Seshagiri R Addanki
Summary
Dynamic UAT Lead specializing in Oracle Cloud financials with a strong emphasis on automation and process improvement. Demonstrated success in managing UAT projects from requirements gathering to execution, significantly enhancing testing efficiency and ensuring seamless integration of financial applications across diverse business domains.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Oracle cloud financial/payment applications UAT lead order to cash
Clayton Homes
TN
01.2025 - Current
- Creating of business scenario documents and requirements.
- Involved in the gathering the requirements from the business users for the project.
- Involved in the UAT testing of the Business requirement document.
- Involved in the development of the functional specifications UAT test cases.
- UAT testing subscriptions, orders in order management, fulfillment and receivables invoices.
- Worked on Oracle big machines CPQ subscriptions and integration UAT testing with oracle.
- Leading the UAT team onsite and offshore for different phase of the UAT testing.
- Designed and processed AR auto lockbox payments and cash reconciliation, performed month end close.
- Automation UAT testing of AR invoices, Order fulfillments, AP payments and cash reconciliations.
- Performing daily PO requisitions, purchase orders, receipts and supplier payments, taxations.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft office products and communicating with the teams in agile methodology.
- Generating weekly status reports regarding the project miles stoned and raising flags.
- Resolving month end issues and payments issues, cash checking and processing invoice files.
- Preparing GL income and balance sheet statements on the end of quarter.
- Organized meetings with the business users and IT teams and gathered additional requirements.
Oracle cloud financial applications UAT lead, Order to cash
Digital Realty
TX
10.2021 - 12.2024
- Creating of business scenario documents and requirements.
- UAT testing inhouse data center utilities billing.
- Involved in the gathering the requirements from the business users for the project.
- Involved in the UAT testing of the Business requirement document.
- Involved in the development of the functional specifications UAT test cases.
- Performing the gap fit analysis and reviewing with development and client IT teams regarding AP, GL, AR, PO, TAX and OM requirements.
- Leading the UAT team onsite and offshore for different phase of the UAT testing.
- Designed and processed AR lockbox payments and cash reconciliation, performed month end close and revenue recognition in RMCS.
- Automation UAT testing of AR invoices, Order fulfillments, AP payments and cash reconciliations.
- Performing daily PO requisitions, purchase orders, receipts and supplier payments, taxations.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft office products and communicating with the teams in agile methodology.
- Generating weekly status reports regarding the project miles stoned and raising flags.
- Resolving month end issues and payments issues, cash checking and processing invoice files.
- Preparing GL income and balance sheet statements on the end of quarter.
- Organized meetings with the business users and IT teams and gathered additional requirements.
Oracle cloud applications UAT testing O2C and P2P lead
S&P Global Inc
NY
06.2015 - 10.2021
- Involved in UAT testing requirements gathering with business users to document current flow and future flow process.
- Worked on oracle financials and order to cash applications using Agile methodologies and end to end scrum process.
- Involved in daily scrum standups to discuss on the ERP status.
- Design and development of future process ERP financials including month end close and reconciliation.
- Implementation experience of Oracle financials cloud AP, AR, GL and CM.
- Written UAT test cases and test scripts for all core financial applications and performed full UAT testing.
- Worked with business users to support UAT for financial applications of R12.
- Configured oracle financial modules and CRP UAT testing.
- Implementation and processing of Zuora transactions and subscriptions.
- Processing payables invoices & payments and customer receipts, credits, bank and other data reconciliations, ledger book closing, financial reporting, collections and promises.
- Zuora experience in integration with sales force and oracle.
- Processing customer master data, integration of collections with Akritiv, worked on concur expenses, workday feed for employee data.
- Working knowledge of informatica power center and informatica cloud.
- Automation UAT testing of sales force and Zuora for subscription processing.
Oracle applications P2P senior UAT consultant
inc Research INC
Raleigh
12.2014 - 05.2015
- Working as a senior tester in financials and procurement modules from end to end.
- End to end UAT testing of master conversion of supplier TCA data from source system to oracle.
