Mahesh Gurivi Reddy
Hillsboro,OR
Summary
Experienced professional with 3+ years focused on Anaplan modeling and testing. over a decade of expertise in SAP BW. Recognized for strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to challenges. Known for adaptability, creativity, and a results-driven mindset, committed to achieving organizational success through the consistent delivery of top-notch results. Dedicated to making significant contributions and furthering company goals.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Engineer
NIKE
10.2014 - Current
- Anaplan Modelling & Test Engineer
- Comfortable with Agile software development methodologies.
- Participate in Program Increment (PI) Planning sessions with the team’s Product Owner, Scrum Master, and other Product Analysts to understand the business vision and create plans and objectives for the upcoming PI.
- Worked with the team during the PI on the backlog of work for each iteration delivering value in 2-week Agile Sprints.
- Stay closely aligned with the Product Owner and global business teams throughout the iteration.
- Worked on new enhancements to the existing solutions to meet Business requirements.
- Extensively worked in Data Modelling and reporting in Anaplan, SAP BW 3.5, BW 7.0, BW 7.3, and BW 7.4.
- Collaborated with development team members and project/scrum teams for daily/weekly milestones and resolved hurdles if any.
- Implemented multiple life cycle implementations for different modules in SAP BI/BW, SAP HANA and Oracle following ASAP Methodologies which involves Project Plan, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final Preparation, End user Training, Go-Live and Production Support.
- Worked on Data Extraction from SAP R/3 (FI/CO, MM, SD, PP), flat files and BW using extraction structures such as LIS, LO Cockpit, CO-PA, FI and Generic Extractors.
- Developed SAP BW Objects such as Info Objects, DSO’s, Cubes, DTP’s, Transformations, Bex Queries, Open Hubs, Info Spokes, Data Sources, BIA, and Process Chains.
- Worked on new enhancements for the existing solutions to meet Business requirements.
- Responsible for delivering BW & BI reporting on-time and Batch completion within defined SLA.
- Worked on Customer exit variables for BEx reporting.
- Pro-actively identified performance bottleneck and improved the performance of batches by proper tuning. This in-turn improved batch delivery SLA and customer satisfaction.
- Worked on HANA Studio – Schemas and tables on HANA, Modelling of Information Models.
- Monitoring of tickets in Service-Now and making sure to resolve the incidents within the agreed SLA.
Team Lead
Momentive Performance Materials
09.2009 - 08.2011
- Weekly reviews with the Operations Leader on the tickets we have in our queue and other performance related issues.
- Experience in QA Functional Testting expertise in validating enterprise systems with a strong focus on SAP BW (Business Warehouse) reporting, data validation, and business process testing. Proven track record in test management using Tricentis qTest, including test planning, execution, defect tracking, and KPI reporting.
- Proficient in functional testing across data extraction, transformation, and reporting layers in SAP BW.
- Involved in high-level discussion with the customer to understand requirement.
- Weekly technical reviews with the development team to understand and give suggestion on the new enhancements, which they move across the landscape.
- Worked extensively on cutover activities like Object Testing, Business functionality test and Regression testing in the QA Environment.
- Experienced Knowledge on BCP in case of network breakdowns and in disasters.
- Hands on experience during SP (Support Pack) Activities and Cutover Activities.
- Worked on Reconciliation issues and resolve the data issues in BW system.
- Accurate analysis of Errors and providing the solution to it.
- Better understanding on SAP BW landscape and data architecture.
- Worked on Integration Testing, Post Up-gradation of Support Packages in BI Development, Quality and Production Systems using Quality Center Tool.
- Expertise in Debugging, Troubleshooting, and fixing issues to deliver user requirements.
- Configured data from LO Cockpit for SD application (Sales, Deliveries and Billing Documents DataSources) to extract and upload the data into Info Cubes of BI System.
- Used Info Spoke for exporting data to External Applications viz., flat files.
- Worked on performance of queries and performed various tuning techniques using Compression, Aggregates.
- Daily monitoring the process chains. Resolving frequent failures on data loads. Escalation according to the business process (Communication Channel & Execution Channel).
- In case of unresolved issues escalating through ticket like when the system is not supporting to load data into the data targets or rollup of aggregates and ODS data activation.
- Involved in data load performance housekeeping activities like cube compression, creating indexes, PSA deletion (To improve the table space), Statistics etc.
- Extensively worked on Multi Providers, Info Cubes, DSOs, Data Sources, Transformations, Info Packages and DTPs to translate the business processes into end reporting objects.
- Support for User acceptance tests of BW reports and end-users training & go-live support.
BW Consultant
GE Silicones
06.2006 - 09.2009
- Delivering the BW batch on-time.
- Performed Data Extraction and Data Staging using LO Cockpit (LBWE) and extended the structures using user exits to support the Business needs.
- Activation of Standard Business Content cubes.
- Involved in Creating and maintaining Info Cubes, Operational Data store, PSA, Info Objects, Info Areas, Multi providers, Communication Structure, Update Rules, Info Sources, Data Sources, and Info Packages.
- Uploaded Master and Transaction data from Flat Files, SAP BW and SAP R/3.
- Modified several existing BEX Reports to improve performance. To improve the performance of the reports reorganized the Dimensions. Provided Line Item dimensions.
- Involved in the performance tuning of info cubes and BW statistics.
- Worked extensively on BEX Analyser and BEX Browser.
- Developed flexible queries using Filters, Variables, Exceptions, Conditions, restricted key figures and calculated key figures in BEX analyzer to facilitate data analysis in a drill down or summarized way to give detailed levels of information.
- Generated the Different types of Multi Provider Reports as per the Client Requirement.
- Developed the Process chains to automate the data loads and involved in maintaining the process variants and events.
- Created Queries using different Variables with different processing types.
Education
Master’s - Computer Applications
Osmania University
Hyderabad, Andhra PradeshBachelor’s - commerce
Skills
- Technical support
- Software development
- Project management
- Test automation
- Requirements gathering
- System design
- Continuous delivery
Accomplishments
- Resolved product issues through regression & UAT testing.
It Experience
- Centizen Inc, Software Developer, 10/18 - Present
- Wipro Limited, Technical Lead, 11/11 - 10/18
- Auritas Technologies Pvt Ltd., Architect, 09/09 - 08/11
- Genpact, Consultant, 06/06 - 09/09
Certification
- Certified Anaplan Level 2 Model Builder, [Nike]
Languages
English
Professional Working
Timeline
Lead Engineer
NIKE
10.2014 - Current
Team Lead
Momentive Performance Materials
09.2009 - 08.2011
BW Consultant
GE Silicones
06.2006 - 09.2009
Master’s - Computer Applications
Osmania University