SUMMARY:

• Solution oriented professional IT consultant who excels at leading project teams, collaborating with project teams, working with clients and helping deploy SAP solutions.
• Motivated multi - tasking achiever with over 25 years of significant progressive experience in IT consulting focused on SAP based ERP implementations in various industries.
• Strong communication and team-building skills.
• Industry experience includes: retail, insurance, banking, manufacturing, telecom, utility, consumer products, technology and railroads.
• Led testing including test strategy, test plans and defect management working with both the Waterfall and Agile processes.
• Supported project management in multiple tasks and filled in for the project manager when required.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for twenty-five testers from the client, fourteen in Toronto, eight in London, two in Singapore and one in Australia.
• These were added as required for some of the test phases, from the business work streams.
• The task of the project was to bring all of Confidential 's worldwide operations on the same SAP system to enable efficiencies, a common set of business standards and hence to enable the company to build a unified corporate culture and norms in all its worldwide business entities.
• The project implemented the SAP modules FS-RI, FS-CD, FI-GL and BP besides msg.LRM and msg.PM. The data files from the client’s customers were moved using ETL.
• There were staggered releases for Asia, North America and Europe, in that order. T
• he North America release was the major release with about seventy percent of the functionality in the project.
• This was the first implementation worldwide of msg.LRM that was challenging. The smooth implementation of this module was a major success though the testing, as expected for a first implementation, turned up a number of defects particularly in finance and actuarial.
• The move of the data files via ETL was also a challenge, given the multiple different agreements that the client had with their different customers and the code to handle the differently set up data and its processing, but again this was successfully overcome and tested.
• The test management and reporting in the project used SAP Solution Manager (Solman).

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAP Technical Director

Responsibilities:

• Increased the maturity level of the client’s testing practice to 4 from 2.
• Ran multiple test releases, using HP ALM, Solman, BPCA, TSO, UFT and TAO.
• Worked with project lead in negotiating contracts, resources and deliverables.
• Won a contract to run the testing COE for an additional five years.
• Working as the test lead to test a spend analytics program which the client was implementing using SAP BW to eliminate information mispricing.
• The project had been previously delayed, due to constantly changing scope and a lagging schedule and less than 25 % development had been completed.
• Created a test strategy and worked with the PMO to ensure an early completion of the development and unit testing.
• Set up an aggressive product testing timeline to still ensure finishing product testing on time despite the late start.
• The product testing finished on time and within the quality gate levels.
• Created the test strategy and created test plans for multiple releases.
• Identified the regression testing scenarios using the Business Process Change Analyzer (BPCA) in Solution Manager.

Confidential, Southbury, CT

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Along with the Confidential test manager, represented testing before the Executive committee and in project and change management meetings.
• All of the main SAP ERP modules were being tested besides BI.
• A test data tool, Gold Client, from the Hayes Technology group had been selected.
• Supported the negotiations with vendor from technical perspective.
• As the test data manager was responsible for installation, administration and data moves using Gold Client.
• Also supervised the administration and use of the Rational test tools, including RQM, RFT and RPT, in line with business requirements.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Global Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reported monthly to the Executive committee on our progress fortnightly. Also, attended any other meetings, as called, with the Executive committee and Change Management.
• Put in place a strong leadership system and accountability.
• Testing of pilot was in Kronberg including two cycles of integration testing.
• Testing included key customers of client and also cross section of all products.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a small team of six for a valued long term client to set up a regression test bed.
• Prepared the test artifacts for regression, identified the regression test cases and set up the regression test bed.
• The tools used were the Rational tools.
• RQM was used for test management and RFT and RFP for automation and load testing.

Confidential, White Plains, NY

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Identified the final regression test bed and provide a roadmap for preparation of the regression test cases for automation.
• Carried out analysis of testing to identify testing gaps, lessons learnt and test team organization to support ongoing maintenance and future releases.
• Conducted a workshop for project management and team leads on regression testing, including for utility software and reporting.
• Presented findings to top client and project management on test team reorganization, including TCoE, regression testing and automation.

Confidential, Hackettstown, NJ

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Represented testing before the Executive Committee and in the Change Management and Project meetings.
• Created and implemented all test artifacts.
• Organized, trained and led the test team, using functional persons and key users as testers. QC was used for test management.
• The automation and performance testing, using QTP and LoadRunner, was done by automation testers.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with client QA Manager and the system integrator’s (TCS) QA Lead to establish professional QA process for the project, using Lean Six Sigma methodologies by first auditing the existing process and then updating it.

Confidential, New York, NY

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created all test artifacts and implemented these over four cycles of integration testing besides an additional cycle of production data testing and one of performance testing.
• After go-live supported the defect management, including simultaneous use of HP Quality Center and the existing help desk system.
• Both manual and automated test cases were used for testing fixed defects.

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reported for testing to the executive committee and project management.
• Conducted two stages of Integration testing with two cycles each, including testing of security and interfaces. Also, carried out automation and performance testing.
• Carried out vendor selection and purchase of tools, including Solution Manager and the HP test tools.
• Set up and used the Solution Manager tool for project management.
• Also set up and used the HP QC, QTP and LoadRunner tools.

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• The project archived transaction data which was stored in a PBS ContentLink server and was accessible via new archiving transaction.
• Created artifacts and carried out functional, regression, interface and UAT testing.
• Involved in selection of data to be archived, based on extensive knowledge of SAP and understanding of client s business.
• Also created best practices for the client s Center of Excellence in Testing.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Global Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as the test manager, working with the client test manager, leading test teams in both Princeton and Munich, Germany. Responsible for the test teams, leading up to fifty five testers, including resources based in both Princeton and Munich.
• Reported to the project manager and also attended the change management meetings. With the client test manager attended the Executive Committee meetings.
• The project was to simultaneously create and implement the new SAP module FS-RI and which had to be fully integrated with the existing SAP functionality on a NetWeaver platform with integration by PI.
• The Pilot release brought in the customer base and their financial records into the FS-RI module. Led the functional, integration and UAT testing for this and also was involved with its release management. The pilot release took place from Jan 04 through Mar 04.
• For the global release (Phase I) of the project:
• Planned and led four rounds of functional testing, two rounds of integration testing and two rounds of UAT. UAT was conducted solely in Munich. Project was managed using HP QC.
• The three rounds of regression testing were conducted in both Princeton and Munich and had almost fifty percent automated (QTP) test cases.
• Carried out the planning and test artifacts of the testing for Phase II including lessons learnt during the earlier releases.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• The implementation affected all aspects of client business and replaced multiple legacy systems. The client was a forestry and paper products company.
• All phases of testing including string, integration, regression, security, performance and automation were planned and carried out. The client used SAP NetWeaver.
• The test tools used were Rational Test tools.
• Personally, carried out technical documentation and also training of users.