Merve Kastan

QA Engineer at Airfind

Followed Agile QA strategies for manual testing and maximized test coverage. Executed cross-device testing on mobile devices using BrowserStack, reducing cross-platform compatibility issues by 30% and enhancing user experience. Regular follow-ups with developers and stakeholders for quality delivery. Collaborated with cross-functional teams. Designed a test plan and created test cases for both UI and manual API testing, increasing regression test coverage. Maintained Appium automation frameworks (Java + Selenium) for mobile applications. Integrated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) to maintain fast feedback loops.

QA Tester at MeetSKY

Participated in all Agile-Scrum ceremonies like Sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint retro and demo as Test Engineer. Actively involved in STLC process and in implementing Automation Tools Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, TestNG, IntelliJ, Git/GitHub, Jenkins. Used BDD by writing Gherkin language using cucumber, developed scenarios, scenario outlines, features and step definitions and generated cucumber reports. Experienced in implementing the Page Object Model (POM) by creating elements for each page object and reusing objects in scripts. Used Jira X-ray as the bug-tracking tool. Used Jenkins to execute test scripts periodically with integration of Jenkins with version control (GIT) and scheduled builds to run automatically by invoking Maven commands. Involved in manual API testing using POSTMAN and writing automated API testing with Java Rest-Assured. Performed database validation by writing SQL queries using JDBC.