PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 16+ years of IT experience in the area of Software Development, Software Testing, Customization, Enhancement and Production Support projects mostly for the SAP enterprise resource planning software.
• Hands - on experience in managing major SAP Production support, Enhancement and SAP Testing projects, owning the test processes and test automation tools for SAP testing.
• Having strong project management skills with an ability to drive planning, scheduling, effort estimation, resourcing plans, budgets and status reporting, risk management and stakeholder management.
• SAP test management skills for test strategy, defining requirements, planning of testing process, test automation & execution, analyzing and reporting results, tracking and managing defects.
• SAP Certified Associate - SAP Activate Project Manager issued by SAP SE that focused on Agile Project Planning and Agile Delivery Approach.
• Good understanding of SAP Activate Elements, Workstreams, Implementation of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Implementation of SAP S/4HANA on-premise, System Conversion and Selective Data Transition.
• Performed SAP ERP testing for the SAP Sales & Distribution (SD), Materials Management (MM), Financials Accounting (FI), Project Systems (PS) and Human Resource (HR/HCM) modules.
• Having expertise in SAP automation testing by using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), HP Business Process Testing (BPT), HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Performed Functional Unit Testing, String testing, Regression testing and System Integration Testing
• Having good understanding of various Software Development Life Cycle models like Waterfall, Agile Scrum, DevOps and Software Testing Life Cycle models.
• Having strong analytical and problem-solving skills in identifying root cause of issues or problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAP ERP: SAP S/4HANA, SAP FICO, SD, MM, PM, WM, HR/HCM, PS, SAP Solution Manager 7.2

Test Automation Tool: Micro Focus UFT/QTP, ALM/QC, HP BPT, SAP TAO, TBOM

Operating System(s): MS Windows, Red Hat Linux, UNIX

Programming Languages: ANSI C, Java, ABAP/4, VB Scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Findlay, OH

Test Automation Architect/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Service Delivery role in providing SAP Application Management Services to Confidential .
• Delivered a successful record of on-time and under-budget projects by tracking & monitoring the incidents and service tickets in Remedy and Service Now ticketing tool to ensure that team has closed the tickets within the agreed Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Scheduled bi-weekly meetings with the Business process owners of Confidential to asses current and future customer needs and priorities.
• Understood the customer feedback pertaining to performance of project teams and took actions accordingly.
• Streamlined the overall testing strategy of Confidential ’s HR Test Scripts in HP ALM.
• Provided the testing support model that insures seamless testing in SAP HCM on an ongoing basis.
• Built strong customer relationships with client management.
• Conducted weekly PMO meetings for the forecasting of revenues, planning and execution of project within the budget and Service Level Agreement (SLA).
• Participated in the monthly Operational Governance meetings and presented the value ads to customer.

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Test Automation Architect/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the testing team for the S/4HANA migration testing from SAP ERP 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA Finance, Version-1605 for the EMEA-UK landscape.
• Prepared test scenarios that covers SAP ECC, SAP Portal, Open Text and HRO-UK applications.
• Consulted with various S/4HANA project stakeholders including QM Lead, Functional leads, Technical leads, Project management, SAP Basis, SAP Security and centralized QA team for the successful execution of the project.
• Managed the offshore automation team, provided technical and managerial guidance to automation team.
• Tracked and monitored automation project progress and defects raised by the automation team.
• Established information and communication needs of stakeholders and ensure seamless timely information distribution.

Confidential, Lawrenceville, Georgia

Test Automation Lead/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed ongoing SAP testing during New Product Implementation and on-boarding of Contract Manufacturers.
• Created QA Process related documents. Involved in day-to-day Test Management activities like - Preparation of Test Strategy & Test Plan.
• The testing was performed for SAP XI/PI, SAP ECC 6.0, SAP NetWeaver 2004s, XML by using the tools XML Stylus Studio XML Editor, HP QuickTest Professional (HP QTP) 9.5 and HP Quality Center (HP QC) 9.2.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Test Automation Lead/Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Also, automated identified SAP test scenarios. Reported daily and weekly progress to Test Lead of Confidential and project stakeholders in Confidential .
• The testing was performed for the SAP R/3 Enterprise - SAP SD, MM & FICO applications by using the test automation tools HP QuickTest Professional 9.5 and Quality Center 9.0.

Confidential

Test Automation Lead/Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Automation Plan and Test Automation Effort Estimation sheet.
• Automated identified SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP R/3 applications test cases using HP QC 9.2 & QTP 9.5.
• Demonstrated the Automation Framework and automated test scripts to FPL stakeholders.
• Validated automated Test Scripts developed by the team.
• Handed over the automated Test Scripts to FPL for execution and on-going maintenance.
• Reported daily and weekly progress to FPL.

Confidential, New Brunswick, NJ

Test Automation Lead/Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Automated the test cases for the employee movement, personal data changes, suspension and voluntary separation, Time Management scenarios like Work Schedule Rule validation, Payroll scenarios like Wage Type validation and pay slip validation.
• The testing was conducted for the SAP ECC 6.0, SAP NetWeaver Portal applications by using HP QuickTest Professional 9.5 & 10.0, Mercury Quality Center 9.0.

Confidential, Lake Forest, Illinois

Test Automation Lead/Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Created automated Regression Test Suite to support the planned upgrades for SAP R/3 4.7 and ECC 5.0.
• Automated 150 SAP-HR test cases using HP QTP, HP BPT, SAP TAO and HP Quality Center 9.2.
• Designed the Test Automation Framework by leveraging SAP TAO and Confidential Best Practices.
• Developed automated test scripts. Performed dry runs of the automated test scripts.
• Created User Documentation on Automation Framework and automated test scripts.
• Demonstrated the automated test scripts to Confidential stakeholders and got Sign-off.

Confidential

Test Automation Consultant/Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed QA process assessment as an independent and impartial software-testing expert to assist in objectively assessing the current roles and engagement of the department and to provide insight and recommendations on what a best practices target state given the applicable parameters that are coming into effect.
• Interacted with the stakeholders, done assessment of automation testing process maturity, prepared test automation strategy and test automation roadmap for Mackenzie.

Confidential, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Test Automation Lead/Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manually executed test steps in SAP with the given test data in Quality Center (QC) to ensure that all steps execute successfully with the given test data.
• Asked required clarification from the onsite subject matter expert’s and validated the test data and design steps.
• Done effort estimation to develop each Business Component and effort required to integrate the individual components.
• Allocated work to testing team members for the script development.
• Tracked the delivery schedule to ensure that all the deliverables can be released as per the project plan.
• Co-ordinated with the onsite team for the script execution. Generated defects report from the QC and fixing the defects.
• Attended telephonic meeting with the onsite team for the offshore status update.
• Updated the status report to offshore manager regularly.

Confidential, Orlando, Florida

Test Automation Lead/Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Done requirement gathering for doing of automation testing proof-of-concepts for their SAP R/3 Enterprise, SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) and Siebel Sales 7.8 applications.
• The business scenario was to create a customer and change of customer in Siebel application, checking customer data and enhancing of customer data in SAP application.
• HP Quick Test Professional 9.2, HP Quality Center 9.2, MS Excel 2003 and VB Script was considered testing tools.
• Created Business Components using reusable actions of QuickTest Professional for various SAP transactions as per the steps given in Quality Center.
• Executed the developed scripts with the given test data by the customer.
• Conducted automation testing by using Mercury Quick Test Professional 9.1, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, MS Excel 2003 and VB Scripting.