Kalyani Meka
Toronto,Canada
Summary
ISTQB-Certified QA Engineer with over 11 years of expertise in delivering high-quality enterprise applications within automotive and financial sectors.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
QA Engineer
AutoTrader.ca
01.2023 - 01.2026
- Worked on enterprise digital retailing and automotive finance platforms supporting secure online purchase and financing workflows.
- Performed API testing using Postman for e-Sign, Identity Verification (IDV), MFA, and credit bureau integrations.
- Executed SQL queries to validate backend data consistency between UI, APIs, and databases.
- Conducted functional, regression, and integration testing for customer and dealer workflows.
- Validated authentication, authorization, and error-handling scenarios across services.
- Supported UAT activities, release readiness, and production validations.
- Executed Selenium Java and BDD (Cucumber) test scenarios to support regression testing of critical flows.
- Collaborated closely with developers and product teams; supported testing in AWS-hosted environments.
- Assisted in testing AWS-based CI/CD pipelines, ensuring build stability and environment readiness.
- Performed smoke and sanity testing across lower, staging and production environments deployed on AWS.
- Enterprise digital retailing platform enabling customers to complete end-to-end vehicle purchase and financing journeys through integrations with dealers, lenders, and third-party services.
QA Engineer
Cox Automotive Inc.
01.2018 - 12.2022
- Delivered manual, API, and backend QA for large-scale credit and finance applications used by dealers and lenders.
- Validated admin and finance workflows supporting OEMs, dealers, lenders, and third-party partners.
- Performed API validations to ensure accurate data exchange between backend systems.
- Executed SQL queries to verify finance configurations, dealer setups, and transaction data integrity.
- Conducted regression testing to ensure stability of features released dormant into production.
- Logged and tracked defects using JIRA and HP ALM, working closely with development teams.
- Supported Agile sprint testing and release sign-off activities.
- Large-scale credit and finance applications used by dealers and lenders.
QA Analyst
Dealertrack Canada
12.2014 - 12.2017
- Supported QA for web-based automotive finance applications used across dealer networks.
- Tested mobile-responsive credit applications across browsers, devices, and screen resolutions.
- Authored and executed functional and regression test cases using QMetry.
- Performed API testing supporting credit submission and backend processing.
- Executed SQL queries to validate customer, credit, and loan data in backend databases.
- Ensured backward compatibility with existing COL premium and basic configurations.
- Supported UAT cycles and production release validation.
- Web-based automotive finance applications used across dealer networks.
Education
Master of Science -
Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering & Technology
01.2012
Skills
- API testing and automation
- Selenium and Java
- Postman and QMetry
- Cross-browser compatibility
- Data-driven frameworks
- Performance testing and CI/CD
- SQL querying and database testing
- Functional and regression testing
- Manual and integration testing
- Behavior-driven development
- Test management and UAT
- Agile methodologies
Certification
ISTQB - Certified Tester, 2013
Timeline
QA Engineer
AutoTrader.ca
01.2023 - 01.2026
QA Engineer
Cox Automotive Inc.
01.2018 - 12.2022
QA Analyst
Dealertrack Canada
12.2014 - 12.2017
Master of Science -
Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering & Technology