Cryptocurrency & blockchain
Lakmal Nanayakkara
Senior QA Engineer
Kollupitiya
Overview
5
5
Certificates
4
4
Test automation experience
2
2
Remote experience
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Language
Summary
Result-oriented QA Professional with over nine years of experience in the domains of health care, data warehousing, stock market, travel & logistics, eCommerce, and eLearning. Professional experience in offshore, on-site, and remote teams with clients worldwide. Diversified hands-on experience and expertise in testing activities in an agile environment. Over four years of practical experience in mobile, web, API test automation & performance. Proven track record of enhancing productivity and quality through automation and best practices.
Work History
Software Quality Assurance Architect
Creative Software
Remote
07.2022 - Current
- Manual testing on mobile (Android & iOS), web and backend.
- Test automation (UI) - mobile, web using testProject, Selenium & Appium tools.
- Test case design, creation, traceability against requirements, and test execution using Quality centre and Azure DevOps.
- Automation scripting in different automation tools/frameworks
- Review requirements and specifications to provide timely and meaningful feedback
- Back-end | API tests using Soap UI & JMeter
- Implementing testing procedures and overseeing QA process
- Well-structured & detailed test plan preparation in Jira / confluence
- Reviewing quality assurance reports
- Ensuring successful deliver and deployment of products
- Responding to requests from team and management
- Black-box, white-box, and grey-box testing
- Functional, system, regression, end-to-end, data integrity, smoke, and ad hoc tests
- Communication skills - Actively communicate with stakeholders of projects.
- Work with local or onsite product owners, developers and UX/UI designers
- Leadership skills – experience coaching and mentoring teams of 2 to 3 members
- Agile methodologies - hand on experience working in agile environment.
- Delivered services to customer locations within specific timeframes.
- Increased customer satisfaction by resolving issues.
Quality Assurance Lead Engineer / Senior QA Lead Engineer
Creative Software
Colombo
01.2016 - 06.2022
- Performed multiple black-box, white-box, and grey-box tests to test mobile frameworks and apps
- Performed functional, system, end-to-end, data integrity, smoke, regression, and ad hoc tests
- Automated end-to-end user flows using Ranorex test automation tool
- Wrote test script using vb.net to overcome issues arising when recording and playback in Ranorex
- Automated web-based interface with selenium
- Perform data encryption test using Wireshark tool
- Collaborated with development team to verify SQL database tests
- Performed integrated tests with support of development team
- Developed detailed and structured test plans
Quality Assurance Engineer / Senior QA Engineer
Virtusa
Colombo
05.2013 - 12.2015
- Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
- Documented integration issues and vulnerabilities and outlined improvement recommendations.
- Scope : Mobile, web, desktop
- Responsibilities:
- Closely worked with QA management and development teams in USA & UK
- Performed multiple types of black-box, white-box, and grey-box tests
- Set up and troubleshoot windows, Linux, Unix, and sun Solaris test environments with SQL database
- Understand complex business domains to design corresponding testing scenarios, functional tests, load tests, stress tests, etc., required for ensuring system quality
- Developed comprehensive qualitative and effective test scenarios, test plans, and test cases based on functional documents and business requirements in quality centre
- Prepared test data for interpreting positive/negative results
- Involved in preparing test data to test key functionalities in latest builds
- Uses Jira to update status of defects and log new bugs
- Improved existing test automation frameworks (selenium) and infrastructure
Skills
Software quality assurance
Manual testing
Test automation
Performance testing
QA Process improvement
Productivity improvment
Communication
Leadership skills
Education
Bsc (Hons) - Computer Science
Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
Malabe, Sri LankaCertification
Reading for ISTQB
Accomplishments
- Best Project of the year (Virtusa Global) year 2014.
- Implemented API test monitoring dashboard.
- Automated 75% of smoke tests reduced total testing cost by 25%.
- The enhanced overall quality assurance process in 6 projects and eliminate bottlenecks.
- Introduced the JMeter tool and identified critical performance issues, such as calling the same service multiple times.
Interests
Artificial intelligence (AI) & machine learning (ML)
Working remotely in a multicultural environment
Productivity & quality improvement
References
Morten Granum
Consultant – Bouvet ASA (former product manager at dips)
Bergen area, Norway
+4796900613
morten.granum@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/mgranum
Sandun Weerasinghe
Consultant – Delante AS (former manager software development at creative software)
Colombo, Sri Lanka (remote)
+94718677861
sandunweera@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/sandun-weerasinghe/
Recommendations in LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakmal-nanayakkara-qa/
Tools
- TestProject
- Selenium
- Soap UI
- JMeter
- Postman
- Appium
- Azure DevOps
- Jira
- Quality Centre
- Python
- Oracle
- SQL
- Jenkins
Tools
- Selenium
- TestProject
- Soap UI
- JMeter
- Postman
- Azure DevOps
- Jira
- Quality Centre
- Cypress
- Python
- Appium
- Oracle
- SQL
Recommendations in LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakmal-nanayakkara-qa/
References
Morten Granum
Consultant – Bouvet ASA (former product manager at dips)
Bergen area, Norway
+4796900613
morten.granum@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/mgranum
Sandun Weerasinghe
Consultant – Delante AS (former manager software development at creative software)
Colombo, Sri Lanka (remote)
+94718677861
sandunweera@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/sandun-weerasinghe/