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Merve Gul

Software QA Automation Engineer

๐Ÿ“ Pittsford, New York

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Software QA Automation Engineer with 8+ years of experience building enterprise-scale automation frameworks for web, API, and microservices-based applications. Strong experience with Selenium, Playwright, CI/CD pipelines. At Amdocs, cut post-release defects by 25% through early API validation and CI/CD integration. Certified in Cloud Computing with Gen AI (UT Austin, March 2026).

Skills

Selenium WebDriver9/10
Java9/10
TestNG8/10
REST-Assured8/10
Git/GitHub8/10
Agile (8/10)Cucumber BDD (8/10)Jenkins (8/10)CI/CD Pipelines (8/10)Playwright (8/10)Page Object Model (8/10)Postman (8/10)TypeScript (7/10)AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy) (7/10)Docker (7/10)JavaScript (7/10)JUnit (7/10)SQL (7/10)Python (6/10)HP ALM (6/10)

Work Experience

Software QA Automation Engineer

Amdocs

Nov 2020 โ€” Jul 2025

Built and maintained end-to-end automation frameworks using Selenium, Java, and TestNG, covering 700+ test cases and reducing regression execution time from 5 days to 8 hours. Reduced post-release defects by 25% through early API validation. Integrated automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeDeploy. Developed UI tests with Playwright and TypeScript. Containerized test environments with Docker. Performed API and microservices testing using Postman and RestAssured.

Software QA Engineer

M&T Bank

Jul 2019 โ€” Jan 2020

Created Selenium WebDriver automation scripts in Java for regression testing of core banking modules. Validated financial transactions and business rules within Hogan mainframe system. Managed defect lifecycle in HP ALM.

Test Automation Engineer

Capital One

Aug 2017 โ€” Jun 2019

Built a Cucumber BDD automation framework from scratch using Selenium, Java, and TestNG following Page Object Model, reducing manual test effort by 30%. Used SQL and JDBC to validate backend data in PostgreSQL. Identified a critical defect causing duplicate payment processing.

SDET

Navy Federal Credit Union

Jan 2015 โ€” Jul 2017

Developed automated test suites using Selenium and Cucumber for critical user flows. Configured Jenkins pipelines on AWS EC2 to run smoke tests and generate automated reports. Validated API responses and data integrity across microservices using Rest-Assured and Postman.

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Post Graduate Program ยท Cloud Computing: Leveraging Gen AI

2025 โ€“ 2026

Uskudar University

Bachelor's ยท Health Sciences

2010 โ€“ 2014