Nawanga Hewawasam
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Sinhalese Full professional proficiency
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Bashini Maduwanthi Dewage
It was a great pleasure to work with Nawanga at Virtusa for 1year in several projects including clients from USA and Indonesia. He is one of the most dedicated person i have ever worked with and he is always willing to help new joiners in sharing his knowledge and expertise. He is a domain specialist and he was able to clearly share the domain knowledge with his fellow members in the team when ever needed. His UI automation and analytical skills are really admirable. Nawnaga would become an appreciated member of any team.
Ashinka Sadeepani
It was my pleasure that I got an opportunity to work with such an efficient and skillful person for a period of one year and he exhibited the leadership qualities that were necessary for his success during his tenure as Quality Assurance Engineer. He always willing to help and ask for nothing in return, truly a remarkable quality.Nawanga always try to follow industrial best-practices and of course he would become an appreciated member of any team.
Bashini Maduwanthi Dewage
It was a great pleasure to work with Nawanga at Virtusa for 1year in several projects including clients from USA and Indonesia. He is one of the most dedicated person i have ever worked with and he is always willing to help new joiners in sharing his knowledge and expertise. He is a domain specialist and he was able to clearly share the domain knowledge with his fellow members in the team when ever needed. His UI automation and analytical skills are really admirable. Nawnaga would become an appreciated member of any team.
Ashinka Sadeepani
It was my pleasure that I got an opportunity to work with such an efficient and skillful person for a period of one year and he exhibited the leadership qualities that were necessary for his success during his tenure as Quality Assurance Engineer. He always willing to help and ask for nothing in return, truly a remarkable quality.Nawanga always try to follow industrial best-practices and of course he would become an appreciated member of any team.
Bashini Maduwanthi Dewage
It was a great pleasure to work with Nawanga at Virtusa for 1year in several projects including clients from USA and Indonesia. He is one of the most dedicated person i have ever worked with and he is always willing to help new joiners in sharing his knowledge and expertise. He is a domain specialist and he was able to clearly share the domain knowledge with his fellow members in the team when ever needed. His UI automation and analytical skills are really admirable. Nawnaga would become an appreciated member of any team.
Ashinka Sadeepani
It was my pleasure that I got an opportunity to work with such an efficient and skillful person for a period of one year and he exhibited the leadership qualities that were necessary for his success during his tenure as Quality Assurance Engineer. He always willing to help and ask for nothing in return, truly a remarkable quality.Nawanga always try to follow industrial best-practices and of course he would become an appreciated member of any team.
Bashini Maduwanthi Dewage
It was a great pleasure to work with Nawanga at Virtusa for 1year in several projects including clients from USA and Indonesia. He is one of the most dedicated person i have ever worked with and he is always willing to help new joiners in sharing his knowledge and expertise. He is a domain specialist and he was able to clearly share the domain knowledge with his fellow members in the team when ever needed. His UI automation and analytical skills are really admirable. Nawnaga would become an appreciated member of any team.
Ashinka Sadeepani
It was my pleasure that I got an opportunity to work with such an efficient and skillful person for a period of one year and he exhibited the leadership qualities that were necessary for his success during his tenure as Quality Assurance Engineer. He always willing to help and ask for nothing in return, truly a remarkable quality.Nawanga always try to follow industrial best-practices and of course he would become an appreciated member of any team.
Credentials
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Certification in ISTQB - Currently Following
ISTQB® - International Software Testing Qualifications BoardJan, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Diploma in Computer System Design
National Institute of Business Management (NIBM - Sri Lanka)Oct, 2016- Oct, 2024 -
Higher Diploma in Computer based Information Systems
National Institute of Business Management (NIBM - Sri Lanka)Aug, 2015- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Agrimaster
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Australia
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Accounting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Test Analyst
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Nov 2022 - Present
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Risk Management Technologies
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Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Test Analyst
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May 2022 - Nov 2022
✔️ Reviewing and documenting test cases, test scripts, test scenarios, test data sets and test environments to ensure alignment with organizational standards and best practices. ✔️ Conducted end-to-end testing for each module and introduced changes for automated scripts using Selenium and Cucumber frameworks,improving test coverage by 15% and overall reusability. ✔️ Collaborated with the wider quality assurance team to review functional specifications and update acceptance criteria, improving the clarity of scope and project deliverables. ✔️ Attended Scrum ceremonies including daily standups, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives whilst collaborating with the technical leads to implement a risk and dependency register, improving the number of releases per month. ✔️ Debugged, diagnosed and corrected errors and faults in the test scripts, introduced new workflows and automation in the JIRA defect management tool, improving resolution time by 10%. ✔️ Developed detailed reports to showcase findings, bottlenecks and areas of improvement and shared them across multiple stakeholders, improving decision- making. ✔️ Conducting usability tests on new products and features and providing recommendations to improve design decisions, simplicity and user experience. Show less
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Virtusa
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Automation Associate Specialist
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Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
Project – M & T Bank (US)✔️ Led a team of 5 and coached the team to understand the expectations of the project, adapt to changes whilst continuously improving efficiencies which led to achieving deadlines successfully.✔️ Developed test plans, test execution strategy and partnered with Software engineering team lead to refining t-shirt size estimate for effort and the definition of "done". This improved accuracy and transparency across the IT team.✔️ Participated in scrum ceremonies, progress review meetings and created comprehensive mitigation plans to control risks efficiently.✔️ Partnered with the development team to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, which resulted in improving Mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 8%. Show less
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Associate Automation Specialist
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Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Project – A&E ASM Automation✔️ Developed test cases and test scenarios for both manual and automation tests, preparation of test data, execute test cases and analyzed test results.✔️ Implemented customised tracking sheets/reports to present status and defects to project leads, which improved defect detection efficiency by 8%.✔️ Conducted unit, system, integration and regression tests to ensure all features are working exactly as specified.
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Associate Automation Specialist
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Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Project - Check-In✔️ Created automated test scripts, test data and executing the scripts aligning with requirements which helped to improve test coverage by 6%.✔️ Performed troubleshooting and managed defect tracking, defect reporting and defect reproducing, whilst introducing new workflows to improve transparencies on each phase.✔️ Produced comprehensive test documentation including QA best practices, test findings and improvements which was recognised for optimising knowledge sharing capability. Show less
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Junior QA Engineer
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Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Project - Crico ✔️ Developed and executed performance test script scenarios based on the business requirements and specifications. ✔️ Worked closely with application designers/developers to resolve documentation, design & functional issues with various applications. ✔️ Converted manual functional and regression scripts to keyword data-driven automated scripts. Project - Crico ✔️ Developed and executed performance test script scenarios based on the business requirements and specifications. ✔️ Worked closely with application designers/developers to resolve documentation, design & functional issues with various applications. ✔️ Converted manual functional and regression scripts to keyword data-driven automated scripts.
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Education
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2019 - 2021
Edith Cowan University
Master of Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems, General -
2014 - 2018
University College Dublin
Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering -
2015 - 2016
National Institute of Business Management (NIBM - Sri Lanka)
Higher Diploma in Computer Based Information System, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services -
2014 - 2015
National Institute of Business Management (NIBM - Sri Lanka)
Diploma in Computer System Design (DCSD), Computer Science; Computer Science -
1999 - 2012
Maliyadeva College
G.C.E O/L & G.C.E. A/L, Business/Commerce, General
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