SANDEEP KAMNOOR
Bengaluru
Summary
Dynamic Offshore Delivery Lead with extensive experience at Cognizant Technology Solutions, excelling in SAP functional testing and management. Proven track record in driving test strategy and planning, achieving 100% testing completion on complex projects. Strong stakeholder management and continuous process improvement skills, recognized for delivering exceptional client satisfaction and operational excellence.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Offshore Delivery Lead, SAP Test Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Bengaluru
06.2022 - Current
- Client facing and drive test management activities from offshore.
- Be part of Planning, Scoping, Team collaboration, Preparation and Execution for SIT, UAT & Regression Testing activities.
- Participate in meetings during Explore phase to understand WRICEF changes, Interfaces and enable team to plan the test design phase accordingly.
- Coordinating with client team to drive test activities and handshake for balancing any workload.
- Status meetings, Monitoring & Reporting via excel dashboards and Power BI.
- Preparing Test metrics and Tracker to channelize test design & execution phase.
- Drive improvements and optimizations of Automation during SIT test phase.
- Received client accolades (Head of OneERP Solutions) for setting up test cases (250+) in a day in RQM enabling Compliance/Quality process without any delay.
- Drove SAP Technical Upgrade testing in all environments (SBX, DS4, QS4, IS4) along with client team and successfully completed testing 100% (Jul’23 to Feb’24).
- Managed 2 complex M&S deployments with 16 entities involved across Europe and ASIA regions and received excellent feedback from Global Test Manager and Deployment Manager for delivering on schedule SIT, UAT and Regression test phases.
- Received “Special Recognition Award” from Testing Practice - Director.
Sr. Test Lead, Onsite Co-coordinator & Offshore Project Lead
Infosys Technologies
Bengaluru
01.2011 - 05.2022
- Working majorly on CAM (Capital Asset Management and Project Systems) module on S4 HANA 1805 system.
- Involved in CAM Prod defects testing and guiding Regression team to enhance existing test repository.
- Involved in Training sessions to Regression team to provide functional overview on Prod Change Requests.
- Coordinating with BAU team for understanding business case and preparing test scenarios accordingly.
- Test execution and presenting test results to business for approval and sign-off.
- Extending support to Automation team for providing Functional Overview, Test Scenarios and Data Mining.
- Received client and business accolades (Finance Director – QA) for performing testing and completing before the month closure for one of the complex prod defects that involved dependency modules (like Asset accounting, Project systems, Legacy systems, Accounts Payables and Tax).
Automation Lead
Infosys Technologies
Bengaluru
09.2020 - 11.2020
- Involved in multiple team discussions with other stakeholders as the Client was a Multi-Vendor to chart out key responsibilities.
- Identified automation gaps in terms of Maintainability, Adaptability in different test environments and missing Table related Definition files.
- Collaboration with Solutions team for test data and Coordinating with different stakeholders for fixing the script issues.
- Involved in identifying functional flow issues within automated script and fixing them accordingly to be in sync with standard SAP functionality.
- Involved in Role Based testing.
- Driving automation team to be more pro-active in solving automation issues with less dependency from other stakeholders.
- As an automation lead, was in pole position and drove automation activities seamlessly and demonstrated client the improvement areas which led getting in additional business in automation area.
Offshore Project Lead
Infosys Technologies
Bengaluru
12.2019 - 09.2020
- Responsible for handling a team of 8 people driving Test Strategy and Planning activities.
- Breakdown of SIT activities into multiple phases based on Business Criticality Process flows.
- Coordinating with Client & Business Teams for understanding high level use-cases.
- Coordinating with offshore team to delegate tasks and ensuring its completeness on time.
- Test Preparation, Test Execution Defect Management & Client Reporting.
- Extending support to Automation team for building automation repository.
- I could able to adapt to new industry vertical (Industry Solutions – Utilities) in less than 2 months and was able to deliver the tasks independently and led the team to deliver on schedule due to aggressive timelines.
- I reported more than 40 defects and received client appreciation.
Senior Software Test Engineer
Mphasis
Bengaluru
06.2006 - 12.2010
- Worked as Test Engineer on ERP domain, Oracle apps.
- Was involved in Web testing of the Oracle applications using Quality Center as Test Management Tool.
- Involved in Test Set, Test Case preparation and Execution.
- Performed Sanity and Smoke testing for business-critical flows.
- Involved in Defect Logging, Tracking, Retesting and Closure having close interaction with Dev team.
- Involved in Peer reviews, quality management activities, cross module application testing.
- Exposure working in Client’s place (Philips) to drive test activities on various healthcare applications (Basic Knowledge on DICOM, HLS and IHE).
- Involved in Performance testing of huge volume of transactional data to DB systems.
- Involved in Functional and Regression testing.
Education
B. Tech -
VTU
Belgaum, KarnatakaSkills
- SAP functional testing and management
- Test strategy and planning
- Certified Scrum Master
- Automation support
- HP ALM 125 and IBM RQM
- Stakeholder and people management
- Risk management in healthcare and manufacturing
- FI business processes (AP, AR, GL)
- Credit and receivables management
- CO business processes (CCA, PC)
- S4 HANA and ECC expertise
- Test delivery excellence
- Contractual commitments and customer satisfaction
- Global delivery operating model
- Multi-vendor scenario management
- Client relationship management
- Continuous process improvement strategies
- Requirement gathering and test estimation
- Test approach and execution strategies
- KPI reporting and end-to-end test management
- API testing
Certification
- SAP certified application associate – Financial Accounting
- TOSCA – Product Consultant (Junior level)
- Infosys certified SAP S4 HANA Professional FI Consultant
- Infosys certified SAP ECC FI consultant & Digital Assurance Professional
- Infosys certified Agile tester
- Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance
Rewards And Recognitions
2017, Star Award and Best Performing Team at Infosys
Future Plans
Near Future Plan is get certified on 'Applied Generative and Agentic AI'
Knowledge Purview
- SAP FI
- SAP IS-U
- HP-ALM
- IBM RQM
- Rally
- Agile Methodology
- SQL 00/05
- Oracle 9i/10g
- TOAD
Technical Experience
- Well versed in different aspects of End-to-End Testing Life Cycle for SAP applications.
- Well versed in Technical and Feasibility analysis for SAP projects
- Experienced in defining Entry/Exit criteria for Functional, Sanity/Smoke, System Integration, Regression, End to End and UAT Testing cycles
- Effort reduction by effective utilization of available team to deliver best possible results as agreed with stakeholder
- Defining, Capturing, and reporting of KPIs (Monthly/Quarterly/Yearly) to stakeholders
- Expertise in presiding over lively brainstorming sessions, building consensus, recognizing, accelerating peer’s strength, delegating right “TASK” to “Right Persons” to create powerful testing team
- Delivering Unit Level Training on Key Testing concepts by creating a core team for future projects
Timeline
Offshore Delivery Lead, SAP Test Manager
Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2022 - Current
Automation Lead
Infosys Technologies
09.2020 - 11.2020
Offshore Project Lead
Infosys Technologies
12.2019 - 09.2020
Sr. Test Lead, Onsite Co-coordinator & Offshore Project Lead
Infosys Technologies
01.2011 - 05.2022
Senior Software Test Engineer
Mphasis
06.2006 - 12.2010
B. Tech -
VTU