SUMMARY

• Over 14 years experience in SAP FICO and Open Text VIM as a techno - functional consultant.
• Experience with multiple projects in P2P space and multiple OpenText VIM Implementations, upgrades, projects and support roles.
• Experienced in SAP modules FI, CO, Integration with SD and MM.
• Experienced working in the FI module in AP, AR, GL, Fixed Assets and the CO module (IM).
• Experienced in multiple full SDLC of Open Text VIM “ Vendor Invoice management ” for automating the Logistics Invoice Verification (LIV) process.
• Experienced in full SDLC of “ Investment Management ” module and its integration with CO and FI for developing and generating budgeting and forecasting reports.
• Experienced in gathering and analyzing business requirements from Clients and End Users, blue printing, analyzing and writing functional specification documents, working with offshore team during development, testing and validating development objects and configuration throughout the SDLC, writing training materials and training end users.
• Experienced in business requirement gathering and writing Functional Design Documents (FDDs) and Functional Specification Documents (FSDs).
• Experienced in writing test scripts and executing tests in various areas in FI and CO.
• Extensively involved in testing roles in ECC including Controlling: Investment Management, Finance: Procure to Pay, Vendor Invoice Management, Materials management, Sales and Distribution, Fixed Assets, and Portal. Duties included developing test plans, defining test cases, developing test scripts and defect management using ALM/HPQC.
• Acted as test Lead on implementations, upgrades and support projects.
• Proficient in manual Testing Tools such as HPQC/ALM for testing SAP ECC.
• Experienced in Unit testing, string testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Data testing, UAT Testing and Security Validation testing.
• Experienced in designing test cases, writing test scripts and executing and documenting Test Results.
• Experienced in working with development team (onshore and offshore) in resolving defects.
• Experience in coordinating efforts between offshore and onshore teams.
• Experienced in organizing and participating in Defect Triage meetings and effectively communicating with the business users, Development Team and the Testing team.
• Experienced in organizing and conducting status update meetings to monitor and regulate Testing progress during SDLC and STLC.
• Experienced in supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Experienced in Performing Production Validation testing.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), methodologies and test processes and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft productivity tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio)
• Experienced in Post Go Live implementation support.
• Experience in processes like Change Management, RICEF Management, Document Change control, Scope Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Applications: SAP ERP 6.0 in FICO (P2P MM, ECC, OpenText VIM) and CO Investment Management), ARIBA, One source, SRM.

SAP Tools: ECC, Open Text VIM, ARIBA, Quality Center.

Testing: Unit Testing, String Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing.

OtherTools: MS Word, Excel, Power Point, ALM/HP Quality Center, VISIO, Solution Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP FICO P2P/OpenText VIM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is the third largest food distribution company in the United States. Confidential Company is an American company that was founded in 1885 in Richmond, Virginia by food peddler James Capers. Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, the company distributes a range of food products, and has more than 14,000 employees. It has three divisions, each catering to specific market segments: Performance Foodservice, Vistar, and Confidential Customized.
• My role at Confidential is SAP functional consultant in the Source to Pay stream.
• My responsibilities include enhancements and support activities.
• I am responsible for enhancements to Open Text VIM and SAP ECC enhancements.
• My activities include meeting with the business SMEs and gathering business requirements.
• Documentation of business requirements.
• Configuration and documentation of configuration details.
• Writing FDDs and TDDs and working with the development team to build and work through solutions.
• Unit testing the changes and assisting business with the Integration testing.
• Providing Production support with issues related to enhancements. Also providing support with general issues in Production.

Confidential

SAP Source to pay Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a global science company. Using 46 technology platforms, Confidential ’s integrated team of scientists and researchers work with customers to create breakthroughs. Confidential ’s inventions have improved daily life for hundreds of millions of people all over the world. With $30 billion in sales, Confidential ’s 90,000 employees connect with customers all around the world. Scientists, researchers and marketers work across countries and across subjects to solve challenges big and small.
• My role at Confidential is as a Source to pay functional consultant. I am part of the Global SAP implementation team as the Open Text VIM implementation lead.
• My area of focus is specifically the Source to pay or procure to pay stream.
• The area of focus of my role involves STP functions: Procurement, invoicing and payment.
• My role involves working with the MM team and the AP team.
• My role on the project involves configuration, WRICEFS and testing in each Release cycle.
• I have worked on three releases thus far with Open Text VIM, ECC and MM in the Source to pay space.
• Activities include Gathering business requirements for the U.S and from Various Global Shared Services locations located in 5 continents and working with SMEs and the technical teams to find solutions for the business needs of the Company in various releases.
• Activities include working with the Business, functional and technical teams.

