Manasi Pathirana
45 Gordon Cct Warner
Summary
Degree and ISTQB advanced level qualified software tester with twelve years of experience in quality assurance and testing within the entire software development life cycle in agile and traditional environments using latest technologies, frameworks and tools.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Test Analyst
Alliance Software Pty Ltd
04.2022 - Current
- Leading QA Processes: Experienced in leading the entire quality assurance process, including introducing new processes and technologies related to testing.
- Project Management: Skilled in time estimation, scope management, task prioritization, resource allocation, and ensuring on-time delivery of projects.
- Test Planning and Execution: Proficient in creating comprehensive test suites and test plans, conducting manual functional, system integration, and regression testing.
- Defect Management: Capable of reporting, investigating, replicating, and retesting defects encountered during testing phases.
- Test Automation: Designed and developed a test automation framework using Playwright and Cypress, enhancing efficiency and reliability of testing processes.
- Database Testing: Conducted database level testing using SQL, ensuring data integrity and accuracy in applications.
- Requirement Analysis: Able to analyze and interpret requirement specification documents for new development projects, ensuring alignment with testing objectives.
- Reporting and Analysis: Experienced in analyzing test activities and generating reports to support Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) procedures.
- Stakeholder Communication: Skilled in participating in project meetings, providing QA and testing status updates, and effectively communicating with stakeholders to manage testing activities and address project needs.
Software Test Analyst
Alliance Software Pty Ltd
05.2016 - 04.2022
- Leading entire quality assurance process by introducing new processors and technology relating to testing
- Responsible for time estimations, scope management, task prioritization, resource allocations and on time delivery
- Be proficient in creating comprehensive and well-structured test suite and test plans
- Conduct manual functional, system integration and regression testing
- Report, investigate, replicate and retest defects
- Designed and developed a test automation framework using Playwright and Cypress
- Conduct database level testing using SQL
- Analyse and interpret requirement specification documents in new development projects
- Analyse test activities and generate reports to support SDLC procedures
- Participated in project related meetings and provided information required for the meetings as far as the QA and testing status was concerned
- Communicate with stakeholders to identify needs and manage testing activities accordingly.
E-Learning Engineer
Volume Technology Centre Pvt Ltd
03.2015 - 10.2015
- Prepared study materials referring to story boards using JavaScript, CSS and Adobe technologies
- Done testing and reported bugs and issues found to other developers using Microsoft Team Foundation Server.
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
CodeGen International Pvt Ltd
09.2011 - 03.2015
- Leadership and Commitment: Led the entire quality assurance process across five projects, ensuring adherence to QA standards and objectives.
- Test Planning and Execution: Planned and executed various types of tests including Functional, Regression, Integration, and Load tests, ensuring comprehensive coverage of testing requirements.
- Team Leadership: Managed and led a team of 5+ test analysts throughout the testing lifecycle, fostering collaboration and ensuring efficient testing processes.
- Environment Preparation: Responsible for preparing test environments post-deployment, ensuring readiness for testing activities.
- Release Quality Assessment: Made critical decisions regarding the quality of each project release by generating bug reports and summarizing test case execution results.
- Documentation: Created functional documents, user manuals, and system change documents to support project deliverables and ensure clear communication.
- Reporting and Stakeholder Communication: Documented test progress and results, provided updates on testing activities to stakeholders, and collaborated closely with project managers, product managers, developers, and business analysts.
Education
ANZTB Certified Tester Advanced Test Analysis -
09.2017
Master of Information and Communication Technology -
University of Colombo - Sri Lanka
05.2015
Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology -
University of Colombo - Sri Lanka
09.2011
Certificate IV in EAL (Employment/Professional) -
03.2016
Skills
- Testing Experience: Proficient in Functional testing, System Integration testing, Regression testing, Cross-browser/device testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) across complex and real-time web-based, standalone, and mobile software systems
- Defect Management: Sound experience in defect management and detailed bug reporting, ensuring issues are identified, tracked, and resolved effectively
- Test Case Creation and Execution: Specialized in creating and executing both functional and non-functional test cases, ensuring thorough testing coverage
- Automation Testing: Extensive experience in creating and executing automation tests using Playwright and Cypress, improving efficiency and reliability of testing processes
- Stakeholder Management: Worked closely with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment of testing activities with project goals and requirements
- Technical Documentation: Excellent technical writing skills demonstrated in creating test plans, user manuals, user stories, and release notes, facilitating clear communication and documentation of project deliverables
- Innovative Problem Solving: Ability to think outside the box and find creative and innovative solutions to complex testing challenges
- Industry Best Practices: Adherence to industry best practices in testing methodologies and standards, ensuring quality and consistency in deliverables
- Qualifications and Tools: ISTQB advanced level qualified, with proficiency in tools such as TestRail, JIRA, Bugzilla, Confluence, BrowserStack, Postman, SoapUI, GitLab, GitHub, MySQL, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Python, and familiarity with operating systems like Windows and macOS Also skilled in tools like Postmark, PyCharm, and InVision
Professional referees
Referees provided upon request.
Timeline
Senior Software Test Analyst
Alliance Software Pty Ltd
04.2022 - Current
Software Test Analyst
Alliance Software Pty Ltd
05.2016 - 04.2022
E-Learning Engineer
Volume Technology Centre Pvt Ltd
03.2015 - 10.2015
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
CodeGen International Pvt Ltd
09.2011 - 03.2015
ANZTB Certified Tester Advanced Test Analysis -
Master of Information and Communication Technology -
University of Colombo - Sri Lanka
Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology -
University of Colombo - Sri Lanka
Certificate IV in EAL (Employment/Professional) -
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