Production Support Financial Services

Profile Summary

I have obtained an experience of 17 years working as an SAP Technical (ABAP, Fiori and HANA) Consultant with several Implementation, Roll-out, Technical Upgrade, Production support and Enhancement projects involving the SAP, related objects/frameworks' developments and creating and automating the test cases using the test automation tools like Tricentis Tosca.

Having been involved in delivering complex business requirements, I have also developed a good basic understanding of the business processes and organizational structures for various modules like MM, SD, PP, QM, WM/EWM, FI, CO, HCM, SD, IS-U, CS, Media and Financial Services.

My work experience includes -:

Designing and development of the for the ABAP technical Objects like-:

Reports (Classical, Interactive and ALVs),

Data migration tools (including BDC, LSMW and BAPI),

SAP smart forms Scripts, Adobe Forms,

Enhancement frameworks (including enhancement points/spots, bAdI, user exits / customer enhancements),

Screen (Module Pool) programming,

OO ABAP programming for reports and interfaces

Performance tuning and Optimization,

Data Update programs,

Parallel processing programs,

Business Objects based programming and

CDS Views and related objects.

Designing interface frameworks (SAP to SAP/non-SAP environment) based on-:

RFC interfaces,

FTP based interface programs,

ALE/EDI frameworks,

SOAP and REST (HTTP based) and

OData based Web API interfaces,.

Designing (Configuring, customizing, and enhancing) of the Workflow based frameworks which includes-:

Business Objects related developments,

Rules, Tasks, Workflow templates and Related Error Handling / trouble shooting and

Development of related ABAP Objects etc.

Designing and development of the Web interface technology-based frameworks related to the-:

FIORI (custom development and enhancements for the standard applications),

ABAP Web Dynpros and

BSP applications.

HANA migration (Conversion with ABAP Code Remediation) and Developments involving-:

Code evaluation and SAP HANA checks for the ECC 6.0 to database on HANA migration,

Working on Simplification database, Custom Code remediation using the ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC), SPDD/SPAU and related performance tuning during the ECC 6.0 to S/4 HANA migration and

Data Modelling and designing the related ABAP artifacts for database design and Reports’ consumption using CDS Views.

The basic Roles/Responsibilities handled in the recent projects are as follows-:

Planning, modelling, designing, developing, impact analysis, solution feasibility checks and providing technical architecture for the Solutions to support the customer systems running on the SAP as their basic ERP,

Team coordination, guiding/mentoring, training, and providing the technical KT to the ABAP team members to ensure the timely, and seamless delivery of the relevant technical objects,

Performing the Quality checks/reviews and maintaining quality sheets to ensure that the technical objects developed are well organised, modularised, and optimised to meet the required standards,

Involved in interactive meetings, technical discussions and presentations with the functional teams and the business side / 3rd party teams.

Providing the support for the technical activities involved during the various phases in the project execution like planning, blue printing, realization, final preparation, cut over activities, and go-live.

Involved in preparing the technical/functional support documentation (for several project milestones) like-:

Impact and feasibility analysis Document,

Requirement and Proposed Solution Document,

Effort Estimation document,

Technical/Techno-Functional Description document,

ABAP Objects’ Check List,

ATC, Code Inspection and Review document,

Technical Test Report etc.

SAP Certifications and other Trainings

SAP Certified HANA consultant - "Development Specialist for ABAP for SAP HANA 2.0",

SAP Certified in S/4HANA EWM - “SAP S/4HANA Cloud Edition Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)”,

SAP Certified ABAP consultant - "Development Associate - ABAP with SAP Net Weaver 7.50",

Attended the SAP’s Education training Course: "HA-150 and SQL Script Basics for SAP HANA".

Achievements and Notable Accomplishments

Rewarded with the "Award of Excellence" twice (during 2010 and 2012) by NIIT Technologies Limited,

Received “Excellence certificate” from Atos IT Solutions and Services Thailand in 2016.

Education

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication in 2006 from Hindustan College of Science and Technology, UP Technical University, Mathura, UP, India.

Employers’ Details

AG Infotek Inc. (United States) - March 2023 to Till Date.

ATOS IT Solutions and Services Limited (Thailand and Sweden) – January 2015 to March 2023.

NIIT Technologies Limited (Thailand, Indonesia and India) – May 2007 to January 2015.

Project details

Enhancements and Production Support for Bloomberg.

