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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington Region, New Zealand

Automation - Cucumber based API(Rest Assured, Java) automation framework (scripting, updates and maintenance)Cypress Automation with JavaScript POCDatabase testing and functional testingProviding insights on automation testingAutomated Regression test execution and analysis with Jenkins

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Guided the 10 members across 3 teams in building a comprehensive automation framework from the base code and reviewed codebases frequently.• Planned, guided, and reviewed new component-level test plans/strategies and guided the team with test pyramid and shift left testing concepts.• Coordinated the testing effort, responsibility for test deliverables, reported project status to management and managed sub-QA team activities.• Involved in providing accurate estimations, release timelines, proactively created plans for QE teams focusing on automation and on-time delivery of features.• Actively participated as a lead in daily stand-up meetings, weekly meetings, sprint meetings, planning meetings and provided suggestions.• Trained, mentored new members and juniors to GPP domain and frameworks, enhancing skills.▪ Conducted various KT sessions to improve their skills.

• Architected, designed test automation frameworks, and introduced optimized and efficient automationframework solutions for all new component developments with the help of the QE team.• Analyzed, developed new Util classes to support multiple automation projects by reducing duplicates and enhancing efficiency.• Introduced new QE process improvements for test plans/strategy, performance, automation, QE releasedocuments and guided teams to follow best practices.• Introduced, developed base projects for automation, performance testing and guided the teams on building comprehensive projects from the base code.• Planned, designed, maintained new component-level test plans/strategies, and guided the team with test pyramid and shift left testing concepts.• Coordinated the testing effort, took on responsibility for test deliverables, reported project status tomanagement, timely escalated issues, and managed sub-QA team activities• Conducted different types of testing including functional, non-functional, E2E and guided teams on covering the scope and depth of testing.• Involved in providing accurate estimations, release timelines, proactively created plans for QE teams focusing on automation and on-time delivery of features.• Involved in test estimations, planning, test design and execution of the test cases for multiple features.• Planned, designed, and created test scripts following the test pyramid concept and enhanced the efficiency of test case executions.• Actively participated as a lead in daily stand-up meetings, weekly meetings, sprint meetings, planning meetings and provided suggestions.• Trained, mentored new members and juniors to the pricing domain and frameworks, enhancing skills.▪ Conducted various KT sessions to improve skills.• Contributed and initiated domain documentation and structured QE confluence space for all new and legacy components with gathered knowledge and reviewed the pages.

Sri Lanka

• Took on the responsibility for executing, analyzing, and stabilizing platform components automation testscripts.• Involved in planning, designing, developing, maintenance of test plans, strategies and driving the team.• Analyzed requirements and designed test cases using different test design techniques and mind mapping tools.• Introduced automation, process improvements such as automation best practices, code revamping, CI/CD pipeline, Jenkins jobs and automation test data improvements to improve efficiency and overall productivity.• Actively involved in creating performance test setup for platform team, documentation and conductedperformance testing training to multiple teams.• Analyzed, suggested, and involved in developing Util layers to support multiple team components automation codebases.• Performed defect logging/tracking/verification through regression analysis and thereby ensured the quality of the platform components.• Actively participated as a team member in daily stand-up meetings, weekly meetings, sprint meetings, and planning meetings and provided suggestions.• Trained newcomers and conducted knowledge transfer sessions on multiple Platform API automation projects.• Conducted various KT sessions focused on performance and automation to improve team skills.• Contributed to managing platform team confluence pages with gathered knowledge and reviewed the pages.

Colombo

Job Description:The QA Engineer provides highly specialized and advanced technical QA expertise, mentoring in the planning/design/implementation of QA activities and in developing testing architecture and to ensure the system under test is of high quality and serves the expectations of the end users.

Colombo

• Provided my contribution by handling Releases by taking the ownership of QA sign-off• Designed & modified testing strategy for project with multi level test coverage (automation/manual)• Supported in mentoring both functional and technical QA team members• Assigned and conducted day-to-day management of sub QA team’s assigned projects, tasks, and activities• Prepared Training plan for client & team member trainings• Provided QA estimations for release cycles by calculating QA effort for each task• Reviewed test cases and provide guidance to ensure exploratory tests have being covered• Actively participated as a team member in daily stand up meetings, sprint meetings and provided suggestions to the best of my ability to improve the performance and also gained lots of knowledge• Guide QA team by providing expertise insights to team on Test Case designing aligned with Test Automation• Performed functional testing & UI verification for applications• Performed backend E2E, Exploratory & Performance testing • Created, Modified & executed API test cases using automation framework• Performed load testing using jmeter and supported with report creation• Familiarize with performance testing tools Jmeter,Fiddler,Chrome developer tools,perfmon Agent• Defect and issue identification, logging, tracking, resolution, and reporting• Provided support to enhance and maintain the Automation framework and approach• Analyzed new and emerging trends in test automation, support in evaluating alternatives and conducting feasibility studies

Colombo

Job Description:The Associate QA Engineer provides specialized QA expertise and supports in the planning/design/implementation of QA activities and in developing testing implementations.Core Responsibilities:• Perform functional, non-functional and middle-tier level testing on diverse technology spectrums and business domains.• Supports researching on new and emerging trends in test automation, support in evaluating alternatives and conducting feasibility studies.• Adherence to coding, quality, functionality, performance, scalability and on-time delivery standards.• Support QA department on QA process improvements across the organization.• Support QA teams in test estimations, planning, test design, reporting and matrices in order to achieve quality in deliveries.• Collaborate with Engineering, PMO and Business Analysis teams to review on requirements, architecture and designs to ensure comprehensive testability can be achieved.• Maintain appropriate professional affiliations and up-to-date knowledge of current software engineering and quality assurance techniques and tools.

Colombo

Job Description:Ensure the system under test is of high quality and serves the expectations of the end users.Core Responsibilities:• Awareness of the delivery process, QA artifacts, tools and methodologies specific to organization / client.• Ability to perform different types of testing including functional, non-functional, structural, sanity and regression as an when the need arises.• Ability to perform testing at different levels including component/unit, integration, system and user acceptance, as an when the need arises.• Ability to implement test scenarios and test cases based on suited test design techniques• Ability to understand requirements clearly.• Support to ensure traceability is performed consistently for business requirements and technical specifications against test scope.• Report defects while investigating into it and include appropriate background information to assist software development in resolving the defect or better understanding the root causes of the failure.• Support in developing and maintain test data sets, scripts and databases for testing efforts.• Support in to building, deploying and configuring required testing environments and work with various source control, continuous integration and build tools.• Timely and accurately recording timesheets.

Sri Lanka

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Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor’S Degree, Bsc Special (Hons) In Information Technology- Specializing In Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: Foss community, Rotaract club4 years study of Software Engineering

G.C.E.Advanced Level, Biology, General

Activities and Societies: - Senior Prefect - Naval cadet - Team player- Basket ball Interact club, Astronomical society, Science society.