- Prepared test plans and test strategy documents for Oracle R12 UAT testing.
- Tested blackbox, white box, backend, function, SIT and UAT UAT testing in PO and AP.
- Tested customer bills and AP payments in Oracle R12.
- Tested purchase order, invoices, receipts, manual journals using OATS.
- Used OATS for UAT testing FSG reports and for running concurrent programs and batches.
- Test requisitions, purchase orders, receipts and payments.
- Writing UAT test cases and test plans for the current and future production migration releases.
- Supported UAT users in completion of UAT testing and sign off.
- Tested family pack patches and individual patches for oracle R12 iprocurement and PO.
- Tested PO and iexpenses workflows, iexpenses credit cards, and payments to cards.
- Tested PO, AP, iexpenses, iprocurement requisitions and orders processing.
Oracle applications P2P implementation
Purchasing Power
Atlanta
06.2014 - 11.2014
- Tested creation of sales order in store front system and imported into Order management.
- Imported invoices into AR after shipping is completed and delivered.
- Tested processing of returns in order management.
- Processed orders in store front and checked in cockpit tool to verify all information of customer that is related to security is loaded.
- Written UAT test cases for financial modules like AP, AR and GL in R12 environment.
- Ran the OATS scripts to test AP and AR invoices.
- End to conversion UAT testing of supplier information and AP invoices data.
- Written test strategy and test plan documents before starting of UAT testing.
- Integration UAT testing and firewall UAT testing of credit cards payments for down payments from customers.
- Integration UAT testing of custom program to process additional import of customer data into oracle.
- Tested transactions, manual and auto lockbox receipts in AR and applied receipts using sales order numbers.
- Experienced in creation of AP invoices, payments, accounting of Oracle financial applications.
- Expertise in defining software UAT test cases, documents and standards.
- Submitted test plans, UAT test cases and UAT metrics, allocation of work & defects for team members.
- Full knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, and agile processes.
- Experienced in understanding of business requirements, user requirement analysis and system specifications analysis.
- Performed Black box, Functional, Integration, Regression, System UAT testing, UI UAT testing, User Acceptance UAT testing, and Back end UAT testing.
- Created test scripts as required for various Oracle functionality and supported users in the User Acceptance UAT testing stage.
- The client takes the orders from the federal clients and processes the orders from Purchasing power inventory system. Sometimes drop shipment option is used where the order of the customer is sent to supplier and from there it will be directly sent to customer by supplier. Client uses Kofax Markview for invoice approvals by extracting their images.
Oracle financials business analyst
Key Energy Services
Houston
01.2014 - 05.2014
- Current project involves the new implementation of Oracle R12 iexpenses and AP for Key energy using AME customizations.
- Capital one is the company using for corporate credit cards for business expenses and employees will be making Out of pocket expenses also.
- Target go live is May 2014 and it involves CRP, SIT and UAT UAT testing after design completes.
- Worked on UAT test requirements, and configuration of iexpenses and AP modules.
- Created test scripts and test data sheets for UAT testing of integration and functional UAT testing.
- Created test scripts for UAT testing and execution of standard and custom reports, interfaces and extensions.
- Gathering requirements and setups of banks, suppliers in AP and employees in HRMS.
- Processing invoices, Purchase orders and payments to suppliers.
- Lead a UAT testing team of tech-functional resources for AR – Auto invoice, Lockbox setups, Reconciliation, Aging reports, Advance Collections implementation, enhancements and support.
- Conversion UAT testing of supplier bank and bank accounts information into AP and validating.
Oracle procure to pay business and UAT analyst
S&P Global Inc
Princeton
07.2010 - 01.2014
- Created the test plans and performed regression and performance tests for the CRM, Financials and Supply Chain implementation and for customizations performed.
- Created test scripts for UAT testing and execution of standard and custom reports, interfaces and extensions.
- Involved in troubleshooting AR Auto invoice issues, production support and working with Oracle support for resolving implementation and support issues.
- Involved in Project test planning, resource allocation, and status reporting.
- Defects are created and mapped to requirements and UAT test cases in QC test lab.
