Project Test Cases

Balasubramaniyan Ramamurthy

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Certified SAP FICO consultant (Version: ECC 4.6) completed in 2008.

Educational qualification:

MBA - Finance & Systems (2002 - 2004) with first class from Bharath institute of science and technology, Anna university, Chennai

B.C.A (1999-2002) from University of Madras, Chennai.

OVERVIEW:

More than 13 Years of financial accounting experience with 10 years in SAP consulting skilled with various SAP FICO End to End Implementation, Rollouts, Migration, and Enhancement & Support Consulting Projects in some of the best performance-driven companies.

Having experience in SAP PS, Investment management, Fund Management, FSCM, Travel & expense Management, Solution Manager and workflows.

Good understanding in SAP S/4 Hana and Simple finance.

Experience in RFP’s & presenting to customer’s on New Proposal’s.

Experience in Project management, such as handling team, project planning execution & deliverables without escalations.

Good communication and inter-personal skills, accustomed to work in a team environment with tight schedules, capable of working efficiently under pressure, managing multiple project, and cross training subordinates in other functional areas

Current Organization

Associate Project Manager – Accenture, Chennai from May 2017 to till date. I have been Canada for month to Montreal,holding business Visa.

Processing PR for Canada on my Own .

Previous Organization

Worked as Project Lead (SAP FICO) in Tech Mahindra, Chennai from Sep 2015 to May 2017.

Worked as Senior Consultant (SAP FICO) in Cognizant, Chennai from Feb 2014 to Sep 2015

Worked as Asst Project Manager (SAP FICO) in NTT Data, Chennai From Aug 2010 to Jan 2014

Worked as Application Consultant (SAP FICO) in IBM India Pvt Ltd. Hyderabad From Aug 2008 to Aug 2010.

Worked as Executive (SAP FICO) – in Infosys, Chennai from Dec 2006 to Aug 2008.

Worked as a Process Assistant in Xansa India Ltd, Chennai from March 2006 to Nov 2006.

Worked as a Executive in Apollo Sindhoori Capital Investments Ltd, Chennai from Dec 2004 to Feb 2006.

Job Description in Tech Mahindra:

Project: 1

Project : Club Mahindra holidays :

Role : FICO Functional lead

Scope : Production Support

Duration : Feb 2014 – Sep 2015

Customer facing role and providing solutions and designing the business requirements

Production support involves troubleshooting, configuration changes and functional designs for development activates

Job Description in Cognizant:

Project: 1

Project : Pearson

Role : FICO Functional lead

Scope : Production Support

Duration : Feb 2014 – Sep 2015

Production support involves troubleshooting, configuration changes and functional designs for development activates

Analysing and providing solutions on the issue tickets based on the Priorities & SLA’s between countries.

Interactions with the users to provide timely solution.

Changes to configuration settings as required by the client and analyzing the impact of changes to be taken place.

Documenting the solutions and unit test cases and integration test cases in the SRs thoroughly and according to standards.

Work with BASIS and ABAP personnel to analyse the program logical specifications and trouble shooting

Escalate necessary tickets to SAP for fixing standard program bugs.

Work closely with country process owners in designing and presenting new (To-Be) financial business processes.

Involved in Month End &Year End Jobs Monitoring and fix the issue if any Job failures.

Job Description in NTT Data:

Project: 4

Project : Hospira Pvt ltd

Role : FICO Functional lead

Scope : Production Support

Duration : Feb 2013 – Jan 2014

Responsibilities:

Functional lead role involved in troubleshooting Finance, controlling & PS issues

Involved in configuration changes and functional designs for development activates

Handled solution manager for change request process

Work closely with the users and provided solution in client location Independently

Work with BASIS and ABAP personnel to analyse the program logical specifications and trouble shooting

Prepare system documentation

Worked on integration issues between MM, SD & HR

Project: 3

Project : Hospira Pvt ltd

Role : FICO Functional lead

Scope : New plant Rollout

Duration : March 2013 – April 2013

Responsibilities:

Perform detail business process study and perform AS IS Study and create high level business documentation

Training and Documentation of all relevant process UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration Testing, Test Scripts arranging and coordinating the testing activities, Trouble Shooting during UAT.

Implemented the Auto Payment process completely along with a one way interface program to upload the payment file to the bank.

Written function specification for various new enhancement programs in the areas of Product costing/ FI-AP for the ABAP programmer in developing report.

