I'm a Lead / Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with strong capability across both manual and automated testing of modern web applications. I validate new features, search and filtering functionality, and end-to-end user workflows, including location-dependent behaviors such as timezone handling, ensuring accurate experiences across browsers and devices. My work spans across enterprise lending and banking domains, retail platforms, and e-learning products, with a focus on delivering stable releases and high-quality user experiences. I design, develop, and maintain automated regression suites using Selenium and Go, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous quality assurance. I’m adept at documenting test cases, writing clear defect reports, analysing issues, and collaborating closely with developers, product owners, and distributed teams in Agile environments. I bring deep testing practices, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and a detail-oriented approach to delivering reliable, scalable web applications.

Savindi Gunawardena

I'm a Lead / Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with strong capability across both manual and automated testing of modern web applications. I validate new features, search and filtering functionality, and end-to-end user workflows, including location-dependent behaviors such as timezone handling, ensuring accurate experiences across browsers and devices. My work spans across enterprise lending and banking domains, retail platforms, and e-learning products, with a focus on delivering stable releases and high-quality user experiences. I design, develop, and maintain automated regression suites using Selenium and Go, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous quality assurance. I’m adept at documenting test cases, writing clear defect reports, analysing issues, and collaborating closely with developers, product owners, and distributed teams in Agile environments. I bring deep testing practices, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and a detail-oriented approach to delivering reliable, scalable web applications.

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I’m a Lead / Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with strong capability across both manual and automated testing of modern web applications. I validate new features, search and filtering functionality, and end-to-end user workflows, including location-dependent behaviors such as timezone handling, ensuring accurate experiences across browsers and devices. My work spans across enterprise lending and banking domains, retail platforms, and e-learning products, with a focus on delivering stable releases and high-quality user experiences.

I design, develop, and maintain automated regression suites using Selenium and Go, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous quality assurance. I’m adept at documenting test cases, writing clear defect reports, analysing issues, and collaborating closely with developers, product owners, and distributed teams in Agile environments. I bring deep testing practices, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and a detail-oriented approach to delivering reliable, scalable web applications.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

QA Lead / Senior Quality Assurance Engineer – Home Lending Domain at ANZ Bank
October 1, 2021 - Present
Led enterprise test leadership across large lending and credit-risk transformation programs, ensuring accurate end-to-end data flow, API interactions and downstream updates. Executed manual testing across UI changes, search behaviors, validation rules, and workflow updates; performed browser compatibility checks and verified responsive behavior across devices. Coordinated test environment readiness, test data provisioning, interface mappings, stubs, and dependencies. Executed UI, API, integration, backend, UAT and event-based testing across multiple systems, decision engines, and banking services. Owned and managed defect triage with engineering, vendors, product owners and SMEs, and engaged in root-cause analysis with structured reporting. Introduced GitHub-Jira workflow automation to improve traceability. Designed and implemented automation frameworks for regression and black-box testing across backend APIs, microservices, UI workflows, and cloud-based services and integrated framewo
Senior QA Engineer at Judo Bank
July 1, 2019 - October 1, 2021
Validated end-to-end user workflows across Temenos modules, ensuring accuracy of search, filtering, and form behavior. Defined test strategies, coordinated environments, test data, and end-to-end scenario coverage across multiple streams. Managed defect triage, quality gates, stakeholder communication, and release readiness. Collaborated with product owners, SMEs, Credit Risk, engineers, and operations teams to deliver high-quality releases. Supported production verification, incident analysis, and post-deployment monitoring. Designed and implemented automation frameworks using Selenium, TestNG and Java.
Senior Technical Test Analyst at Planit Testing
June 1, 2016 - October 1, 2021
Drove comprehensive test planning across SIT, UAT, and end-to-end testing phases. Coordinated complex test environments and data setups across Salesforce and core banking systems. Performed structured defect governance, prioritization, and RCA sessions across multi-vendor teams. Developed automation and regression strategies, ensuring readiness for releases.
Senior Technical Test Consultant at National Australia Bank
February 1, 2019 - July 1, 2019
Drove structured SIT/UAT/test planning; coordinated complex test environments and data setups across Salesforce and core banking systems. Executed defect governance, prioritization, and RCA sessions across multi-vendor teams. Developed automation and regression strategies to ensure release readiness.
Automation Consultant at Myer
June 1, 2016 - August 1, 2017
Performed manual UI testing across product pages, search functions, filtering logic, and promotional workflows. Conducted cross-browser testing and uncovered display/responsive defects. Automated repeatable test cases for high-volume regression to improve site stability and release speed. Developed and added test scripts to verify mobile app functionality and automated ETL validation for analytics and marketing campaigns.
QE Lead / Associate QE Lead at Pearson Lanka
February 1, 2008 - April 1, 2016
Led QA for online learning platforms; implemented CI processes and mentored junior QA staff. Drove adoption of Agile and ATDD practices.

Education

MBA at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025
BSc at University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025

Qualifications

ISTQB Advanced Test Manager
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025
ISTQB Foundation
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025
iSQI Certified Business Analyst
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025
Scaled Agile Practitioner
January 11, 2030 - December 8, 2025

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Education, Retail, Professional Services

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert

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