Priyadershini Purwar
Livingston,United States
Summary
· Dynamic IT leader with 7+ years of experience as a Scrum Master/BA/QA analyst.
· Experience included directing and working in agile and scrum environment.
· Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrum, and sprint demos, retrospective and cross-team coordination.
· Strong knowledge of relevant Agile metrics and charts (e.g. burn down, velocity, T-shirt sizing)
· Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the internal gaps left in the Scrum approach (e.g. numerous Burn down techniques, retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
· Strong knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, implementation and testing of applications in Retail and Ecommerce industry.
· Demonstrated ability to work actively in different phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, and Agile methodologies (SCRUM) in multi-tier web-based architecture.
· Experienced working in a multi-tenant or “Software-as-a-Service” (SaaS) model.
· Worked closely with IT- technical sales/support teams, business development, and project managers.
· Created Project Schedules and Project Timelines and delivered results on time and within budget.
· Managing reporting, analysis and decision-making for a change request using tools like ClearQuest and Excel.
· Established experience in providing marketing research consultation to the key business units to help defining the business issues.
· Partnered with the IT, Business and Management teams to meet business units/ stakeholder expectations.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
PM/BAQA
Eagle Creek: The Andover Companies
06.2022 - Current
- Improved project efficiency by streamlining communication and implementing effective time management strategies.
- Managed cross-functional teams for successful project completion within budget and timeline constraints.
- Delivered high-quality projects with thorough risk analysis and proactive issue resolution.
- Increased stakeholder satisfaction by consistently meeting or exceeding project expectations and providing regular updates on progress.
- Collaborating with Test Data leads to identify test data requirements for assigned projects.
- Managing all aspects of Quality Assurance teams of this product line
- Leading, Mentoring and coaching junior staff – Be that “Go to person”.
- Implement test scenarios, strategies, and the overall testing process to effectively and quickly reach project goals.
- Possesses understanding of the work processes of a customer area.
- Excellent people and communication skills- - able to effectively provide feedback and drive issue resolution and root cause analysis.
- Execute testcase including automated or manual testing.
- Deploy and manage various testing frameworks explicitly geared toward the project at hand.
- Analyze and identifying final product quality assurance before going to production.
- Collaborate with team to diagnose problem and develop solutions.
- Ensure that business requirements are mapped correctly to the functional specifications and have sufficient test coverage.
- Liaise with the development team and kye business users in Agile development projects- attending scrum review meeting and develop targeted test plans and cases.
- UI, white box, Black box, Positive and negative testing done to both front and back-end applications.
- Tested several different Web Browsers with various of windows for compatibility.
- Create and maintain specific and tailored test plans and cases.
- Define a particular testing scope relevant to specific project.
- Work with business BAs and UAT teams to ensure validity and comprehensives of QA test designs, support their activities Assist in functional, non-functional testing and creating queries.
- Review requirements and functional specifications for various projects and provide feedback.
BA/QA Lead
Atos: Moody's Analytics
03.2019 - 05.2022
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
- Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
- Work closely on the deadlines of the salesforce project and ensure all timelines are met.
- Being Salesforce domain expert trained team on various salesforce modules.
- Ensuring all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, test execution, quality assurance and issue tracking.
- Analyze requirements within sprints and closely Work with business and BAs to get clarification on Business requirements.
- Ensure the team is focusing on automation along with manual testing.
- Set Quality standards for the teams in various new testing technologies in the project. This may include new strategies for automation testing and day to day work processes like agile and scrum.
- Building up a team, right number and skill set of resources.
- Motivating team and taking informative quick decisions and resolving conflict among team members.
- Test case creation, execution and logging defects in JIRA
- Test cases walk through to development, BA and Business team.
- Identify integration points and testing inter dependencies between the system.
- Reporting progress with team (offshore)
- Reporting progress with client in daily status call.
- Functional Testing
- Regression Testing
- Sanity Testing
- Automation
- Analyze all classic wire frames and lightening wire frames
- Define the fields which are changed and document the behavior within classic and lightening.
- Defining quality standards and metrics for the project.
Quality Consultant
Pratibha Syntex
06.2006 - 05.2008
- Improved product quality by implementing and monitoring rigorous quality control processes.
- Enhanced customer satisfaction through timely resolution of complaints and implementation of corrective actions.
- Streamlined the auditing process for better efficiency and thoroughness in identifying areas for improvement.
- Developed training programs to enhance employees'' understanding of quality standards and expectations.
- Successfully assisted internal and external customer programs. Reduced need for additional maintenance releases.
- Mentored and helped new team members, provided common understanding among the team
- Mentored QA test team in creating and presenting test strategies and test plans.
Education
Masters in Fashion Designing -
NIFD
Indore, India06.2006
Bachelor of Science - Computers
Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University
Katni, India06.2005
Skills
- Business Analysis
- Lean principles
- Stakeholder Management
- Scrum Framework
- Requirements Gathering
- Scope Management
- Program Management
- Waterfall methodology
- Kanban Methodology
- Software development life cycle
- Project tracking
- Resource Allocation
- Agile Methodology
- Salesforce, Guidewire, JIRA, QTP, UFT, Selenium
- Customer Relations
Certification
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe Certified)
- Certified in Salesforce OOB (2020)
Timeline
PM/BAQA
Eagle Creek: The Andover Companies
06.2022 - Current
BA/QA Lead
Atos: Moody's Analytics
03.2019 - 05.2022
Quality Consultant
Pratibha Syntex
06.2006 - 05.2008
Masters in Fashion Designing -
NIFD
Bachelor of Science - Computers
Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University
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