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Chandima Rathnapriya

Senior Software Engineer | QA Specialist | AI Automation Engineer

Berwick, VIC 3806, Australia [email protected] +61 4 3501 9777

Senior software engineer and solutions architect with 20+ years delivering business-critical applications across banking, insurance, and automotive sectors. Combines certified quality assurance and end-to-end test management with modern full-stack AI development - building intelligent automation, knowledge discovery, data intelligence, and modern user experiences that transform complex business challenges into high-performance, future-proof enterprise solutions.

Skills

AI Applications

FastAPI Google ADK Google A2A RAG Workflows SSE Streaming Agent Orchestration

Data And Retrieval

SQL Server PostgreSQL ChromaDB / Qdrant NL-to-SQL Semantic Search Guardrails

Enterprise AS400

AS400 / IBM i RPGLE / SQLRPG CLLE / CLP DB2 / SQL400 Web Services Production Support

QA And Delivery

Test Strategy Zephyr / Jira API Testing Regression Testing Defect Analysis Requirements Traceability

Domain Expertise

  • AI Agent Applications

    Agentic workflows, RAG, NL-to-SQL, vector retrieval, streaming AI UX, and guarded enterprise AI assistants.

  • Claims And Automotive Systems

    Claims analysis, adjudication, dealer systems, inventory management, vehicle lookup integration, and automotive accounting.

  • Financial Accounting

    General ledger, journals, trial balance, tax configuration, RBAC, imports, source-system APIs, and multi-currency flows.

  • Banking And Insurance

    Core banking, debt collection, online account opening, insurance policy systems, rate engines, and regional platform support.

Recognition

  • Quarterly Excellence Award - Pentana, 2025
  • IROC Award - Pentana, 2024
  • IROC Award - Pentana, 2019
  • Spirit of Innovation - HSBC, 2012
  • Best eCommerce banking application in Asia Pacific Countries for HSBC online account opening system
  • HSBC Executive Committee Special Appreciation Certificate

Certifications

  • Agile Project Management and Agile Delivery
  • ITIL v3 Certification
  • Sun Certified Programmer for Java
  • ISTQB-CTFL International Software Testing Qualifications Board - Certified Software Tester

Experience

Senior Software Developer / Software Quality Analyst

2018-2021, 2023 - Present

PENTANA Solutions Pty Ltd

Developing and validating automotive, claims, QA, AI, and financial-platform workflows including general ledger QA, AI-assisted QA tools, data intelligence, and core systems modernisation work.

Senior Software Architect / Senior AS400 Developer

2021 - 2023

Cognizant Technology Australia

Delivered insurance enhancements, rate-engine integrations, valuation-data feeds, deployment programs, interface fixes, and debtor reminder automation.

Senior AS400 Software Developer / Test Lead

2001 - 2018

HSBC Bank Of Australia And HSBC Bank Of Middle East

Built core banking modules, debt-collection integrations, online account opening, Java-connected lending support, correspondence replacement, incident fixes, testing, DR support, and mentoring.

AS400 Analyst Programmer

1998 - 2001

Standard Chartered Bank

Supported AS400 banking application analysis, design, programming, testing, release management, and regional support across multiple sites.

Key Projects

InsightData.AI

· AI Data Intelligence

AI-driven retail data intelligence and NL-to-SQL assistant

Made operational business data more accessible while preserving review, security, and auditability.

Python Streamlit RAG ChromaDB SQL Server PostgreSQL Guardrails

QAFlow.AI

· AI QA Automation

AI-driven QA workflow automation platform

Reduced repetitive QA effort and improved consistency of test cases, defects, and API test artifacts.

Python Streamlit Jira Zephyr OAuth Pytest Docker

Claims Intelligence Dashboard

· Decision Support

AI-assisted claims adjudication dashboard

Turned manual claims review into a structured, explainable, integration-ready decision workflow.

FastAPI Jinja2 HTMX SQLAlchemy Alpine.js JWT AI Ready

Ledger QA Delivery

· Enterprise QA

End-to-end QA ownership for a cloud general ledger platform

Authored 1,500+ test cases, executed 1,150+ cases, reported 59 defects, and maintained traceability to 124 requirements.

Zephyr Jira API Testing RBAC Finance Regression AI Test Design

AI Portfolio Assistant

· AI Portfolio

FastAPI, Google ADK, A2A, RAG, HTMX, and SSE portfolio architecture

Repositions the portfolio as an intelligent AI-era experience rather than a static resume site.

FastAPI Google ADK A2A RAG SSE HTMX Qdrant

Enterprise AS400 Integrations

· Enterprise Systems

Multi-industry AS400 delivery across banking, insurance, and automotive systems

Delivered cost savings, automation, regional platform improvements, and multiple innovation awards.

AS400 RPGLE CLLE SQL400 DB2 MQSeries APIs
Chandima Rathnapriya · [email protected] · +61 4 3501 9777 Berwick, VIC 3806, Australia