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SHYLA MALALI

SAP Test Manager
Wylie

Summary

SAP Certified HCM and SuccessFactors QA having 12 years of experience in testing solutions within the SAP HR/HCM module. Actively involved in 4 full life cycle implementation projects involving functional testing, system testing, integration testing, interface testing, performance testing and regression testing. Extensive experience in End-to-End Testing of SAP HCM business processes in Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Time Management, Benefits, Payroll, ESS/MSS and Integration to Finance module (FICO), ADP Payroll, SuccessFactors Employee Central & Payroll, via CPI, Onboarding, Performance & Goals, Compensation, Learning, Onboarding, Recruiting, Time off & Timesheet Testing. HCM Functional Testing, Integration, Regression, End to End and UAT of ERP and SuccessFactors. Experience in leading Test Planning for Business Day cycles with in Financial Services and creating Work Break Structures (WBS) and managing Test & Release management activities. Experience in creating project plan to track progress using standard tools and processes in PMLC (Project Management Life Cycle). Experience handling complex projects and participating in ASAP methodologies. Working knowledge of Waterfall, Agile and Scrum methodologies. Facilitating UAT testing with the business users across the functional areas. Preparing day to day status reports and preparing closure memos, Entry/Exit criteria upon completion of testing phase. Integration testing experience with various SAP ECC, S/4 HANA & non-SAP modules like WFD, ADP, KRONOS, TALEO and legacy systems. Experience in mapping the requirements to test scripts in HP QC, HP ALM, Micro Focus ALM, TFS and JIRA in Scrum projects. Knowledge of automation testing using TOSCA (Tricentis) & Worksoft certify. Knowledge of Solution Manager. Experienced in conducting Cutover Activities, preparing Test Plans, Test Management, Requirement Realization, End User Training. Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.

Lead QA Consultant – SAP HCM & SuccessFactors Ambitious Quality Analyst with track record of dependability and leadership. Knowledgeable in QA methodology with proven history of reducing errors to increase quality. Proficient in preparing test cases, plans, and scripts. Dedicated to analyzing and resolving defects.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

SAP QA Consultant – HCM, Success factors EC & Workforce Dimensions Cloud

Amtrak – Infosys
4 2021 - Current
  • Involved in functional, interface, integration, regression, and end to end testing of SAP HCM, Success factors Employee Central and Work force Dimensions (Kronos Cloud) for Timekeeping project at Amtrak
  • Responsible for test planning, test scripts writing, test case execution, maintaining requirement traceability matrix, maintaining project plans for Timekeeping project for different Business units
  • Responsible for coordinating with stakeholders for Interface testing between SAP HCM and Kronos (WFD) systems
  • Worked on testing Time management with time data load into CATS, Payroll USA & integration with WFD
  • Responsible for Success factors testing Employee central & SAP HCM testing
  • Leading the team of five and assisting the team with daily tasks and execution including reporting the consolidated status reports
  • Working closely with the Automation testing team in assisting with the framework set up
  • Facilitating UAT with kick off meetings, defect triage & resolution, disseminating status reports, creating closure reports & review with higher management for approval & sign off.

SAP Success factors Senior QA Consultant

Costco – Infosys
10.2020 - 01.2021
  • Involved in functional, integration, regression, and end to end testing of SuccessFactors Employee Central for Costco Mexico, Canada & Australia
  • Responsible for leading the complete End to end testing from planning, prioritizing processes, execution and reporting
  • Involved in writing test cases, test execution, defects logging in HP ALM & triaging with onsite coordinator
  • Responsible for supervising the team of six in assigning the day-to-day activities and assist them with the updates and processes
  • Worked on SIT, Integration, Regression and End to end testing of payroll related calculations like salary increase testing rules
  • Performing integration testing with cross functional teams and ensuring successful end to end testing
  • Responsible for consolidation of team’s test execution status and report to the Project Manager
  • Worked as liaison between business team, project manager and offshore/onshore teams
  • Responsible for coordinating and following up on assigned tasks for the whole team and report the progress against them.

SAP SuccessFactors Lead QA Consultant

Bright house Financial – IBM
08.2019 - 06.2020
  • Involved in Testing of Success factors Employee Central, Recruitment, Onboarding, LMS (Learning Management System), Performance & Goals, Compensation and Time Sheet
  • Involved in requirement gathering and testing of Time off and Time sheet
  • Worked on creating test cases and test execution of MDF objects, Time Off objects, Timesheet for all the states with overtime calculations, Recruitment with both Internal and External candidates, Onboarding, LMS
  • Managing the Test cases and folders against the requirements traceability and reporting in HPQC
  • Collaborating with the development and functional teams to solidify the testing scope as well as providing comprehensive details to facilitate timely resolution of defects
  • Help facilitated with UAT and end user training
  • Responsible in automating the regression suite of test cases using Worksoft code free automation tool
  • Involved in functional and regression testing of various modules including Integration testing with S/4 HANA as well as with other non-SAP systems such as KRONOS
  • Worked on creating rules for overtime calculations with various qualifications depending on the states in USA for Non-Exempt employees
  • Integration of Success factors Time evaluation results sent to the ADP for payroll processing via EPIP interface with CPI (Cloud platform integration)
  • Involved in the end-to-end testing of integration of Success factors to ADP.

