Professional Profile

Farayi is a Certified SAP SCM-MM Procurement Solution Consultant specializing in the management and functional analysis of SAP integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) specifically major in MM module, and minor in WM, SRM and SD. As a SAP MM specialist, he has enjoyed working with clients in two SAP full life cycles and upgrades implementation projects. He has wide experience in SAP MM, combining WM and SD Business Process, Blueprint, Configuration, Go-Live, testing; post live support, data cleansing, training and skills transfer. He has strong knowledge and use of MS Project as well as Project Management and A.S.A.P methodologies as applied to IT initiatives

Education and Training:

• BA Marketing Management
• STQB Certified Software Tester
• Certified SAP SCM Solution Consultant
• Solution Manager 7.0 and RWD U-Perform for SAP BPPs Training
• Certification Post- Graduate Project Management - Humber College, Toronto
• PMP Certification in process
• Business Analysis Certification
• HP Quality Center - QC and SAP TAO (Test Acceleration and Optimization and BPT for SAP)
• Certificate, Supply Chain Management
• CPP-- Strategic Supply Chain Management

Skills:

• Over 5 years of experience in Supply Chain Management (SCM) combined with SAP full cycle implementations and Upgrade projects MM and enhancements in SD, WM, PM and PP- MRP
• SAP ASAP Methodology (Project Preparation, Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, Go-Live and Maintenance) and Solution Manager
• Business Process Master ----Lists (BPMLs)
• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Skilled in software designing, development and validations
• Skilled in the following testing toolsets: Testing Suite ( SAP Solution Manager, QC- QTP and SAP TAO 2.0)
• Configuring SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization client functions and SAP Quality Center, and creating an application area in Quick-Test Professional
• Setting for SAP Quality Center and QTP to work with SAP TAO
• Using SAP TAO Process Flow Analyzer to create and upload test scripts and executing automated test in SAP QC.
• Using Solution Manager 7.0 in Business Blue Print Creation of Organisation Elements from drop down list, manual typing, uploading of CI Templates and administration, Creation of Business Process(SOLAR01), structuring of processes, adding processes steps (transactions) uploading documents and administration , Scenarios and Step, Configuration (SOLAR02)- manual addition of SPRO node and upload of configuration documents, Developments- Linkage of developments to business processes process steps, maintaining status of development object, Upload of Functional and Technical specifications documents, Unit Testing- Creation of test plans and test packages (STWB_2), Uploading Unit Test scripts and assignment of testers, Recording of test results (STWB_WORK),Integration Testing, Training Manual- Uploading Training manuals/ documents, Messaging & Notification monitoring ( Issue log )- Creating Support Messages, Issue Logging, Issue Resolution recording in Solution Manager (DNOTIFWL), Display Notification, OSS Message raising and Project Analysis (SOLAR_EVAL), Creating ChaRM Test Message and Transport (CRMD_ORDER) and Accessing Test Message (CRM_DNO_MONITOR)
• Operating Systems: Windows 7, Vista, XP and Windows 2000
• Knowledge in project management processes and techniques, as defined in the Project Management Institute PMBOK
• Analytical, motivated and resourceful

Professional

Contract- Snr SAP System Analyst, 11, 2010 current
Confidential, ON, Canada

Confidential, Global Implementation of SAP ECC MM, SRM, WM, SD, QM, CRM, FI, HR and PM

Project responsibilities:

• Participating in Global SAP Business Blueprinting- Creating Process Definition Document, User Requirements Specifications, Key Design Decision Description and GAP Analysis and Testing Strategy documents.
• Analyzing customer “AS IS” business process and mapping ‘TO BE’ business processes
• SAP Configuration of MM-IM requirements, including Plants, Storage Locations, MRP and Forecasting data. As well, the Purchasing requirements for internal sources (Stock Transfer Orders), including Purchasing Groups and Special Procurement Types.
• Gathering MM and WM business process procedures (BPP) documentation for preparing Test Plan.
• Working with Integration Testing Lead to developing Testing scenarios; Unit testing, String testing, Integration Cycle Testing and Interface Testing for Make to Deploy (QM/PP), Procure to Pay (MM/SRM), Plan to Schedule, Order to Cash (SD), Hire to Retire (HR), Record to Report (FI) and Lead to Customer (CRM) business processes (BPs).
• Preparing the SAP Testing project plan using MS Project
• Preparing SAP HP QC 10.0 testing Training Handbook
• Building and tracking SAP T- Codes, BI, RICEFs and URS (User Requirements Specifications) requirements coverage
• Reviewing the SAP Test Cases, End to End test Scenarios, completeness and audit of Test cases.
• Participating in Defect Meetings, assigning prioritization of defects and escalate to Team Leads, if necessary.
• Working closely with other development team on Defect Tracking and Reporting
• Designing and Executing Unit, String, Integration Cycles I and II and UAT for SAP MM, SRM, WM, PM, FI and SD test cases

