
Ram Nemarugommula
- Senior QA Analyst
- San Francisco, CA
- Member Since May 09, 2023
Ram Nemarugommula
Summary:
· Over 16 years of extensive hands-on experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Software
Quality Assurance Testing including 5 years Test Lead.
· Effectively implemented different QA Testing Methodologies, Strategies and Plans in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
· Extensive experience in testing SAP modules SD, MM, PM, SCM, PP, BI, WM, HR and FICO.
· Extensive experience in testing Mobile, Web and SAP applications and having good knowledge on Networking Protocols.
· Experience in Mobile Testing includes Device, Tablet and App Testing (iOS, Android and Web OS).
· Experience in Analyzing Requirements, design of Test Plans, running Tests, analyzing Test Results, reporting and tracking Defects.
· Extensive experience in System Testing, Functional, Regression, Usability, End-to-End, GUI Testing, Compatibility, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Integration Testing, Ad-Hoc and Smoke Testing.
· Expertise in Bug Tracking, Reporting and Test management tools like HP Application Life Cycle Management (ALM), Radar and Clear Quest.
· Developed / Designed specific automation scripts by descriptive programming in QTP for Regression & Integration Testing purposes.
· Experience in developing test scripts using tools SAP Test Acceleration and Optimization (TAO), and HPQC. Developed Business Process testing (BPT) scripts based on the creation, implementation and running of reusable business components in business process test.
· Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology, and Waterfall.
· Experience in dealing with multiple projects and cross-functional teams, managing multiple tasks/assignments with staggered due dates and deadlines through effective time management skills.
· Highly organized, Innovative Coordinated efforts between Onsite and offshore team members, able to meet deadlines, provide inputs in the development of new concepts, techniques, standards and suggested new improvements for the testing efforts at the end of each sprint.
· Self-motivated, multi-task, quick learner, good team player with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Domain: Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Manufacturing, Retail, Utility, and E-Commerce.
Education and Training:
· Bachelor of Engineer, Mysore University, India
· Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications, NIIT, India
· SAP SD sales and pricing training from SAP America.
· Diploma in SQA, QTP,& LoadRunner at PCS, Mountain View, CA
Experience:
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco April'2015 – Present
Senior QA Analyst
PG&E Company is one of the largest combinations of natural gas and electric utilities in the California, United States. I am working as a senior QA Analyst and leading testing effort for SAP Work Management (PM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) team consisting of 8 testers.
· Responsibility to lead Projects, Enhancements, and production defects testing to Gas and Electrical line of business
· Tested entire Life Cycle of Plant Maintenance including Asset, Notification and Order Management
· Tested E2E functionality including PM work orders (with Traceable/Non-traceable material codes) with reservation, Receive MTR through Web service (Documentum) and approval, automatic batch creation, QCL creation, batch matching, QCL approval, Vendor email notification, inbound delivery, Goods Receipt in eWM, Batch label printing, Batch Cockpit, Goods Issue against reservation, STO with Traceable/Non-traceable materials, and Stock Overview.
· Created Master date for Material codes, Batch Characteristics, DIR characteristics, material class and characteristics.
· Involved in testing of data migration from legacy system to SAP for multiple projects
· Participated entire project life cycle of SAP integration with Mobile (iOS) for Electric line of business, tested E2E functionality of mobile app integration with SAP and delivered all test related tasks successfully.
· Developed and maintained Test Strategy, Test Model, Test Scenarios and Test Cases, and leading UAT effort to ensure the proper amount of structure is applied to enable project success.
· As a test lead responsibility to maintain monthly releases (defects, incidents, enhancements), SOX compliance and Service Pack Upgrade regression testing
· Involved in Statement of Work (SOW) and provided the estimation for testing effort for projects
· Maintained all test cases and defects related to projects and regression testing in HPQC
· Supported management to identify the roles such as Technical support, Functional support, Admin, Analyst, & Engineer and validated against users as part of security testing.
· Coordinated with security team for any security related requests and issues.
· Coordinated with PM and SCM business leads to get the approvals for changes request, urgent corrections, and temp role access in production for functional team during project.
· Conducted Workshops and meetings regarding project status with Business, PM, technical and functional teams on weekly basis
Environment: SAP ECC (MM, PM, QM), SCM (eWM), Application LifeCycle management (QC 11.0) tool.
Apple, Cupertino, CA Jan'2014 – March’2015
SAP QA/UAT/Cutover Lead
I have worked as QA Lead in BPR team for New Product Introduction and Product Assortment and Management projects. Leveraged industry trends, best practices, and leading-edge technology and process improvement on QA and maintain modular, end-to end and regression script libraries that can be leveraged across projects for testing scalability.
Responsibilities:
· Liaison between the business teams and IS&T to ensure that the business requirements are complete and met by the proposed technology solutions.
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· Responsible to lead global projects for Integration and E2E functionality testing such as SAP (OTC, PTP), eCommerce, POS, Store Front Operations, Apple online and retail stores applications, Reseller Operations and Business Object applications.
· Responsible for testing UI, Functional, Web Services, cross browser, and Reporting applications.
