Poojani Perera

Experience

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  The Edge Group Pvt Ltd

  Jan 2006 - Sept 2006

  Business Analyst

  Project: UK NEC Company Projects, And Local Projects Played the Software Engineering role for the following projects (NEC Company Projects, Hospitality Market Solution like Travel And Leisure Interactive Application (TALIA), Ashland Group Plc, LOLC, UK's biggest hotel chain Premier Travel Inn. Major Responsibilities:• Maintenance sites of the above mentioned projects. • Perform Quality Control activities and Check for the product meets required standards Show less

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  Softwerx Ltd

  Aug 2007 - Jun 2012

  Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

  1. Project Requirements - Gathering, Assessment, Analysis 2. Test Planning and Preparation Test Plan Reports. 3. Project Test Case Preparation and Management. 4. Project Build management and deployments. 5. Project Manual Testing & Reporting. 6. Project Defect Management. 7. Project Test Automation Planning and Execution.8. Project Performance Test Planning and Execution

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  Netstarter - (A Salmat Company)

  Jul 2012 - May 2014

  Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

  QA Lead role for all the above projects developed in different E-commerce software platforms such as Magento, MMS and Kentico 1. Responsible for requirement clarification, maintain the Question & Answer list (Q&A list within the Project team & coordinate it to get all the question updates by the Account managers (Business Analysis’s) 2. Prepare various test case documents (Smoke Test cases, Functional test cases, Check lists / Feature Lists) 3. Conduct Time Estimations 4. Perform Testing (Smoke Test, Pair Test, Functional Test, Regression test, UAT verification to check the stability of the system) 5. Defect management ( Defect Reporting, Defect verification) 6. Update the test results to the entire project team 7. Responsible to handle all the QA interviews and QA recruitment during that period. Conducting QA interviews, schedule interviews and mark QA interview papers with the team. 8. Conduct Magento back end training programs to the new QA Engineers 9. Prepare test plans for the allocated projects, Provide Time estimations, getting clarifications and update them to the Project team, Update Questions and Answer list of the Project, Perform various types of testing, executing test cases, Handling QA deployments, report testing updates and Defects reporting and verification 10. Initiated the standard QA release note for the UAT releases 11. Established the Pair testing to the Company in order to reduce the number of defects and defect cycles to ensure the quality of the delivered projects and to perform the in depth testing in QA testing period. Show less

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  ISM APAC

  Jun 2014 - now

  Tech Lead - Quality Assurance

  1. Validate & Update corporate QA strategy, processes & documents based on the business objectives and take the ultimate responsibility and the ownership.2. Govern the corporate adherence of the QA strategy in all the projects across the ISM eCompany APAC.3. Be updated with the current QA trends and tools and adopt them after evaluating the ROI.4. Acquire, Manage & Retain the QA talent by evaluating the company needs and the demand.6. Continuous validation of the process quality at the project level and report to suitable seniors.7. Inculcate effective Quality culture within the company.8. Inspire the QA team with the leadership while having a good collaboration with other disciplines9. Be accountable in QA estimations and reviews10. Frequent Sync up with Customers to get their QA needs and identify the QA gaps in the projects and take necessary actions for improvements. 11. Plan the API testing and train the QA team to take the ownership and responsibility in the QA of these. 12. Gather and Prepare corporate QA stats and share with the management.13. Work with HR team to come up with CPD and grooming plan for QA engineers.14. Project Requirements Gathering, Assessment, Analysis and Drafting Requirement Specifications. 15. Project Test Case Preparation and Management. 16. Project Build management and deployments. 17. Project Test Automation, Per. / Load Test, Security Test Planning and Execution. Show less

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  Easygenerator

  Jun 2020 - now

  Product Manager

  1. Conduct market research 2. Conduct customer interviews3. Competitive analysis 4. Framing and representing feature requirements – MVP to stakeholders 5. Design user flows and interface mock-ups – ensuring the UX/UIs are in line with product features 6. Collaboration with the Tech, Design, Sales and Marketing, Revenue, Customer Success, Customer support and Data 7. Grooming feature requirements to Dev/QA for estimations 8. Defining KPIs to track data of product metrics through appropriate dashboards with the help of the Data analytics team 9. Prioritizing feature backlog10. Track customer feature requirements via the customer support team 11. Jira tickets management and conduct Sprint planning – (Epic creation, User stories/improvements/tasks/sub-tasks creation, update story points based on the estimates) 12. Develop the go-to-market strategy for each product feature together with the Marketing team 13. Produce timely product documentation – (User guides, KPI documents, business cases, user stories) 14. Managing the entire localization process of the product with the help of the localization team (getting the exact texts to be translated, adding new languages to the tool, getting translations from the localization team in a timely manner for the product feature deliveries, merging translations with the master branch via GitHub)15. Acceptance testing before the feature delivery with the help of the design team, QA, and Dev to fix bugs 16. Feature delivery – (Draft and activate In-App marketing messages via Intercom, product delivery updates to the entire company)17. Post-release activities – (Monitoring and analyzing KPIs, presenting them to stakeholders, tracking customer feedback via Intercom, Support and CSM teams, defining improvements based on the customer feedback, and identifying customer needs with the improvements) 18. Deliver the product features by taking the entire ownership Show less