V K REDDY

SAP/S4 Hana Consultant/Test Lead

2019939857
svkr.sap@gmail.com

Summary
Experience in SAP, S4Hana & Non-SAP configuration, customization, supporting, data migration,
testing, training, documentation in retail, banking, telecom, logistics, pharma & public sector.
Profile
• ISTQB Certified (Foundation & Advanced), SAP-S4 Hana Certified, ITIL4 Certified
• Upskilled with SAP S/4 HANA Finance & Management Accounting, SAP Solution Manager
• Experience in Fi-Co, F2R-FI, F2R-CO, PS2F, Retail, GTS, MM-SD, VIM, Data Migration & Testing
• Working knowledge on S2S, O2C, P2P processing & integrations with other functionalities
• Knowledge on Cash/Credit/Inventory Management, CFIN, Project Systems, Real Estate, Loans,
Fiori, Ariba, Lumira, FieldGlass, IFRS, Greenfield & Brownfield implementations, Migration Cockpit
• Customize S/4 HANA NewGL Accounting, Account Receivable/Payable, Parallel Accounting,
Universal Journal, House Banking, Financial Supply Chain (FSCM), Credit & Treasury Management
• Configure New Asset Accounting, Cost Center/Element Accounting, Internal Orders, Budgeting,
Product Costing, CO-PA, PCA, Data Migration to S/4 HANA, Bills of Exchange, Collections &
Dispute Management, Dunning & Closing Procedures, Integration with MM and SD functionality
• Experience in SAP Retail Master Data (Article Master, BOMs, Hierarchies, Mass Maintenance,
Site/Vendor/Customer Master, Info Records, Assortments, Listing, Data Conversion and WRICEFs
Configuring material ledger, defining MAP to STD Costs from plant to plant using BOM & rates
revaluating stock to new costs, correcting PO errors, production variances & finished products
• Testing Point of Sales (POS) scenarios for cashier entries, customer payment processing,
sales, goods return & exchange scenarios, performance, negative testing with invalid data
• Experience in SAP GTS – compliance/KPI monitor, configure article mass classification, sites,
attributes, pallet grouping, legal regulations, assign license/duty types, ITD Roles, VAT changes,
currency conversions. Resolve day to day issues timeously and closing the status in remedy
• Understanding of SDLC, STLC and Bug & Defect Life Cycle Management process
• Experience on SAP Testing, Software Testing, API Testing, Mobile Testing and Solution Manager
• Worked on HP QC, UFT, ALM, TFS, Load Runner, Bugzilla, CBTA, SolMan, Charm, Remedy, Selenium
• Exposure to QA, agile-scrum methodologies, Scrum & Kanban processes, ASAP methodologies,
test analysis, planning, monitoring, evaluation, testing methods, processes and management
• Working experience on Postman, Rest, Jira, BitBucket, Confluence, SOAP, SAP Tosca-Tricentis
• Monitoring testing process, defining test cases, test scripts, data validation, defects tracking
• Develop test plan/strategy/scope for wider strategic transformation program that apply across
all streams, determine suitable processes, toolsets to test end-to-end processes of 3rd party apps
• Identify data for testing, perform functional, system testing, regression & integration, validation,
GUI, smoke, sanity, block box & white box testing. Define rules & standards for end state solution
• Managing projects from planning, configuration, conversion, testing, production support
• Manage, track & monitor progress across all projects on behalf of the transformation programme
• Experience in implementation, enhancement, support, client interaction, documentation, training
• Analyzing needs & objectives, translating them into business & functional specs, requirements
• Responsible, accountable, self-starter, motivator, logical, pro-active, committed.
SAP S/4 HANA
• Agile Project Delivery with Focussed Build for SAP Sol Man • System Conversion to S/4 Hana
• SAP Sol Man for S/4 Hana Implementation • Introduction to SAP S/4 Hana Administration
• Procurement Transformation with SAP Ariba & S/4 Hana • Robotic Process Automation in S/4H
• Data Migration to S/4 Hana • Integration with S/4 Hana Cloud • Intelligent ERP with S/4 Hana
Technical Skills
• SAP Environment : S/4 Hana, SAP R/3, Charm, Remedy
• SAP Functional : FI, CO, IS-Retail (MM-SD), GTS, Fiori, Solution Manager
• Technologies : Java, .Net, HTML, XML, Oracle, SQL
• Test Tools : TFS, TD, HP QC, ALM, QTP, eCatt, Selenium
Education
• Post Grad Dip in Software Engineering ECIL Infotech Limited, Hyd, India 2002
• Masters in Personal Management Osmania University, India 1998

