About

Aparna Iyer is a highly skilled Software Engineer with 2.7 years of experience in the field. She is currently pursuing her Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Aparna has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University. She is currently working as a Software Engineer-II at ConnectWise, India. Aparna's expertise lies in writing automation scripts in Karate to expedite testing for business management and security products. She has actively contributed to improving the automation framework and detecting critical vulnerabilities while working with the Quality assurance team. Aparna is proficient in various testing tools such as Postman, Selenium, Burp Suite, Cucumber, JMeter, Junit, and Rest Assured. She is also well-versed in programming languages such as Python, C, and Golang. Aparna's areas of interest in Computer Science include Data Structures and Algorithms, Distributed Systems, and Visual Analytics. She is skilled in using AWS, Docker, BDD frameworks, and databases such as SQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and Firebase. Aparna is also proficient in using Git for version control. During her tenure at ConnectWise, Aparna has worked as a Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Engineer and has been responsible for overall testing of business management products. She has also worked on API and UI automation scripts in Karate for the stories on the Jira board and tested them on Postman. Aparna has experience in collaborating with team members in the United States and India while defining testing scope at Epic/Feature level. Aparna's past experience includes an internship at Indian Railways, where she got an opportunity to explore the functioning of the organization and the technicalities involved in it. She learned how communication takes place within the organization and how trains are monitored from the headquarters. Apart from her work, Aparna enjoys playing the guitar and reading non-fictional books. With her technical expertise and passion for computer science, Aparna is a valuable asset to any organization.