Saliya Gunawardena
Specialist Quality Assurance
Gonapola
Summary
ISTQB certified, motivated SDET over 7 years, over 11 years of quality assurance expertise, seeking a Senior Automation Engineer position. A Team player, Reduced regression lead time by over 70%. Crafted automation frameworks from sketch. Led teams for nearly 5 years. Reduced troubleshooting time by 50%. Interacted with stakeholders to improve processes and quality. Well-mannered, passionate to improve quality, a positive attitude and a believer that communication makes it a key to success.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
11
11
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Specialist Quality Assurance
LSEG Technology
10.2023 - Current
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals on time and within budget.
- Followed all company policies and procedures to deliver quality work.
- Led quality assurance efforts, maintaining high standards for all products and services.
- Improved stakeholder satisfaction by proactively identifying issues early in development.
- Keeping track of story statuses of team and reporting them in lead meetings highlighting any project risks.
- Improved regression pass rates by 30%, analyzing failures and guiding team on how to troubleshoot automation regression failures.
- Keeping team motivated in stressful circumstances to reduce risk of people leaving from project team
QUALITY ASSURANCE-TECHNOLOGY
Binance
7 2022 - 08.2023
- Led the testing for 3 projects simultaneously in an international fast-paced environment, a remote globally distributed team using the best QA practices strategies, exploratory testing and regression plans for each release
- Reduced issue leakage to production by 60% to 80% through planning and designing appropriate functional testing test cases and test execution
- Achieved 5 minutes of regression automated tests from 6 hours of regression testing
- Define and implement Cypress and JavaScript automation testing framework from the sketch within 3 months
- Identified the automation test scope and approach to implement cross-browser automation for regression
- Analyzing results of industry trends and implemented Visual Tests using Applitools with Cypress framework to capture the slightest front-end web changes before releases
- Provided detail-oriented lighthouse report to achieve sub 1 second loading time from more than 3 seconds
SENIOR SCRIPTING TESTER
Qatar Development Bank
07.2020 - 06.2022
- Reduced regression time to 10 minutes by implementing a new open-source Cypress and JavaScript automation framework utilizing Page Object Model from the 8 hours of regression testing
- Managed the automation engineering team and create independent test automation scripts, execute and maintain them in the GIT repository
- Reduced the banking requirement gaps by involving in meetings with stakeholders and customer complaints
- Assisted the team to deliver successful demos in financial systems and CRM solutions to the stakeholders
- Reduced the manual release time by implementing continuous integration pipelines in Azure DevOps
- Implemented Safari browser playwright extension to Cypress which are emerging technologies
- Conducted workshops in Atlassian tools like JIRA and Confluence for the team management
SENIOR QA ENGINEER (Team Lead)
Sprii DMCC
05.2019 - 07.2020
- Company Overview: Sprii DMCC was a Dubai-based eCommerce platform that sold and delivered baby and mother products to GCC countries
- The Sri Lankan branch was responsible for maintaining the Magento web application for the company
- Lead a small Sri Lankan software QA team and trained them for Selenium / Java automation framework while sending in written and verbal communication of testing results to the senior management
- Guided the QA team showing my mentoring skills to improve their knowledge about test strategy, communication skills and Selenium test automation
- Reduced the regression testing effort by 75% by implementing innovative Selenium, Java and TestNG automation frameworks and continuous improvement
- Structured the QA process by introducing test plans, smoke tests, exploratory tests and automation regressions
- Provide training to Improve team productivity on the best practices such as test designing using Mind Maps
- Sprii DMCC was a Dubai-based eCommerce platform that sold and delivered baby and mother products to GCC countries
- The Sri Lankan branch was responsible for maintaining the Magento web application for the company
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT QA
LSEG Technology
11.2014 - 05.2019
- Manage a team and plotted collaborative plans with the senior management and stakeholders for the project
- Fast adaptability to new tools like VeriFix APIs test tool, integration testing and MindJet mind map tool
- Unblocked colleagues using my creative problem-solving skills to troubleshoot project-related issues on time
- Adapted Agile methodologies from waterfall, Test-Driven Development & Behavior Driven Development methods and support to colleagues to better understand the concepts
- Overlooked the scrum master role and hands-on decision-making skills when necessary to meet deadlines
- Collaborate with the development team to create a selenium test framework for test-driven development
- Achieved 100% conversion from legacy automation scripts to new Selenium and Java framework
- Improved team bonding by organizing activities like Go Karting, musical and digital gaming sessions
QA ANALYST
Reservations Gateway Private Limited
04.2014 - 10.2014
- Company Overview: Reservations Gateway Sri Lanka is the development centre accountable for releasing new products to different clients around the world
- Self-learnt the base product to jump-start the test case writing process for web technology
- Created test cases for new clients and proceeded to self-learn the JIRA defect management system
- Identify defects and verify the fixed issues in other projects and reduced the release time of new projects
- Learnt the mobile manual testing in the product's iOS and Android mobile apps
- Reservations Gateway Sri Lanka is the development centre accountable for releasing new products to different clients around the world
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Sky Management Systems (Pvt) Ltd
05.2013 - 10.2013
- Company Overview: Sky Management Systems (Private) Limited is a product company in Sri Lanka which provided Project Management Systems to civil, mechanical and road construction clients in different countries
- Used the software quality assurance standards to reduce issues by 50% to enhance the quality of the system
- Contributed to develop Cirrus Project Management System using MVC architecture in PHP programming skills
- Sky Management Systems (Private) Limited is a product company in Sri Lanka which provided Project Management Systems to civil, mechanical and road construction clients in different countries
INTERN QA
Virtusa Private Limited
06.2012 - 12.2012
- Assisted the QA leader to prepare deliverables such as test reports and defect traceability matrices
- Understand the QA process, test data sets, unit testing and software development lifecycles and learn the defect life cycle
Education
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - Business Administration
PIM (University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Colombo, 11 01.2016 - 12.2018
BSC in MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Management Information Systems
NSBM / NIBM
Colombo, 11 10.2010 - 12.2013
Skills
Test Automation
Decision-Making
Problem-Solving
Resource Allocation
Emergency Response
Documentation Management
Expert Problem Solving
Root Cause Analysis
Quality Assurance
Team Leading
Automation Framework Building
Test Automation
Certification
Software Test Automation
Timeline
Specialist Quality Assurance
LSEG Technology
10.2023 - Current
SENIOR SCRIPTING TESTER
Qatar Development Bank
07.2020 - 06.2022
Software Test Automation
11-2019
SENIOR QA ENGINEER (Team Lead)
Sprii DMCC
05.2019 - 07.2020
ISTQB CTFL
03-2018
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION - Business Administration
PIM (University of Sri Jayewardenepura
01.2016 - 12.2018
ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT QA
LSEG Technology
11.2014 - 05.2019
QA ANALYST
Reservations Gateway Private Limited
04.2014 - 10.2014
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Sky Management Systems (Pvt) Ltd
05.2013 - 10.2013
INTERN QA
Virtusa Private Limited
06.2012 - 12.2012
BSC in MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Management Information Systems
NSBM / NIBM
10.2010 - 12.2013
QUALITY ASSURANCE-TECHNOLOGY
Binance
7 2022 - 08.2023