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SAP/S4 Hana Consultant/Test Lead
2019939857
svkr.sap@gmail.com

Projects Handled
1. Project : MPP - S/4 Hana Implementation
Client : Aspen Pharma Ltd – S4Hana Functional/Test Lead
Period : March’ 2022 – till date
Responsibilities
• Update Project application deliverables using SAP Solution Manager
• Responsible for integration management, defect management and testing activities
• Involved in F2R-FI-CO & PS2F activities, coordinating for integration P2P, O2C, S2S, I2R, IN2REP, PL2PR
• Creating business scenarios for accounting document postings/types, number ranges
• Process flow charts creation for the end to end process, apply business rules and logics
• Fiori presentation preparation, application supporting and testing coordination
• Define scope of testing, effort estimations, review test procedures, strategies and planning
• Maintain field status groups, number ranges, document types
• Calculating direct and indirect taxes, settlement of costs and revenues
• Cash journal configuration for petty cash and travel claims
• Set up of customer & vendor master records, configure account groups & dunning procedures
• Assign activity types & statistical key figures to month-end distribution & assessment cycles
• Define month-end reporting, clearing procedures, Result analysis, settlement of costs, revenues
• Set up of asset classes, depreciation areas and account assignments
• Cost center and profit centre hierarchy set up and maintenance
• Define profitability segments for reporting based on pre-defined characteristics and value fields
• Ensure correct values flowed from billing documents created in SD to FI and on to CO-PA
• Configuration of WBS profiles, activities, plan costing, budgeting, project analysis, progress
reporting and its signoff in different phase of implementation
• Maintain WBS elements and master records for CAPEX and maintenance orders
• Testing FI, CO, H2R & PS2F functionalities, enhancements, validating accounting documents
• Loading scripts on SolMan, create test packs, sign-in approvals, defect logging, defect report
• Testing all enhancements and validating accounting documents
• Defect analysis and fixing raised issues timeously and re-test to ensure no defect existing
• Following up with the other stream functionals in reconfiguring fixed functionalities
• Ensure test schedule is timeous and deliver the task to meet compliance requirements
• Involved in SIT & UAT executions until all scenarios completed and successfully passed
• Compilation of test scripts and training documentation.

2. Company & Role : EOH - Sr. Test Analyst/Lead

Project & Client 2 : Weeva, Nianova Oct’ 2021 – Jan’ 2022
Project & Client 1 : VAMP (API Migration to APIGEE) Mar’ 2021 – Sep’ 2021
Responsibilities
• Lead a small team, guiding, motivating and inspiring them in delivering their best to ensure
project tasks are completed within the timelines and accurately in success of project
• Monitored testing activities, scope of testing, estimations, strategies, review procedures
• Used Azure DevOps for user stories, JIRA for project tracking/test case management, defect
tracking, following CI-CD process in testing the application as the development progresses
• Creating tasks for each user story based on the severity and priorotise in completing tasks
• Analyse requirements from stories, application design, architecture & plan to meet test criteria
• Design test strategies, test planning, scripting scenarios, test scripts, test cases & test steps
• Test analysis, design, implement test suite, result evaluation, problem resolution
• Verify backend business process of APIs, response fast enough through load & stress testing
to measure system performance and ensure API endpoints returns certain response code for
the given request, and fetches correct data as needed from database through queries & saves
• Identify defect, loading, analyse, report & interact with developers, tracking until raised issues
are fixed & resolved in defect suites. Extract data from source tables to perform data testing.