Confidential

SAP FICO P2P/OpenText VIM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a market leading dental and animal health company, Confidential supply technology, products and equipment, as well as marketing, support and logistics services across North America and the U.K.
• My role was the support lead for AP for ECC and Open Text VIM.
• Also responsible for all AP related WRICEFS.
• WRICEFS included designing and writing FSDs specs for system enhancements, new reports and other tasks.
• Responsible for all OpenText VIM and SAP P2P configuration and enhancements.
• Working with SMEs, technical teams, Basis and BI team to resolve issues on a daily basis and work on new enhancements and reports.
• Responsibilities included training SMEs, business users and AP Processors in the AP and Treasury space.
• Visiting Distribution Centers across the country to train users and monitor performance using SAP.
• Writing AP functions related training materials for users at the Shared services team and also writing training materials for the Change management team to use across plants and distribution centers nationally.
• GRIR project: Part of the analysis team dedicated to doing a root cause analysis of the GRIR discrepancies

Confidential

SAP FICO P2P/OpenText VIM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• CHS strives to grow opportunities for producers, farmers and cooperative owners, as well as its energy, grain and food customers. Founded in 1929, and employing 11,000 people in 25 countries CHS is a diversified farmer-owned Fortune 100 company.
• My main role at CHS is as the Open Text VIM Implementation lead. VIM is an add-on to SAP ECC. VIM is an integral part of the Procure to pay(P2P) cycle. VIM is the Vendor Invoice Management tool that processes all Vendor invoices (PO and non PO) and automates the LIV process from PO creation to Invoice posting in ECC. It replaces and enhances the traditional manual FB60 and MIRO functionality in ECC. Below is a summary of my duties throughout the SDLC.

Confidential

FICO Functional Consultant and QA

Responsibilities:

• Confidential generates and supplies Electricity to Southern and Central California. Over the past decade SCE has heightened its focus on renewable energy.
• My main role at SCE was as part of the implementation team throughout the SDLC. I was also concurrently involved in production support and other projects.
• Investment Management uses SAP IM tool to enable program management and to obtain an overview of planning and budgeting processes in complex enterprise structures like SCE for all investments and large projects of the group while at the same time maintaining strict budgetary control.
• Extensive involvement in Investment Management (IM) SDLC and STLC.
• Served as Functional Consultant and Test Lead on Enhancements, Reports, interfaces as well as several production support projects and upgrades.
• Responsibilities also involved making test plans, Unit and regression testing as required; holding weekly status update and defect update meetings.
• Attended several meetings with clients during the blue printing phase to discuss client needs.
• Analyzed Business requirements and wrote Functional design documentation.
• Wrote FDSs for Custom Objects in Consultation with SMEs, process owners and development team.
• Developed an integrated Test Plan covering all the assigned Custom Objects of the designated parts of the application.
• Wrote detailed QA Test Plan and Strategy documents meeting the industry standards. Wrote test cases, Execute test, Analyzing results, defect reporting and steps to reproduce the defects.
• Drafted detailed defect reports with required attachments
• Member of Investment Management implementation team, involved in designing the structure, creating the upload templates for users and then the configuration.
• Participated in blue printing and design meetings for all IM Custom objects.
• Coordinated with developers to develop functional design specifications based on blue print documentation.
• Involved in building the Investment Management Hierarchies for Capital Expenditures and Operations & Maintenance Expenditures by mirroring the Cost Center Hierarchy.
• Involved in designing the O&M Hierarchy to match the Cost Center Hierarchy.
• Configured and tested O&M Cost Object Assignment using settlement rules to the right receiver Cost objects according to the proper IM Program Hierarchy design.
• Reconciled and tested Capital Baseline Reports with IM Budget Variance Reports.
• Reconciled Cost Center Report to Budget Variance Report for Operations & Maintenance Expenditures.
• For Capital Projects reconciliation used Power Plant to reconcile the differences between the BI and IM Reports.
• Used the functional knowledge of Power Plant with interfaces to ECC.
• Developed an integrated Test Plan covering all the Custom Objects of the designated parts of the application.
• Reviewed, modified and update the FDS ’ s for multiple IM Custom Objects like Work Order Assignment, Universal Object Assignment, and Budget Variance Report etc.
• Built test scripts for and tested using standard STLC, Investment Management Enhancements, interfaces and Reports.
• Worked with technical team to get the bugs fixed and to break-fix the code in HPQC by raising defects, testing defects and closing defects.
• Created notifications for Simple Request, Break fixes and worked with the QA teams to meet the requirements to send in the notifications on time.
• Worked with Power Plant (Fixed Assets) and PI teams to send in the Master Data into SAP through the interfaces for Capital Expenditure IM hierarchy design.
• Created IM test data for PPM Project, part of which was to create Unit Estimates in Power Plant for Work Orders.
• Built test scripts and tested the Interface to send Unit Estimates in Power Plant, the equivalent of settlement rules for Work Orders in SAP to ECC.
• Worked on creating, scheduling and including the Batch jobs in the CTM for daily runs after the initial Master Data upload from Power Plant to SAP.
• Tested the settlement rules for multiple Work Orders settlements to their destination GL Accounts on Capital side.
• Validated GL postings using FBL3N, for Work Order settlements to GL Accounts on Capital side.
• Tested multiple level settlements for Cost Objects, including WBS Elements, Internal Order, Distribution Cost Centers and Final Cost Centers etc on O&M side.
• Validated multiple level settlements GL Postings using FAGLL03. Made sure they were hitting the right GL accounts and the proper settlement percentages were being used.
• Tested enhancements to Cost Center display (KS01) by adding custom field for IM Program Position entry.
• Extensively built test scripts and test data for and tested the Budget Entry template (IM35) in IM using STLC.
• Built test scripts for and tested the Budget Variance Report in IM using STLC.
• Wrote test scripts for and tested Purchase Order Commitments Report. Validated Commitments report using (KSB1) and SLR reports.
• Worked with offshore development team to raise, fix and close defects
• Created and wrote Training documents for end users using Power point.
• Trained End Users on using Investment Management Reports.
• Created Knowledge Transfer documents for IM