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Sushma Thota

San Francisco,CA

Summary

Offering excellent project management, multi-tasking and communication skills to coordinate multiple, concurrent projects with competing demands. Makes sound decisions in high-pressure settings and utilize analytical problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and resolve issues. Articulate communicator with strong customer service skills. Experienced in consulting with customers and other stakeholders to gather requirements, define scopes and set project plans. Capability of managing complex, high-visibility technical projects. Effective at technical support, inventory management and customer relationship development. Seasoned IT professional with exceptional leadership and project management skills. Well-organized, systematic and diplomatic in building consensus and spearheading teams. Specialize in Sap planning and implementation. Goal-oriented technology leader and trusted business partner recognized for leveraging information security, applications, networking, operations and risk management to drive business growth. Strategic with consultative approach to identifying requirements and opportunities for organizational transformation. Interprets and communicates complex policies and procedures to others and applies significant tact and diplomacy. Committed to delivering exceptional service, excellence and application of ITIL and proven approaches that meet customer requirements and achieve process efficiencies. Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

SAP Test Manager

Deloitte
05.2018 - 07.2023
  • Responsible for managing teams across the globe from EMEA, APAC, and the northern hemisphere
  • 11 countries rollout on SWIFT wave 3A and Stack upgrade after rollout of SWIFT program
  • Followed Waterfall and Agile methodology in the implementation of the projects as multiphases running in parallel
  • Led teams on multi-vendor environments offshore and onsite models and performed test management activities
  • SuccessFactors implementation with Employee Central, Employee Central payroll and post payroll processing, off-cycle payroll processing, and period-end closing.

SAP Test Lead

Hachette & Gazprome
07.2017 - 04.2018
  • Responsible for UAT, to lead and manage stakeholders and testing resources
  • Reporting progress to varying levels of stakeholders throughout the program
  • Coordination of resources required to prepare environments and data
  • Capture and planning of UAT preparation and test activities
  • SuccessFactors testing in Employee Central, Time and Attendances, integrations with payroll
  • Facilitate testing of all Interfaces and integrations between systems, APIs, File transfers etc.

SAP Test Lead

Certeco
06.2016 - 07.2017
  • Prepare Test deliverable documents and create KM documents
  • Responsible for SAP FICO (R2R) functional testing
  • Co-ordinate with customers to identify and review the scenarios, review the test results
  • Develop UAT Plan and review with Business
  • Ensuring the SIT exited and followed up with defect triage and resolved all open defects
  • Run the UAT with business users and get UAT approval
  • Run defect Triage calls and resolve all open defects
  • Manage Go-No-Go decisions with all stakeholders and capture approvals
  • Following risked-testing scope management on tight deadlines
  • Interacting with stakeholders regularly and conducting workshops, identifying gaps and assigning test scripts to the scenarios.

SAP Test Manager

Cambridge University Press
06.2014 - 03.2016
  • Created test plans for SIT, UAT, and Regression testing Phases with Estimated, Planned, and scheduled/Executed in accordance with the agreed ‘plan of record all work is completed within agreed man-days, Time, and Budget
  • Reviewing test scripts, data validation, and identification of data for test scripts
  • Recommendations and updates of testing to the Project Board proposing best ways to progress in testing, Agile methodologies, and decisions by higher Management
  • Producing summary Daily reports, weekly KPIs on the progress of testing, and PMO meetings
  • Training sessions for Business stakeholders on Approach, process, and UAT Testing methodology
  • Offshore, on-site daily status call on Defect resolution and preparation of next phase of Testing
  • Coordination with legacy system users, checking Readiness of Interfaces, Communication with legacy testers on testing plans, Resource planning etc.

SAP Test and Data migration lead

BP
10.2013 - 05.2014
  • Conducting UAT activities and assistance with Cutover activities
  • Identifying test cases for automation and Regression test cases
  • Preparing the business sign-off documents at the end of each phase
  • Utilized Quality Center for the storage/execution of the test cases for all projects and the Defect Management module for related defects experienced through Unit, Integration, Production Validation, and UAT test phases
  • Plan, schedule, and monitor the preparation and execution phase of testing
  • Establish monitoring & communication rules during testing
  • Definition and preparation of Test Cycles ' Manage Test Execution for the different testing phases.