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SAP/S4 Hana Consultant/Test Lead
2019939857
svkr.sap@gmail.com

3. Project : EVEREST (S/4 Hana Greenfield Implementation)

Client : Capitec Bank – SAP Functional/Test Analyst
Period : May’ 2019 – August’ 2019
Responsibilities
• Requirements & project scope analysis of change requests and impact analysis that drives
new process solution in procurement to payments, VIM (Vendor Invoice Management)
• Configuration of basic step of Central Finance (CFIN), System Landscape Transformation (SLT)
• Replicating GL reconciliation postings triggered in CO to CFIN, preparation for the initial load
• Define logical system for source & CFIN & assign RFC destination to logical for source system
• Mapping for 'Business Object Identifiers' though MDG key mapping functions
• Parking and Posting Vendor Invoices and Vendor Credit Memos, GR-IR Maintenance
• Configure credit card payment process, petty cash processing, reconciliation accounts
• Create life cycle of consumer loans and map the loans process, define loan products with
attributes specific to installment, containing specifications for the loan contract & conditions
• Working on system issues, resolve day-to-day tasks, issues, multi layered testing, identifying &
tracking defects using SAP SolMan, follow up the teams in fixing issues & assign to team.
4. Project : COR3 ERP Upgrade (Finance) & CORE R1-R2 (Retail, GTS)
Client : Shoprite – SAP Functional & Test Analyst
Period : September’ 2015 – March’ 2019
Responsibilities
• Provide on-going production support to user queries and change requests
• Proactive in identifying problematic issues & work with necessary party to resolve such issues
• Ensured tasks & enhancements, daily housekeeping incidents are completed effectively within
SLAs, analyze & provide root-cause analysis to meet the criteria in a major incident resolving
• Monitor & update Remedy (incident management tool) and achieve target range of call closure
• Perform tests across SAP Finance, Retail and GTS areas as FA/TA combination in comply
with requirement, execute functional tests in SAP Fiori based on technical developments
• Cross functional E2E process execution upon integration within SAP
• Managing test planning, analysis, designing, monitoring, evaluation, test execution schedules
are timeous & deliver tasks to meet requirements, identify testing conditions, data needs,
defect analysis, report and maintain an accurate status of defects until that are resolved
• Using Solution Manager for test packs creation, incidence management, change management
Finance:
• Maintain payments & invoice processing, GR-IR, vendor-customer line items, credit memos
• Parking & posting account payments, petty cash payments, vendor/customer payments
• Approve PR-POs on SAP Fiori, issue goods receipts, verify invoices, arrange payments
• Account adjustment for banking, payables, receivables, maintain field status variants
• Customizing tax layout at different levels based on various country policies, define screen
layout per activity, over/ underpayments, exchange rate differences and rounding differences
Retail:
• Create & maintain article/material master, site/vendor/customer master, source list pricing,
update article brands, vendor subranges, data info, PIRs, UOMs
• Configure/define article pricing, create and modify single article and multiple article grouping
• Article pricing, create & modify single & multiple article grouping
• Process article changes to generate article data for GTS, classify new articles & apply
• Reviewing & creating bonus buys within & outside with merchandise categories
• Maintain cost/sale contracts, special promotions, bonus buys, value mapping, number changes
GTS:
• Article mass classification, site configurations, attribute modifications, pallet grouping, legal
regulations, numbering scheme, logical systems to compliance & KPI monitor
• Created Material and Customer Master Data relevant to Foreign Trade on different views
• Update parameters, attribute changes, fields in line with GTS module deliverables
• Determine licence types and assigning to ITD Roles, export licenses to customs documents.
• Create duty types, legal regulations, currency conversions, stock planners, payment terms.

