team that develops the product using Agile Kanban methodologies

• Successfully tested and delivered a project to perform data migration to the AWS cloud (DynamoDB)

• Maintenance of test environments and test users to help other teams in deploying and testing features

• Troubleshooting logs and fixing issues during failures in test and production environments Quality Assurance Engineer, Fullscreen Media (Los Angeles, CA) FEB 2017-FEB 2018

• Architected and built the Android mobile test framework using Appium, Ruby and Cucumber

• Enhancing and increasing the test coverage for mobile and web test framework (Protractor JavaScript)

• Performing sanity tests before the code release

• Also, perform manual testing for bugs and stories for Desktop Web and Mobile App (iOS and Android)

• Led multiple projects ensuring a quality release QA Automation Development Co-op, Onshape (Boston, MA) JAN-APR 2016

• Automated test coverage in testing RESTful API endpoints by creating, fetching and verifying test data

• Independently expanded and created scripts for front-end automation testing in JavaScript using Protractor

• Built common platform for testing by converting test cases for RESTful API from TestNG in Java to Mocha framework in JavaScript which resulted in smooth interpretation of test cases with developer

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