Dilshan Fernando
Principal QA Engineer at Backbase
Flevoland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDilshan Fernando is a Principal QA Engineer based in Flevoland, Netherlands, with nine years of hands-on experience building and leading quality engineering teams across fintech and enterprise products. He combines deep technical skills in mobile (XCTest, Espresso), web (Playwright), and API automation (Java, Rest Assured) with practical experience establishing QA ways of working, CI pipelines, and measurable test processes. At Backbase he progressed from Senior QA to Principal, driving cross-functional collaboration and client-facing communication while mentoring teams to raise testing maturity. Previously he led quality engineering at Sysco LABS Sri Lanka, improving automation frameworks and test strategies for large-scale systems. He holds an MSc in Advanced Software Engineering from the University of Westminster and is known for translating complex requirements into repeatable, automation-first QA practices. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who balances hands-on test engineering with team coaching and stakeholder alignment.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Information Communication Technology Applications (DICTA), Diploma in Information Communication Technology Applications (DICTA) at IDM Nations Campus Lanka (Pvt) LimitedDe Mazenod CollegeMaster of Science in Advanced Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science in Advanced Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering at University of WestminsterBSc Special (Hons) in Information Technology (Specialized in IT) Information Technology, BSc Special (Hons) in Information Technology (Specialized in IT) Information Technology at SLIIT
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (55)
stress-testing9
benchmarking9
extentreports8
load-testing8
spock8
cucumber-jvm8
allure8
cucumber-js8
testing7
cucumber-java7
performance-testing7
http7
automation-testing7
testng7
selenium-java7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dilshan5/AllureAndroid
Jun 2022 - Jan 2024
This Project demo How to integrate Allure Report with Android Studio
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
dilshan5/ttaf-mobile-sample-android-native
Nov 2018 - Dec 2020
This is a Android test automation project for native applications
Contributions:1 PR, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
test-automationnative-applicationstest-automation-projectappiumtesting
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