Provided consultation to business owners in reengineering their business process

Done detail study & established various ways of automation in areas of PTP & OTC process which minimized the time usage of the user in monotonous sap entries.

Project: 2

Project : FDC International

Role : FICO Consultant

Scope : End to End Implementation Project

SAP Ver sion : ECC 6.0

Duration : May 2012 – Dec 2012

Responsibilities:

Full cycle implementation in FI/CO Module – Analyzing business requirements and the existing system for as-is scenarios, gathered functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis, and participation in process improvement teams.

Preparing detail Business blueprint with the gap identified mentioned

New GL activated with Profit center & Segment level reporting.

System configuration in the areas of FI-GL-transactions, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss, inter-company,CO-CCA-Assessments/Distribution, PCA-settings, hierarchy, account assignment objects, value fields, planning and reporting.

Functional specs for all RICEF list objects

Preparing system for UAT arranging the schedules and also conducting power user training

Preparing data migration strategy for various FICO objects & also coming out with cutover plan for the data migration

Project: 1

Project : End to End Implementation & Post – Go Live Support

Client : Corporate IT

Role : Senior Sap FICO consultant

SAP Version : ECC 6.0

Duration : Aug 2010 to May 2012

Responsibilities:

Worked as Team Lead of FICO implementation team with responsibility of delivering various

Activities in each phase of the projects

Single point of contact to the user throughout the project

Responsible for delivering the Business process documentation or the Details business specification during the Blue print stage.

Preparation of presentations for Conducting the Power and end user Training, along with other documentations for business specific process.

Have conducted Fit & Gap analysis by way of understanding the business process along with the user and taking new requirements.

Detailed Documentation involving Functional & Technical Specification of new enhancement after GAP analysis

Finalising the test cases for both unit & integration testing as part of the Testing phase.

Have created various test cases & Test script documents for Unit & Integration testing

Involved deeply in user Acceptance Testing and assisted in user testing.

During the migration phase involved in the documentation of the Migration concept, created the scope of migration and also assisted users in cleansing the old data. Involved in creation, testing & actual migration of various FI objects.

Been part of the whole cut over activities and contributed more on the FI business processes.

Have performed go-live Support & Month end closing activities

Perform detail business process study and perform AS IS Study and create high level business documentation

Have Conducted To be Process workshop and established the mapping of AS IS and to be process

Documentation involved deliverables of ASIS, TOBE and then a Business Blue Print

Conduct UAT on all the designed business process

Complete End user training for all the FICO business users

Job Description in IBM

Project # 3

Project : Royal Bam

Role : FICO Consultant

Scope : AMS Support

Duration : 13 Months (July 2009 to Aug 2010)

Responsibilities:

Making new configurations and changing existing configurations.

Establish general settings and completed specific configuration related to company code.

Assist user in General Ledger /Customer/Vendor/ Asset master data creation.

Dunning & House Banks configuration

Configuration of Automatic payment program settings..

Preparation of User Manual for End users.

Handling Month End activities

Resolving day-to-day issues

Testing the functionality before moving it to production.

Interacting with users for gathering more information on issues/ new developments.

Discussing with ABAP team for new report development & report enhancements.

Coordinating with other module team members for resolving integration issues.

Preparing functional specs for new development

Creation and Uploading (Through LSMW) of Vendor master, Customer Master & Bank master records.

Project # 2

Project : Ministerie van Verkeer & Waterstaat, Netherlands

The Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (Ven W)

Role : FICO Consultant

Scope : Manual & Automation Regression Testing

Duration : 6 Months (Jan 2009 to June 2009)

Manual Regression Testing:

Prepare Test Cases as per the requirement

Create Test Scripts

Execute FICO test cases

Verify and Validate the results

Prepare End user Document

Automation Regression Testing:

Create reusable components of the business Transactions in SAP TAO

Create scenario & Transactions in HP Quality Center tool (Version 9.5)

Execute the Business components in Quality Center with engine QTP Tool

(Quick test Professional 9.2)

Verify & Validate the Results

Project # 1

Project : SAP FASTTRAK Simulation Project, IBM Global Business Services,

Role : FICO Consultant

Scope : End to End Implementation Simulation Project

Duration : 5 Months (Aug’08 to Dec’08)

FASTTRAK is a unique initiative launched by IBM India to impart SAP consultancy and project delivery skills to its SAP functional consultants who have sound business knowledge and industry experience. As a part of this program, the SAP FASTTRAK Simulation Project has been launched with the objective of imparting the experience of a real life SAP implementation project to these consultants through a simulated project environment.

