Tejaswi Karasani

Enthusiast dedicated, hardworking, and passionate feminine diving into the core of coding with burning desire. Basically, the hybrid personality of strong
technical, academic, and event management background.

Being an ICSE student, I have been keener towards Java that diverted my interest to Android programming that led to getting a wonderful opportunity for being selected for Outreachy.org'20 cohort and I got a chance to contribute to Mozilla Organization for Mozilla Firefox(Fenix) under the project titled"Create Tests for Fenix using Espresso, UIautomator, and Kotlin". Espresso is the framework used to write the tests, with the help of Kotlin and UI Automator.

During this internship duration, I had collaborated with the Android Firefox Quality assurance team and helped the team to increase the coverage for UI Automation testing. I could able to contribute to around 2000 lines of code for 5 different functionalities all while maintaining the code quality. I really enjoyed my last internship because before that I didn't write a single line of code related to testing but I'm well versed with Android development. It's just not that but also I'm glad that I could able to work on the project Fenix(Firefox) which has millions of people as a userbase. This internship challenged me both technically and mentally as well since I live in the IST timezone and my team works in PST timings mostly. I learned various technologies like Kotlin(I used to code in Java before), Espresso, and UI Automator. I could able to complete my internship successfully after writing UI Automation tests for 5 major functionalities of the Android App(Fenix ~ Android Firefox). Currently, I'm working as a software engineering intern at Intel.

Apart from all the above, I had been thrice to hacks. Out of which, we won two hacks. The online voting system is one of them which I won during the Gracehopper celebration India AI 2019 conducted by Anita. B org and other was a flood relief app made during Hackathon conducted by one of the student chapters at my college (VIT-Vellore). I had also been a host of a talk show called #GHCTalks available on Spotify/Google podcasts/Apple music which revolves around women sharing Grace Hopper Celebration, (the world's largest women in tech conference)experiences that got reach over 10 countries over 700 plays.

Besides everything, I would love to attend hacks/mentorship programs(though this makes a contradiction as I had been only for three hacks). The kind of networking that happens is one of the driving factors which always motivates me to participate in them.