· Coordinated with Project Manager, Business Analysts, Operations, Product Support and development members to ensure that the business requirements are completed and met by the proposed technology solutions.
· Participated in technical and functional design meetings to ensure requirements are clearly defined and testable.
· Responsible to write test plan, identify and write test cases for modular, End-to-End and Cross Functional scenarios.
· Performed different testing types Smoke, Sanity, Integration, End -to-End and UAT.
· Responsible for publish project status reporting, defect tracking and risk assessments.
· Responsible for measure and track testing results in test management tool Radar.
· Responsible for supports release deploys/cutover and production issues to ensure business satisfaction and success.
· Planned and facilitated project-related testing, rollout, and lessons learned work.
· Provided innovative leadership in implementation of improved/standardized QA techniques.
· Responsible for prepare detailed schedules with target dates for deliverables, prioritizes and monitor activities.
Environment: SAP, SAP Portal, Web Portal, GBI, SQL, and Radar.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco Jan'2012–Jan'2014
Senior QA Analyst
PG&E Company is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. The PG&E is enhanced SAP and Mobile connectivity integration for better service.
Project: SAP, BOBj, Ventyx and ESRI Arc GIS Integration:
· Analyzed Software Requirements, Business Requirements and Use case documents to get a better understanding of the system on both technical and business perspectives.
· Responsible for define test scope, execution strategy, responsibilities, resources, issues, risks, environments, and data.
· Responsible for writing and executing Test Model, Test Scenarios and Test cases for Electrical Compliance Project.
· Responsible for writing test plan, test model, test scenarios and test cases for E2E testing of Mobile Connect Workforce Management project (Release 3 Product Test Phases).
· Extensively tested Mobile Connect FAS R3 Self Service Reporting using SAP Business object.
· Experience in working with Ventyx service suit 9.1.2 and older version.
· Experience in E2E testing from SAP to Mobile Application through Dispatch.
· Extensively wrote test models, test scenario and test cases for Payment Channel project.
· Extensively tested E2E scenarios for Pay By Bank Account, Web EZ Pay, Recurring Payments, Enroll and Unenrolled Paperless Bills, and Billing and Pay Alerts and Notifications.
· Experience in generating the bills, adjust the Current Amount due, and setup the business rules in CC&B.
· Performed System and Integration testing on iOS, Android and windows platforms using Simulators and real Mobile devices.
· Performed Stress and Load Testing on identified key scenarios.
· Responsible for database testing in mobile application using SQL queries in MS SQL Server.
· Analysed the Business Requirements Documents and System Requirements Specification documents
· Writing the Test Plan and Test Cases based on design and specification documents and business requirement documents.
· Prepare Testing Sequence and Test Strategies for Functional, System and Regression testing.
· Create / Review test cases / Report and maintain defects using HP Quality Center.
· Generate / Prepare Defect analysis report and Execution Summery Dash board Reports, Traceability Reports in HP Quality Center
Environment: SQL Server 2005, XML, HTML5, Android and iOS operating systems, WS4U Mobile Web Server, ECC6.0, SAP Work Force Management, PM, SAP Portal, and Quality Center10.0.
REI, Seattle Oct’2011- Jan’2012
Senior SAP QA Analyst
REI is a retail corporation sells outdoor equipment. Responsible for test business process of Assortment creation, purchase orders, and inventory management across all applications. Assortment creation includes Inbound and Outbound Process.
Responsibilities:
· Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification.
· Writing Test Plans, which detailed the testing Scope, Strategy, Hi-level Test Requirements and necessary resources
· Documented Test Cases corresponding to business rules and other operating condition.
· Involved in business requirements, User requests and bug scrubs meetings.
Environment: ECC6.0, SAP Retail, SCM, MM, Quality Center10.0, and Windows XP.
Levi Strauss & CO, San Francisco Oct’2010-Sept’2011
SAP QA Automation Test Lead
Project: SAP Global Implementation
Responsibilities:
· Responsible for lead and test SAP Global implementation project.
· Responsible for setup manual and automation test procedures for SAP Global implementation project.
· Extensively tested Sales Order process of ATP, Procurement Process, Allocation Run, Delivery and Billing.
· Responsible for Purchase to Pay (PTP), Order to Cash (OTC) and FICO functional testing for Europe and Asia regions.
· Tested the posting in FI module for Account Receivables and Account Payables in Finance module.
· Tested the integration points with MM, SD and FICO for third party and inter company (STO) processes.
· Converted around 200 manual test scripts to automation scripts using BPT and TAO.
· Responsible for TAO2.0 installation, Connection settings, Configuration, Generating components, Building Test Scripts using VB script, Consolidating Test Scripts, Importing and Exporting Components and Executing Tests.
· Installed TAO 2.05 patch and successfully performed Change Analyzer functionality.
· Migrated QC, QTP 9.5 version to 10.0.
Environment: ECC6.0, AFS, SD, MM, FICO, VB Script, Quick Test Professional 10.0, Quality Center10.0, TAO2.0 and Windows XP.
