MM Consultant

• Establishes the capability of test automation from a business perspective for end-to-end
• Define processes in Finance for several company codes within Tosca
• Defines and maintains a test concept for test automation
• Ensures that the test automation process is documented and updated continuously
• Performs analysis of test processes and selects appropriate test cases for automation
• Ensures that manual test cases are migrated to automated test cases
• Ensures that automated test cases are updated und documented continuously
• Gathering test data from respective business departments and can define requirements of the data extractors for DevOps
• Executes the automated test cases within the Sub-Products in Product Accounts Payable and analyses the test protocols and defines relevant actions
• Train employees in test automation for BIZ
• Participates in the test planning and supports of other Sub-Product team members and Feature teams
• Define the Test Strategy, share with relevant Stakeholders for review, and ensure Sign Off on Test Strategy
• Manage the SAP project related to execution of the overall testing including scheduling, tracking progress, test execution
• Create Test Packages in Solution Manager including scheduling of Test plans Develop, Create Test Plans Details of Project involvement
• Organize testing kick-off meeting
• Analyze and document requirements and design solutions for the business process scenarios by means of interviews, workflow analyses and facilitated discussions with users
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional specification design and interface design documents for development, testing and implementation
• Execute work requests based on agreed SLA/plans/priorities and ensure adhering to documentation, configuration, security, development, and testing standards and guidelines
• Create, maintain, review testing scripts in SAP Solution Manager
• Create Test Packages in Solution Manager including scheduling of Test plans per business streams, third party integration
• Support System Integration Testing for new implementation
• Support User Acceptance Testing with End User and make sure the defects raised are resolved (full end to end)
• Functional, Non-Functional Testing, Performance Qualification Testing, System Integration, User Acceptance Testing
• Defect Management Process

ECC conversion to S4 Hana for South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and new implementation for UK, Canada:

• Organize testing kick-off meeting, define the test strategy, share with relevant stakeholders for review, and ensure sign off on test strategy and governance
• Work with the implementation partner to establish an automated testing environment for SAP upgrade, regression, migration testing (Tricentis Tosca)
• Co-ordinate testing activities for all testing, specifically unit testing, string testing, regression testing, system integration test and user acceptance testing
• Work with the Implementation partner, test management and project management to ensure test activities are planned and executed as per the project plan
• Co-ordinate across other functional and process teams in terms of test preparation, execution and closure
• Manage defect resolution and/or change request acceptance as a result of the testing process
• Manage the test repository (scenarios, scripts, etc.)
• Producing weekly status reports and consolidating the feedback for the weekly status meetings
• Tracking Testing Deliverables against the plan
• Engage with business unit project managers to ensure test activities are managed in business unit implementation plans
• Coordination and planning with Functional, Data and Development streams
• Ensure delivery and management of test signoff and test acceptance
• Management of Integration and UAT Processes
• Coordinate test automation initiatives
• Defect Management
• Maintain communication with relevant stakeholders
• Ensure roles and responsibilities are participants are clear and communicated to all
• Resource the team appropriately and highlight any resource issues in project and business teams
• Manage integration & 3rd party delivery dependencies
• Provide input into planning of work packages and deliverables
• Assist in resolving any integration conflicts pertaining to interdependencies between scope/proposed solution and other IM initiatives
• Ensure that Testing Strategy, Tools and Templates are in place to execute according to the plan and timelines
• Planning of scope and test scenarios using SAP Tosca/Tricentis automated testing tool
• Implementation and set-up of SAP Solution Manager

S4 Hana implementation project for Nigeria and Ghana:

• Functional Testing for implementation of SAP S4 Hana – Modules: Plant Maintenance, Sales and Distribution, Procurement and Warehousing (MM)
• Unit Testing, String Testing, SIT, UAT, Manual and Automated Testing/Agile Testing
• Perform test executions, test plans, test cases, preparation of data templates
• Test Scenarios/Negative Testing/Creating, development and writing of Test Scripts
• Record results, communicate defects to functional leads
• Support testing for production issues, business partners
• Test Status Reports and Updates to development team and client on a daily basis ensuring testing is carried out according to QA and as per schedule
• Leverage the client's knowledge of business processes
• System Integration and Regression Testing/Change Control Testing
• Planning for User Acceptance Training
• Support and Training of business partners/users
• Consistently provide high quality analysis of assigned work items
• Ensure deliverables are of the highest quality and completed on time
• Share knowledge with other testers, covering training within the team
• Reviews and presentations to business owners and functional leads
• Reports, project management on Jira – reviewing, updating user stories
• Logging of bugs/defects
• Retesting of defects, ensure errors are handed over to respective support/development team
• Test Management tools: SAP Solution Manager, ECATT, HP ALM, Jira

