
Thusitha Bandara

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About me
Senior Test Automation Engineer at NCS Australia
Education

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

Virtusa
Jul 2010 - Feb 2016Senior QA Engineer
Oct 2014 - Feb 2016QA Engineer
Apr 2013 - Sept 2014Associate QA Engineer
Feb 2012 - Mar 2013Associate QA
Jul 2010 - Jan 2012

Pearson
Feb 2016 - May 2019Project - 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 2019Associate Lead Software Quality Engineer
Apr 2017 - Mar 2019Senior Software Quality Engineer
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017

Security Risk
Sept 2019 - Apr 2021Software Test EngineerAs 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 2023QA/Test EngineerResponsibilities:- 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 2024Automation Engineer
NCS Group Australia
Aug 2024 - nowSenior Test Automation Engineer
Licenses & Certifications
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UiPath Certified Professional Associate RPA Developer (UiRPA)
UiPathSept 2023 
Certified Tester - Foundation Level
ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications BoardApr 2013
Certified Tester - Foundation Level Extension (Agile Tester)
ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications BoardApr 2017
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Thusitha BandaraOutstanding Contributor Efficiency Savings 2nd Place Virtusa Sep 2013
- Awarded to Thusitha BandaraPEP Awards (Personal Excellence Process) Virtusa Jan 2012 As a recognition of the commitment and contribution to the delivery during the month of January 2012
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