Harshana Perera Email & Phone Number

Wellington, Nz

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

● Creating an automation framework from scratch, and executing, evaluating automation scripts as a regression test.● Collaborating with IT developers, product owners and designers to define testing objectives, scope, strategies, and estimates ensuring product quality of the application. ● Creating detailed test cases that cover various scenarios, including end-to-end and API testing. ● Conducting integration, smoke, system, regression, end-to-end, exploratory, and support to UAT testing to enhance the quality of the application.● Identifying, prioritizing, and tracking defects through their lifecycle and resolve technical issues. ● Actively conducting Agile ceremonies, including Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings.● Working closely with development and QA teams, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements and ensure alignment with quality standards.

● Developing comprehensive test cases/mind maps aligned with identified requirements, ensuring tasks are prioritized and understanding of use cases to achieve high level of quality.● Conducting test case walkthroughs and application walkthroughs to identify the change impact.● Performing smoke, functional, backend, regression, and end-to-end testing.● Reporting defects and participating defect triage meetings to review and prioritize issues. ● Validating database manipulations and ETL processes by comparing source and target data using SQL queries.● Participating in Agile ceremonies, providing input and insights into the Agile process.● Offering constructive feedback on quality assurance processes and procedures to ensure application runs smoothly and meets client needs.● Sharing knowledge and best practices with other test analysts and mentoring and coaching fellow team members in Agile practices.

● Writing test automation suites using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG from scratch using Selenium WebDriver, REST Assured and TestNG, applying the Page Object Model.● Executing and evaluating automation scripts as a regression test.● Engaging in all phases of the QA life cycle, including requirement analysis, test planning, test case management, and test execution, ensuring compatibility with iOS, Android, and Web platforms.● Designing SQL-based test data for comprehensive test coverage across different scenarios.● Establishing guidelines and quality standards to ensure expected system outcomes. ● Conducting quality inspections, including reviews and walkthroughs.● Maintaining test result documents and defect reports.● Escalating risks, issues, communicating status updates and taking responsibility for QA sign-off. ● Proposing ideas for enhancing IT system improvements and business continuity. ● Creating User Acceptance Test (UAT) scenarios and test data to support end users effectively.● Maintaining positive work relationships with stakeholders to foster successful partnerships.● Acting in the capacity of a Certified Scrum Master, creating tasks for sprints and facilitating agile project management practices to all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).● Adhering to Agile methodologies and actively participating in meetings including Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings.

● Engaging in all phases of the QA life cycle, including business requirement and test analysis, scheduling, test planning, and test execution.● Conducting smoke testing, system testing, regression testing and end-to-end testing.● Validating transactions generated by daily/monthly cron jobs to ensure accuracy of financial data.● Conducting comprehensive testing of APIs using tools such as Postman and Swagger. ● Validating JSON data payloads exchanged between client and server endpoints.● Ensuring seamless integration and functionality of REST APIs (Postman), including third-party integrations like Stripe payment gateway.● Ensuring PCI DSS and GDPR compliance through thorough analysis and implementation of security measures, including data encryption and access controls.● Working with the development and test teams to investigate defects and troubleshoot issues.

Bachelor Of Information & Communication Technology, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: • Captain of the Rugby Team of University of Colombo (2010) • Vice-Captain of the Rugby Team ( Inter University.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Education record

Activities and Societies: • Senior Member of Ananda College Rugby Team(2004/2006)