- Raised SR’s and worked with oracle team to provide data fix or providing new patches.
- Tracking defects and issues resolution using HP quality center.
- Worked as a defect manager under TCS team to update the progress on all open defects.
- End to end UAT testing of financials and supply chain applications.
- Provided analysis, design, installation, and rollout of Oracle 11i General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Purchasing for onshore projects.
- Coordinated and lead the entire phase of the project which included initial operations analysis, business process re-evaluation, UAT testing, training, conversions, customizations and documentation and implementation of modules.
- Determining accounting needs, designing accounting segments, and defining accounting structure and making assignments to the existing Chart of Accounts.
- Discussed with the financial controller and SME to assign the start and end periods of calendar.
- Performed CRP (Conference room pilot) UAT testing.
- Involved in configuring the Key flex fields, financial options, purchasing options, UOM.
- MGH (S&P now) client implemented Oracle R12 applications by replacing Lawson financial system and concur expenses management for 20+ countries alongside of Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada and USA. Modules are AP, AR, GL, CM, PO, PA, SLA, EB tax.
Oracle ERP senior UAT analyst/Lead
Southern Company
Atlanta
09.2009 - 07.2010
- This present project includes configuration and UAT testing of financial application with AP, PO, Sabrix and iExpenses as key modules implementation.
- This UAT testing started first at Georgia power and running to other operating units like Florida power, Alabama power and Mississippi Power.
- Performed integration UAT testing for financial modules.
- Generated invoices manually and automatically and made payments using ACH and EDI.
- Performed end to end integration and regression UAT testing for procure to pay and order to cash.
- Tested all configurations related to AP and iExpenses and workflow.
- Performed integration UAT testing for iexpenses, sabrix, and PO and AP services.
- Performed integration UAT testing for Sabrix tax calculations on PO, Non PO and third party related invoices.
- Integrated credit card transaction system to oracle AP iexpenses for import into card tables.
- Performed payments to suppliers and employees using ACH, EDI, and check methods.
- Tested execution of reports in AP, PO, tax and expenses.
- Created test scripts for UAT testing and execution of standard and custom reports, interfaces and extensions.
- Performed transferring invoices and payments to General Ledger and tested period end balances.
- Tested POs and receipts in purchasing, and tested third party (MAXIMO) POs.
- Tested importing of POs and receipts into Oracle.
Oracle AR and GL UAT
Wendy’s Arby’s Group
Atlanta
04.2009 - 08.2009
- Present project implements iexpenses in integration with AP and approval management engine workflow for employee expenses.
- This project is moving from Concur expenses from one operating unit and extensity expenses from other operating units to oracle iexpenses.
- Involved in gathering requirements for writing specifications for lockbox receipts.
- Involved in writing specifications for Wendy’s automatic receipts processing for Wells Fargo.
- Writing specifications for BAI and BAI2 and 3more custom loader programs.
- Involved in discussing revenue recognition for Wendy’s franchise system.
- Writing documents for open invoice conversions and customer conversions.
- Interacted with technical team to write MD50 document for AR auto lockbox process and auto invoice e process.
- Involved in gathering UAT testing requirements and prepared TE10 document for financials and supply chain modules.
- Involved in writing UAT test cases for mapping American express AMEX 1025 format to AP credit card tables.
- Interacted with technical team to write UAT test cases for iexpenses and AP workflow process for expenses, AP auto approvals for iexpenses and account generation for project based expenses.
- Performed integration, unit, UAT UAT testing for financial applications.
- Design and processing of AR auto invoice and lockbox submission format.
- Implemented BAI2 format for CM reconciliation.
- Integrated AR and CM for automatic receipts reconciliation.
- Experienced working in writing SQL queries for importing financial data.
Oracle procure to pay and imaging lead
Citi Group
Tampa
03.2008 - 03.2009
- This project involves implementation of AP, PO, GL, and FA with iExpenses for china operating units.
- Involved in gathering requirements for configuring 11i AP, PO, GL, and AR.
- Involved in configuring and UAT testing of P2P workflow from requisitions to electronic payments.
