Nilanka Sandanayake
About Nilanka Sandanayake
Nilanka Sandanayake is the Senior Manager of Quality Engineering and Tier 3 Support at Guideline, with extensive experience in quality assurance and engineering management across various companies.
Company
Nilanka Sandanayake currently works at Guideline, a company based in San Diego, California. He has been with the organization since 2019. Before moving to the San Diego location, Nilanka spent time at Guideline's office in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Title
Nilanka Sandanayake serves as the Senior Manager, Quality Engineering, and Tier 3 Support at Guideline. Prior to his current role, he was the Quality Engineering and Support Manager at the same company.
Education and Expertise
Nilanka Sandanayake has a BCS Professional Graduate Diploma in Information Technology from the British Computer Society. This education provided him a strong foundation in IT, enabling him to develop extensive expertise in quality assurance and engineering management roles.
Background
Nilanka's career spans various roles and companies. He worked at dataxu as Director of Product Development and Senior Manager of Engineering. Prior to this, he served as an Engineering Manager at the same company. He also spent seven years as a QA Manager at Virtusa and held multiple QA-related positions at other companies, including Senior QA Analyst at JKCS and Software QA Lead at Virtusa.
Achievements
At Guideline, Nilanka Sandanayake founded the Release Management function, streamlining the release process and improving coordination with stakeholders. He developed processes and best practices for both Quality Engineering and Tier 3 Support Engineering teams. Additionally, he expanded the scope of these teams by implementing left-shift strategies to enhance various processes and improve team training.