Software Quality Engineer

I build quality
software through systematic testing.

I ensure quality at every stage of development. From test strategy to automation frameworks, I help teams ship reliable software faster.

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1+Years Experience
10+Projects Shipped
99%Satisfaction

01 — About

A bit about me

Open to work
Portrait of Akila Lakshitha, QA Engineer

Akila Lakshitha

Available

QA is a craft, not a checklist. My work spans manual testing, automation architecture, and quality strategy — helping teams catch issues before they reach production.

Currently working on Infix, a healthcare scheduling platform for Scotland's NHS, and a banking platform — my current focus, where I'm building Playwright automation (Page Object Model, TypeScript) alongside manual and exploratory testing.

ISTQB-certified in both CTFL and CT-GenAI. I work close to development, not after it — bugs get caught, discussed, and resolved before they ever reach a release.

Experience
3+ years
Focus
Quality Assurance & Test Automation
Working Style
Hybrid / Remote / Onsite
Based
Panadura, Sri Lanka

02 — How I Work

From requirement to release

  1. 01

    Understand before I test

    Read requirements, discuss edge cases and unknowns with Claude AI, then walk through the application myself before writing a single test case.

  2. 02

    Design, then execute both ways

    Design test cases, then run manual and automated passes side by side — automation for repeatable coverage, manual for what scripts miss.

  3. 03

    Talk before I file

    Before raising a bug, I discuss it with Claude AI to rule out user error or noise. Then retest, and run a regression pass every day.

03 — Projects

Selected work

A collection of testing frameworks and quality initiatives I've built.

Desyn preview

HCI · 3D Web App

Desyn

A browser-based interior design tool for furniture retailers and interior designers — build 2D floor plans and 3D room visualisations, manage a design portfolio, and share or export layouts, with nothing to install.

Next.jsReactTypeScriptReact Three FiberThree.jsFirebaseZustandTailwind CSSPlaywright
EZY Notez preview

Full-Stack · AI/ML · Real-Time Web App

Live

EZY Notez

An AI-powered academic learning platform that turns a student's own study material — PDFs, slides, audio, and YouTube — into quizzes, flashcards, summaries, and a RAG chatbot, with real-time collaborative study rooms.

Next.jsTypeScriptFastAPISupabaseSocket.IO
Acceleration-Based User Authentication preview

AI/ML · Biometrics · Signal Processing

Live

Acceleration-Based User Authentication

A MATLAB ML pipeline that authenticates users from mobile accelerometer data — extracting time-domain features, training a neural network, and reaching ~96.4% accuracy.

MATLABFeed-forward NNPCASignal ProcessingFeature Engineering
Food Ordering System preview

Full-Stack · Web App

Live

Food Ordering System

A containerized full-stack ordering platform — admin menu/order management, a customer portal, Stripe checkout, and real-time status updates, built on Node/Express, React/TypeScript, MongoDB and Redis.

ReactTypeScriptNode.jsExpressMongoDBRedisStripeDocker

04 — Skills

Stack & Tools

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  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Three.js
  • Supabase
  • Firebase
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Playwright

05 — Experience

The road so far

Career

Experience

  1. 2026 — Present

    Intern - QA Engineer

    Mitra Innovation (Pvt) Ltd

    Contributing to quality across enterprise applications — writing and executing manual test cases, validating REST APIs, and building automated test scripts under the QA team's guidance.

    • Manual Testing
    • API Testing
    • Test Automation
Study

Education

2023 - 2026Degree

BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering

University of Plymouth, UK

Studied at NSBM Green University, Sri Lanka

Credentials

Certifications

  • May 2026ISTQB Certified Tester — Foundation Level (CTFL)ISTQB · Sri Lanka Software Testing Board (SLSTB)CTFL Core v4.0
  • 2025Software Quality Assurance Advanced LevelInstitute of Information Technology
  • 2024Software Quality Assurance Foundation LevelSri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
Beyond work

Events & Competitions

  • 2024IX 24Inter-University Designathon — IEEE Student Branch of IITParticipation
  • 2024CodeSprint 8Inter-University Startup Battle — IEEE Student Branch of IITParticipation

06 — Notes & Articles

Things I've written

Notes on testing, tooling and the habits behind shipping reliable software.

Let's build something reliable together.

Looking for a QA engineer who cares about quality as much as you do? I'm currently available for new opportunities.