- Configured and tested end-end application of these AP, PO and iExpenses and iprocurement module till date.
- Discussed with project managers and end users in designing the TO-Be process for withholding taxes for invoices for Hongkong operating unit.
- Analyzed, designed and documented GL, AP, and AR with iexpenses and iprocurement modules.
- Documented BR100, MD50, and tested the above configured applications for AP and AR.
- Integration of credit card functionality to make company pay basis process for travel expenses.
- Tested AP and 170 Markview system, configured AP, iexpenses and CM modules by documenting BR100, RD020, TE040, MD050 and BP080 documents for R12 application.
- Configured AP, FA and CM modules by documenting BR100, RD020, TE040, MD050 and BP080 documents for R12 application.
- Arranged meetings for designing, documenting and setup of R12 GL SLA, AP, Banking model, and payment system.
- Integration UAT testing of cash management to load, import and reconcile bank statements to AR and AP.
- Migrated 11i Customer, supplier, internal and external banks master data to TCA tables.
- Gathered requirements for R12 revenue accounting program, setup of AR/AP netting.
- Migrated Oracle 11.5.10 Supplier data, Customer data and banks master data into R12.
- Good knowledge on R12 TCA architecture for parties, customers, accounts, accounts merging and trading partners, Data access set assignment, Ledger setup including SLA assignment and secondary ledger with primary ledger mapping.
- Designed & documented R12 GL, AP, Banking model, and payment system.
- Global Payments is the world’s largest transaction processors and offers worldwide, world-class electronic transaction processing services through high speed, robust electronic information networks and also provides comprehensive business-to-business payment card and processing services, such as money transfer, cash management, financial electronic data interchange, management information and reporting services.
Oracle GL, AP, AR, CE (extension Project) Lead
JDS Uniphase Corporation
Milpitas
09.2007 - 03.2008
- Worked as a lead in implementing 2 modules AP and AR for automatic UAT invoicing and payment processing’s for the client.
- As a lead I was mostly involved with the junior consultants and client level process users to gather high level requirements and process configurations.
- Worked with BofA for electronic checks processing’s for USD and CAD payments, tested, reconciled the application after the extended configuration.
- Electronic data passes to BoA through Equinox server.
- Designed BR100 & configured R12 SLA, EB tax and CM modules with all required setups.
- Implemented AR and CM R12 for reconciling receipts and payments.
- Production support for AR reconciliation with CM bank receipts.
- Cash reconciliation and Bank reconciliation of AR receipts and AP payments.
- Worked on creation of data migration plan, pre migration UAT testing, migration cutover and validation at final sign off.
- Planning and coordinating the data that needs to be migrated under financials environment.
- Good knowledge of end-end AR and AP cash process in R12 CM, understanding of table structures in R12 CM, and reconciliation of bank statements.
Education
Master of Science - I.T & Management
India01-2001
Bachelor of Science - Computer science
India01-1999
Skills
- UAT testing
- Oracle financials
- Business analysis
- Automation testing
- Requirement gathering
- Financial reporting
- Defect tracking
- Process improvement
- Agile methodology
- Team leadership
- Effective communication
- Problem solving
- Attention to detail
- Status reporting
- Time management
- Analytical thinking
- Data management
- Project planning
- Multitasking Abilities
- Teamwork and collaboration
Tools
Fusion cloud applications, E-Business Suite R12.1.3, OATS, 11.5.10 Financials (AP, AR, GL, CM, OM, FA, PO), Kofax imaging, iExpenses, iprocurement, AME, workflows, Ariba, Concur, MS VISIO, Jira, Azure DevOps, MS PROJECT, HP ALM, HP Quality center
Summary - Professional Summary
- 20 years of experience in EBS R12 as a senior business/functional UAT analyst in multiple business domains especially in Oracle Cloud Payments.
- 10 years of experience in ERP cloud UAT lead in order to cash and source to pay applications.
- 10 years experience in gathering UAT test requirements, preparing test traceability matrix.
- 11 years’ experience in team building and managing concurrent ERP projects.
