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                           Konda Reddy            

SAPTest manager

Profile Summary:

Accomplished Test leader with overall 15 years’ experience including 10 + years of software Quality Assurance background in IT industry Experience in setting up and managing Testing Center of Excellence for Medium to Large Organization. Experience in overseeing Quality Assurance department supporting testing of Ecommerce, Web, Client Server, Sales Force, CRM, SAP and ERP Systems. Expertise in Software development lifecycle, SDLC Governance-Auditing, Quality Gating and utilizing best practices across Systems Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Test Automation, Performance and Load Testing, and Production Support while continuously driving process improvements. Ability to leverage strong technical skills and deep understanding of business and operational context to drive quality and efficiency, and lower the IT costs. Provide leadership and mentoring to team members across IT and the Business.

 

Areas of Expertise

 

·         Experience Leadership Skills ·         Implementing QA Best Practices ·         Transformation ·         Project Management ·         Coaching and Mentoring ·         IT Consulting ·         SDLC and STLC ·         Waterfall, agile ,Scrum  iterative  and ASAP methodology

·         Continuous Process Improvement ·         Automation and Performance ·         Budget Management ·         Team Building ·         Test Strategy ·         Software Quality Assurance ·         Regression testing ·         SAP Implementation/Rollout/Upgrade testing  ·         Test Center of Excellence setup ·          Vendor Management

·         Software Testing/Planning/Management   ·         Process Streamlining ·         Metrics & Reporting ·         Onsite & Offshore Coordination                      ·         Customer and Vendor Relationship  ·         Tools Management (HP ALM12.1, Jira, QTP, TAO, Certify Performance center  ·         Retail, Telecom, insurance, Utilities ,Power .  and Manufacturing

 

Skills and Tools:

·         Primary Skills :  Test management for SAP Implementations, Upgrades ,Rollouts  and Non SAP applications testing

·         Regression and Automation testing, Defects Management, Test Metrics

·         Testing tools:  HP-ALM, SAP TAO, Bugzilla, QTP  Work soft and Load runner,

 IBM rational, SAP Solution Manager and Tosca

·         Project Management tools (MS Project and Clarity)

TECHNOLOGY:                                                                                                                                                 

·         ERP:  Oracle, SAP - ECC 6.0, FI/CO, SD, CCS, MM, PS ,BW,SQL, EI , XI-PI,CS,HANA

·         Non SAP –Web applications , Sales Force,E2 Open  and E-commerce applications, SOA, Microsoft Intel platforms

   

Education and Certifications: 

·         ISTQB Certified ( International Software Testing Qualification board )

·         Certified Software Test Manager (CSTM)

·         Master of Business Administration from SKU

·         SCRUM MASTER ACCREDITED CERTIFICATION

·         Tricentis Tosca Automation 1&2

·         Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification

·         SAP ERP concepts from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

 

Projects and Organizational Experience:

·         Organization          :           NTT DATA, INC

·         Duration                 :           June ’17 – Till date

·         Role                       :           Sr QA Test Manager

Responsibilities:

·         Responsible for deliverables from NTTDATA SAP testing Services for the Whirl pool release testing and Projects

·         Responsible for leading SAP HANA Migration project testing across the modules ECC and CRM

·         Define Strategy for Automation and Performance testing 

·         Responsible for implementation of Test Center of Excellence

·         Manage multiple testing projects for End to end execution (Test Estimation, Test Planning, Test Execution, and Reporting)

·          Responsible for timely completion of testing activities in these projects and ensuring quality testing resulting in a defect free release.

·         Developed the TCOE measurement framework, defined the SLA’s and KPI’s for measuring the performance of the TCOE

·         Communicate issues and risks to Whirlpool stakeholders that could negatively impact an application’s release

·         Publish and Present report to leadership team on test status in CAB and Go-no go meetings

·         Conduct daily status and defect calls during Unit, integration, UAT and regression testing

·         Follow-up on action items discussed in project review meetings

·         Training of all users in ALM (Quality Center) to ensure consistent execution evidencing and defect capture. - Co-ordinating the daily defect calls, producing execution statistics and enforcing the overall testing methods and framework. Work

·         Responsible for driving 100% Automation through Continuous improvements   

·         Responsible for Defining and executing test strategy for Agile and Devops   projects (CI/CD)

 

 

 

 

·         Organization          :           Johnson Controls, Inc.

