Shalini Shanmugam

Functional Consultant

Phone: 948-***-****/755*******

Email: adez5i@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL ABRIDGEMENT

A dynamic IT professional with 8.11 years of experience as Functional Consultant (BA) and ERP Tester in and Oracle eBiz Finance and PeopleSoft Finance applications.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Worked as Functional Consultant in Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai from Jul 2011 to Jun 2020.

Extensive experience in Manual Testing including Smoke, Functional, negative Validation, User Acceptance, Performance, System Integration, and regression testing.

Sound knowledge on PeopleSoft Finance modules (eProcurement, AP, AR, PO, and General Ledger), Oracle eBiz (Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, I Expenses, General Ledger), Oracle Fusion (Procure to Pay, Inventory, Payables and Expenses) and COUPA Functional Knowledge.

Experience in writing test scenarios, preparing test strategy documents, Test plans, Test scripts, defect tracking and test closure.

Experience in creating functional documents, writing detailed specifications, facilitate meetings with end users and management community to gather on-going requirements

Experience in understanding the Customer and Functional Requirements and deriving the Test Scenarios and prioritizing the defects in terms of severity and priority.

Experience in using Test Management and Defect Tracking tool HPQC.

SKILL SET

Oracle eBiz Finance: Order to Cash and Procure to Pay and GL

PeopleSoft Finance: eProcurement, AP, AR, Purchasing and GL

Fusion Finance: Purchasing, Inventory, Procurement & Payables

Defect Management tools: HP Quality Center, Query, Jira

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Played a key role in Pearson Oracle eBiz finance implementation for UK and NA countries.

Acting as a Trainer of the team and trained the new people who are newly joined.

Have been played as a single Oracle Finance SME for Pearson TEP Performance Team in Offshore.

Awarded “Customer Service Superstar” as a part of Client appreciation for maintaining good quality over deliverable for consecutive 5 years. (09/2015 – 11/2019)

Awarded “Pillar of the year” in WOW Awards by Cognizant QA Team.

Awarded “Above & Beyond” as part of Client appreciation for successfully completed User Acceptance testing

Got Client appreciations for delivering best performance in Kaiser project in Cognizant. (09/2014 – 05/2015)

EXPERIENCE CHRONOLOGY

The details of the various assignments that I have handled/involved are listed below.

Project Title: Pearson Education

Applications used: Oracle eBiz Finance 12.1.3

Duration: July 2015 to Jun 2020

Role: Team Lead

Client Description:

Pearson is the world’s leading learning company working to help people of all ages to make measurable progress in their lives through all kinds of learning. (Pearson provides learning materials, technologies, assessments and services to teachers and students to help people everywhere aim higher and fulfill their potential).

Project Description:

Pearson is an implementation project of Oracle eBiz Finance to serve the business requirements better. The modules that are supported by this product are OTC, P2P, FA, GL and CM for the UK and US markets.

Responsibilities:

Acting as team lead for P2P module & BAU regression testing

Oracle Release/Patch Testing - Analyzing Oracle Patch and Perform Functional & Regression Testing for the Oracle code change in various environments

Individually handled COUPA product implementation for UK & NA regions

Involved in KOFAX transformation application for AP Invoice processing with AP team.

Involved in requirement gathering from different teams - Finance Solution, Third Party application administrator

Designing scenarios and test cases drafting based on new enhancements and retrofits. Preparation on test scripts, Execution and Defect reporting and tracking them to closure

Responsible for giving training to Finance team on Oracle eBiz Finance application

Conducting requirement walkthrough between End users, Development and testing teams including Automation and Performance team to make them understand the functional requirements

Responsible for Functional, End to End testing for every Wave.

Performing data set up during test execution and support Business users during UAT

Played team lead role in several projects and trained freshers on eBiz applications

Communicating with team members and Business Users across the locations providing timely clarifications

Responsible to communicate the project and daily status to Client and involved in the decision making to overcome the risk identified in Project

Project Title: Kaiser Permanente

Applications used: PeopleSoft Finance 9.2

Duration: Sep 2014 to June 2015

Role: Team Lead

Client Description:

Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States. This is an upgrade project. Suite of PeopleSoft modules were upgraded from version 8.9 to 9.2

Project Description:

The objective of this project is to perform an upgrade PeopleSoft functionality and derive the deployed system can support the customized functionality given by the client requirements based on user scenarios and ensure the system is worked on business usage

Responsibilities:

Played team lead role in project and trained freshers on applications

Analyze Business Requirements and Create test scenarios and validating them coordinating with the users.