Developed a business to effectively generate maximum income

• Developing and testing SAP functions associated with purchasing, inventory management, storage, and materials resource planning for engineering department
• Identify system and non-system related problems that impact on the effectiveness of sales, distribution, production, and production planning
• Ensure that identified problems on the SAP system relevant to sales, distribution, production, and production planning are attended to as soon as possible with the minimum impact on actual production
• Evaluate current business and SAP processes to determine their effectiveness and impact on sales, distribution, and production
• Setting up of meetings, taking minutes of meeting, updating any system and non-system problems with the relevant managers and team members immediately
• Ensure that all relevant team members and managers are kept up to date on progress with problem resolution on the project
• Ensure compliance to all company and SAP security policies, procedures, and standards
• Ensure that all key tasks related to SAP sales, distribution, material management and production planning are completed as per set requirements and standards

Project Manager responsibilities:

• Implementation and Support – MM Module
• Implement processes and procedures (SOPS) for Trident Steel stores in Roodekop, Alrode (Jhb), PE, Kwa Zulu Natal, and Cape Town
• Training and support of Buyers (Procurement – SAP Purchase Orders, Running of MRP's)
• Ensure that key-user acceptance testing is completed on time for new SAP business releases
• Compiling of Manuals and blueprints for SAP Processes

Master Data responsibilities:

• Identify and resolve issues after migrating from Pragma to SAP
• Cleaning up of master data to improve business processes efficiency by delivering reliable master data to operational systems
• Define Data Requirements including data definitions, validations, data cleansing rules, exception handling rules
• Review requirements with users and stakeholders and obtain signoffs
• Introducing a system to ensure that stores runs effectively and efficiently
• Introducing, Implementing and testing of SAP MRP Planning integrating maintenance activities
• Run material requirement planning (MRP) and let purchasing perform inventory replenishment
• Training and providing guidelines to store controllers
• Implementing Stock Transfer using SAP STO process across all provinces
• Physical Inventory process implementation
• Introducing Cycle Counting for fast moving and high value stock

• Master Data and Pricing - responsible for Pricing and creation of new items on SAP
• Create, Update, Maintain Master Data on SAP (SA Local and International)
• Creating and Uploading of new clients on SAP (Client Master Data)
• Creating of Profit and Cost Centre's on SAP
• Running of MRP's/Stock Levels & Availability
• Releasing and authorizing of MRP's and Purchase Requisitions
• Prepare and evaluate quotes from vendors
• Planning and reporting on stock availability and orders
• Managing weekly stock takes updating of stocks in SAP
• Complete Maintenance and control of Stock
• Training of Staff on SAP
• Produce weekly/monthly plans/reports on orders
• Training and Testing of Export documentation on SAP
• Implementation of Processes and procedures for Supply Chain Environment
• Liaising with SAP consultants
• Attend weekly Planning Meeting for SA Business Units and international

Project Administrator (2006-2009) responsibilities:

• Processing of Quotations from Country Managers, Clients and SA
• Co-ordinate and Update of Database for quotation, orders and queries
• Generating and Processing of Sales Orders and running of MRP's
• Follow Up and Track order status on SAP
• Liaising with Project Managers on status of orders and current projects
• Expediting of orders
• Resolve queries related to sales, product quality and delivery
• Export Planning – Sea, Air and Road Freight for African Countries
• Inventory Management – auditing of stock
• Stock Control and weekly stock takes
• Implementation and testing of export documentation on SAP
• Writing of training manuals for export controllers

• Placing of Purchase Orders on SAP complete ordering and payments
• Receipting of Invoices/Delivery Notes on SAP
• Liaising with Carrier – compiling and dispatching of stock
• Ensure receipts of POD's – verify and reconcile Carrier's invoices
• Submit invoices for payments – examine and cross charge short on incomplete deliveries
• Inventory Management – Stock Counts & Reconciliation
• Liaise with other plants on receipting and dispatching of stock
• Receiving of Stock into plant – SAP
• Filing – ensuring completeness of documentation
• Executing of Sales Order on SAP – orders received from Rep's and clients
• Complete Orders to Cash processes
• Planning for consignment points, inventory counts and reconciliations
• Reconciling and checking of documentation for completeness

Client Services responsibilities:

• Processing of Cash Withdrawals
• Processing of Deposits - Cash/Cheques
• Daily Tellers reconciliation
• Petty Cash
• Handling of Client Queries
• Authorizing of Cheques/Cards

Administrative Clerk responsibilities:

• Managing/updating Clients accounts
• Allocation of Money into Client accounts
• Group Schemes – Companies
• Closing of Accounts, writing off interest
• Liaising with different Salary departments/Companies
• Credit Control – Telephoning/tracing clients
• Bank Reconciliation – Bank statement daily
• Using Excel
• Handling of queries telephonically and in person