Software Engineer — Quality Engineering Tech Mahindra | Client: Meta | Domain: Wearable Devices Sep 2023 – Present · Bangalore, India Working as part of Meta's wearable devices quality engineering team, focused on building automation frameworks and validating software across mobile, web, and system layers. What I work on: Built a Python-based automation framework with built-in APIs supporting functional E2E, stability, and power-measurement testing for wearable devices Developed mobile automation test suites using Appium, validating UI workflows and device-level behaviours across builds Developed web automation scripts using Selenium for functional and regression validation Improved test reliability by 80% through retry logic, exception handling, and log-based validation Performed backend validation using SQL to verify data consistency between API responses and database records Designed and implemented test plans covering functional, regression, integration, and E2E testing Performed system-level validation using Wireshark and log analysis across embedded software builds Validated encryption and security configurations across firmware builds Built an ML-based log validation system to detect event confirmations and reduce false negatives Built a device link state prediction model to validate system behaviour and expand test coverage Tracked defects end-to-end in JIRA and collaborated with dev teams for root cause analysis Developed real-time dashboards for test execution insights and build stability monitoring