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PRADEEPANI KOSWATTE

PRADEEPANI KOSWATTE

Lead - Software Quality Assurance
8A Kiltie Avenue, Windsor Gardens,South Australia

Summary

A seasoned QA professional with 10+ years' experience in delivering high-quality products to the leading clients across the globe in the domains of automotive, travel, healthcare, hospitality, and education.


Capable of setting and adopting quality assurance procedures including agile / scrum techniques, creating test plans, and executing functional & regression test scenarios.


Competent in API/Web/Mobile testing, and related automation.


Strong business communication, analytics and leadership skills play an important role in a product development team that supports successfully managing production releases, refining issues and upgrading their signature products.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Lead - Software Quality Assurance

Random Software Ltd
5 2021 - Current

Domain Exposure: Automotive

  • Member of company Executive Leadership Committee and set quarterly rocks on behalf of the QA team
  • Lead the QA team as reporting manager of the QA team
  • Simultaneously handle multiple teams and oversee all testing phases to ensure delivery of software products
  • Build test automation rocks for each quarter, create automation roadmaps and guide automation resources to build stable test executions
  • Prepare analysis dashboards for company Executive Leadership Committee considering relevant KPIs
  • Design and implement manual and automated quality assurance standards, and develop automation test frameworks based on Cypress, Selenium, and Reflect.run
  • Prepare technical documents Prepare documentation for Quality Management Plan
  • Conduct recruitment interviews, trainings, mentoring programs, 1-1 sessions, employee performance evaluations and design onboarding plans
  • Member of the company audit team & conduct audits to achieve delivery excellence model and conduct QA reviews and supervision
  • Introduce new tools, and plugins platforms and provide recommendations on courses and trainings
  • Involve in scrum ceremonies (e.g.: Daily scrum, Planning poker, Backlog grooming, Sprint reviews, Sprint retrospective and Defect triage meetings)
  • Conduct and manage all activities in the software testing life cycle, including analyzing requirement documents, test designing and test case writing, test execution, defect management & regression testing
  • Create workflows for startup projects using mapping tools
  • Refactor regression test scenarios and keep regression test suits up to date
  • Perform and investigate in root course analysis

Senior Engineer - Software Quality Assurance

CodeGen International
1 2018 - 4 2021

Domain Exposure: Travel, Education

  • Performing a QA Lead role while being responsible for all activities in the software testing life cycle, including analyzing requirement documents, test designing and test case writing, test execution, defect management, retesting & regression testing
  • Conducting QA reviews & feedback sessions, taking part in project audits, security audits & QA process follow-ups and setting up project processes according to company standards
  • Contributing to resolve production issues & client queries and to deliver hotfixes when required
  • Implementation of automation regression test suits in project level using company framework developed based on Selenium
  • Conducting Rest API testing using SoapUI, Postman, Cucumber/Rest Assured
  • Preparing load test scripts using JMeter.
  • Taking part and performing in scrum ceremonies (e.g.: backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews and defect triage meetings)
  • Release and defect cycle management while optimizing the delivery quality
  • Handling QA sign-off with third-party companies for product delivery
  • Setting up jobs in Jenkins to run scheduled automation test suites
  • Performing product demonstrations to clients, providing client and production environment support

Engineer - Software Quality Assurance

CodeGen International
9 2015 - 1 2018
  • Domain Exposure: Travel
  • Performing manual testing covering functional/nonfunctional features, integration testing, automation testing, and web service/API testing on Java, Angular, Json and iOS platforms including all activities in software testing lifecycle
  • Validating system features through server logs and database queries
  • Performing manual testing on third-party integrated systems for flights, hotels, and payment gateways
  • Conducting smoke & sanity testing after UAT, staging and production promotion

Associate Engineer - Quality Assurance

Virtusa
01.2013 - 08.2014

Domain Exposure: Healthcare, Hospitality

  • Functional and non-functional mobile application testing leading to agile software development
  • Functional testing related to Client/Server applications, Computer Integrated Communication Systems testing, regression testing, stress testing and integration testing under the project.
  • Testing process requirement analysis, test case writing and execution, logging defects, preparing test reports, and documenting Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases

Intern - Revenue Optimization

Sri Lanka Airlines
06.2012 - 10.2012
  • Developed math modelling to optimize air ticket pricing

Education

Bachelor of Science - Applied Sciences

Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya
Sri Lanka
01.2008 - 11.2012

Diploma in Information Technology -

University of Colombo School of Computing
Sri Lanka
05.2001 - 2010.05

Master of Science - Geographical Information Systems

Postgraduate Institute of Science
Sri Lanka
05.2001 -

Skills

Manual Testing Proficiency

Risk-Based Testing Approach

Defect Tracking Management

Test Coverage Analysis

Quality Metrics Analysis

Test Process Improvement

Test Tool Selection

User Acceptance Testing

Regression Testing Techniques

API Testing Experience

Test plan creation

Manual Testing Proficiency

Tools, Environment and Technologies Experience

Postman, SoapUI, MySQL, Oracle SQL Developer, MongoDB, Cypress Framework, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, JMeter Source Tree App, Bit Bucket, Version control tools such as GitLab DevOps platform, Idea IntelliJ, MarathonITE, Microsoft Visual Studio, Reflect.run, Selenium IDE, BrowserStack, Jira, Test link, AIO test, MindMup, Figma, Mindomo, AWS & GCP Cloud Providers Platforms, HP Quality Center, Clear Quest, Clear Case, IBM DB2, Azure DevOps, Target Process, Bugzilla, Help Scout, Segment, Slack, G-suit, Xshell, MobaXterm, FileZilla, Front, Asana, Clockify, Web Work Tracker, Zoom

Certification

Certified Tester Foundation Level from International Software Testing Qualifications Board (CTFL-ISTQB)

Timeline

Associate Engineer - Quality Assurance

Virtusa
01.2013 - 08.2014

Intern - Revenue Optimization

Sri Lanka Airlines
06.2012 - 10.2012

Bachelor of Science - Applied Sciences

Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya
01.2008 - 11.2012

Diploma in Information Technology -

University of Colombo School of Computing
05.2001 - 2010.05

Master of Science - Geographical Information Systems

Postgraduate Institute of Science
05.2001 -

Lead - Software Quality Assurance

Random Software Ltd
5 2021 - Current

Senior Engineer - Software Quality Assurance

CodeGen International
1 2018 - 4 2021

Engineer - Software Quality Assurance

CodeGen International
9 2015 - 1 2018
Certified Tester Foundation Level from International Software Testing Qualifications Board (CTFL-ISTQB)
Software Quality Assurance using Test Automation Frameworks from University of Colombo School of Computing
Test Automation University online education platform certifications for Java Programming, Cypress, Service API through automation (Credits- Pegasus)
PRADEEPANI KOSWATTELead - Software Quality Assurance