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SAP FICO Functional Test Lead

Location:
Vernon Hills, IL, 60061
Salary:
$80 Per Hour
Posted:
December 12, 2023

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Sudheer Kumar Jammuladinne

ad1w6b@r.postjobfree.com

+1-224-***-****

SAP FICO – QA Lead

Summary

** ***** ** ** ******** experience and 15 plus years SAP experience including Support and Testing.

Extensive experience in SDLC and STLC life cycles

Extensive experience in Waterfall and Agile Methodology

Experience in leading teams, assign tasks, follow ups, provide estimations and timelines.

Experience in testing and documenting of SAP ECC & S/4 HANA FI/CO, SD, MM, Nakisa Lease Accounting, BlackLine Journals, Data Stewardship Platform (DSP) and cApps applications (DSP&cApps – Master data management tools).

Expertise in testing SAP FI/CO - General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL), Accounts Payables (FI-AP), Accounts Receivables (FI-AR), Asset Accounting (FI-AA), Treasury & Bank Accounting, In-house Cash (IHC), Project Systems, Cost Center Accounting, Cost Element Accounting, Controlling-Profitability Analysis (COPA) especially in highly Complex Business Environment.

Expertise in integration testing between FI/CO with SD and MM.

Experience in testing Process Flow – Procure to Pay (Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order, Goods Receipt, Invoice Receipt and Vendor payments) and Order to Cash (Quotation, Sales Order, Delivery, PGI, Billing Invoice and Customer incoming Payments) for different business scenarios.

Experience in testing S4 Hana BOBJ & AO reports.

Experience in creating batch jobs and monitor the jobs.

Experience in performing interface testing through Idoc’s & AL11 file format Json & xml, data center migration testing, disaster recovery testing.

Expertise in Nakisa lease accounting used to create Lease contracts for fleets, buildings, machinery and computer peripherals. Very good experience in configuration, support & testing Nakisa system which is integrated with SAP asset accounting.

Expertise in Release management process of creating change requests (CR’s) in Charm for system change request (SCR), enhancements, defects and low impact change requests.

Expertise in leading projects & teams, task allocation, estimations, schedule timelines, review and approve functional requirements, test case design and executions, follow up on defects resolution.

Experience in create and update design specs, test plan, test strategy documents in Solution Manager.

Expert in analyzing and translating business & user requirements to functional requirements.

Expertise in designing end to end test cases, executing test cases and report the defects in test management tool.

Expertise in performing functional, integration, interface, security, performance and regression testing.

Expertise in executing custom programs (Z transactions) and closely work with ABAP teams

Expertise in creating traceability matrix, system certification summery for each release.

Expertise in designing test cases & test data for UAT and support users while UAT testing.

Participate in Defect triage calls and update the status on open issues.

Proficient in using tools SAP SOLUTION MANAGER, ChaRM, HP ALM, qTest, Jira, ServiceNow, TOSCA, Kneat, Soap UI and SQL Queries.

Ability to work in high-powered, fast-moving, multi-disciplinary working teams and a committed team player with willingness to travel and ability to quickly adapt to new environments and technologies.

Demonstrated leadership ability to resolve issues, drive projects, and meet deadlines, motivated to develop successful solutions.

Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.

Participate in daily and weekly status calls and provide status updates to project teams and follow up on issue resolutions.

Experience in interaction with business users, BPO team, functional & technical teams.

Experience in interact and participate in Audit meetings.

Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.

Technical Skills

ERP Applications : SAP S/4 HANA, SAP ECC 6.0, Solution Manager and ChaRM

Other Applications : Nakisa, BlackLine, Data Stewardship Platform (DSP) and cApps

Tools : Service Now, KNEAT, HP ALM, qTest, Jira, Vera, Tosca, SAP TAO

Education

Master of Business Administration in Finance (2000-2002)

Bachelor of Commerce (1996-1999)

Professional SAP Experience

Organization: Cognizant Technology Solutions from May 2011 to till date

Client : AbbVie Inc.,

Duration : October 2014 – Till date

Role : Support & Testing

Environment : SAP S/4 HANA, SAP ECC 6.0, Solution Manager 7.2, ChaRM

Non SAP : NAKISA Lease Accounting, BlackLine, Data Stewardship Platform (DSP), cApps, TIBCO & Intercompany Transfer Pricing System