Involved in preparing of UAT test scripts and executing the test scripts

Support end user in UAT Testing on the Process flow

Executing P2P End to End flow

Manipulate test data to test all the scenarios and make the component work as expected

Prepare training document for UAT users and conduct KT sessions for team members

Involved in Defect logging and tracking them down to closure

Project Title: Wind Mobile

Applications used: Oracle eBiz Finance

Duration: May 2014 to Aug 2014

Role: Functional Consultant

Client Description:

Wind Mobile is a Canadian wireless telecommunications provider operated by Global live Communications. Currently Wind Mobile is maintaining there SCM and Financial Business Processes thru Oracle eBiz R12.0.6. And they are upgrading their Oracle Application to R12.1.3. The scope of the engagement is to manage Quality Engineering & Assurance process around User Acceptance Testing for Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade. Primary objective is to validate their business requirement by creating detailed Test Plan, Test scenarios, Test cases, Test data, and Test execution. Publish the test execution metrics and reports to WIND stakeholders.

Project Description:

The objective of this project is to perform UAT and derive whether the deployed system can support day to day business and user scenarios and ensure the system is sufficient and Correct for business usage

Responsibilities:

Worked on iProcurement, Purchasing, Accounts Payables & Accounts Receivable modules

Acting as team lead from Offshore

Analyze Business Requirements and Create test scenarios and validating them coordinating with the users.

Trace all test cases to requirements and validate requirements coverage.

Manipulate test data to test all the scenarios and make the component to work as expected.

Provides regular status reports to supervisor and onsite coordinator.

Prepare training documents for UAT users

Project Title: IR Smart 2

Applications used: Oracle eBiz Finance

Duration: May 2014 to June 2014

Role: Team Member

Client Description:

SMART Transformation is a critical enterprise initiative at Ingersoll Rand, which is carried out in multiple phases. This includes Manufacturing, Order Management, Finance, Inventory and Procurement modules. The scope of IR SMART2 Functional test involves data migration of source system to the target system.

Project Description:

The Objective of the IR SMART2 Functional Test is to perform Data conversion testing

Responsibilities:

Conversion testing for Inventory module using App Load Tool

Participate in KT Sessions.

Ensures quality and timeliness of delivery

Project Title – Red Robins IQube AVM –Rollout Implementation

Applications used: Oracle Fusion Finance

Duration: Oct 2012 to Mar 2014

Role: Functional Consultant

Client Description:

Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is a chain of casual dining restaurants founded in 1969 in Seattle, Washington, and now headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado. There are over 400 outlets across the United States and 20 in Canada. They planned to centralize their business by implementing Oracle Fusion application. Primarily Finance, Supply chain management and HCM suites are implemented using Oracle fusion application.

Project Description:

Red Robins IQube Project Gone live for 2 Restaurants. This project is for implementing Oracle Fusion application for 300+ restaurants

Responsibilities:

Analyze Business Requirements and Create test scenarios and validating them coordinating with the users.

Trace all test cases to requirements and validate requirements coverage.

Manipulate test data to test all the scenarios and make the component to work as expected.

Executing the End to End flows (P2P) to validate the vanilla product and associated RICE Components.

Performing Configuration testing, Security testing and Disaster testing.

Taking care of functional and technical validation of Interfaces, Extensions and Reports.

Performing PO & Invoice approval workflow validation and thorough testing on Role based security.

Preparing Story Board document, MD070 and test plan documents.

Performing SCM Related setup and Go live activities

Working Service Request (SR) to Oracle and following up till issue got resolved.

Attending Oracle Web Conference (OWC) Session to discuss with the issue in Fusion application and getting solution for fixing them.

Configuration checking and Performing SCM Related setup and Go live activities

Creation of users using OIM and assigning appropriate roles to the users as per Client user policies.

Fusion Release / Patch testing – conduct smoke test for Fusion code change deployments in various environments.

Preparing training documents for users for UAT and Participating in KT Sessions with team members and clients.

Providing daily status reports to clients and maintain defect tracking with offshore team

Ensures quality and timeliness of delivery and Submitting regular status reports to clients.

Project Title - HEB Ecom

Applications used: ATG

Duration: Feb 2011 to Oct 2012

Role: Migration works using ATG and JSP

Client Description:

HEB Grocery Company, also known as H-E-B Grocery Stores, its supermarket chain based in San Antonio, Texas, with more than 350 stores throughout the U.S. state of Texas, as well as in northern Mexico. The migration of the complete HEB site with all the technical and functional changes happens. We worked on the front-end migration. And we came across ATG framework with HTML development. As per the design template with the new requirement we migrated the whole web page using ATG

Project Description:

The objective of this project is to migrate the old functionality and design of the user end to New one for the HEB Grocery Company. As per the design template with the new requirement. We migrated the whole web page using ATG

Responsibilities:

Analyzing business requirements from the client.

Liaison with HEB-Ecom and Business Team.

Manages delivery risks and other exceptions.

Provides regular status reports to supervisor and onsite coordinator.

Undergone many bug fixing issues at the front end.

Participating in KT Sessions with team members and clients.

SCHOLASTICS

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics– PSGR Krishnammal College for Women(Bharathiyar university, Coimbatore)

Duration: October 2004 to September 2007.

Percentage of Mark: 76%

Master of Computer Applications (First Class Honor) – M. Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Karur. (Anna University, Coimbatore)

Duration: 2007 to 2010

Percentage of Mark: 9.34(CGPA)

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