Siemens Interspec PLM Test lead

WIPRO Technologies
03.2013 - 09.2013
  • Responsible for leading the PLM process implementation in Siemens Interspec
  • Test Plan and reviewing Of Test scripts for all End-to-End Scenarios of Bill of Materials, Lifecycle process of Material with obsolesce process
  • Involved in Activities of Various Workflow Testing, Security and Role Based test scenarios
  • Planning Test cases with Negative scenarios and rejection scenarios in the Approval Process
  • Planning for automating the Existing PLM Process
  • Uploading the Test scripts in the TTT tool and monitoring the Defect's life cycles
  • Publishing daily Reports on Execution Status Reports to Stakeholders
  • Ensuring the User Security roles and Authorizations tests were created Liaising with Security and Basis teams
  • Preparing Test cases based on System Requirement Specification documents, Business Process Flow Diagrams and Business blueprint documents
  • Arranging Regression Test for the failed Test cases and prioritize data loads from ECC to BI.

SAP QA & Test Manager

Cambridge University Press
07.2012 - 01.2013
  • Responsible for System Integration Testing and UAT using SAP Solution Manager and Defect tool Jira for testing across all delivery work streams i.e
  • Business and Technology (MM-Procurement, Project Systems, Travel Management, and CO)
  • With Estimated, Planned, and scheduled/Executed in accordance with the agreed ‘plan of record all work is completed within agreed man-days, Time, and Budget
  • Leading Testing Activities engagements for projects impacting core Manufacturing processes primarily on SAP modules O2C, P2P, R2R, W&D, HR, Portals &BI, Open Text
  • Creating Test Strategy and Test Procedures and Ensure appropriate set of Test KPI’s are adopted to measure true progress
  • Producing summary Daily report, weekly KPIs on the progress of testing and PMO meetings
  • Monitoring quality of the application by means of monitoring defect levels and reviewing the test activities and deliverables produced by the development team (unit test plans, component integration test plans and test results) in closing the defects.

SAP Test & Defect Manager

HCL Axon UK
10.2011 - 05.2012
  • Leading Testing Activities engagements for projects impacting GSK’s core Manufacturing process primarily on SAP modules O2C, CRM, P2P, R2R, W&D, HR, Portals &BI
  • Developing, and measuring success refining Testing Strategy for major ERP Programme WAVE2 for countries Germany, France, Ireland, Belgium & Netherlands of Testing work with multiple delivery streams
  • Leading large teams of offshore and onshore teams to deliver to challenging timelines
  • Ensure testing processes in systems comply with regulatory requirements
  • (SOX)
  • Creating high-level and detailed Test plans
  • Conducting Exit meetings on Integration Testing exit for Go No Go of the next cycle, System Test exit, Integration testing END to End with multiple parties like PRL, Bank Interfaces, Regression test exit meetings, and UAT
  • Management of UAT/ Day in Life (DIL) through the lifecycle and managing Impact assessment with respect to markets and work around with Remedy Tickets
  • Responsible for smooth execution of UAT with various markets like Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, and nether lands with a successful go-live
  • Maintaining UAT coordinators who will be responsible for raising defects from the Issue log of all countries.

SAP Global QA lead

Pall Europe UK
03.2010 - 02.2011
  • Leading Testing Activities engagements for projects impacting GSK’s core Manufacturing process primarily on SAP modules O2C, CRM, P2P, R2R, W&D, HR, Portals &BI
  • Developing, and measuring success refining Testing Strategy for major ERP Programme WAVE2 for countries Germany, France, Ireland, Belgium & Netherlands of Testing work with multiple delivery streams
  • Leading large teams of offshore and onshore teams to deliver to challenging timelines
  • Ensure testing processes in systems comply with regulatory requirements
  • (SOX)
  • Creating high-level and detailed Test plans
  • Conducting Exit meetings on Integration Testing exit for Go No Go of the next cycle, System Test exit, Integration testing END to End with multiple parties like PRL, Bank Interfaces, Regression test exit meetings, and UAT
  • Management of UAT/ Day in Life (DIL) through the lifecycle and managing Impact assessment with respect to markets and work around with Remedy Tickets
  • Responsible for smooth execution of UAT with various markets like Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, and nether lands with a successful go-live
  • Maintaining UAT coordinators who will be responsible for raising defects from the Issue log of all countries.