Tools : HP QC, HP ALM, TOSCA, qTest, Jira, Vera, ServiceNow, KNEAT

AbbVie is a research based pharmaceutical company separated from Abbott Laboratories in 2013. The Company produces pharmaceutical drugs for specialty therapeutic areas such as immunology, chronic kidney disease, hepatitis C, women's health, oncology, and neuroscience. AbbVie also offers treatments for diseases including multiple sclerosis, parkinson's, and alzheimer's disease.

Responsibilities:

Understands Customer SOPs (Standard operating procedure) and SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).

Perform testing for SAP Finance sub modules General ledger, Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, Asset Accounting, In-house Cash(IHC), Controlling & Nakisa Lease Asset Accounting, Blackline Journal Entries, Data Stewardship Platform (DSP) & cApps (DSP&cApps – Master data management tools), Intercompany stock transport orders, Intercompany sales orders.

Successfully completed major testing projects SAP ECC 6.0 to S/4 HANA migration, Data center migration, cApps to DSP upgradations (Master data management for Vendor, Customer, Material & Finance Master Data), TIBCO patch upgrade projects, NAKISA Lease Accounting Implementation and Nakisa patch & version upgrades, Sales and Margin reporting projects.

Successfully led the projects cApps to DSP upgradation, TIBCO patch upgrade and Nakisa Cloud Migration.

Support Business and End users with their functional queries and provide resolution on Lease Accounting, Governance, Risk, and Compliance.

Prepare Test Strategy and Test Plan document for major releases and present it to Business and Functional Architects.

Perform requirement analysis for major releases by gathering business and functional requirements from customer and help them to realize the requirement.

Creating change requests for system change request (SCR), enhancements, defects and low impact change requests in ChaRM, create and update design documents in SOLMAN, Upload Traceability and system summery documents in SOLDOC for approvals.

Perform impact analysis, root cause analysis and define Regression scope before each System Release.

Prepare functional requirements, design of test cases, execution of test scripts, reporting defects and preparation of test reports.

Primary test coordinator for test data set up/configuration for testing/test result/security requirements of Verification test results for SAP FICO module.

Perform unit, functional, integration, security, performance and regression testing of build solution with SAP applications/software.

Supporting build team to create requirements, test plan, CR folder, test set, traceability matrix in HP ALM and system certification summary.

Defect/Incident assignment and resolution follow up with Functional & Technical Teams.

Execute automation regression suite on weekly basis.

Support business users in UAT by providing test scripts and test data and verify the execution results.

Participate in audit meetings and provide system artifacts as requested.

Expertise in using tools like SAP SOLUTION MANAGER, ChaRM, HP ALM, qTest, Jira, UFT, TOSCA, ServiceNow & KNEAT.

Participates in Change control meeting with all the stake holders including Release Management, SQA, Compliance, Business etc. and represent the changes in the meeting.

Provide weekly status, risks and mitigations to Project Teams as per agreed reporting frequency.

Client : Pearson Inc.

Duration : November 2013 – October 2014

Role : SAP Support & Testing

Environment : SAP ECC 6.0

Location : Hyderabad, India

CLIENT DESCRIPTION: Pearson is the world's leading education publishing and assessment service company, provide learning materials, places of learning, technologies, assessments and services to teachers, professionals and students in order to help people everywhere aim higher and fulfil their true potential. Pearson owns educational media brands including Addison–Wesley, BBC Active, Bug Club, eCollege, Fronter, Longman, MyEnglishLab, Penguin Readers, Prentice Hall, Poptropica and Financial Times Press. Pearson is part of Pearson PLC, which also owns Penguin Books and the Financial Times. It was created in 1998 when Pearson PLC purchased the education division of Simon & Schuster from Viacom and merged it with its own education division, Addison-Wesley Longman to form Pearson Education. Pearson Education was rebranded to Pearson in 2011 and split into an International and a North American division.

