Hi there! I’m Muskan Behera, a Quality Assurance Engineer with 5+ years of experience delivering high-quality web and client-server applications through robust manual and automated testing practices. I have strong expertise across the SDLC and Agile methodologies, including requirements analysis, test planning, test execution, and release validation. I’m skilled in Exploratory Testing, API Testing, regression testing, and defect management, and I’ve worked with Cypress, Selenium, and TestRail to improve test coverage and enable reliable, scalable software releases. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to raise the bar on quality and speed up delivery.

Muskan Behera

Hi there! I’m Muskan Behera, a Quality Assurance Engineer with 5+ years of experience delivering high-quality web and client-server applications through robust manual and automated testing practices. I have strong expertise across the SDLC and Agile methodologies, including requirements analysis, test planning, test execution, and release validation. I’m skilled in Exploratory Testing, API Testing, regression testing, and defect management, and I’ve worked with Cypress, Selenium, and TestRail to improve test coverage and enable reliable, scalable software releases. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to raise the bar on quality and speed up delivery.

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Hi there! I’m Muskan Behera, a Quality Assurance Engineer with 5+ years of experience delivering high-quality web and client-server applications through robust manual and automated testing practices.

I have strong expertise across the SDLC and Agile methodologies, including requirements analysis, test planning, test execution, and release validation. I’m skilled in Exploratory Testing, API Testing, regression testing, and defect management, and I’ve worked with Cypress, Selenium, and TestRail to improve test coverage and enable reliable, scalable software releases. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to raise the bar on quality and speed up delivery.

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Experience Level

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Work Experience

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at QuinStreet
July 1, 2025 - Present
Led QA strategy for 10+ product releases, coordinating a 15-member QA team to execute end-to-end test cycles, reducing post-production defects by 25% and increasing release confidence across engineering and product teams. Managed and mentored offshore QA engineers, overseeing on-time task delegation, test coverage alignment, and quality standards across distributed time zones. Partnered cross-functionally with engineering and product leadership to define release criteria, drive automation initiatives, and scale QA practices across growing product lines.
Quality Assurance Engineer at QuinStreet
September 1, 2023 - July 1, 2025
Authored and maintained 500+ test cases and 30+ regression suites in TestRail, improving requirement-to-test traceability by 40% and reducing test coverage gaps across key product areas. Conducted backend API validation using Postman, improving API reliability and reducing API-related defects by 30% through enhanced functional, integration, and data-integrity testing. Executed performance and load testing using JMeter, identifying bottlenecks that improved system throughput by 15% and reduced average response time by 20% after partnering with engineering teams on optimization.
Quality Assurance Engineer at Copia
June 1, 2022 - September 1, 2023
Established end-to-end QA processes as the first QA hire, defining test strategies, documentation standards, and release criteria that reduced testing cycle ambiguity by 40% and accelerated onboarding for new QA contributors. Built a scalable, reusable regression testing framework, cutting post-release defects by 30% and improving overall release stability, enabling the engineering team to deploy features with higher confidence.
Quality Engineer Intern at CVS
May 1, 2020 - June 1, 2022
Executed manual and automated test cases using Selenium and supported test planning, defect triage, and regression cycles across the SDLC.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Information Systems, Concentration in Data Analytics at Boston University
January 11, 2030 - October 1, 2024
Bachelor of Science at University of California, Riverside
January 11, 2030 - March 1, 2022

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet