Prabhavi Weerasekara

Experience

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  London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

  May 2013 - Jan 2014

  QA/ Business Analyst Intern

  Part of the London Stock Exchange Group, Millennium IT is a premier technology solution provider serving the global capital markets industry.✅Conducted interviews and workshops with stakeholders to gather requirements and developed comprehensive user stories, whilst allocating them into sprints using agile methodologies.✅ Developed automated test cases using VeriFIX test automation tool and XML scripts whilst managing updates based on functional changes and new releases. This helped to improve defect detection efficiency by 8% and reduced maintenance costs.✅ Conducted comprehensive regression testing (automated and manual) and implemented customised tracking sheets to report defects and troubleshoot errors, improving turnaround time by 10%.✅ Logged bugs in JIRA and collaborated with the development team to introduce progress tracking dashboards integrated with all teams, enhancing the visibility of risks and dependencies. Show less

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  Attune

  Apr 2015 - Jun 2019

  Application Support Executive

  ✅ Led a team of 4 and developed comprehensive management reports on a weekly and monthly basis after extracting information from a packaged Software (PSA- Professional Services Automation), increasing the quality of management decision making from 65% to 98%.✅ Collaborated with the Financial force team to develop and deploy a mobile application of the PSA system, simplifying user journeys for lodging expenses and time cards. This improved 25% processing efficiency and overall data availability and consistency.✅ Conducted comprehensive system upgrades, partnering with the Financial force team and system administrators. The newly added features enhanced the workflows and improved user experience scores from 75% - 80%.✅ Provided application support for global and internal users via phone, email, video and built customised workflows on help desk management tool to prioritise and auto escalate incidents, improving incident resolution KPI's by 5%.✅ Managed change requests, requirements gathering, change impact assessment, testing and implementation for key system enhancements including country-specific leave management customisation and automated project management pipelines which improved data accuracy by 30% and overall transparency.✅ Developed interactive user manuals tailored for different user groups enhancing knowledge sharing capability and user training effectiveness by 25%. Show less

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  Tiimely

  Jan 2022 - Feb 2024

  Software Test Engineer

  ✅Analysing complex user stories and financial calculations to develop robust test scenarios and cases for home loan application process within the Fintech sector. ✅Designing and implementing automated test scripts using Playwright and TypeScript, resulting in a 50% reduction in manual testing efforts. Proficient in utilizing GitLab for efficient code merging. ✅Leveraging Postman to conduct thorough API testing, ensuring the reliability and functionality of diverse endpoints and payloads. Utilizing Postman collection runner to streamline testing processes. ✅Conducting comprehensive UI testing to ensure the visual consistency, functionality, and usability of both web and mobile applications, employing BrowserStack for optimal testing environments. ✅Developing and executing comprehensive test plans across multiple software projects, leading to an 80% increase in defect detection rate. Proactively identifying critical defects during the early stages of development, reducing post-release issues by 80% and minimizing impact on production systems. ✅Conducting regular regression and sanity testing to detect and address defects introduced during bi-weekly release candidate processes. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product owners, and operations, to prioritize testing activities and resolve issues promptly. ✅Documenting test results, reported defects, and their resolutions using JIRA and Zephyr Scale, ensuring comprehensive tracking and verification. Proposing and implementing alternative system designs or solutions, resulting in a 30% improvement in user experience. ✅Participating actively in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and PI Planning, providing testing updates and contributing to process improvement initiatives. ✅Contributing to the enhancement of testing processes and procedures, documenting testing steps and guidelines in Confluence for future training purposes. Show less

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  HomeStart

  May 2024 - now

  Software Test Analyst