I’m Mahi Somu, a Quality Assurance professional with 14+ years of experience testing web and mobile applications across Banking, Airlines, Ecommerce, Healthcare, and Financial Services. I specialize in both manual and automated testing, thrive in Agile environments, and contribute to sprint planning, demonstrations, and retrospectives while ensuring high-quality releases. I enjoy collaborating with Business, Development, TPM/PMT, Release Coordinators, Stakeholders, and Offshore teams to deliver reliable software. Throughout my career, I have led end-to-end testing efforts, built robust test plans and automation frameworks, and focused on data integrity, accessibility, and production support. I am proficient with API testing, automation tools like Selenium, Postman, and Playwright, and I continually seek ways to improve test coverage and efficiency while maintaining user-focused quality.

Mahi Somu

I’m Mahi Somu, a Quality Assurance professional with 14+ years of experience testing web and mobile applications across Banking, Airlines, Ecommerce, Healthcare, and Financial Services. I specialize in both manual and automated testing, thrive in Agile environments, and contribute to sprint planning, demonstrations, and retrospectives while ensuring high-quality releases. I enjoy collaborating with Business, Development, TPM/PMT, Release Coordinators, Stakeholders, and Offshore teams to deliver reliable software. Throughout my career, I have led end-to-end testing efforts, built robust test plans and automation frameworks, and focused on data integrity, accessibility, and production support. I am proficient with API testing, automation tools like Selenium, Postman, and Playwright, and I continually seek ways to improve test coverage and efficiency while maintaining user-focused quality.

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I’m Mahi Somu, a Quality Assurance professional with 14+ years of experience testing web and mobile applications across Banking, Airlines, Ecommerce, Healthcare, and Financial Services. I specialize in both manual and automated testing, thrive in Agile environments, and contribute to sprint planning, demonstrations, and retrospectives while ensuring high-quality releases. I enjoy collaborating with Business, Development, TPM/PMT, Release Coordinators, Stakeholders, and Offshore teams to deliver reliable software.

Throughout my career, I have led end-to-end testing efforts, built robust test plans and automation frameworks, and focused on data integrity, accessibility, and production support. I am proficient with API testing, automation tools like Selenium, Postman, and Playwright, and I continually seek ways to improve test coverage and efficiency while maintaining user-focused quality.

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Work Experience

Sr QA Lead at Bank of America
April 1, 2025 - April 1, 2026
Led QA for Digital Front Door/Launchpad; performed front-end UI testing for web and mobile, back-end data validation, and API testing with OAuth2.0; validated AI chatbot interactions and accessibility; built automation with Playwright; tracked defects in Octane and prepared release readiness documentation.
Sr QA UAT Functional Tester at Noble Soft Solutions
November 11, 2023 - March 1, 2025
Led UAT testing for Hartford Prudential Web TPA program; tested web and Flutter front-end, data ingestion, and SSRS backend data validation; coordinated with Backend/ERP/CRM integrations; executed data quality checks and provided Go-Live support.
Sr UAT Functional Tester at TCS
October 1, 2016 - September 1, 2023
Sr UAT tester for Digital Payments project; validated Citi transfers (RTP, Zelle, SWIFT), MFA fraud checks, and API integrations; performed data reconciliation, fraud testing, and regulatory validation; automated sanity/regression builds with Jenkins; tracked work in JIRA/Zephyr.
Sr QA Functional Tester at Southwest Airlines
December 1, 2015 - September 1, 2016
Generated and executed test plans and scripts for TRAX Maintenance System; conducted ALM-based regression testing; collaborated with onshore/offshore teams; contributed to SDLC/Agile ceremonies.
Sr UAT Tester at Success Partners
January 1, 2015 - November 1, 2015
Led UAT for 30 Magento-based e-commerce web applications; performed end-to-end regression testing, data validation, and production go-live readiness; tested “subscriptions” via JSON and performed PHP/Netsuite integration checks.
Sr ETL Tester at BCBS
September 1, 2013 - December 1, 2014
Involved in EDI healthcare data validation; tested EDI 837/834/835 transactions; performed SQL-based data validations; participated in Agile ceremonies and API integration testing.
QA Analyst at SACWIS - State of Michigan
September 1, 2009 - December 1, 2010
participated in JAD sessions; developed test scenarios and cases; validated business requirements in System and UAT environments; ensured compliance with requirements.
QA Analyst at Southwest Airlines
January 1, 2011 - August 1, 2013
Contributed to TRAX Maintenance System testing; prepared UAT scenarios and scripts; participated in SDLC/Agile ceremonies; ensured quality across modules.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Nagarjuna University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2001
PG in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning at The University of Texas at Austin
January 11, 2030 - April 23, 2026

Qualifications

PG in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
January 11, 2030 - April 23, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Healthcare, Retail, Professional Services