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Anumitha Thalgahagoda

Anumitha Thalgahagoda

Summary

A QA professional with 9 years of experience in test automation for software quality assurance. Experienced in the Team lead role for over 5 years driving automation strategies across multiple products and projects.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

QA Team Lead

GoSee
06.2023 - Current

• Development of test framework for UI automation - Selenium/Java
• Setup bit bucket pipelines for scheduled sanity tests on live
• Conversion of a fully manual QA team to automation QAs by conducting technical trainings and strategizing ramp up opportunities
• Implement QA processes for better collaboration and increased efficiency
• Support the QA team in daily operations
• Managing the collaboration and task distribution across multiple scrum teams
• Performing test plan review, code design reviews and code reviews to maintain quality of deliverables
• Domain expertise in E-commerce

Senior Engineer - QA

Rakuten Viki
09.2022 - 03.2023
  • Design, automate and execute backend tests to validate core platform services (Grey box testing)
  • Conduct POCs and implement new test tools
  • Primary technical expertise in Postman and Karate
  • Secondary technical expertise in GCP, docker and Go-kit
  • Domain expertise in entertainment streaming, payment gateways, payment processing and in app purchases

Associate QA Lead – Automation

Camms
08.2018 - 09.2022
  • Initiating and leading the development of in-house test frameworks for UI and API automation
  • Driving organizational test strategies related to automation across multiple products and projects
  • Working with management and QA team to implement roadmap and processes
  • Defining automation training for new joiners
  • Technical expertise in Selenium, NUnit, Postman, RestSharp and JMeter
  • Domain expertise in integrated software solutions for management of strategy, risk and project

Associate Consultant/Engineer/Associate - QA

Virtusa pvt ltd (Outsourced to LSEG Technology)
06.2015 - 08.2018
  • Quality assuring major stock exchanges in the European market by financial protocol testing
  • Technical expertise in VeriFIX, Java and TestNG
  • QA expertise in test design, test case writing, scripting and execution, conducting sanity and regression testing and implementing CI/CD
  • Domain expertise in equity trading, risk management and market data
  • Liaising with overseas stakeholders

Education

MBA - Project Management

Cardiff Metropolitan University
United Kingdom
2021

HEQ - Professional Graduate Diploma - Information Technology

British Computer Society
United Kingdom
2014

Skills

    QA leadership

    Project management

    Selenium Java TestNG

    Selenium C# NUnit

    Lambda test

    Postman

    RestSharp

    JMeter

    Agile Scrum

    Kanban

Visa status

New Zealand resident

Find me at

www.linkedin.com/in/anumitha-thalgahagoda/

Certification

ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) : 2017

References

Provided upon request 

Timeline

QA Team Lead

GoSee
06.2023 - Current

Senior Engineer - QA

Rakuten Viki
09.2022 - 03.2023

Associate QA Lead – Automation

Camms
08.2018 - 09.2022

Associate Consultant/Engineer/Associate - QA

Virtusa pvt ltd (Outsourced to LSEG Technology)
06.2015 - 08.2018

MBA - Project Management

Cardiff Metropolitan University

HEQ - Professional Graduate Diploma - Information Technology

British Computer Society
Anumitha Thalgahagoda