·         Duration                 :           May ’14 – June ‘17

·         Role                       :           SAP TCOE Test Manager

Responsibilities:

·         Responsible in establishing Global Test Center of Excellence (TCoE) and managed multi-vendor Onsite-Offshore team.

·         Achieved over million-dollar savings and reducing production defect from 70% to 95% through Quality Assurance best practices and setting up of formal Test CoE

·         Defining Automation test and Performance Test approaches for Regression test bed

·         Governance of Testing process and tools (SAP TAO, HP Quality Center, HP QTP, HP Load Runner, QTP )

·         Responsible for governance around IT release through the Change Release Board and application of quality best practices

·         Responsible for driving Automation of regression bed and achieved 80% automation in 1 year

·         Defining Test Strategy and approach for SAP Implementation, Roll-Out, Upgrade, Data center migration and maintenance projects

·         Managing Testing schedules, Resources, Projects Budgets and Testing Deliverables 

·         Defining and Mentoring SLA’s and KPI ‘s and Test Metrics for Monthly governance meetings  

·         Driving Defects triage meetings for Minor and Major release testing

·         Conducting Monthly Regression and Closure gate meetings across all business units

·         Perform Root Cause Analysis of compliance issues and identify improvement ideas to prevent future occurrences.

·         Conducting Project testing kickoff meeting 

·         Achieved Zero Production defects leakage for all 3 Business continuously 18 Months in row by implementing best practices

 

 

 

Projects and Organizational Experience:

 

·         Organization                      :           L&T Infotech

·         Duration                             :           Nov’09 – Oct-14

·         Role                                   :           Project Manager /SAP Test Lead

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Managed planning and execution of business requirement and test phase activities for product enhancements; developed project plans, allocated resources, determined timelines and coordinated with overall project activities ensuring projects were completed as planned; organized and facilitated meetings with product and technology to define, analyze, document, review and approve test documentation; reviewed and approved all project documentation.

·         Provided program management for multiple Enterprise and Conversion test initiatives ensuring timely delivery of project completion, quality standards and objectives; participated in Enterprise-wide system deployments; tracked milestones and issues; provided regular test and defect progress and metric reporting to Stakeholders and Senior Management.

·         Reviewed test strategy, test plan, test script and defect documentation; ensured documentation provided traceability, testability and reusability and met established quality standards. 

·         Defining and implementing Automation & Performance Test strategy

·         Provided performance management feedback and training opportunities for onshore and offshore resources.

·         Work on RFP’s, Estimations and SOW’s for new SAP Testing assignments

·         Identifying new opportunities for business and working with Client for successful closure 

·         Built ERP Testing business unit in organization having 300+ resources – One of the pioneer member of ERP Testing BU

 

Projects: 1

HD Supply FM QA Project                                                         July '12 – Aprl’14

 

 HD Supply Facilities Maintenance is a leading supplier of maintenance, repair and   operations (MRO) products to owners and managers of multifamily, hospitality, educational and commercial properties; healthcare providers; and municipal and government facilities. For maintaining day to day business transactions uses SAP, Web and Sales force applications under HDS FM Project unite and QA project is support testing required for new projects and bug fixes.

Responsibilities:

·         Responsible for managing multiple testing projects in Onsite-Offshore model.

·         Key contact for Client interface during all Test phases. Managed all estimation, client vendor negotiation, test reporting, test metrics and scope estimation.

·         Responsible for overall testing deliverables - planning, scoping, resource estimation, test strategy, scheduling, monitor test execution, reporting & follow-up.