Responsibilities:

Interaction with user and client to understand requirement and concern over existing system to identify system improvement points

Support Order to Cash scenarios from Sales Order Creation, Delivery, Billing Invoice and A/R Invoice Processing.

Support to creating & updating of Customer Master Data on request.

Interacting with US/UK users via emails and telephone calls for requirement gathering and providing solution.

Provided the resolution as per the Service Level Agreement

Defect & Test design and execution through HPQC

Support on Month end activities and Batch job processing.

Acted as SPOC for the onsite team to address the project and team related issues.

Client : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Duration : June 2012 – October 2013

Role : SAP Support

Environment : SAP R/3 4.7

Location : Hyderabad, India

CLIENT DESCRIPTION: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company publishes pre-K12 education solutions. It offers novels, non-fiction, and children's books and reference works. The company also provides educational software and adventure games. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company was formerly known as Houghton Mifflin Company and changed its name to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company in December 2007. The company was founded in 1832 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Education Media & Publishing Group International operates as a subsidiary of Education Media & Publishing Group International.

Responsibilities:

Understanding and analyzing client Business process such as Sales Orders, Credit Management and Billing.

Understanding the Landscape and Solution Design Document of client SAP environment.

Providing the Hypercare support for the users in ServiceNow.

Created and executed manual test cases for Order to cash scenarios and raise defects in SpiraTeam and follow up with functional team for defect resolution.

Perform mobile device testing, DB tasting using SQL queries, Soap UI.

Accepting, Analyzing and resolving the issues within the timelines given. Liaison with the Third level support team for requirements gathering.

Involved in Project Co-ordinating Activities such as Preparation of Weekly Hypercare status report, Co-coordinating the weekly meetings with cognizant and HMH Management and Preparation of Minutes of Meeting and circulating the same to both HMH and CTS Management.

Attended training sessions of Client Business process and imparted the same to the Team members as part of KT process.

Client : Hindustan Unilever Limited

Duration : June 2011 – May 2012

Role : Support & Testing

Environment : SAP R/3 4.7

Location : Bangalore, India

CLIENT DESCRIPTION: Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is India's largest Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Company with a heritage of over 75 years in India and touches the lives of two out of three Indians. HUL works to create a better future every day and helps people feel good, look good and get more out of life with brands and services that are good for them and good for others. With over 35 brands spanning 20 distinct categories such as soaps, detergents, shampoos, skin care, toothpastes, deodorants, cosmetics, tea, coffee, packaged foods, ice cream, and water purifiers, the Company is a part of the everyday life of millions of consumers across India. Its portfolio includes leading household brands such as Lux, Lifebuoy, Surf Excel, Rin, Wheel, Fair & Lovely, Pond’s, Vaseline, Lakme, Dove, Clinic Plus, Sunsilk, Pepsodent, Closeup, Axe, Brooke Bond, Bru, Knorr, Kissan, Kwality Wall’s and Pureit.

Responsibilities:

Involved in sap R/3 Regression Testing of HUL business scenarios during upgrade, Rollouts & Monthly change Management process.

Developed the Manual and Automation Test Scripts for Regression Testing of SAP FICO modules by using QTP (Quick Test Professional) version 11.0 for ERP Applications and Client/Server.

Involved in manual Testing in development, Quality & preproduction servers during change management process.

Performed the Monthly Regression Testing for SAP FI with QTP 11.0 and Updating the Global result in the concern system.

Analyzed the new FI - business specification and developments with development team and accordingly prepared the test scripts for the new scenarios.

Developed new reusable actions and test Scripts Using QTP for executing FI Scenarios.

Developed the test case for executing the payment scenarios via CAF (Composite Application Framework).

Highlight Bugs to the concern track members which will help to Correct and avoid production loss.

Prepared KT documents for Customer Repository and given KT to new team member.

Organization: HCL Technologies Ltd from January 2010 to May 2011

Client : Wolters Kluwer

Duration : January 2010 – May 011August 2012

Role : SAP Testing

Environment : SAP R/3 4.7

Location : Chennai, India

CLIENT DESCRIPTION: Wolters Kluwer is a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory sectors. Wolters Kluwer maintains operations across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and is headquartered in the Netherlands. Wolters Kluwer implemented SAP ERP IS Media as a consolidated global ERP system to replace its various legacy systems worldwide in phases.