Lead Test Coordinator - SAP

Bank of America, Plano, TX
12.2016 - 03.2018
  • FSR – Financial Services Roadmap, a multi-year program to design the migration of Legacy Bank of America Ledgers to SAP Ledger
  • As a production services lead, worked on multiple releases in the implementation of SAP ECC for General Ledger and Analytical reporting and Business Process Consolidations in SAP BI/BW
  • Responsible for the entire deployment activities ensuring the successful deployment
  • Coordinate and approve syndications, data loads, and master data updates between various environments with in the SAP landscape and between SAP & non SAP environment
  • Lead Test planning and deployment activities with the forum of Developers, SMEs, and Test coordinators
  • Created and worked on Work Break Structures containing Business day cycle activities to be run at the specific time and follow up with the corresponding teams on the issue tracking and resolution
  • Used HP ALM to create defects that occurred during the Dress rehearsals in the Pre prod environment.

Senior SAP QA Consultant – HCM & SuccessFactors

Starbucks, Seattle, WA
09.2015 - 12.2016
  • Involved in the implementation of SAP HCM modules Personnel Administration and Time Management, Inbound/Outbound Interfaces and Integration to ADP Payroll including GL posting testing and validations for Starbucks Thailand market: Created Info groups for various action types
  • Hire, Rehire, Partner Employment Activities for Transfer, Promotion/Demotion etc., Leave of Absence, Return from Leave and Separation
  • Created Public Holiday Calendar, Work schedules, and Work Schedule rules
  • Setting up the feature SCHKZ to automate the WSR to be picked up depending on the Employee’s assignment to Store
  • Configuration of Time Evaluation Schema TM04 and Personnel Calculation Rules to generate the Time wage types
  • Creating Quality Assurance test scripts and test execution and validation involving Configuration testing, Interfaces & Integration testing and End to End testing
  • Worked on Testing of BSI TAX FACTORY, HRIS Reporting for Retail & non-Retail employee relevant information
  • Integration testing of Time evaluation data loaded to ADP Payroll system and Payroll run to validate the processing of the current period time data
  • Validation of GL Posting to ensure the Time data and allowances with alternate cost center assignment has the correct entries
  • Hands on experience on tools such as HP QC, TFS and Tricentis (TOSCA) for automation of test scripts & tools.

SAP HCM Consultant

Milan Info Tech, Bangalore, India
12.2011 - 09.2013
  • Involved in the post configuration support in Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, and Time Management
  • Managing OM structure design based on new requirements, configuration set up for all OM and PA objects and their relationships
  • Testing of pay statements, flexible benefits leave requests, working times, separation requests, bank information, address change requests, personal information change
  • Responsible for execution of test strategies to validate and ensure the performance of application
  • Participated in Regression Testing Cycles using HPQC
  • Worked in the SCRUM methodology projects for HCM processes & forms and Workflows for Austria, Switzerland & Hong Kong User stories.

SAP HCM Consultant

Cadence Design System, San Jose, CA
04.2009 - 09.2010
  • Involved in the Post configuration support of SAP HCM in Personnel Administration and Time Management modules
  • Gathered business requirements from the client and documented the same in functional specification
  • Participated in the Blueprint sessions and documented the sessions
  • Documented functional design specification for RICEF objects (interface and custom reports) and worked with ABAP developers to develop Interface and custom reports
  • Testing of time schemas TM00, TM04, and TQTA
  • Configured Time manager's workplace, and interface CATS
  • Transferred time data to various components using CATA
  • Validation of the quota type selection rule group using the feature QUOMO.

Sap HR Analyst

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd., Bangalore, India
07.2005 - 09.2007
  • The project emphasis on full lifecycle implementation of SAP HR Identified and fixed issues in the application as a part of the Production Support effort
  • Project included the configuration and testing of the Organizational Management and Personnel Administration modules as well as data conversion for go-live
  • Supervised Organizational Management end users who were responsible for the accuracy of SAP information and for the completion of any necessary approvals by Senior Management
  • Developed and led the end-user training program for Organizational Management and Personnel Administration.

Education

Skills

WINDOWS 2000/NT/XP, UNIX, LINUX

ABAP/4, C, C, COBOL, HTML, VB60, SQL

Oracle 8x, MS Access, DB2

  • Manual Testing Proficiency
  • Test plan creation
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Quality Assurance Strategy

Certification

SAP Certified Application Associate - HCM with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP 5

Timeline

SAP Success factors Senior QA Consultant

Costco – Infosys
10.2020 - 01.2021

SAP SuccessFactors Lead QA Consultant

Bright house Financial – IBM
08.2019 - 06.2020

Lead Test Coordinator - SAP

Bank of America, Plano, TX
12.2016 - 03.2018

Senior SAP QA Consultant – HCM & SuccessFactors

Starbucks, Seattle, WA
09.2015 - 12.2016

SAP HCM Consultant

Milan Info Tech, Bangalore, India
12.2011 - 09.2013

SAP HCM Consultant

Cadence Design System, San Jose, CA
04.2009 - 09.2010

Sap HR Analyst

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd., Bangalore, India
07.2005 - 09.2007

SAP QA Consultant – HCM, Success factors EC & Workforce Dimensions Cloud

Amtrak – Infosys
4 2021 - Current

SHYLA MALALISAP Test Manager