Bala S.

Bala S.

Test Manager

Bangalore , India

Experience: 13 Years

Bala

Bangalore , India

Test Manager

42705.9 USD / Year

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13 Years

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About Me

·         A goal-oriented professional with 13 years of extensive experience in Business Analysis & Project Execution

·         Managed the entire functions of business requirement gathering, stakeholder management, Confi...

·         Successfully executed key projects across career such as Oracle Cloud R13, R12 New Implementation, R12 Upgrade, Oracle R12 Technical Upgrade and so on for major clients in USA onsite

·         Excellence in successfully managing team, resources and cross-functional activities in coordination with senior management & stakeholders; drove change management, process revamp, new SOP development, improving scalability, Business and Gap Fit analysis, Setting-up & configuring the Oracle EBS Modules; conducted Triage defect meetings with IT and the business.

·         Capabilities in understanding and translating high level requirements, interfacing for specification data flows, system interaction diagrams, data analysis; reviewing and improving functional specifications (based on User Requirements), including functional tests description and acceptance criteria

·         An effective communicator with capability to supervise and manage team; coordinate with any level of business & management team

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Portfolio Projects

Oracle Cloud R13 – O2C, CPQ, PPM implementation

Company

Oracle Cloud R13 – O2C, CPQ, PPM implementation

Description

  • Capturing business requirements from business owners
  • Preparing Document of Understanding, Functional Specifications (FSD), Use Case Specifications, , Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) & Testing documents
  • Communicating & coordinating with the team to develop user stories.
  • Data Ingestion Automation – Communicate with Ops and Billing team to understand the overall process and automate the different billing systems for automatic invoicing generation. 
  • Develop the Gap-Fit Analysts and functional setup documents.
  • Build Client specific data in a specific format for ingesting the billable data to MFT server
  • Assisting developers to build the logic in ODI for calculating the client specific Invoices
  • Develop logic for enrichment of data i.e. Project Number, Customer Name, Customer Number and Account number.
  • Validate the data ingested to Global Ingestion Template.
  • Assist and build BI reports.
  • Prepare test strategy and test plans
  • Develop Test cases and test scripts.
  • Executing test cases for Functional & Integration testing (Seeded & Custom Objects)
  • Conducting triage meeting with IT and Business and providing training to IT Functional & Business testers
  • Participating in User Acceptance Testing to compare the actuals
  • Administering testing activities for CRP & UAT
  • Developed the daily/weekly status reports to track the overall project status to the PMO and stakeholders.

Train & developed the training documents for the business operations

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R12 2.5 Upgrade Project

Company

R12 2.5 Upgrade Project

Description

  • Eliciting business requirements from business owners, through Joint Application Developments (JAD) & Joint Requirement Planning sessions (JRP), Walkthrough, Interviews, and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions
  • Working with external stakeholders to understand and investigate feedback into the service/function/product provided; using data modeling practices to analyze findings and create suggestions for strategic improvements
  • Preparing Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Business Requirements Document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), Systems Design Specification (SDS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) & Testing documents
  • Communicating & coordinating with the team to develop user stories
  • Developed the BR100, MD50 and TE40 documents
  • Setup and configure the Oracle Modules to best fit the business
  • Executing test cases for Functional & Integration testing (Seeded & Custom Objects)
  • Conducting triage meeting with IT and Business and providing training to IT Functional & Business testers
  • Participating in User Acceptance Testing to compare the actual
  • Administering testing activities for CRP & UAT
  • Developed the daily/weekly status reports to track the overall project status to the PMO and stakeholders.
  • Train & developed the training documents for the business operations
  • Delivering GO-Live support to users

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R12 2.3 Upgrade Project– P2P, O2C

Company

R12 2.3 Upgrade Project– P2P, O2C

Description

  • Interacted with users for requirement gathering; prepared functional specifications and low-level design documents
  • Performed Gap-Fit analysis to replace the 11i customization with Seeded R12 functionality
  • Developed RD50, BP80, BR100 and custom MD50 documents; configured GL, AP & AR modules
  • Developed the test strategy, test plan to validate the functionality
  • Developed TE40 for functional, regression and system Integration testing and uploaded to the ALM
  • Provided training and supported the post production issues

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R12 1.2 Upgrade Project

Company

R12 1.2 Upgrade Project

Description

  • Participated in Oracle R12 workshops
  • Reviewed CEMLIs & Oracle 11i pain points with the Business and Gap Fit analysis
  • Created & developed Standard Operating Procedures SOPs
  • Revamped the load & performance testing methodology and process, achieved improved execution efficiency which improved scalability and contributed to customer satisfaction scores
  • Performed Functional & System Integration testing; recorded the defects in the SharePoint and Triage with the teams
  • Coordinated with onsite & offshore teams to gather testing status
  • Conducted CRP & UAT sessions; managed code deployments for the test instances
  • Attending daily QA status calls with onsite & offshore teams
  • Examined & analyzed SOD conflicts and assigned R12 duties to the users
  • Produced change request in ITSM to migrate responsibilities, menus & request groups to UAT & PROD instances

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Oracle R12 Technical Upgrade

Company

Oracle R12 Technical Upgrade

Description

  • Participated in Oracle R12 workshops
  • Reviewed CEMLIs & Oracle 11i pain points with the Business and Gap Fit analysis
  • Created & developed Standard Operating Procedures SOPs
  • Revamped the load & performance testing methodology and process, achieved improved execution efficiency which improved scalability and contributed to customer satisfaction scores
  • Performed Functional & System Integration testing; recorded the defects in the SharePoint and Triage with the teams
  • Coordinated with onsite & offshore teams to gather testing status
  • Conducted CRP & UAT sessions; managed code deployments for the test instances
  • Attending daily QA status calls with onsite & offshore teams
  • Examined & analyzed SOD conflicts and assigned R12 duties to the users
  • Produced change request in ITSM to migrate responsibilities, menus & request groups to UAT & PROD instances

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Oracle EBS Implementation and Upgrade

Company

Oracle EBS Implementation and Upgrade

Description

  • Eliciting business requirements from business owners, through Joint Application Developments (JAD) & Joint Requirement Planning sessions (JRP), Walkthrough, Interviews, and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions
  • Working with external stakeholders to understand and investigate feedback into the service/function/product provided; using data modeling practices to analyze findings and create suggestions for strategic improvements
  • Preparing Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Business Requirements Document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), Systems Design Specification (SDS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) & Testing documents
  • Communicating & coordinating with the team to develop user stories
  • Developed the BR100, MD50 and TE40 documents
  • Setup and configure the Oracle Modules to best fit the business
  • Executing test cases for Functional & Integration testing (Seeded & Custom Objects)
  • Conducting triage meeting with IT and Business and providing training to IT Functional & Business testers
  • Participating in User Acceptance Testing to compare the actual
  • Administering testing activities for CRP & UAT
  • Developed the daily/weekly status reports to track the overall project status to the PMO and stakeholders.
  • Train & developed the training documents for the business operations
  • Delivering GO-Live support to users

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