Responsibilities:

Understanding business requirements from Implementation Papers and Functional Specification Documents for SAP Finance and Controlling.

Designed functional requirements, manual test scripts in JIRA tool covering E2E business functionalities in SAP Finance and Controlling and Integration between SD-FI and MM-FI.

Performed the testing for Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Automatic Payment programs, Lockbox testing, Dunning notice and Asset transaction.

Execute manual test scripts, raising defects in Jira tool, once defects are fixed; Re-test and close the same.

Interaction with realization teams for the clarifications and update the daily status.

Design and Execution of automation scripts covering end to end functionalities in Quality center using SAP TAO.

Perform Functional unit testing, System integration testing, Load testing and Regression Testing.

Organization: Bhrigus software India Pvt Ltd from January 2007 to August 2009

Client : VIVIMED LABS LTD

Duration : January 2007 – August 2009

Role : SAP Implementation & Support

Environment : SAP R/3 4.7

Location : Hyderabad, India

CLIENT DESCRIPTION: VIVIMED LABS LTD. has been a leading formulations/Bulk drug contract manufacturer for MNCs / Indian pharmaceutical companies for over 20 years. Customers include 6 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the world such as HLL, WORKHARDT, CIPLA and UNI LEVER. It is having its own brands in Skin care, Sun care and Hair care.

Responsibilities:

Global settings such as Fiscal year, Posting Periods, Posting Keys, Document types, Number ranges, Tolerance Groups, Setting Field Statuses.

General Ledger master data taking care of the pre-requisites which includes Creation of Chart of Accounts, Account groups, Retained Earnings Accounts and Line layouts.

Configured GL Master Records, Bank Master Data, Customer and Vendor Masters, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable, Master data maintaining the prerequisites such as Defining Reconciliation account for A/R & A/P.

Creation of account groups, Setting Field Statuses, editing screen layouts, Number ranges, Tolerance Groups.

Processed Special General Ledger transactions like Down payments, Automatic postings of bank charges, discounting charges, exchange rate fluctuations, payment differences by using Account Determination.

Configured Asset Accounting settings like Chart of depreciation, Asset Classes, Number ranges for Asset class, Asset Master Records, and Depreciation Areas.

Financial Accounting customizations in cross functional modules such as SD and MM tested by way of invoice postings.

Cost Element accounting - Configuration of both primary and secondary cost elements.

Cost Center Accounting- Configuration of Cost Centers, cost center groups and assignment of Profit centers to cost centers.

Non-SAP Experience:

Organization: ICICI Home Finance – Sep 2004 to Dec 2006

Responsibilities:

Maintained a Team of five members,

Meeting with H.N.I (High Net worth Individuals), Leads creation through promotion works, Leads follow up, Cold calling to the customers,

Scrutinizing the Loans application, Appraising eligibility of the customer,

Maintaining good relationship with customers, respond to and follow up sales enquiries by telephone, and personal visits,

Maintain and develop existing and new customers through planned individual account support.

Organization: Sivashakthi Bio Planttec Ltd – May 2002 to Aug 2004

Responsibilities:

Maintenance of Books of Accounts for day-to-day transactions like Cash Vouchers (Payments and Receipts), Passing Journal Vouchers.

Maintenance of Petty Cash Book, Preparing Salary slips of the Employees and Calculating PF and PT as per State Circular.

Calculation of Commission on Sales, Salary Advances to Employees and follow up, Raising Debit and Credit Notes.

Maintaining overall Bank Transactions and Handling Cash in Branch.

Preparing Bank Reconciliation Statement in Tally, Invoice and Stock Verification.

Co-ordination with other departments like Sales and Service, Process Vehicle Loans to Employees, Attending Internal Audits.

Maintaining Documentation and preparing month wise reports like Branch Sales Bulletin, Branch Performance Statement, Branch wise Salary Statement and Branch Contribution Statement in Excel Format. Timely Reporting to H.O.



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