Kushan Shalindra Amarasiri — Founder
I always strive to be a QA evangelist backed by the emerging technologies, QA processes, concepts and tools. I am is an active member/speaker at MeetUps. I have trained large number IT professionals from leading tech firms including Pearson, Virtusa, Eyepax etc. A quality-focused IT professional with more than 20 years of technical experience with a proven track record of heading medium to large-scale testing efforts, designing and implementing quality assurance solutions and heading the Testing Center of Excellence. Innate ability to create innovative testing solutions, services and processes to improve the bottom line by minimizing inefficiencies and thereby increasing the testing productivity and the value added. Passionate to assist the QA community as a social worker by sharing my knowledge and 10+ years of experience gained in the IT industry playing multiple roles in Software Development, Systems Engineering, Technical Writing and Quality Engineering. I am a life long learner who would like to share the synergy with my colleagues and the community. My inspirational attitude has always been with me to overcome the hurdles in my life. Innovative person with a positive mind set believing in that any technical problem can be solved with the technology using manifold pathways. Challenge is to be smart and find the simple solution/workaround, which fits for the purpose.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance expert in the Software Testing industry.
Experience: 21 yrs 7 mos
Skills
- Quality Assurance
- Test Automation
Career Highlights
- Over 20 years of experience in Quality Assurance.
- Recognized as QA Entrepreneur of the Year 2021.
- Active speaker and trainer in the QA community.
Work Experience
A.I Assisted Ventures
Owner (1 mo)
SocialCatfish.com
Director Software Quality Assurance (1 yr 4 mos)
Manager Quality Engineering (4 mos)
Quality Engineering Lead (2 mos)
General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University
Lecturer in Software Quality Engineering (4 mos)
Codehouse
Technical Specialist Quality Engineering (1 yr 5 mos)
TIQRI
Senior Technical Lead QA (4 mos)
Acentura Inc
Technical Specialist QA - Test Automation Practices (10 mos)
World Quality Summit
Keynote Speaker (0 mo)
API Summit
Speaker (0 mo)
Agile Testing Alliance
Esteemed Speaker for ATAGTR 2020 (1 mo)
The Test Tribe Community
Speaker (0 mo)
Codehouse
Associate Technical Specialist QE (1 yr 7 mos)
Senior Technical Quality Engineer (2 yrs 1 mo)
GitHub
Opensource Test Automation Contributor (7 yrs 9 mos)
Agile Testing Alliance
Member of the Advisory Board (7 yrs 10 mos)
Brand Ambassador - Sri Lanka (7 yrs 10 mos)
Organizer - Agile Testing Alliance Sri Lanka (7 yrs 11 mos)
Speaker for Selenium Summit 2018 (0 mo)
Agile Testing Alliance
Speaker for Agile Testing Alliance Test Summit 2017 (0 mo)
Virtusa
Senior Quality Assurance Consultant (1 yr 5 mos)
Colombo Technical QA Meetup
Organizer (9 yrs 10 mos)
Sri Lanka Test Automation Drive
Owner/Founder (11 yrs 1 mo)
Eyepax IT Consulting (Pvt) Ltd.
Associate Technical Lead QA (1 yr 4 mos)
SLASSCOM (Sri Lanka Association for Software and Services Companies)
Member - SLASSCOM Quality Forum (1 yr 5 mos)
Virtusa
Software QA Consultant -Automation (5 mos)
Pearson
Senior QE Engineer - Test Automation (3 yrs 8 mos)
Quality Engineer Technical - Test Automation (3 yrs)
Mubasher.Info
Quality Assurance Engineer (2 yrs)
MillenniumIT
Quality Assurance Engineer (8 mos)
OPRO Lanka (Pvt) Ltd
Systems Engineer/ Technical Writer (9 mos)
Education
Masters in Project Management at University of Southern Queensland
Bsc Information Systems and Computing at The Manchester Metropolitan University
London Advanced Level at Gateway College
G.C.E Adavance Level at D.S Senanayake College