Project

Production S/4 HANA migration and Production Support

Client

Bloomberg L.P.

Duration

February 2025 - Till date

Role

Senior ABAP Resource

Technology

Financial Services/Media based ABAP development on S4 HANA systems

Responsibilities

Involved in the remediation for the several custom Objects in line with the S/4 HANA using the Simplification database, ATC tools, SPDD/SPAU and related performance tuning.

Involved in the custom code remediation tasks for several ABAP Objects to use BP (Business Partner) related custom transactions for Customer and Vendor during the S/4 HANA migration using the CVI interface related classes and newly delivered FMs.

Enhancing the BP (Business Partner) transaction with addition of new functionalities and deactivating/removing a few based on the custom requirements.

Customized the SAP delivered Change Documents’ log report for BP and adding new interactive functionalities to it.

Created / enhanced several OOP based interfaces/classes to support the new custom functionalities for the BP Contacts using the standard CVI classes.

Enhanced several Workflows for the O2C (Order to Cash) related Approval and Confirmation processes and interaction with the REST services to fetch the business data needed for the Workflow tasks.

Enhanced the A-Unit Test framework to apply for CTS (Change and Transport System) to enforce the coverage threshold on the Objects at the time of release and other Summary programs to display various coverages for the A-Units involved.

Coordinated with the functional team and supported the several upgrade related issues encountered during the testing on new system landscape (S/4 HANA).

Worked on the qTest tool for the defect tracking during the migration process.

Involved in several cutover activities Cut Over activities and code retrofitting during the system upgrade.

Enhancements and Production Support for Bloomberg.

Project

Production Support and Enhancement

Client

Bloomberg L.P.

Duration

October 2023 – January 2024

Role

Senior ABAP Resource

Technology

Financial Services/Media based ABAP development on S4 HANA systems

Responsibilities

Designing the class based customized Pricing frameworks for the various Pricing models based on different Line of Business.

Configuring and implementing custom class based the Validation Rules’ frameworks to be plugged into different business processes.

Implementing the MQ message (RabbitMQ) based interfaces for several Billing scenarios and installation/change of Billing status scenarios,

Designing / modelling the custom Classes to support the REST based UI framework involving handling REST calls, updating JSON schemas etc.

Optimizing the existing Object-Oriented based Reports/Class Utilities using the new ABAP code techniques for the Customer Contracts, Leases, Proposals, Schedules etc.

Creating / enhancing the programs for the Schedule characteristic updates, linking / unlinking the Schedule IDs to the Legal Agreements and the related Workflows implemented in the system.

Enhanced several OTC related Workflow for process optimization and streamlining.

Creating the ABAP Unit test frameworks for the Classes / Programs fixed as a part of the ongoing AMS and enhancements.

Involved in Scrum meetings (standup calls, requirements’ refining, planning and pointing), technical discussions, requirement gathering, feasibility analysis, solution designing and effort estimations and Quality checks.

Enhancements and Application Management Support for Autodesk Inc.

Project

Implementation Support and Enhancement

Client

Autodesk Inc.

Duration

May 2023 – August 2023

Role

Senior ABAP Resource

Technology

FI related ABAP (HANA) developments

Responsibilities

Performance tuning/optimizing the existing FI Customer Ageing and dunning Reports (using the HANA artifacts) using the CDS Views and ALV-IDA.

Implemented the Substitutions and Validations rules to validate and change the data while entering the FI transactions at different call points.

Supported the functional Consultants (technical support) during the test cases creation and execution using the SAP test automation tool – “Tricentis Tosca” for several functionalities related to the business processes.

Involved in technical discussions / meetings, requirement gathering, feasibility analysis, solution designing and effort estimations, doing the quality checks/approvals and maintaining the technical and functional documentation during the post go-live support phase.

Roll Outs, Enhancements and Application Management Support for Siemens Energy Systems

Project

Conversion/ Enhancement Project and Production Support for US and Sweden

Client

Siemens ATLAS (Energy Gas Turbines)

Duration

November 2021 – February 2023

Role

Technical Team Lead

Technology

ABAP, ALE/EDI IDocs, Workflows, Web Interfaces and FIORI applications

Responsibilities

Involved as the technical architect in requirement gathering, feasibility analysis, solution planning, designing and development of the complex interfaces’ design between the various Siemens Energy systems for Product Life cycle management (MM and PP related) which included working on several business scenarios using the EDI/IDocs and RFC-based interfacing techniques, Business Workflows and enhancement (bAdI, enhancement points) frameworks.