Contract- Support and QA Analyst, 11/2009- 10/2010
Confidential,Toronto, CA

Project responsibilities:

• Participating in Warehouse Management ADC Bar-Code system implementation.
• Creating the Business Process Master List (BPML) and level-specific test plans in collaboration with the Test Architect/Lead
• Participating in the test case walk through and audit meetings.
• Involving in the implementation of test plans and test cases.
• Participating in the problem solving and other difficulties encountered during test executions.
• Preparing Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Gap Analysis for additional details on requirements traceability.
• Validating that business processes continuously meet expectations across multiple layers of heterogeneous systems- this reduces the risk of change and enables rapid and agile responses to business demands.
• Involving in status meetings and regularly updated any bugs, problems and risks.
• Test Case development (to verify functional requirements), including process steps required and expected results

Contract: SAP Systems Analyst, 08/2009 to 11/2009
Client: Confidential,Toronto, CA

Project responsibilities:

• Designing, configuring and developing business flow scenarios in MM and WM modules
• Responsible for working with business groups, reviewing and cleansing existing legacy master data in preparation for data migration to SAP , and data maintenance and migration operations between SAP and Microsoft Excel systems (using Process Runner Application)
• Auditing business and systems requirements documents and recognized test scenarios.
• Contributing in the development of test plans and test cases for SAP Master Data and Business Processes in accordance with the business requirements.
• Responsible for assisting in the quality assurance testing by defining, developing and implementing quality assurance practices and procedures.
• Manual testing using HP QC
• Test Case development (to verify functional requirements), including process steps required and expected results
• Monitoring test projects with test developers and project managers.

SAP Functional Analyst, 2007-2009
Confidential,Toronto, Canada

Project responsibilities:

• Core team member for designing and configuration of SAP MM, WM, and SRM modules- Warehouse goods receipts and issues, cycle counting process, warehouse replenishment, warehouse management movement types, WM interface to QM and configuration of master data including material master, and bins/warehouses/storage locations.
• Configuring Purchasing documents such as Requisitions, Purchase Order Optimization processes, Inventory Management, MRP, Vendor Master, Material Master, Invoice Verification and providing SAP MM functionality knowledge sharing to end users.
• Analyzing client purchasing methodology to optimize processes within SAP by configuring Automatic PO generation, updating purchasing documents such as PO and Outline Agreements, maintaining Source List requirement at Plant level, and defining Processing Time for PR, PO and GR.
• Configuring GR so postings were made to appropriate Stock Status such as Unrestricted-Use, Quality Inspection, and Blocked Stock or GR Blocked Stocked, Inter-warehouse transfers, involving Storage Location to Storage Location Transfer.
• Preparing Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Gap Analysis for additional details on requirements traceability.
• Responsible for working with business groups, reviewing and cleansing existing legacy master data in preparation for data migration to SAP
• Creating the Business Process Master List (BPML) and level-specific test plans in collaboration with the Test Architect/Lead.
• Manual testing using HP QC and SAP BPT.
• Validating that business processes continuously meet expectations across multiple layers of heterogeneous systems- this reduces the risk of change and enables rapid and agile responses to business demands.
• SAP Test Case development (to verify functional requirements), including process steps required and expected results
• Developing testing strategies and performing system functional, integration, and unit and business acceptance tests to ensure that business requirements are met (SAP Procure to Pay).
• Specifying testing requirements, planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects and also monitoring the testing process by creating reports and graphs.

Contract- SAP Functional Analyst, 2004-2007, Ontario, Canada
Client:Confidential,

Project responsibilities:

• Core team member for designing and configuration of SAP MM module and minor areas in WM- Warehouse goods receipts and issues, cycle counting process, warehouse replenishment, warehouse management movement types, WM interface to QM and configuration of master data including material master, and bins/warehouses/storage locations.
• Batch management configuration
• Testing the SAP business processes, by executing functional tests to ensure that business processes work, integration tests to ensure that the organization’s business processes work together with other business processes and regression tests to prove that a specific set of data and processes yield consistent and repeatable results.
• Validating that business processes continuously meet expectations across multiple layers of heterogeneous systems- this reduces the risk of change and enables rapid and agile responses to business demands.
• Assisting SAP core developers with design, test, and development of SAP functionality for the SAP R/3 releases 4.6B , 4.7B and ECC6.0
• Responsible for assisting in the quality assurance testing by defining, developing and implementing quality assurance practices and procedures.
• Test Case development (to verify functional requirements), including process steps required and expected results
• Developing testing strategies and performing system functional, integration, and unit and business acceptance tests to ensure that business requirements are met (SAP Procure to Pay).