SYNOPSIS:

• With Eight + years of experience in Information Technology in MIS, Finance, Human Resources, Software Quality Assurance and Business Process Improvements
• With Six + years of SAP Quality Testing and Business Analysis: Modules include - HR, FI/CO, SD, MM and APO
• Experienced with three full QA life cycles in SAP implementations and two Upgrade projects and one Maintenance Project
• Thorough understanding of the relationship between various SAP modules (FI/CO, HR, SD, MM, APO and BW)
• Expertise in business process engineering and ASAP methodology
• Provide 3rd level Production support, act as point of contact between Business teams and Functional teams
• Business Analyst: thorough follow up of requirements, changes in requirement documentation, Business team meetings for any changes in current system design
• Quick learner of any tools that would support QA activities, Documentation and Project Management
• Test Lead activities: Co-ordination of Testing efforts with offshore Teams: Validate Scenarios, Requirement mapping, Advice, Test results, Defect Tracking
• Good knowledge of SOX requirements and testing
• Expert knowledge in validation and testing for Healthcare/Pharma Industry
• Other industry experience include Aerospace and Defense, Science, Insurance, Financial industry and Semiconductor Industry
• Good knowledge of Upgrade Testing

QA/BA SKILLS

• Very Good knowledge of SDLC, Testing Methodology and Test Plan Formulations.
• Good knowledge of various FDA regulations, 21 part 11 CFR
• Test Case analysis and design, Test Script development and Test Coverage.
• Test Summary Reports and Defect Tracking
• Requirement analysis, Business Analysis, Use Case analysis, Change Management and Configuration Management

RELATED SKILLS

• Experienced in using SAP TAO for Test Automation
• MS Word, Excel, Project, Visio and Power Point
• Best practices in documentation: End user training materials, QA with main focus on versions and mapping
• Mercury Quality Center / Test Director, QTP

SUMMARY EXPERIENCE:
Confidential,CO Dec 2008 – Present

ULA (United Launch Alliance) is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin that operates space launch systems using the Atlas V, Delta II, and Delta IV. ULA offers its launch services to U.S. government customers. Modules: FICO, HCM and SCM (SAP ECC 6.0)

SAP Test Lead:

• Newly formed QA organization has multiple documents – Requirements, Unit Test Scripts, Functional specifications, etc residing on different locations (IBM’s EPN, sharepoints, shared folders, etc)
• Meet Functional Team Leads to verify all documentations are of most recent version and get updates regarding any changes in the Requirements, System Design documents
• Gather all these documentation and built proper Test Cases as per QA Best Practices in Mercury Quality Center
• Gather and created Requirements in Quality center and mapped them to the Test Cases
• Assist team to write clear precise Test Scenarios and validate the scenarios and Functional mapping with requirements
• Meet Business leads and Functional leads for validation of scripts, requirement mappings and final sign off test cases
• Validate production tickets/issue resolution before they move into production and make sure that Dev/Functional team follow proper QA documentation

Test planning/coordination:

• Manage testing resources, test case sequencing, gathering of required test data files and other test coordination activities
• Train Business End users about Quality center in test case folder structure, functional traceability matrix, test cases execution, defect management
• Ongoing regression testing for SAP service pack installations

SAP Business Analyst:

• Gave overview of ERP family, SAP and different modules within SAP and how they interact with each other module to the automation team for better understanding for their automation assignments
• Provide 3rd level production support in Payroll, Time and ESS/MSS, analyze previous closed issues to make sure new tickets are not duplicates, route Business team to proper point of contact in the Functional team for each issue
• Help Business team to execute test cases in SAP

SAP Test Automation:

• Built Automation suite using SAP TAO
• Taught the new Functional testing team about the methodology of SAP TAO, QTP and the best practices in Test Automation
• Help Functional Team to load data into Production and Quality environments by building Automated Test scenarios

Confidential,FL Feb 2008 – Nov 2008

Convergys, a leader in relationship management and a SAP HR Implementation partner delivering a broad range of customer and HR solutions backed by technology, business analytics and consulting services. Below are the descriptions of two projects under Convergys:

Confidential, Apr 2008 – Nov 2008

Role: Lead SAP QA Analyst

The project involved customization of SAP HR ECC 6.0 and implementation across all enterprises in the US and different parts of the world with partnership with Deloitte Consulting.

Test Coordination

• Assist QA Manager in Test Plans, Analyze time frames for writing scenarios and help in team interviews
• Resource Planning: On boarding coordinator for all the new members in QA team (client specified certifications (FDA), Web ex meetings, Process Knowledge)
• On Site Team Management for Off shore teams (WIPRO, Intelligroup and Convergys Permanent Employees (India Office))
• Daily phone sessions with various Off-shore Test Leads for work assignments and Functional area coverage (No Of resources assigned per sub module and work completed as specified in the Test Plan, Functional input needed, show stoppers in completing a scenario, etc)
• System logins (client documentation website, R/3, Portal, Password re-sets, etc)