Designing and customizing the qRFC-based solution to update the Delivery document flow and packing information in the EWM system and perform the follow up actions (updating the Delivery and doing PGI) based on the information from the EWM systems.

Involved in the migration/conversion for the ECC 6.0 to HANA (Suite on HANA) and then to S/4 HANA (Brownfield Implementation) and the activities like working on Simplification database, SAP HANA checks, Custom Code adaptation/remediation using the ATC tool, SPDD/SPAU and related performance tuning using the ADT.

Designing and coordinating the developments for the custom FIORI based Web applications for the business partners to allow them to (restricted) access the QM Notifications and to create and update some of the tasks and related information in the Notifications.

Designing FI related scenarios which included creating custom and enhancing the standard FIORI based web applications for the Expense report and related items.

Design and development of the Reports based on the HANA development and data modelling using the CDS Views

Designing of the customized rfc-based IDOC framework to interface with MES (Manufacturing Execution System) in PP to send the LOIPRO (Order details) and receive the confirmation to update the related information in the system.

Involved in technical discussions / meetings, requirement gathering, feasibility analysis, solution designing and effort estimations, doing the quality checks/approvals and maintaining ABAP check lists during the implementation and the post go-live support phase (AMS production support).

Involved in Quality Checks and maintaining the technical and functional documentation for the related technical Objects.

Enhancement and Application Management Support for Siemens Energy Systems (Sweden and Germany)

Project

Change management, Production Support and Enhancement

Client

Siemens Energy Systems (OneP and ATLAS)

Duration

October 2017 – October 2021

Role

Technical Team Lead

Technology

ABAP, ALE/EDI IDocs, Workflows and Web technologies

Responsibilities

Designed the screen and logic enhancements for the custom notifications (“N1”, “N2” and “N3”) to record the Non-conformances (faults/deviation from the expected quality) during the production or reported by the customers in QM modules.

Designing and customizing of the several SD, MM, PP and WM related Smart forms like PO, Picking list, Shipment, PP Order, OB Delivery and related print programs based on the custom requirements.

Supported the extension and customization of the automated shipping process for the Warehouse Management (WM) System that covers packing and PGI processes through the handheld scanner (RF-devices) including barcode scanning, material packing, HU creation and enhancing (adding custom fields and buttons) to the related RF screens programs.

Customized the EDI IDocs’ interfaces with MES system for sending the PP Orders (message type LOIPRO) and receiving the confirmation acknowledgement (message type PPCC2PRETTICKET).

Performance Tuning and Optimization for several programs/background jobs and Parallel processing programs.

Designed the HU and OB Delivery Label Printing through PPF framework for the print Label (forms) for Warehouse Management (WM).

Customized the release strategy for the PO process for different purchase scenarios using the enhancement frameworks.

Involved in requirement gathering meetings, technical discussions, effort estimations, planning, designing, and developing the solution architecture, doing the quality checks/approvals, of the Application Support and Change request management.

Preparing the technical Realization documents for the technical team members to implement the business requirements and technical design documents to document the implementation history for the Change Requests as a part of the ongoing AMS support.

Upgrades / Enhancement Project for Siemens Energy Systems (Sweden and Germany)

Project

Change management, EHP 7.0 Upgrade and Enhancement

Client

Siemens Energy Systems (OneP and ATLAS)

Duration

January 2015 – October 2017

Role

Senior ABAP Resource

Technology

ABAP, EDI IDocs, Workflows

Responsibilities

Involved in technical discussions, planning the upgrade activities including the SPAU, SPDD, manual code corrections and related error fixing using SAP Notes application wherever needed,

Supported the functional team in the integration testing of the business processes after upgrading the system to make sure that the all the customization is retained after the upgrade activities are carried,

Maintaining the ABAP checklist for the issues handled and related activities to make sure that the upgrade goes smooth in the subsequent systems,

Supporting the cut over activities during the system upgrades,

Enhancing/Upgrading the Workflows and related BO programs for the DIRs and ECM related release and activations for the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) module.

Enhancing several (Outbound and Inbound) EDI/IDocs’ based business processes and masters’ communication for the IDocs message types like INVOIC, ORDERS, ORDRSP, LOIPRO, MATMAS, ECMMAS, BOMMAT, CLFMAS, CLSMAS, DOCMAS, DOLMAS, GLMAST, PRCMAS, COSMAS as per the custom requirements.

