Forward Newsletter - Issue 21 | Page 21

Future Thought Leader At school she won the chess colours and Sri Lanka National School Colours for chess for two consecutive years. Next Generation Testing Community selected her as a Future Thought Leader for 2014 and she was felicitated with other Thought Leaders at the World Conference on Next Generation Testing 2014 organized by Unicom Learning, India. She has also been selected to speak at many world and local conferences on many topics and participated as an invitee in first International Research Symposium in Sri Lanka. Appointed as a proctor of Quality Assurance Institute (QAI) Sri Lanka Chapter and has been awarded a fellowship by Lanka Software Foundation, Sri Lanka and she continued to work as a Software Quality Assurance Lead for Sahana Open Source Project and contributed to test and release it successfully. She also worked as a consultant Software Quality Assurance Engineer in Sri Lanka at Infosoft Lanka (Pvt.) Ltd. Furthermore, she has been appointed as a member of the selection committee of the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka for the Year 2013/2014 and 2014/2015. Extremely fortunate in her life  She thinks like a chess player and with boundless curiosity while testing and also by setting the levels and standards that exceed expectations. She is a person with fun attitude and she is a lifelong learner who loves to share knowledge.  She is extremely fortunate to get the word “Persistence” with a star from World Renowned Software Quality Expert James Bach with his signature on the certificate given at the Rapid Software Testing class in Delhi, India and received a free invitation for the ThinkTest 2015 conference held in Delhi, India. A most Precious Moment with World Renowned Software Quality Expert James Bach An old girl of Visakha Vidyalaya, Colombo, Buddhini, after her A/L obtained her B.Sc. (Hons.) in India. In her postgraduate studies in Coimbatore she received her Master of Computer Applications with a first class. Her Blog is: www.sparkoftesting.blogspot.com 21