Over 11+ years of experience in Project Management, Business Analysis, Engineering lifecycle and Configuration of enterprise applications.
Extensive experience in setting up Dev/QA/QE Best Practices, designing Testing Frameworks and strategizing QE effort.
Engage with Finance Business team on strategizing the direction for technology in Finance Org
Experience in architecting processes, development and migrating legacy financial processes and entities to Oracle Financial applications and cloud based Apps.
Excellent process knowledge in Financial areas:
Procure to Pay: Purchase Order PO, Accounts Payable AP, Interfaces to Saas vendors (Coupa, Concur, Workday..etc)
Order management: Accounts Receivables AR, Quote, Order Management, Product and Pricing Management, Quote to Order, Order to Asset, Asset to Order)
Record to Report: General Ledger GL, Reconciliation, Consolidations, Financial Statement analysis)
Defining & implementation of automation strategy around engineering needs
100% Automated testing of standard business process for all developer, QE testing & UAT cycle
New business process to Automated test lifecycle process
Auto-integrated deployment to test to result reporting around Oracle scripting.
Fluent Evaluating/Finalizing vendors for next gen accounting implementations
Portfolio and Program management experience of large IT programs
Proficient in both Iterative (Agile) and Waterfall development methodologies
Trained in Project Management Professional (PMP) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) methodologies.
Expertise in hiring, training, mentoring, providing technical guidance and having career growth discussions with team members.
Directly lead and manage team of size 10-15. Responsible for their KRA setting and appraisal
Engineering Manager @ Transform business requirements to clear and comprehensive functional specifications specifying Business Process, Sub Process, Tasks, UI layout , Business Rules, data requirements , Interface requirements and report requirements.Do fit – gap analysis with the application and propose solutions and workarounds for requirements which are not straight fit. Oracle administration and maintenance of custom apps, objects, approval process, formula fields, record types, form customization, workflow rules, user maintenance, and similar configuration settings. Design and execute solutions for common challenges such as data mapping, object modeling, page layout design, and workflow rules within the context of the Oracle platform.
Plan, organize and manage IT projects from scoping phase to implementation and support. Accountable for overall successful project completion. Develop detailed project plans and associated resource requirements, timeline and costs Develop detailed status reports and summarized executive updates Track project metrics to effectively manage scope, cost, quality and schedule. Develop accurate budgets and business cases for projects. Work collaboratively with business units to ensure technical solutions effectively meet business requirements Develop, organize and manage issues, risks, actions items, change control and communication plans. A Negotiate resolutions to project issues Monitor project budget against actual costs incurred. Budget preparation and forecasting with spend types Run the Bank, Change the Bank and Discretionary spend. Lead and direct cross-functional teams to deliver projects within the constraints of quality, scope, schedule and budget. Work on the areas of Information Security & Information Life Cycle Management, Infrastructure, Data Center, Compliance, Network Security, Logical Access, SDLC, Corporate Security, Business Continuity Planning (BCP) & Disaster Recovery, Incident Management, Vulnerability Assessment. From May 2008 to Present (7 years 8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Member of Technical Staff @ - Created test plan and lead testing effort for oracle R12 financial implementation
- Created test automation From May 2008 to Present (7 years 8 months) Software Engineer @ ○ Design Test Automation Strategy using BPT
○ Develop the Automation Team on the Proof Of Concept
○ Create multiple designs for test automation using Keyword Driven Framework
○ Develop the tools using the created designs
○ Development Activities:
○ Develop a frontend for creation, maintenance and execution of test cases
○ Maintain the test cases in a database
○ Automate the process of creation of a test script in QTP for the test cases in the database, run the script and report results
back into the database
○ Testing Activities:
○ Review business requirements and raise issues if any
○ Provide training sessions for the offshore team on BPT, QTP and QC
○ Implement a Component Based Approach to Testing
○ Create test cases/test scripts, execution reports and defects reported From June 2004 to August 2007 (3 years 3 months) SQE @ From 2004 to 2007 (3 years)
Bachelors, Computer Science and Information Technology @ SNIST affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University From 2000 to 2004 B.Tech, Computer Science & Information Technology @ Sreenidhi Institute of Science & Technology From 2000 to 2004 Namrata Vuppala is skilled in: Oracle R12, Functional Design, Functional Analysis, Business Analysis, Oracle Financials, Test Planning, Oracle E-Business Suite, Test Automation, PL/SQL, Selenium, QTP, Core Java, Requirements Analysis, Unix Shell Scripting, Scrum