Implementation of NAKISA, e-LSO and ESS/MSS portal solution for the Employee Appraisal for TOYOTA MOTORS Asia Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand

Project

Development of the Web application for the Employee Appraisal, e-LSO (Training Management) and NAKISA (Org Chart)

Client

Toyota Motors, Thailand

Duration

October 2013 – January 2015

Role

Senior Techno-functional Resource

Technology

ABAP and Web Dynpros

Responsibilities

Involved as a team lead in requirement gathering and functional and technical specifications for the custom ABAP Web Dynpro objects, interactive forms, and related ABAP objects with the customer technical and IT business team, program optimizations and technical documentations.

Designing and analysing the feasibility for the Web Dynpro objects related to the HCM module involving reporting and Graphical Charts/graphs for the statistical visualization of turn over data, resignation, and confirmation related statistics, rotation-in and rotation-out statistics.

Customizing the Training Management (LSO) related workflows for Course booking/scheduling/cancelling.

Creating the new (copy from the existing for the Course Scheduling) Workflow for the Course Re-scheduling.

Enhancing the standard LSO related ABAP Web Dynpros, multi-level drill down web reports for the Employee training curriculums and enhancing the e-LSO related training Employee catalogues (ESS and MSS portals) using the SAP enhancement techniques and FPM concepts.

Creating the custom Web Dynpro interactive Report to list the pending Approvals (for scheduled trainings) for the Managers which could be used to collectively approve or reject the Trainings (using the standard WAPIs) at one go.

Creating the custom Web Dynpro Reports to be linked to the ESS/MSS (via iViews) for the Employee and Managers View of the training calendar / roadmap.

Designing Evaluation forms for the training roadmap of the Employees.

Web Vendor implementation for Pruksa Real Estate, Bangkok, Thailand

Project

Development of the Web application for the Pruksa Thailand to be used by their Vendors to modify/monitor Vendor master and RFQ details and various Reporting purposes

Client

Pruksa Real Estate, Thailand

Duration

Dec 2012 – June 2013

Role

Technical Team Lead

Technology

ABAP Web Dynpro

Responsibilities

Involved in requirement gathering, feasibility analysis and design for the development of the Web Portals and the related ABAP objects based on ABAP Web-Dynpro framework for the Web enabled solution for the Vendors by virtue of which they can: Maintain the Vendor Address, Maintain the RFQ price and status, PO confirmations.

Designed Web Dynpro based ALV Reports to View history for PO, GR and Invoice status.

Interfaces for downloading the SAP smart forms’ output in the PDF format (using the Web dynpro applications) for the PO, RFQ, GR Document and Payment advice.

Designed the ABAP (to be run in the background) scheduling programs capable of auto- to the summary details for the PO Confirmations and GR information to the vendors via e-mail on daily/weekly basis.

PT. Daikin Air conditioners Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

Project

Implementation of the SAP Modules and Production Support

Client

PT. Daikin Indonesia, Jakarta

Duration

Mar 2012 – Nov 2012

Role

Technical Team Lead

Technology

ABAP

Responsibilities

Onsite Technical Team lead activities involving the planning, designing, realizing the enhancement, and customizing for implementing the enhancement frameworks (and bAdIs), implementing pricing, coding the customer exits and working on the validation and substitution frameworks for FI, ALV reports and enhancing WHT/VAT related programs and forms for Indonesian government protocols,

Designing the interface strategy for communication of the Inventory and Delivery data with Warehouse system which included configuring the FTP interfacing in the SAP system for communication.

Involved in preparation of the Functional/technical Specs for warehouse interface framework.

Technical Upgrade for CPI (Chumporn Palm oil Industry Public Limited), Bangkok/Chumporn, Thailand

Project

Technical Upgrade for CPI – 4.7 to ECC 6.0

Client

Chumporn Palm oil Industry Public Ltd., Bangkok, Thailand

Duration

Oct 2011 – Jan 2012

Role

Senior Technical Resource

Technology

ABAP

Responsibilities

Involved in technical upgrade activities in the sandbox system (and their migration to the sub sequent systems) after the application of support package and system upgrade, fixing ABAP errors and the ABAP checklists to have the minimal issues at the time of the final upgrade.

Enhanced several custom report/standard programs related to PP, PM, MM and FI to meet the additional business requirement and related documentations.

