Pradeep De Silva Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Working as the Lead QA consultant for an investment bank project with following responsibilities:• Create and maintain technical test plan/test strategy documents• Participate in various agile ceremonies such as sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups, backlog refinements, sprint reviews and retrospectives with product owners, business analysts and cross functional teams• Create test scenarios & test cases using requirements, acceptance criteria, wireframes and design documents in HP ALM (Quality Center) & JIRA• Perform end-to-end, functional, system, integration, UI, compatibility, usability and regression tests• Involved in designing BDD automation framework from scratch using Protractor, Cucumber and JavaScript for web applications• Developed automation framework to follow Page object design pattern• Created BDD test scripts by creating Scenarios and Feature files using acceptance criteria and develop Cucumber Step Definitions using JavaScript• Test scripts version controlled and source code management using Bitbucket• Database testing by writing SQL queries using TOAD• Log defects and track their status to closure using JIRA tool• Test effort estimation and contribute to the delivery plan with risk and issues information• Work with BA’s and product owners to requirement analysis and test case reviews • Follow Agile SCRUM methodology as part of SDLC• Provide regular test status reports to project managers/programme managers and product owners• Coordinated test activities with onsite and offshore teams• Mentor and guide junior testers and knowledge sharing with other QA members in the team• Provide QA Signoffs for releasing web apps to Production environment• Document important project information in confluence wiki and archiving the project artefacts• Production release support of the web applications• Perform as Lead QA within the scrum team

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Worked as the Lead QA consultant for UBS projects with following responsibilities:• Create and maintain technical test plan/test strategy documents for the mobile and web application development projects• Participate in various agile ceremonies such as release & sprint planning meetings, daily stand-ups, backlog refinements, sprint reviews and retrospectives with product owners, business analysts and cross functional teams• Determine JIRA stories are captured clearly and acceptance criteria are defined clearly• Create test scenarios & test cases using requirements, acceptance criteria, wireframes and design documents in HP ALM (Quality Center) & JIRA• Perform end-to-end, functional, system, integration, UI, compatibility, usability and regression tests on mobile devices (iPads) ,simulators and web browsers• Involved in designing BDD automation framework from scratch using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber and Java, Maven, Jenkins for web applications• Automated iOS mobile applications using Appium• Performed manual API tests using postman tool• Log defects and track their status to closure using JIRA tool• Database testing by writing SQL queries using TOAD• Test effort estimation and contribut to the delivery plan with risk and issues information• Work with BA’s and product owners to requirement analysis and test case reviews • Follow Agile SCRUM methodology as part of SDLC• Coordinated test activities with onsite and offshore teams• Mentor and guide junior testers and knowledge sharing with other QA members in the team• Provide QA Signoffs for releasing apps to UBS tactical and Apple app stores• Conduct post deployment health checks after apps going live• Document important project information in confluence wiki and archiving the project artefacts• Production release support of the mobile & web applications• Test scripts version controlled and source code management using GitHub• Perform as Lead QA within the scrum team

London, United Kingdom

Worked as the Senior QA consultant for the Investment banking and Media projects.

London, United Kingdom

Worked as the Lead QA consultant for UBS projects testing mobile applications developed for iOS devices.Mobile Apps: Advisory Briefcase, GEB Container, CIO Monthly, UBS Investor, Funds• Preparing Mobile Test Plans, Test Strategies and Test Estimations• Creating test cases from requirements, wireframes and designs in HP Quality Center• Performing functional, UI, compatibility, usability and regression tests on mobile devices and simulators• Automating the regression test packs using Apple’s iOS UI automaton in Instruments• Defect management with JIRA• Non-functional testing using Instruments (Memory Leaks, Activity Monitor)• Performance testing using Apache JMeter• Executing security checks using Charles proxy, Nikto and Skipfish tools• QA status and defect reporting• Providing QA Signoffs for releasing apps to UBS tactical and Apple app stores• Conducting post deployment health checks after apps going live• Documenting important project information in confluence wiki and archiving the project artifacts• Participating in defining the Mobile QA process at UBS• Liaised with customers, project managers, business analysts, QA and development teams

London, United Kingdom

Worked as the Lead QA consultant for leading banking projects involved in testing both desktop and mobile applications.

London, United Kingdom

Worked as the QA Consultant for a media project which involves web application testing on flash devices (both smartphones and tablets) in Agile development environment. • Preparing test plans, test strategies and test estimations.• Creating test cases from user stories and creative designs.• Performing functional, UI, usability, accessibility and performance testing.• Involving in web application testing on various flash devices (Android smartphones – HTC Desire, HTC Sensation, LG Optimius 2X, Samsung Galaxy S II and tablets – HTC Flyer, Motorola Xoom, Blackberry PlayBook, HP TouchPad, Dell Streak 7).• Defect management with JIRA.• Providing various defect and QA status reports.

Worked as the QA lead in several banking projects with following responsibilities• Prepared test plans, test strategies and test estimations.• Performed functional, UI, browser compatibility, usability, accessibility and mobile testing.• Involved in application testing on various mobile devices (iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, HTC) and tablets (iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab).• Test management using HP Quality Center and defect management with JIRA.• Provided various defect and QA status reports.• Actively participated in defect triage and review meetings.• Involved in CMS testing with Day CQ5.• Liaised with customers, project managers, business analysts, QA and development teams.• Successfully led the QA team for multiple projects in Iterative and Agile/ Scrum development environments.

• Involved in QA activities throughout the full software development life cycle in Iterative, Agile/ Scrum and Waterfall development environments.• Responsible for quality assurance of high transactional web sites.• Prepared detailed Test Plan and Test Estimation.• Created test cases for functional, UI, web services, performance and failover tests, according to the requirement specifications, user stories and technical documents.• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix to cross reference requirements with test cases.• Performed functional, regression, integration, system, performance, load and stress tests.• Managed defects using HP Quality Center and Bugzilla. Raised defects, verified fixes and conducted defect triage meetings.• Reviewed all QA deliverables for conformity to quality and standards.• Identified end-to-end business scenarios for the test automation.• Created data driven test automation framework with Quick Test Professional (QTP) tool.• Developed and maintained test scripts, function and object libraries using VB Scripts.• Created test data using TOAD and SQL Server.• Deployed application in QA and Production environments for regression and UAT testing.• Collected, analyzed, monitored and presented QA metrics and reports to all the stakeholders to indicate the quality status of the project.• Configuration management of the QA documents using Star Team.• Facilitated business stakeholders to conduct User Acceptance Testing.• Engaged with stakeholders for getting the signoffs for the requirements, high level designs, test plans and test cases.• Liaised with customers, project managers, onsite /offshore QA and development teams.• Managed QA team, allocated tasks to ensure successful delivery of software applications.• Proactively raised risks/issues and implemented mitigation and contingency plans.• Actively participated in sprint plan meetings and daily stand up calls.• Conducted 1:1 appraisals for the QA team members.

Responsible for complete design and build of internal payroll solution for 1,000 staff, including requirements gathering, coding in VB and system testingIntroduced QA processes into the organisation, including the concept of using a separate QA team for software testingVSS administrator, responsible for managing source code

Performed QA tasks for US clients on multimedia and data repository applicationsAutomated the test pack using Winrunner

B.Sc Eng., Electrical Engineering

Education record

Master'S Degree, Computer Science With Artificial Intelligence, Expected 2026