SUMMARY:

• Well - organized with fifteen plus years of IT professional services experience having functional and technical capabilities in delivering large-scale transformation programs in the areas of development, quality assurance involving Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Industry experience includes utilities, wealth and asset management and health care.
• I possess and have proven record of excellent leadership, communication, problem-solving, mentoring, and coaching skills with a focus on quality delivery.
• I have experience in Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the areas of technology of SAP Project Systems, Acquire-to-Retire, Purchase-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, G/L accounting, Inter & Intra-company processes.
• My knowledge and competence of new IT skills include DevOps and QE -Automation tools like SAP CBTA, SAP TAO and Kainos.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Specialization: Functional Testing, Test Strategy, UAT, Automation Framework, BDD and TDD

GUI & Applications: SAP (PS, A2R, P2P, O2C, S4, C4C), Workday (HCM, FIN & Student), Kainos (Workday Automation), SaaS Application

Testing Tools: SAP CBTA, SAP TAO, HP ALM, JIRA Confluence, QMetry, Rally, Selenium, BrowserStack, RPA.

Certifications: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, CS-Lean Management and CS-Minitab

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Miami, USA

Manager / Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for SAP FICA testing (S4 & C4C).
• Responsibility includes Completed End to End Validation of Dunning Process
• Worked on Test scope effort estimation (SEA) and Business process change analyzer (BPCA)
• Developed Automation Test Scripts in Solman Manager 7.1, 7.2 with CBTA.
• Oversee onsite and offshore SAP TCoE teams for testing and validation deliverables
• Design / Implement test automation framework for SAP using SAP CBTA.
• Development and execution of test automation scripts using SAP CBTA
• Running Regression Manual and CBTA before changes moved to production and ensure tests executed successfully.
• Involved in testing inbound/outbound interfaces between legacy and third-party systems and testing of data flow. Coordinated with Master Data Management team in loading legacy data and in fixing data transfer related issues
• Generate Test Execution and Defects reports in HP ALM as and when required.
• BMC Remedy and CHARM ticket review, assignment, timely resolutions.
• Worked with BI Team for providing and building reports using BI & BW reporting tools.
• Execute and Validate FUT, Regression Testing, UAT and Responsible for Business Signoff
• Experienced with SAP Activate, Agile and Project Management
• Managed a team of 19 consultants and communication with onshore /offshore team for delivery execution. (4 onsite and 15 offshore)

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, USA

Director Quality Assurance & Release

Responsibilities:

• Primary point of contact for project status reporting to the AVP & VP.
• Leading a program of Workday Implementation.
• Bi-Yearly Release and Release note implementation - Drop-in defects by 50%
• Assessing and providing inputs and recommendations to project plans and the delivery roadmap.
• Directed project schedule and capacity plan
• Manage changes in scope and schedule
• Involved in triage problem tickets. Led daily problem resolution meetings ensuring high severity problems are worked through to completion within the defined service level agreement.
• Program level experience leading Agile engagements involving multiple scrum teams
• Responsible for IVR, Web and Mobile for college Helpdesk system migration testing.
• Responsible for Proofpoint Deployment for security testing for College Email (Student and Staff)
• Responsible for Onelogin Multifactor Authentication Deployment (Web and Mobile Device Testing).
• Worked on Team Dynamix deployment for ITSM
• Led the project to launch on the stipulated date by setting up war rooms to resolve P1/P2 issues which enabled the roll-out and value to the business, avoiding outages and disruptions to businesses
• Facilitated weekly Change Advisory Board meetings (CAB).
• Managed a team of 40 consultants and business users with onshore team for delivery execution.

