Test Manager Resume

SUMMARY

An ERP Professional with experience spanning Program Management, Project Management and QA Management.
Have experience managing 15+ Independent ERP SAP Testing Projects, with effort ranging between 9 person months and 450+ person months and with testing budgets of up to $8 Million.
Have prior experience managing ERP Mfg/pro Implementation Projects with effort ranging between 12 and 240 person months .
Have 12+ years of Client Engagement experience
Worked with Fortune 500 Clients in the US
Have extensive experience in Distributed Delivery Model, with Project Teams distributed across the USA, UK, Germany, Mexico, Argentina and India.
Member - Project Management Institute.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

15+ ERP SAP Testing Projects.
MS Project
HP ALM / Quality Center, with Business Process Tests BPT, UFT / QTP and trained in Worksoft Certify
MS SharePoint
MS Power Point, Excel and Word.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Practice Partner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Have been the onsite Solution Architect, Consultant, Test Manager and Test Program Manager, for Independent ERP SAP Testing Projects for Fortune 500 Clients in the USA, directing Testing Teams ranging between 8 and 45 .
Managed 15 + SAP Testing Projects and delivered up to 98% Defect Removal Efficiency and 35% Software Quality cost savings to Clients.
Key responsibilities -
Project Scoping - Understanding as-is state and scoping out work for new projects / engagements.
Solution Definition - Defining Strategy & Approach, high-level Project Plans, Team Structure, Hardware & Software Requirements, Network & Connectivity Requirements - working with a PreSales Team and Practitioners.
Estimation and Pricing - Creating effort estimates, working with the Commercial Teams on pricing, presenting to Clients and following through to closure.
Project Portfolio Management - Staffing, Scope Management, Budget Management Effort & Spend, Issues & Risk Management, People Management, etc.
Service Level Agreement SLA Management.
Ensuring adherence to Wipro’s Project Management Methodology & QA Best Practices.
People Management - Hiring onsite Test Managers, Test Leads and Senior Testers Full-time or Contractors, coaching, mentoring and conducting Performance Appraisals for Full-time Hires .

Confidential

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

S/4HANA + 4 Cardinal Business Analysts who tested IBP.
Defined String and Integration Test Plans and schedules.
Coordinated with the Cardinal Test Leads, Configuration and Build Leads from itelligence & SAP, Middleware Lead from TCS, Data
Coordinated with the Cardinal Solution Owners for test script reviews and approvals.
Directed String and Integration Test execution, in coordination with the aforesaid Teams, as well as 3 rd Party Logistics Service Providers.
Planned and coordinated User Acceptance Tests for SAP IBP.
Directed creation of Validated Test Scripts and coordinated with the Cardinal IT QA Team for reviews and approvals.
Introduced automated Security Role Tests using HP Unified Functional Tester 2000+ combinations of Roles & T-Codes .
Provided daily updates to the PMO.
Managed the Wipro testing budgets actual v/s estimates .
Used SharePoint to create and maintain Project documentation.
Plans and schedules maintained in MS Project .
Have undergone training on Validated Testing using HP ALM .
Defect-to-Test Case Ratio of ~15:1 highlighted the key contribution of the Testing Team.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

Defined approach for introducing Continuous, Automated Testing in a custom software development project.
Guided execution of the PoC with successful demonstration to
Defined the Test Strategy for the Program.
Prepared effort and cost estimates for the Fixed Price Project.
Defined String and Integration Test Plans.
Coordinated with the Rockwell QA Manager, Rockwell Program Director & Wipro Project Manager for reviews & approvals.
Directed creation of String and Integration Test Scripts in HP ALM.
Coordinated with the Rockwell SME for reviews and approvals.
Directed execution of test scripts in coordination with the Wipro Configuration and Build Team and Rockwell’s Partners for legacy applications.
Monitored and managed the testing effort to keep it in-line with the estimates.
Provided daily status updates to the PMO and weekly updates to Wipro Account Managers.
HP ALM used for manual testing and test management.
Some of the Regression Tests were automated using HP UFT.
SharePoint used as a project repository.