·         Responsible for defining and implementing Strategy for Automation and Regression library

·         Preparing Test scenarios and test cases for enhancement projects & bug fix releases for SAP Modules SD, MM,FICO,PS ,BW and APO

·         Defect triage coordination for Reviewing defects with Dev team and tracking status for defects for reporting in Status readout call daily

·         Coordinating and Supporting for UAT testing for Scenarios identification and data validation

·         Created successful communication process between on shore and off shore testing teams, development teams, business analysts and project managers

·         Participating in Scrum meeting from QA for pilot Agile project

·         Test scripts preparation and execution of SD-PS-FICO modules integration testing with Sales force applications

 

Project -2

 

1.     Motorola Business transformation Pahse-2                           Feb’11  to Jun '12

 

Motorola is Global mobile device manufacturers in Chicago -US is consolidating all different ERPs to Oracle R12. The Business Transformation Project is a multi-year program designed to simplify, consolidate and upgrade Customer Core Business Systems based upon a single, company-wide version of ORACLE R12.

Responsibilities:

 

·         Key contact for Client interface during all Test phases. Managed all estimation, client vendor negotiation, test reporting, test metrics and scope estimation. 

·         Experience in creating comprehensive test plan for large projects and responsible for project deliverables – Test Plans, Testing Strategy, Test Execution Result, Reporting and Test Summary 

·         Responsible for establishing consistent testing practices using standard tools across multiple projects while adhering to quality processes.

·         Establish and evolve formal QA processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices;

·         Driving the offshore team and get the consolidated status for the daily activity

·         Lead test scenarios & scripts review meetings with business and IT team

·         Defect triage management and follow up until closer 

·         Test plan preparation for order management and procure to pay and execution

·         Coordinating with Business team to understand and analyze business requirements for preparing Test Scenarios

 

Project-3

Ingram SAP Global Rollout                                                                          Sept '10 – Feb '11

 SAP Global Rollout project for World’s largest technology distributor covering multiple countries Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore day to day business transactions uses SAP

As a SAP Tester I was responsible for:

 

·         Preparing test scenarios and test cases based on requirements in HP QC 

·         Execution of test scenarios for OTC ,MM ,and FICO modules 

·         Participating in Daily  status  and Defect triage meetings 

 

 

Project -4

L& T insurance SAP Implémentation                                                  May '10 - Aug '10

SAP implementation project covering the business of leading insurance company for Insurance Accounting and internal Procurement, The modules implemented include FI-CO and MM

·         Test plan and Test strategy

·         Preparing test scenarios and test cases based on requirements in Rational

·         Execution of test scenarios for OTC ,MM and FICO modules 

·         Defects coordination

·         Status reports

·         Managing team for testing execution

Project -5

Project Shakti SAP Implementation                                            Dec '09 - Apr '10

 

 Project SHAKTI is an SAP implementation project covering the business of leading power company, Covering manufacturing and project life cycle.

The modules implemented include FI-CO, MM, SD, PS, PM, QM, PP and EHS

As a Lead, I was responsible for:

 

·         Prepared Test strategy and Test Plan

·         Preparing the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and resolving queries

·         Coordinated with Business users to understand and analyze  Business requirements for preparing test scenarios  

·         Review with business team  for  test design signoff

·         Execution of test scenarios for OTC, MM ,PS and FI integration testing   

·         Participating in  Daily  status  and Defect triage meetings 

·         Guiding team for  Test scenarios  & Scripts preparation and execution 

  

SAP Financial Implementations                                                  May '09 - Nov '09

 

 Global IT solutions and services outsourcing provider (Mastek) uses SAP ECC 6.0 as The ERP package for managing its operations. The modules implemented include FI-CO,MM,SD and HR .To meet objective additional modules of SAP ECC6.O such as cProject ,  PS and extended SD along with additional developments will added     .

 

As a SAP Test Consultant  , I was responsible for:

 

·         Prepared Test scenarios  and Test cases for OTC,FICO and P.S modules 

·         Test execution of all the scenarios

·         Reporting defects and follow-up with development team for fix

  

 

Projects and Organizational Experience:

 

·         Organization                      :           Applabs (CSC)

·         Duration                             :           April ’07 – April -09

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