Life Technologies, Foster City, CA May’2006–Oct’2010
SAP QA Test Lead
Project: SAP Implementation & Support
Based on 5 years of Functional, testing and lead work stream for key IT initiatives at Applied Biosystems, brings a unique combination of Order to Cash, Purchase to Payprocess/systems knowledge of Applied Bio & insight on how risk & deliverable quality can be addressed upfront in the projects lifecycle (i.e. requirements gathering & design phase).
Responsibilities:
· Worked as a Functional, Quality Assurance Engineer and Test Lead at Life Technologies.
· Responsible for Manage both Onsite and Offshore teams allocating work and Weekly status meetings.
· Responsible for E2E Integration of Functional and testing for many key Product launches. Integration testing involved eBusiness (Portal, Web applications), SAP, MES and other ancillary systems.
· Primary resource for functional testing in key logistics modules and not limited to SD, MM and PP.
· Extensively Tested the Process flow of SD (OTC) Inquiry, Quotation, sales order, delivery, Billing
· Extensively Tested Process flow of MM Purchase to Pay (PTP), Purchase Req., Quotation, Contract Manufacturing, Purchase orders, goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Inventory Management.
· Extensively tested the process flow of PP Plan to Produce, Resource & work center, Bill of Material, Recipe, Production planning, and process Order.
· Extensively tested Make To Order (MTO) and Make To Stock (MTS) functionality for various products. Tested BOM, Planned Order (MRP), Convert Planned order to Production Order and release Production order IDOC to manufacturing systems through Webmethods Interfaces.
Environment:SAP R/3 5.0,ECC5.0, SD, MM,PP, WM, FICO, Quick Test Professional 9.5,Quality Center, Windows XP.
Autodesk, San Rafael, CA Sep’05–April’06
Senior SAP QA Test Engineer
Project: SAP Upgrade (4.5b to 5.0), Hotpacks 4.5b.
Responsibilities:
· Involved in SAP Upgrade project 5.0 from 4.5 and executed end to end transactions. Also involved in testing the functionality after hot packs installation.
· Created Test Plans and test cases for SAP upgrade (5.0) and HotPack4.5B projects for functional, system, Interfaces (Ariba and IXOS) and Mock Go Live Integration Testing.
· Involved in testing the Fulfillment process for different geo's namely APAC, EMEA & NAMER.
· Tested various ECO's for new enhancements related to SD & MM modules.
· Involved in testing the pricing conditions for resellers and distributors of Auotodesk products.
· Tested various in SAP for Auto Fulfillment subcriptions& Sales Order History report.
· Writing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) scripts for SD and MM modules.
· Extensively Tested the Process flow of SD Order to Cash, Inquiry, Quotation, sales order, delivery, Billing, RMA, and Abbott Drop-ship.
· Extensively used HP Quality center for writing Requirements, Test plans, Test cases, execute test cases in test lab, logging the defects and generated reports.
· Extensively Tested Process flow of MM Purchase to Pay, Purchase Req., Quotation, Contract Manufacturing, Purchase orders, goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Inventory Management.
Environment: SAP R/3 4.6B, 5.0, MM & SD modules, Quick Test Professional 7.4 and 8.2, Windows 2000.
MedImmune, Inc, Gaithersburg/Frederick, MD May’01–Aug’05
SAP Validation Consultant:
Project: SAP upgrade (5.0)
MedImmune is a research and development pharmaceutical (FDA) company. With approximately 1,900 employees worldwide, MedImmune is headquartered in Maryland with facilities in Pennsylvania, California, Kentucky, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The company's marketed products include Synagis (palivizumab), Ethyol (amifostine), FluMist (Influenza Virus Vaccine Live, Intranasal), and CytoGam (cytomegalovirus immune globulin intravenous (human)), with additional products in clinical testing.
Responsibilities:
SAP Validation:
· Developing of Validation Plans and Protocols (URS/FRS/OQ/PQ), test summary logs, and validation summary reports.
· Document Validation Deliverables
· Evaluation/Assessment of Validation Documents (Gap Analysis)
· Validation Test Script and Test Data Creation
· Writing Software Configuration Specification documents.
· Evaluation and/or Development of SOPs
· Responsible for fine tuning the current User Requirement Specifications (URS)
· Responsible for fine tuning the current Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS)
· Responsible for upgrading the URS and FRS incorporating newly modified business processes.
· Responsible for developing and executing validation plans for testing SAP R/3 version 5.0 MM, SD, PP modules.
· Extensively written Validation OQ test scripts for Process flow of SD Order to Cash, Inquiry, Quotation, sales order, delivery, Billing.
· Extensively written Validation OQ test scripts for Process flow of MM Purchase to Pay, Purchase Req., Quotation, Contract Manufacturing, Purchase orders, goods Receipt, Invoice Verification, Inventory Management.
· Extensively written Validation OQ test scripts for the process flow of PP Plan to Produce, Resource & work center, Bill of Material, Recipe, Production planning, and process Order.
· Extensively written OQ test scripts for Vendor/supplier qualification process project.
· Documented validation Risk Assessments
· Responsible for generating the 21 CFR part 11 validation documents.