SAP Test Lead Consultant

Siemens UK
07.2009 - 02.2010
  • Responsible for leading the PLM process implementation in Siemens Interspec
  • Test Plan and reviewing Of Test scripts for all End-to-End Scenarios of Bill of Materials, Lifecycle process of Material with obsolesce process
  • Involved in Activities of Various Workflow Testing, Security and Role Based test scenarios
  • Planning Test cases with Negative scenarios and rejection scenarios in the Approval Process
  • Planning for automating the Existing PLM Process
  • Uploading the Test scripts in the TTT tool and monitoring the Defect's life cycles
  • Publishing daily Reports on Execution Status Reports to Stakeholders
  • Ensuring the User Security roles and Authorizations tests were created Liaising with Security and Basis teams
  • Preparing Test cases based on System Requirement Specification documents, Business Process Flow Diagrams and Business blueprint documents
  • Arranging Regression Test for the failed Test cases and prioritize data loads from ECC to BI.

SAP Test Consultant

Unilever UK
02.2008 - 07.2009
  • Responsible for testing the existing solution as well as testing small-scale new requirements as they arise
  • Calls are prioritized and solved according to SLA targets and Maintaining collaboration profile as well as agreements
  • Keep users informed of progress on call resolution
  • Tested SD FI reports to post incoming and outgoing cash payments through petty cash
  • The journals generate an automatic posting and also create the cash journal
  • Performed unit testing, scenario testing, regression testing, and integration testing for the Order-to-cash reports in SAP
  • Tested customer master, account groups, and partner functions
  • Writing test scripts from functional specifications in the test plan within Mercury Quality Center
  • Executing test scripts and raising defects in the mercury quality center.

SAP Technical Consultant

Accenture, India Delivery Center
04.2007 - 12.2007
  • Work closely with functional team members and the customer to Identify possible improvements to existing design and suggest appropriate solutions
  • Maintaining Work History for all the tickets until the tickets are closed
  • Daily monitoring of data load requests to Info cubes and ODS objects
  • Maintaining Reconciliation to verify the data in SAP R/3 and SAP BI after data loads
  • Created test scenarios for FI Reports like AP aging Report, Vendor Payment history, open and cleared line items
  • Tested SAP SD reports Due list, Condition record report for pricing analysis, Rebate accruals etc
  • Developed extensive Test Plans and written Test Cases for various modules
  • Prepared Test Scenarios and Test case documents for responsible modules
  • Create data for manual test cases, execute test cases, and log individual test case results
  • Creating Manual test scripts for requirement specification.

Finance- Accounts Payable

Zenith Solutions Ltd
08.2002 - 11.2003
  • Coordinating with the end-users and team members to clarify the business and technical issues
  • Identification, Categorization, and Documentation of developments
  • Testing Sustenance & Enhancements of AIKYA
  • Participated in the complete QA Life Cycle
  • Tested SAP HR reports, which display the Resource allocation information for a Business Unit
  • Tested SAP HR Billing advice which displays WBS Element, people allocated to network activity of WBS element and value calculated in an hourly rate
  • Tested the Remote function methods which are used for monthly Demand Reporting requirements for monthly Billing activities of Hewlett Packard.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

K.G.R.L. College
India
06.2000

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

K.G.R.L.College
Indialantic, FL
04.1997

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Team Leadership Abilities
  • Project Management Skills
  • Process Management
  • Data Analysis
  • Quality Assurance
  • Quality Assurance Understanding
  • Test Planning
  • Resource Planning Expertise
  • Test Plans and Test Methodologies
  • Cross-Functional Team Collaboration
  • Collaborative Team Player
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Scrum Methodology
  • Cross-Platform Testing
  • QA Reporting

Timeline

SAP Test Manager

Deloitte
05.2018 - 07.2023

SAP Test Lead

Hachette & Gazprome
07.2017 - 04.2018

SAP Test Lead

Certeco
06.2016 - 07.2017

SAP Test Manager

Cambridge University Press
06.2014 - 03.2016

SAP Test and Data migration lead

BP
10.2013 - 05.2014

Siemens Interspec PLM Test lead

WIPRO Technologies
03.2013 - 09.2013

SAP QA & Test Manager

Cambridge University Press
07.2012 - 01.2013

SAP Test & Defect Manager

HCL Axon UK
10.2011 - 05.2012

SAP Global QA lead

Pall Europe UK
03.2010 - 02.2011

SAP Test Lead Consultant

Siemens UK
07.2009 - 02.2010

SAP Test Consultant

Unilever UK
02.2008 - 07.2009

SAP Technical Consultant

Accenture, India Delivery Center
04.2007 - 12.2007

Finance- Accounts Payable

Zenith Solutions Ltd
08.2002 - 11.2003

Master of Science - Computer Science

K.G.R.L. College

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

K.G.R.L.College
Sushma Thota