Implementation support for RCL (Regional Container Lines), Bangkok, Thailand

Project

Enhancement and modification of the Interfacing objects for RCL

Client

RCL Public Co. Ltd., Bangkok, Thailand

Duration

Jan 2011 – Sep 2011

Role

Senior Technical Resource

Technology

ABAP

Responsibilities

Developed interfacing programs for FI related process enhancements (using enhancement frameworks), optimizing/performance tuning of programs.

Developed FI related validations using the implicit/explicit enhancements’ framework for the Tolerance Limit checks and intercompany postings.

Implemented FI related substitutions and Validations for the AR posting process to implement several custom checks.

Developed customized FI, SD and MM related interactive ALV Reports for Material Planning, AR Receivables and Customer/Vendor Ageing.

Effort estimation and preparing the Technical Specs based upon the Functional Specs and supporting the integration testing functional consultants.

Interfacing Project for Holcim Asia Services, Bangkok, Thailand

Project

Implementation of the Mobile Interface for basic SD Processes/Reports for Holcim Indonesia and Holcim Vietnam

Client

Holcim Asia Services, Thailand

Duration

September 2010 – December 2011

Role

ABAP Resource

Technology

ABAP

Responsibilities

Designing the custom RFC FMs for the (Sales and delivery related) Reports/Document submission for Holcim Indonesia and rolling them out the handsets via middleware system configurations.

Designing POC for the Business enhancement by implementing the process: Print invoice involving the partial GR creation, SO creation, OB Delivery creation, doing PG issue etc. which were enabled on the handsets.

Created the Technical Specs and related documents.

Interfacing Project and Travel Management Implementation for QRG Group (Havells and Sylvania), Noida, India

Project

Implementation of the Mobile Interface to SD and HR Reports/processes and implementation of Travel Management

Client

QRG Group, Noida, UP, India

Duration

January 2010 – September 2010

Role

ABAP Resource

Technology

ABAP

Responsibilities

Developed various custom RFC FMs for the F4 help look ups for master data and Reports.

Enhancing the standard t-codes related to Travel management like TRIP, PR05.

Development of the so-called application "ESSOnGo" for submitting the HR related forms/reimbursements and "Sales On Go" involving various SD related activities on the handhelds.

Implementation of FM at Samtel Color Limited, Ghaziabad, India

Project

Implementation of Funds Management

Client

Samtel Color Limited, Ghaziabad, UP, India

Duration

July 2009 – December 20009

Role

ABAP Resource

Technology

ABAP

Responsibilities

Developed master data upload programs, Screen (Module Pool) programs and enhanced the MM/FI process for supporting FM and implementing mailing concepts of the user-exit, bAdI implementations.

Active Involvement with functional consultants for understanding the business requirement for various ABAP related objects.

Implementation of MRP at Samtel Color Limited

Project

Implementation of Material Resource Planning(MRP) and support.

Client

Samtel Color Limited, Ghaziabad, UP, India

Duration

August 2008 – April 20009

Role

ABAP Resource

Technology

ABAP

Responsibilities

Involved in creating interactive custom Reports for MM, FI and PP.

Implementing the enhancements/bAdIs for the standard MIRO and PO process to add the custom fields and enhance the behavior.

CRM and IS-U enhancements for E.ON Technologies

Project

CRM and IS-U enhancements

Client

E.ON Technologies, Hannover, Germany

Duration

February 2008 - August 2008

Role

ABAP Resource

Technology

ABAP

Responsibilities

Designed Screen interface application ALV Reports for Account balances for move-in/move-out and getting the BP and contract details based on the selection of the Installations and time slices.

Developed various upload programs for Changing the Contract Account Details, CA22 and Initialize/change the value of MR Recorded and MR Type in register 2, EL29.

Coordinated with the onsite team to ensure the timely delivery of the ABAP Objects.

Pauwels International (Belgium): Enhancement and Support

Project

Enhancement and Support for SAP Modules

Client

Pauwels International (Belgium)

Duration

March 2007 - December 2007

Role

Junior ABAP Resource

Technology

ABAP

Responsibilities

Designed/Customized the custom print programs and the forms for Vendor confirmation/Reminder and Payment Advice and PO for the Vendors, enhanced the PGI post Delivery by triggering the IDocs' generation programs.

Developed interactive ALV Reports, user exits / bAdI for MM and SD related customizations and developed upload programs using the BDC/BAPIs for equipment Master, Functional location, Task List, vendor maters etc.

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