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SAP/S4 Hana Consultant/Test Lead
2019939857
svkr.sap@gmail.com

• Configure export/import process, organisation structure, custom documents, number ranges/

schemes for ECCN, HTS, ITAR legal regulation, trade documentations, duty calculations,
electronic communications, RFC connections, and compliance reporting
• Scheduling and processing goods issues, export documentation of proforma invoices, customs
invoices, certificate of origins, packing list, shippers letter of instructions and manufacturing
declaration for different countries/regions
5. Projects : BizP and POPI
Client : Western Cape Govt - Sr. Test Analyst
Period : May’ 2014 until August’ 2015
Responsibilities
• Coordinate with client, users, project team, design maintainable framework for test execution
• Involve in test deliveries in pre-production and production systems
• Analyse test scope, issues and test reports, modify test scripts based on testing progress
• Attended for reviews, prepared test requirements from business & functional specifications
• Test estimation, effort level and costing
• Developed & executed test strategies, designed test plans, test scenarios and test cases
• Tracking, posting and classifying defects based on severity, maintained defect status
reports in MS-TFS and retested the application until defects resolved
• Conducted data driven tests, used old data to check the validity of data
• Documenting test cases for UAT & executed with the users, reported suggestions from users.
6. Project : Digital Banking
Client : Absa - SAP Test Analyst
Period : January’ 2014 until September’ 2014
Responsibilities
• Coordinate with functional team on changes & modifications of output formats
• Monitoring testing activities and define the test strategies to cover functional & UAT
• Adapt test plan and compensating as needed to adjust to evolving conditions
• Review test cases, status reports, map scenarios back to requirements, execute test cases
• Ensure test data ready before hand, perform system, integration testing, coordinate UAT
• Identifying SAP transactions that required for the test script execution
• Testing IDES demo business scenarios for banking components such as bank analyzer,
account management, consumer loans, integration of SAP FI with other related modules
• Define loan products with attributes specific to loan installments, contract terms & conditions
• Testing newly implemented solutions to ensure existing R/3 system area is not impacted
• Defect reporting, analysis, prioritising and maintaining an accurate status of defects
• Determined various SAP Roles and Authorisation Checks required to execute the test cases
• Create traceability matrix & ensure comprehensive test coverage in line with requirements.
7. Projects : Hellomobile and Web Commerce
Client : Telestream & Richester Foods – Functional/Test Analyst
Period : April’ 2011 until March’ 2013
Responsibilities
• Coordinating with technical team on changes & modifications of output formats
• Gathering requirements through workshops and meetings with developers & users
• Suggesting changes in business process to align them with organizational goals
• Mapping existing business process to SAP B-One and migration of existing data
• Integrating current package with SAP B-One system as required by the client
• Creating inventory, vendor/customer master data & data conversion, data retrieval
• Involved in release process, test deliveries, documenting business cases for UAT
• Formal & informal training to the users, identifying & allocating missing roles to users
• Troubleshoot day 2 day issues, monitoring daily & monthly backup, database recovery
• Reconciling debtors & creditors accounts and linking the same into master records
• Scheduling each report downloads onto local system every day at specific time
8. Project : Khanya II
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SAP/S4 Hana Consultant/Test Lead
2019939857
svkr.sap@gmail.com