The project includes implementing SAP ECC 6.0 in a model company involved in manufacturing automobile accessories and industrial products:

Product range: lead acid battery and related accessories

2 legal entities, 8 Manufacturing Plants, 4 Distribution Centers, 50 Branch Offices.

The business case for the model company and the project structure has been designed and developed by very senior and experience SAP consultants and Project Managers, drawing from their own real experiences. They are also managing the project execution and in the process monitoring and grooming the new consultants to help them develop their consulting skills following IBM specific project delivery methodology (Ascendant SAP).

The simulated implementation project includes:

SAP modules: FI, CO, MM, SD, PP, HR and WM.

Major business processes of a typical Engineering and Auto Ancillary industry.

All the major phases and deliverables of real life SAP project such as Blue print, Realization, Cutover, Go-Live covered over a period of 3 months under stringent delivery deadlines.

Role-play of Client Business teams and stakeholders by the senior IBM Managers and Executives.

Responsibilities during project life cycle included:

Business Blueprint

Study of entire business process of the client related to FICO and their interface with MM SD, PP & HR

Preparation of Business Process Master List, Key Data Structures, To-Be documents, Detailed Design documents.

Gap analysis and development identification.

Arranging process validation workshop and getting sign-off of “To-be” document

Business Blueprint and System Configuration.

Realization Phase

Configured Organisation Structure elements.

Defined and assigned Global Settings.

Defined Account group for G/L Accounts, Master data, field status for master data, Assignment of number ranges. Accounts groups for Customers & Vendors, master data set-up for customer and vendor, centralized versus decentralized maintenance of master data, Assignment of number ranges to account groups. Bank Accounts-Maintain Bank master data, Defining house bank and bank accounts, maintain link between bank and GL account

Configured COA, Asset classes and integration of FI-AA account determination. Configured asset classes and creation of asset master data. Depreciation run and testing of asset acquisition, scraping, retirement, intercompany transfer etc.

Business process such as automatic payment program, dunning, interest calculation, correspondence and year-end closing activities.

Controlling Org Types & Master Data: Cost element accounting, Cost center accounting, Internal orders, Profit center accounting

Responsible to coordinate and facilitate all Integration Issues for FICO module with MM & SD Team members

Unit testing and Integration testing phase.

Test problem resolution.

Final Preparation and Cutover Phase

Data Migration in Cut Over phase through LSMW programs for Customer Master, Vendor Master & Asset Master

Preparation of User Training Manuals.

Job Description in Infosys

Taking care of the whole Accounts Payables & Accounts Receivables cycle

Mapping of vendors and customers to company codes as per the requests received

Generating Invoices for Customers and follow up to collect the outstanding balances

Reviewing the Accounts Receivable Aging report

Coordinating with cash application team to clear the accounts

Ageing analysis on Customer Receivables

Posting JE & Accruals

Periodic books closing.

Executing Payment

Resolving of blocked invoices, Co ordination with site finance and Buyers to resolve the same.

Reconciliation of Vendor statements and responding to Vendor queries, resolving the issues of mails received from the site People.

Identifying and Rectification of errors solving discrepant invoices, Processing Credit Note & Debit Notes

ABAP Tools:

Basic ABAP debugging techniques to find out the route cause of any error.

SAP table structures and various ABAP functionalities

Basic Query Writing & Report painter tools

Have hands on experience in SAP data migration tools (LSMW, CATT & BDC )

Job Description in Xansa

Worked in Accounts Payable Process (SAP-FICO)

Involved in Processing Invoices- Purchase orders, Rent and Utility Invoices, Credit notes, One-time vendor, etc.

Travel expenses management.

Confirming vendor details

Checking authorizations

Raising queries

Job Description in Apollo Sindhoori Capital Investments Ltd

Responsible for Various MIS Reports on AP and AR.

To create vendor liability on expenses and purchases in the system. Responsible for vendor payments and periodic confirmation of balances.

Responsible for generation of Sales Invoices and Accounting of Customer Receivables. To report ageing analysis on Customer Receivables.

Resourceful in managing day to day functions including preparation & maintenance of Bills, Supplier Payments & Invoices etc.

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