- Certified Oracle cloud financials AP UAT invoicing, ACH payments and AR consultant 01/19.
- 4 years working experience in automation UAT testing, using Tosca and selenium concurrent job submitting, scheduling jobs and job sets.
- 12 years integration UAT testing of third party applications with Oracle cloud applications.
- 10 years of experience in agile mode of working in the team using Microsoft Azure and devops.
- 10 years experience in preparing test plan and strategy documents along with the TDLS reporting.
- 3 years of full UAT testing end to end in Record to report, procure to pay UAT testing.
- 5 years experience in utilities UAT testing of billing in energy company.
- 12 years experience in O2C and P2P applications functional implementations and integration UAT testing in oracle ERP.
- 13 years of data reconciliation and functional setups of Purchasing, workday and oracle payroll operations, AP UAT invoicing and payment, AR lockbox payments and collections, CM UAT testing and GL.
- Experienced in 4 full life cycle oracle AP and AR implementations from requirements gathering to UAT testing and support.
- Configuration of financial applications in oracle ERP for future model and period close activities.
- Experienced in writing UAT test cases and executing procure to pay and order to cash applications.
- Working experience with business users in supporting UAT test cases, preparing test evidence, guiding through the test walkthrough.
- Manage and prioritize product backlog, leading scrum team in sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives and standups.
- Proficiency in defining and executing UAT test cases, developing, maintaining Test scripts and analyzing bugs under Order to Cash cycle.
- Defined quality and UAT testing requirements for the acceptance criteria of source to pay and OTC modules including R12 and Cloud 26A.
- Worked with the release management team and developers in moving the defects and code migrations to test environments for UAT testing.
- Prepared test data sheets to test in integration and user acceptance UAT testing for shipping and inventory.
- Prepared test data for order to cash modules UAT testing.
- Written test plans and test strategy documents based on the business requirements for orders and fulfillments.
- Mapped business requirements to UAT testing forward traceability matrix in order management.
- Executed the UAT test cases in oracle financial and inventory applications.
- Tested PO requisitions, purchase orders, receipts in procurement process.
- Experienced in end to end to UAT testing of concur and oracle iExpenses to process employee expenses.
- Daily schedule meetings for defect tracking and issue resolutions related to PO, AP, and AR.
- Defined quality and UAT testing requirements for the acceptance criteria of financials and OM modules including 11i and R12.
- Used QC for raising defects and assigning to development team and reUAT testing the fixed defects.
- Preparation of UAT testing status reports using QC dash board.
- Tested system integrated UAT testing process, UAT and unit UAT testing using oracle applications.
- Proficient in Manual and Automated UAT testing on client/server and web-based applications.
- Preparing (Cloud Saas, Oracle E-business Suite R12 and 11.5.10) UAT testing requirements and strategy documents (TE010) and preparing UAT testing document for order to cash modules (TE040 documentation), written test reports TE060, TE130.
Certification
- Oracle cloud payables and receivables certified
Timeline
Oracle cloud financial/payment applications UAT lead order to cash
Clayton Homes
01.2025 - Current
Oracle cloud financial applications UAT lead, Order to cash
Digital Realty
10.2021 - 12.2024
Oracle cloud applications UAT testing O2C and P2P lead
S&P Global Inc
06.2015 - 10.2021
Oracle applications P2P senior UAT consultant
inc Research INC
12.2014 - 05.2015
Oracle applications P2P implementation
Purchasing Power
06.2014 - 11.2014
Oracle financials business analyst
Key Energy Services
01.2014 - 05.2014
Oracle procure to pay business and UAT analyst
S&P Global Inc
07.2010 - 01.2014
Oracle ERP senior UAT analyst/Lead
Southern Company
09.2009 - 07.2010
Oracle AR and GL UAT
Wendy’s Arby’s Group
04.2009 - 08.2009
Oracle procure to pay and imaging lead
Citi Group
03.2008 - 03.2009
Oracle GL, AP, AR, CE (extension Project) Lead
JDS Uniphase Corporation
09.2007 - 03.2008