Surekha Aravind

Designed and automated test suites for 6 core backend microservices from scratch using TestNG and JUnit(Java), establishing baseline regression coverage for critical services Built and automated complete UI test scenarios for the Customer Central web application, covering core user workflows end-to-end Extended UI integration test coverage and automation to the Sales Navigator mobile application alongside Customer Central, ensuring consistency across platforms

SDET I - Hella Infra.Market

(2025-01 - 2026-05)

• Designed and automated test suites for 6 core backend microservices from scratch using TestNG and JUnit(Java), establishing baseline regression coverage for critical services
• Built and automated complete UI test scenarios for the Customer Central web application, covering core user workflows end-to-end
• Extended UI integration test coverage and automation to the Sales Navigator mobile application alongside Customer Central, ensuring consistency across platforms
• Tested backend services using Postman, validating API contracts and response accuracy across endpoints
• Performed API performance testing every release using k6, identifying latency and load issues before production rollout
• Conducted manual data validation using Superset, cross-verified against backend data with SQL queries
• Identified and logged 150+ valid, major-severity bugs in Jira, catching defects before they reached production
• Owned end-to-end QA delivery per release — test plan creation, execution, and sign-off — independently, without relying on a larger QA team.
• Led 70+ release cycles (40 feature releases, 30 bug-fix releases) in an Agile environment, owning QA sign-off from planning through deployment.
• Mentored teammates on the UI and backend automation frameworks, documenting workflows and troubleshooting patterns to support onboarding.

SDET intern - Hella Infra.Market

(2024-10 - 2024-12)

• Collaborated with developers and product teams across applications to clarify requirements and edge cases, reducing ambiguity in test design
• Authored 100% of test cases for a newly launched application within 3 days, ensuring release-readiness under a tight timeline
• Built a UI automation framework from scratch using BDD Cucumber for an assigned project, establishing reusable step definitions and page structures
• Automated 200+ UI test cases for the IM Rise web application within one week using the BDD Cucumber framework, accelerating regression coverage ahead of release
• Contributed to 10+ release cycles by executing assigned test stories, supporting on-time delivery

Data Analyst ,Prompt Engineer intern - The Hindu group

(2022-05 - 2022-07)

• Generated automated summaries for 500+ news articles using BARD and ChatGPT, and designed reusable prompt templates for article summarization and SEO title generation.
• Ran a comparative evaluation of article URL classification methods — manual review, Klazify API, Google's classification model, and ChatGPT prompting , validating results at increasing scale to identify the most accurate approach.
• Applied temperature scoring to audit classification accuracy
• Built and tested prompt-based entity extraction pipelines using ChatGPT and Google's entity model, comparing precision across both to inform tool selection.
• Engineered and iterated on SEO title-generation prompts, producing and refining batches of 50+ titles per cycle for two publication brands (The Hindu, BusinessLine).

B.Tech. - Artificial Intelligence and Data Science - Chennai Institute of Technology (2021 - 2025)