Poornima Urs

Poornima Urs has extensive work experience in the technology industry. Poornima is currently serving as the Head of QA Engineering at Accedo.tv, leading the QA engineering teams in the EMEA and Latin America regions. In this role, they are responsible for managing and guiding the Quality Assurance initiatives of customer projects and empowering the testing team.

Before their current role, Poornima held positions as the Director of QA Engineering for EMEA and LatAm at Accedo.tv, where they acted as the primary contact point for project escalations and collaborated with cross-functional teams. Poornima also served as the QA Manager for the EMEA region, managing local and remote QA Engineers and maintaining best QA procedures and standards.

Prior to their time at Accedo.tv, Poornima worked as a QA Team Lead, providing communication and planning for clients on testing activities, and as an International Sales Engineer, offering technical support during the sales process.

Before joining Accedo.tv, Poornima worked as an IT Consultant at Dfind and as a Verification Engineer at Ericsson. Poornima also gained experience as a Consultant at 5M Consultants and as a Market Research Analyst at Genpact.

Poornima began their career as a Software Engineer at L&T Infotech. Poornima holds a student background from The Ohio State University.

Poornima Urs has an MBA in Marketing from The Ohio State University, which they obtained from 2008 to 2010. Prior to that, they completed their Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics & Communication from The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, from 2002 to 2006. Poornima also attended St Joseph's Central School in India, although no specific degree or field of study is mentioned for that period.

In terms of additional certifications, they are a Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist, obtained from Scaled Agile, Inc. in February 2021. Poornima also holds an ISTQB certification from the International Software Testing Qualifications Board, although the specific details of its obtainment are not provided.