SAP HR Payroll Test Lead

• Confirm no of Functional specs to be received from the Global team – Per Phase wise, Per Country – R/3 and Portal (ESS and MSS)
• Requirement Traceability Matrix from Business leads, Functional Team Leads and PMO
• Built scenarios for SAP HR Payroll- Payroll Data soft copy, Hard copy, remuneration statements, Net pay, Gross Pay, Payroll settings, Calendars / Schedules, Taxation, Wage Type Catalogs/Distribution/Processing, etc in Quality center
• Built scenarios for Benefits – Contributions, Health and Welfare
• Built scenarios for all Portal related scenarios- ESS/MSS
• Maintain master data excel file of Functional specs that were received/not received/assigned
• Track Functional specs “Not Received” from the Functional Team by said time to the Leader ship team
• Maintain Functional Traceability Matrix file with Trace numbers from Requirements and assure that these trace numbers reflect in each Test scenario built in Quality Center
• Maintain Master Test data excel file
• Review these scenarios and suggest corrections. SME for the QA script writers, arrange meetings for the script writers and Functional Analysts for further clarifications
• Meet Functional leads for daily Transports moved to QA from DEV
• Assign Test scenarios per Transports moved to QA, assign defects to proper FA leads
• Assign defects “target resolution dates” to the Functional teams with proper scenario names, screen shots, data used for testing and environments
• Close defects after proper re-test, with clear descriptions and attachments
• Meetings with PMO for Change Management of configuration, enhancements of Functional specs
• Divide scenarios best fit for: Functional, UAT, E2E, Interfaces and Parallel
• Gather UAT scripts for the end client; assign best QA resource for the process

SAP HR Payroll Parallel Test Team member:

• Assist Global Payroll Parallel test lead for ASPAC region
• Analyze / Gather data from SAP Master Data to be sent out to Non-SAP Payroll System (Ramco, ADP) Team for different regions within ASPAC
• Upload these data requirements in proper format as defined by Global Parallel Lead
• This data is then used to run payroll in the Non-SAP Payroll Systems
• Daily phone meetings with Non-SAP Country Payroll teams to go thru the Payroll results

Confidential, FEB 2008 – Mar 2008

Role: Lead SAP QA Analyst

The project involved executing of numerous HR Module (ECC 6.0) Functional, Integration Testing and Interface Testing Test Scripts

• Validate the Scripts (3000 +) from Off-Shore teams (Keane, Wipro, Intelligroup) are properly linked with correct FDDS (Functional Specs)
• Execute different Sub-Module Functional scripts within HR: Benefits, PY, PA, PD, TM
• Execute Integration scripts: PA-PY, Benefits-PY
• Execute Interface scripts: Numerous Health Benefits (SAP XI Programs) that run thru PA and PY
• Testing SAP ESS/MSS applications
• Validations of Portal scripts and verify the results updated in SAP back end
• Defect Management thru Quality Center

Confidential, JUNE 2006 – JAN 2008 Role: Lead SAP Quality Analyst

AMD is a leading global provider of innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and consumer electronics markets. The project involved multiple tasks: Proper documentation of the previous SAP implementations, SAP Phase I (CRM, SCM, FICO, HCM, and SRM), ATI Canada and AMD SAP integration, NDA Web Application Testing and Performance testing.

• Proper documentation: - Gathering of test cases from previous Go-Lives, converting them into QA/PMO defined test case format
• Help set up Testing CoE (with help of HCL Technologies, India) to define their test plan, test case structure, naming conventions, test plan documentation
• One of few Clients to implement Business Process Testing (BPT) for their Automation needs

SAP HCM, APO

• Interacted with the infrastructure group to set up proper test environments
• Work closely with Functional Managers (APO and HR) and for Functional Spec reviews and requirements
• Documentation of Test Plan, review with SAP Functional Managers, signoff and submit to IT QA manager
• Documentation of test cases, review them with Business leads
• Test SAP HR-Time Management, Benefits, Payroll, PA, and Organization Management
• Role based testing of different functionalities within ESS/MSS scenarios
• Test Demand Planning (APO-DP) test cases manually
• Map Test Cases built in Quality Center to proper requirements
• Decide test cases best fit for Manual and Automation
• Built Automation Test cases in Quality center for regression testing.
• Main point of contact with SAP HR Functional team and Sr. Test Automation analyst for Performance testing

AMD/ATI SAP integration – SAP FI Module

• Responsible for AMD/ATI SAP FI integration testing
• Test new and previous Company Codes, G/L accounts for AMD/ATI integration project
• Documentation of test plan, review with AMD SAP Financials Manager (Germany), signoff and submit to IT QA manager
• Documentation of test cases, review them with Business leads
• Automation of Test cases in Quality Center that are used regularly for future Integration work

NDA Web Application Testing

• Review of Use cases with Functional team
• Documented requirements in Quality Center
• Review with Functional team to differentiate Automation and Manual Test Cases
• Co-ordinate with offshore team and assigned them with Manual cases
• Manual Test cases built in Quality Center; link them with proper Requirements
• Review the work done by off-shore team before submitting to Buss. Lead
• Built Automated Test case in Quality Center, link with requirements and sig-off from Buss. Lead

MY AMD Performance Testing

• Assist Sr. Test Automation analyst by setting up Remote clients, Installing required software (Load Gen, CITRIX Clients), creating Test accounts, recording VuGen Scripts and proper server configuration on 13 different World wide remote servers

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Education

B.S Electronics & Communications