Client : Dept of Water Affairs (DWA) – SAP FI Consultant

Period : January’ 2010 until March’ 2011
Responsibilities
• Supporting through all phases of development to ensure original vision and architecture
• Ensured process documentation is maintained, improved and updated timeously
• Configuration of new general ledger, creating housebank, assigning bank accounts
• Customization of basic settings, profit center hierarchy, co-objects to profit centers,
assessment of costs, planning & developing reports, automatic payment clearing
• Defining house banks, regrouping of GR/IR, value adjustment, interest calculation, payment
clearing and settlement rules, cost elements, cost centers, predefined characteristic fields
• Defining fixed asset classes, asset groups, chart of depreciation and depreciation areas
• Customization of costing sheets, reconciliation ledgers, standard hierarchy, master data
groups, validation, substitutions, assessments, distributions, reposting, allocation cycle
• Defining value fields, characteristic fields, planning levels based on customer & product groups
• System support for calls logged in line with procedures, monitoring system performance
• Monitoring effective system usage through regular status checks & reporting problems.
9. Project : Regsure
Client : Regent Insurance, Johannesburg – Test Analyst
Period : October’ 2009 until December’ 2009
Responsibilities
• Analyse functional & user requirements and design test documents based on requirements
• Implementation of test plans and test execution procedures
• Reporting various test results and daily status to team lead
• Performed unit and functional testing, system testing, negative and positive testing
• Identify defects, escalate to leads, follow up until they resolved and tested satisfactorily
• Defect reporting using excel spreadsheet, analyse, review, priorotise logged defects
• Preparation of testing artefacts, evidences and track and analyse defect reports.
10. Project : Grasim Industries Ltd
Client : Grasim Industries Ltd, India – SAP FI Consultant
Period : April’ 2009 until September’ 2009
Responsibilities
• Coordinate with the development team in handling rollout project
• Ensure that the global rollout template is spread across and running for India
• Configuring general enterprise structure including NewGL, special purpose ledger, account
groups, posting periods, fiscal year variants, field status group, number ranges
• System configuration of NewGL transactions, adjustment accounts for banking, payables,
receivables, check payment, maintaining field status variants, profit & loss accounts
• Customization of input-output taxes at different levels based on various country policies
• Defining screen layout per activity, overpayments / underpayments
• Configure exchange rate differences and rounding differences
• Generated reports using report painter & report writer.
12. Project : Khanya I
Client : Dept of Water Affairs & Forestry (DWAF) - SAP FI Consultant
Period : September’ 2006 until April’ 2009
Responsibilities
• Analyse to evaluate document type, suggest changes in process to enhance the SAP use
• Configured settings for company code, controlling area, general ledger, chart of accounts
• Defined number range, tolerance group, posting period variants & cost center hierarchy,
VAT in respect to MM-SD process, automatic account assignment to profitability segment
• Define end-end accounts payables/receivables, vendor groups, automatic payment terms
• Configuring adjustment accounts for GL, special ledger withholding taxes & check settings
• Maintained required settings in accounts payables, receivables and general ledger
• Creation of enterprise structure, country specific tax procedure, maintained cost centers

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SAP/S4 Hana Consultant/Test Lead
2019939857
svkr.sap@gmail.com

• Analyse trial balance, asset balance reports, Sales order settlement to profitability analysis
• System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL, CCA, COPA transactions
• Configuring costing based invoicing with approximations, estimations, reconciliation
• Customising reports based on customer and market segments, groupings and geographical
• Integrating Fi & Co with SD, MM which plays major role in procurement to financial management
• Configuration of multiple costing variants for product cost by period dependent sales data
• Involved in design, configuration of standard cost estimates and variance calculation
• Conducted workshops, provided formal & informal training to the users on Finance & Revenue
• Post go-live support to the end users in the day-to-day transactions & troubleshooting problems
• Identifying missing user roles, logging calls for extension or deletion of such user roles
• Streamlining end user training needs in line with business development strategies, suggest
changes with the technical team on areas where the system is not effective.

13. Project : Transwerk ICT

Client : Spoornet, Pretoria – Junior SAP Consultant
Period : March’ 2005 until August’ 2006
Responsibilities
• Define fixed asset classes/groups/functionality, settlement profiles; WIP settings
• Data conversion from external system using LSMW functionality by direct & batch input
• Uploading data, prototyping, ensure entire master data is uploaded & rolled up effectively
• Monitored integration-testing efforts, drafted testing scripts, tracked & analyzed the results
• Extensively worked on the cutover plan and master data reload & upload
• Testing Routing Data (master data from other modules) that is relevant for product costing

Personal Attributes
• Appetite for knowledge, professional skills, career development, capable of learning new
concepts quickly through ongoing training, self-study & seminars
• Interacting with clients of varied geographical locations & diverse business environments
• Ability to negotiate with internal, external customers, communicate ideas clearly & effectively
• Think out of box, aptitude for implementing new technologies
• Good in reasoning, effective oral & written communications skills, inter-personal skills
• Positive attitude, innovative, logical, analytical, leadership qualities, problem solving skills
• Self-motivated to work independently, effectively and harmoniously as a team member
• Able to work under pressure to meet the stringent deadlines.

Personal Profile
Marital Status : Married
Residence : Cape Town, South Africa
Status in South Africa : Permanent Resident of South Africa with RSA ID
Extra-Curricular Activities : Reading, Cricket, Tennis, Cooking
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