Rajiv Silva
Kitchener,ON
Summary
QA Leader with 13+ years of experience leading high-performing QA and SDET teams across healthcare, fintech, and enterprise security. Proven success in building and scaling test strategies, driving automation transformation, and aligning QA operations with business goals. Adept at people leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and leveraging cloud, CI/CD, and AI/ML technologies to improve release quality, speed, and confidence. Recognized for delivering measurable improvements in test coverage, defect prevention, and operational efficiency.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior SDET
Alira Health
Remote, US
03.2024 - Current
- Drove AI-enabled testing strategy, creating ML models for OCR, object detection, and LLMs that automated mobile & web workflows.
- Built a Node.js/Selenium/WebdriverIO test framework achieving 85% automation coverage for mobile apps.
- Introduced BrowserStack, improving device coverage and reducing regression cycle time by 30%.
- Developed custom tools for OTP automation (Twilio) and deep-link generation, cutting manual test prep by 50%.
- Authored QA Manifesto, SOPs, and release checklists to standardize processes across teams.
QA/DevOps Manager
Wellfield Technologies (MoneyClip Canada / Coinmama)
Toronto, ON
12.2020 - 05.2023
- Managed cross-border QA teams (10+ engineers) across 3 projects, handling recruitment, training, and performance management.
- Designed QA strategies for mobile & web fintech platforms, improving defect detection rate by 40%.
- Built custom automation frameworks for mobile, web, and APIs, expanding automated coverage by 60%.
- Oversaw CI/CD pipelines to accelerate release cycles, reducing release failures by 25%.
- Partnered with Product & DevOps to define release governance and ensure regulatory compliance.
Senior SDET
Thoughtworks (Connected)
Toronto, ON
02.2018 - 12.2020
- Led QA for enterprise projects, building manual + automation frameworks integrated with Jira, Testrail, and CI/CD.
- Created the QA SOP Bible adopted across multiple teams to standardize QA practices.
- Built scalable CI/CD pipelines that reduced build failures and accelerated deployments.
- Collaborated with IT to design custom cloud server solutions, cutting infrastructure setup time by 40%.
QA Team Lead
WinMagic: Data Security Solutions
Mississauga, ON
10.2015 - 02.2018
- Directed QA for endpoint encryption products, managing onshore/offshore QA engineers.
- Developed automation for security, load, and chaos testing, increasing test efficiency by 35%.
- Implemented tooling to streamline test environment setup, reducing provisioning time from days to hours.
- Ensured compliance testing for enterprise encryption solutions across Windows & Linux.
Education
Diploma - Computer Science
Trios College
Mississauga, ONCertification in - Project Management
University of Toronto
Mississauga, ONSkills
- QA Leadership & Strategy
- Test Automation (Selenium, Appium, WebdriverIO, Postman)
- CI/CD (Jenkins, CircleCI, BrowserStack)
- Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- People Management (hiring, mentoring, scaling teams)
- Process Improvement & Governance
Accomplishments
- Scaled QA Automation Coverage: Built frameworks that increased automation coverage to 85% for mobile apps and 60% across web + APIs, cutting regression cycles by 30%.
- Leadership Impact: Managed global QA teams (10+ engineers) across 3 concurrent projects, reducing release failures by 25%.
- Innovation in Testing: Pioneered AI-driven QA using OCR, object detection, and LLMs, automating previously manual validation processes.
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Sinhalese
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Senior SDET
Alira Health
03.2024 - Current
QA/DevOps Manager
Wellfield Technologies (MoneyClip Canada / Coinmama)
12.2020 - 05.2023
Senior SDET
Thoughtworks (Connected)
02.2018 - 12.2020
QA Team Lead
WinMagic: Data Security Solutions
10.2015 - 02.2018
Diploma - Computer Science
Trios College
Certification in - Project Management
University of Toronto