About Me
Monali Mhetre is currently working as a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test at Delta Air Lines, with a robust background in QA automation, software engineering, and team leadership. With over 6 years of progressive experience in the U.S. and India, she has consistently demonstrated a strong ability to deliver high-quality solutions ahead of schedule, contributing significantly to production deliverables in fast-paced environments. Previously, she served as a Java Automation Engineer (Team Lead) at Verizon, where she successfully led and contributed to seven major projects over four years. Her work received repeated recognition from upper management through formal appreciation in both emails and team meetings, reflecting her dedication, leadership, and performance excellence. She has highly contributed to production deliverables in the past 3 years of experience in the USA.
Monali had been a Computer Science Student at University of Texas at Arlington, holds a Master’s degree from Aug 2020. She received her Bachelor of Engineering from Pune University (India), PVG'sCOET college in 2016. Meanwhile, She got professional experience in a Startup Company. She performed a Software Engineer role with involvement in QA Automation Testing. Worked professionally at both frontend and backend back in India for 2 years.
Monali began her programming journey in 2014, during her second year of engineering. Her first project involved machine learning using Support Vector Machines (SVM) in MATLAB 2013—an early indicator of her passion for applied technology.
Monali spends most of her time in coding practice. She had developed and deployed multiple web and desktop applications, expanding her technical stack and embracing modern frameworks and tools. Her experience spans frontend and backend development, automation testing, and cloud-native technologies. Technologies she had used are Java(Spring Boot), JavaScript, Python, Node.js, Bootstrap, React.js, PHP. Currently she is learning SAFE and AngularJS, Docker, Kubernetes, Django, MariaDB, Postgresql. She is trying to build mobile applications and web applications which are web responsive. She is excellent in Automation Testing technologies like Cucumber+selenium, BDD, TDD, Jenkins, JIRA, Ansible, Smoke /Regression /Progression /Performance /Unit Testing, Confluence, CI/CD Pipeline, Agile(Scrum).
Skills
Work Experience
Sr. Software Development Engineer In Test 
July 2024 - Till Date | Atlanta, USA (Contract)
- Testing multiple mobile apps developed for crew members. Active In-Person participation in feature planning meetings.
- Automating scripts using Delta specialized data-based framework. Testing Devices: iPads, iPhones, Android Phones and Tablets.
- Helping and suggesting developers some UI enhancements in existing features by getting approval from PO's.
- Proactively finding defects for faster resolutions to make applications more user-friendly and seamless.
- Focused on minimizing defects for both Front-End(UI) and Back-End(APIs) to minimalize inconvinience of users and to increase quality of Apps
Java Automation Engineer(Lead) 
Oct 2020 - June 2024 | Atlanta, USA
- Testing REST webservices and JAVA API's project to maintain 5G networking sites using BDD. Participation in iterations and features grooming.
- Working on automation of Events, writing test cases/scripts and updating/validating tickets, bug finding/resolving, pushing code to Gitlab, attending daily meetings, and giving presentations of final progress.
- Executing all level testing (Regression/Progression/User Stories) with mobile automation stories using Appium.
Software Developer 
June 2016 - July 2018 | Pune, India
- Rated as a High Performer. Developed an application for construction company and their sites. Increased performance rate for machines by 40% to achieve high efficiency.
- Expertise in Front-End and Back-end technologies. Managed completion of assigned tasks within timeline and weekly status report to the project manager.
- Hands-on experience on database technologies like MySQL and MongoDB. Handled user interactions for requirements and received the client appreciation.
- Tested code and deployed it to the server and verified application is up and running.
Software Engineer Intern 
Jan 2015 - May 2016 | Pune, India
- Developed Java applications for health and medical realated data management purposes.
- Tested web applications and UI using Junit and Maven. Expertise in automation tools.
Education
Master's in Computer Science at University of Texas Arlington
Aug 2018 - Aug 2020 | Arlington, Texas, USA
Projects
Build web app using MVC pattern in JAVA and JSP pages. Tested the frontend of application using Selenium + Cucumber (BDD) Framework, TestNG. Backend testing of the application done by using Junit and PIT.
Developed a REST-API for simple social media application using Spring Boot framework in Java. Database used is H2 and Postman tool for HTTP requests. Data format used is JSON.
Developed a web application for pronouncing names of different culture people accurately using CodeIgniter Framework (MVC pattern). Includes WordPress (Blogs) with ability to login and form registration for events and individual user. Deployed project on UTA cloud, used phpMyAdmin panel. See the live DEMO
Built a User Interface for searching Ingredients of different products by using fuzzy-search library of JavaScript. Used React-Redux at client -side and Node.js at server-side of the application. Used (AWS) DynamoDB to store and retrieve data which was in json format from the database.
Created web interface for users to fetch required information about earthquakes from MySQL database using Python Flask framework. Deployed the application on IBM Cloud (Bluemix), AWS.
Designed a multithreaded web Server to handle multiple web Clients in Java. The web server and web client communicated using a text-based HTTP protocol via Sockets.
Developed an Artificial Intelligence game ‘Max Connect 4’ using the Minimax strategy enhanced with alpha beta pruning for faster results and depth limited search using a heuristic function for estimating cost.
Detected and displayed plant leaf disease in the GUI form using SVM algorithm and suggested related pesticides. Used Digital Image Processing concepts along with M-Script language, software used is MATLAB 2013.
- Generative AI in Software Testing
- SAFe 5 Practitioner
- REST Assured API Testing
- Selenium Essential Training
- Java Web Services and RESTful API with Spring Boot
- Java/SQL/C/C++
- Learning Linux Command Line
- Learning Network Troubleshooting
- Python GUI Development with Tkinter (2014)