Thusitha Bandara

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Test Automation Engineer at NCS Australia

  • Education

    • SLIIT

      2008 - 2012
      Bachelor of Science (Hons) Information Technology
  • Experience

    • Virtusa

      Jul 2010 - Feb 2016
      • Senior QA Engineer

        Oct 2014 - Feb 2016
      • QA Engineer

        Apr 2013 - Sept 2014
      • Associate QA Engineer

        Feb 2012 - Mar 2013
      • Associate QA

        Jul 2010 - Jan 2012
    • Pearson

      Feb 2016 - May 2019

      Project - StorefrontsOverview - E-commerce application which sells and manage learning productsAs a test lead, I was involved in - Guide the team towards successful project delivery - Come up with quality management plans for releases and review with project stakeholders - Estimate the user stories by analyzing the scope and clarifying the scope, Requirements, use cases, and code components - Identifying risks, issues, and dependencies and tracking them to closure or escalate if needed - Monitor progress of all client deliverable - Maintain test automation suites - Perform interviews to recruit new resources - Ramp up new resourcesTools and Technologies: - HP ALM - Atlassian JIRA - Atlassian Confluence - Java - Eclipse - Selenium Web driver - Rest Assured - POSTMAN - Colour Contrast Analyser - Bit Bucket - Jenkins Show less

      • Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer

        Apr 2019 - May 2019
      • Associate Lead Software Quality Engineer

        Apr 2017 - Mar 2019
      • Senior Software Quality Engineer

        Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
    • Security Risk

      Sept 2019 - Apr 2021
      Software Test Engineer

      As a software test engineer, I was involved in;- Native mobile and web application testing- Mobile test automation with Appium- API testing with POSTMAN and RESTAssured- Test case writing- Scrum ceremoniesTools and Technologies:- JIRA- TestRails- Confluence- InteilJ Idea- Java- Appium- POSTMAN- RESTAssured

    • HappyCo

      May 2021 - Jun 2023
      QA/Test Engineer

      Responsibilities:- Ensure the quality of web and mobile apps and the platform by designing and executing manual and automated test cases- Continually deliver improved QA outcomes to deliver high-quality software products- Collaboratively work with the product team members (Product Owner, Product designers and Engineers) to come up with solutions to user problems- Actively participate in agile ceremonies – Daily stand-ups, Sprint planning, backlog refinement sessions, product demos and sprint retrospectives - Write new automated tests and maintain existing automated tests for web and mobile apps using Selenium and Appium using Java- Perform API testing for Rest APIs using Postman- Investigate, report and evaluate bugsTools & Technologies:- Jira- TestRail- Selenium- Appium (Appium Flutter Driver)- Java- GitLab- Jenkins- Eclipse- DBeaver- SauceLabs- Confluence- Slack- Notion- Gong Show less

    • AccessHQ

      Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
      Automation Engineer
    • NCS Group Australia

      Aug 2024 - now
      Senior Test Automation Engineer
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • UiPath Certified Professional Associate RPA Developer (UiRPA)

      UiPath
      Sept 2023
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    • Certified Tester - Foundation Level

      ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
      Apr 2013
    • Certified Tester - Foundation Level Extension (Agile Tester)

      ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
      Apr 2017
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Thusitha Bandara
      Outstanding Contributor Efficiency Savings 2nd Place Virtusa Sep 2013
    • Awarded to Thusitha Bandara
      PEP Awards (Personal Excellence Process) Virtusa Jan 2012 As a recognition of the commitment and contribution to the delivery during the month of January 2012