Janesh Kodikara
Quality Engineering Professional at InTouch
Greater Perth Area Australia
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Top SchoolJanesh Kodikara is a pragmatic Quality Engineering professional and founder with over two decades of hands-on experience evolving from software development to strategic QA leadership. He has built QA teams, frameworks and training programs across multiple continents, launched Sri Lanka’s first testing community, and founded Pragmatic Test Labs to scale consultancy and mentorship globally. In senior roles he designed the QEMMI maturity model, ran company-wide “Blitzathon” bug bashes, and introduced AI-assisted testing and cost-effective tooling strategies to improve quality and reduce spend. Today he operates remotely from Perth, delivering API and container-focused test automation using Python, Robot Framework and Playwright while coaching distributed teams. Known for blending deep technical debugging skills (from his early PL/SQL and systems work) with pragmatic process design, he consistently translates complex engineering problems into practical, teachable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Software Test Engineer Software Testing, Certified Software Test Engineer Software Testing at Global Association for Quality Management (GAQM)Certificate and Diploma Level, Certificate and Diploma Level at BCS Sri Lanka RegionBachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at National Institute of Technology SuratMaster of Business Administration Master of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration Master of Business Administration at Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM)G.C.E (Advanced Level) Mathamatics, G.C.E (Advanced Level) Mathamatics at Royal College Colombo
English, Sinhalese
Stackoverflow
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183answers
25questions
jmeter
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Github Skills (31)
testcafe10
selenium-java10
test-framework9
functional-testing9
testng9
browser9
jmeter9
e2e9
test-automation8
typescript8
java8
nodejs8
testing8
selenium8
javascript7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pragmatictesters/Pragmatic-Learning-JMeter-Training
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 6 pushes in 5 months
pragmatictesters/Pragmatic-Learning-JMeter
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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