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for FICO, SD and Custom Application.
• Responsibility includes Attending Blueprinting Workshop
• Responsible for creation of Test Strategy and Test Plan
• Created high-level test scenarios, Created Requirement Traceability Matrix and Preparing test Case.
• Identified the String and Validating TUT, FUT, Regression Testing, UAT and Responsible for Business Signoff
• Assisted in identify Automated test case scenario to reduce the manual execution effort.
• Identify critical business processes for Robotic Process Automation using UiPath tool
• Increased (incremental) revenue by 25% by identifying new business opportunities
• Sought out new revenue streams as processes were streamlined
• Consulted with team leads and solutions architect to create further optimization
• Recommended new initiatives that resulted in steady income-producing for company
• Managed a team of 4 consultants and communication with onshore /offshore team for delivery execution.
• Managed Status reporting.

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• My primary responsibilities included Integration testing and Regression testing, and sending daily status reports, comprising a detailed level of test executions, to management and stakeholders. Management posted on the progress made on various test scenarios. I monitored the Business testing and Test team testing concurrently
• Policies, Procedures Documentation & Risk Control Matrix
• Test Planning and Execution and Coordination with external teams
• Managed and Assisted internal auditors and process/control owners and Tool evaluations
• Accelerated the efficiency of testing to improve product launch times leveraging Virtualization
• Realized a disconnect between QA projects like virtualization and the other stakeholders
• Held multiple interactive sessions with stakeholders from all departments
• Restructured perception to drive new initiatives by selling the benefits
• Acquired buy-in from development team to use virtualization to increase testing effectiveness
• Managed and Assisted internal auditors and process/control owners and Tool evaluations
• Experienced in loading data from multiple source systems (ETL) to SAP using IDOC, BAPI, BDC and LSMWs.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Coordinating and monitoring projects from initiation through Closeout.
• Experienced in handling initiation, Planning, Scheduling and Closeout activities of Projects in SAP PS.
• Experienced in creating, maintaining, updating and supporting projects utilizing the SAP Project Systems module.
• Experienced in keeping Projects in SAP on schedule and within budget.
• Driven projects to completion according to the plan.
• Experienced in Monitoring project deliverables and progress through continuous communication with project members.
• Responsible for Preparing reports on project progress.
• Provided SAP PS support over the phone and in-person to IT Project Managers.
• Developed SAP PS user-specific handouts for the Project Managers.
• Responsible for Training IT Project Managers on the use of SAP Project System.
• Experienced in loading data from multiple source systems to SAP using IDOC, BAPI, BDC and LSMWs.
• Competent team interaction with the Resource area Finance Manager, Sr. Financial Analyst and Accounting office to ensure that the Information Technology department is kept abreast of SAP Project Systems Direction and changes.
• Validating TUT, FUT, Regression Testing, UAT and Responsible for Business Sign-off
• Gained client confidence in a volatile environment by providing excellent functional and testing support. Multiple accolades from the client for the FICO testing team

Confidential

Senior Consultant (Functional Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included providing support to the end-users in both the corporate locations and the plant location. I was primarily responsible for handling day to day production issues of SAP PS. It also provided support for the month-end closing process.

Confidential

Senior Consultant (Functional Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business requirement collection in ISU billing. Completed business processes and prepared Business Process blueprints and signoffs.
• Set up the configuration in such a way that the data can be overridden by individual specifications in the installation.
• Prepared functional specifications to RICEF objects and was also responsible for Configuration of contract billing that included billing of residential and nonresidential customers, annual consumption billing and periodic monthly billing cycles billing for different divisions.
• Validating FUT, Regression Testing, UAT and Responsible for Business Sign-off
• Numerous bill forms, billing simulation, validation of billing documents, and bills.
• Consulted SAP OSS for issue resolution and interacted with SAP team

Confidential

Functional Consultant

• Responsible for all phases of implementation from the development of Business Blueprint, As-Is study, To-Be analysis, GAP analysis, Post Implementation support, End User training to GO LIVE.
• Configured and designed system settings for Project Profile, WBS master data, Field Status for master data, Work centers, dates, materials, costs & workforce, a Network profile, budgeted profile, planning profile, and assigned tolerance limits for budget availability control.