Nimantha Fernando

Nine of my fifteen years in QA were spent inside capital markets and banking SaaS platforms, so testing the flows that move money is not new ground for me. I've automated REST API and backend validation with Postman and SQL against trade lifecycle, CRM and financial data, built Selenium/Java and Playwright/TypeScript frameworks wired into Jenkins, GitHub Actions and AWS CI/CD pipelines, and led automation strategy while mentoring engineers in globally distributed teams. I also use AI-assisted and agentic tooling daily and have built two working AI QA agents of my own, so testing that leans on AI tooling as part of the daily workflow is territory I already live in.

Automation Engineer / QA SME (Sole QA Hire) at Be Rota Ltd / TTM Healthcare (2022-05 – 2026-06)

Healthcare SaaS | Agile/Scrum | TypeScript, Playwright, Cypress | Cucumber/Gherkin BDD | PostgreSQL | REST APIs | GitHub Actions CI/CD

• Took full QA ownership as the only QA engineer on a live healthcare SaaS platform, building all test processes, automation architecture and QA standards from scratch
• Developed Playwright E2E automation in TypeScript, integrated into GitHub Actions CI/CD as a release-gating signal, reached 95% regression coverage and cut release cycles from three weeks to one
• Triaged production issues, traced root causes through logs and system data, and fed coverage gaps back into the test strategy
• Used AI tools day to day to draft test scenarios, generate test data and speed up automation development and debugging

Senior Automation Engineer / QA Team Lead at SoftCode IT Solutions Pvt Ltd (2013-01 – 2022-04)

Capital Markets & Banking SaaS (OCCU Bank, UMPQUA, PSECU) | Agile | Java, Selenium, Cucumber/Gherkin, TestNG | SQL | REST APIs | Jenkins | AWS | Global teams

• Delivered end-to-end QA on capital markets and banking SaaS platforms for nine years, covering trade lifecycle workflows, financial data integrity, CRM integrations and high-volume SQL backend validation
• Automated REST API checks and backend validation with Postman and complex SQL over high-volume financial datasets, including trade data, account balances and system state
• Built and extended automation frameworks using Selenium with Java, Cucumber/Gherkin BDD and TestNG across web, API and database layers, running in Jenkins and AWS CI/CD pipelines
• Led integration testing across interconnected financial systems, checking data flows between components and consistency across multi-environment setups
• Reduced deployment-related defects by 30% through risk-based testing and defect trend analysis, and mentored 5+ QA engineers across growing distributed teams

Senior QA Automation Engineer at Leapset Pvt Ltd / Sysco (2011-08 – 2013-01)

Enterprise clients: J.P. Morgan Chase, Yahoo! | Large-scale web platforms | Agile

• Delivered functional, regression and integration testing on large-scale enterprise web applications with complex, data-intensive backends and high-availability requirements
• Contributed to Agile QA processes including sprint planning, defect tracking and quality reporting with cross-functional product and engineering teams

MSc in Information Technology – University of East London

BSc in Computer Science – Bangalore University