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Amit Kumar

Amit Kumar

Hockenheim

Summary

Accomplished Senior Quality Specialist with a proven track record at SAP SE, adept in project management and risk management. Leveraged Scrum & Agile methodologies to enhance team productivity and successfully lead S/4 HANA implementations. Known for exceptional software testing skills and fostering collaborative team environments, significantly improving project outcomes and stakeholder satisfaction.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Quality Specialist

SAP SE
09.2016 - Current
  • Scrum Master & Agile Coach, managing a team of around 12.
  • Project Management.
  • Dev Angel to Customers.
  • First contact to Product management and UA/UX to drive the engineering.
  • Test Planning.
  • Creation/maintenance of test cases, test catalogs and test plan.
  • Manual/Automation Testing.
  • Driving the architecture discussion.
  • Installation/Upgrade tests ( SAP S/4 HANA / SAP marketing).
  • Driving the pipeline and DevOps topics in the team.
  • Responsible for Product Standard compliance.
  • Pipeline Infrastructure administration.
  • Driving the Quality topics in the team.
  • S/4 HANA implementation E2E testing
  • Managed cross-functional teams to achieve project goals within tight deadlines, leading to successful releases.

Project Manager (Fellowship)

SAP SE
01.2024 - 08.2024
  • Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
  • Established effective communication among team members for enhanced collaboration and successful project completion.
  • Monitored progress against established goals, adjusting schedules as needed to keep projects on track.
  • Improved stakeholder satisfaction with detailed project updates and proactive issue resolution.
  • Introduced Scrum and disciplined the team. Collaboration tools like JIRA, Microsoft Project.
  • Transparent communication to L1/L2 about the progress.
  • SAP Activate

Quality Engineer

SAP Labs India
08.2010 - 07.2016
  • Scrum Master & Agile Coach, managing a team of around 10.
  • Test Planning.
  • Creation/maintenance of test cases, test catalogs and test plan.
  • Manual/Automation Testing.
  • Responsible for Product Standard compliance.
  • Pipeline Infrastructure administration.
  • Driving the Quality topics in the team.

Education

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
05-2021

Bachelor of Science - Information Science & Engineering

Acharya Institute of Technology
Bangalore, India
05-2008

Skills

  • Project management
  • Risk management
  • Scrum & Agile
  • SAP S/4 HANA Sales
  • SAP S/4 HANA Transport Management (TM)
  • SAP CX
  • Software testing
  • Test automation
  • AI & SAP Joule

Projects

SAP S/4 HANA (11.2021 - Present)


SAP S/4HANA is an enterprise resource planning software for large enterprises. It is the successor to both SAP R/3 and SAP ERP, and is optimized for SAP's in-memory database SAP HANA.

- Scrum Master.

- Driving the Quality topics in the team for S/4 HANA Sales.

- Close Co-ordination with Product Manager & UA/UX to rollout engineering topics in team. 

- Test Planning & execution.

- Release decision.

- Responsible for Product Standard Compliance.

- Complete responsibility of E2E SAP S/4 HANA Sales delivery. 

- SAP S/4 HANA Sales Solution Validation. 

- Functional/Automated Tests - Driving the Q-Round table, along with other QEs



SAP Emarsys (Previously know as SAP Marketing Cloud)(09.2016 - 10.2021)


SAP Emarsys (previously Hybris marketing -> SAP Marketing Cloud) is a product from SAP offering which can be used by the customers to run
automated marketing campaigns and get real-time insights on the lead generations and identify potential customers. The
offering was available both in the cloud and on-premise. Worked on a new microservice-based cloud-native product
in a DevOps model.


- Scrum Master
- Driving the Quality topics in the team
- Close Co-ordination with Product Manager & UA/UX to rollout engineering topics in team.
- Test Planning & execution
- Driving the pipeline topics in the team
- Responsible for Product Standard Compliance
- Complete responsibility of E2E SAP Marketing On-Prem Shipment
- SAP marketing On-Prem Solution Validation.
- Functional/Automated Tests
- Driving the Q-Round table, along with other QEs



HANA Enterprise Search (06.2014 - 08.2016)


Enterprise Search is a search solution that provides unified, comprehensive, and secure real-time access to organizational data
which enables users to search for structured data (business objects) and allows direct access to the associated applications and
actions.
- Scrum Master/Team Lead
- Driving the Quality topics in the team
- Test Planning & execution
- Extraction of test cases from customer stories.
- SAP HANA Solution Validation (Installation/Upgrade of SAP HANA in different Landscapes and multiple products)
- Responsible for Product Standard Compliance
- Performance Expert
- Functional/Automated Tests



ABAP In Eclipse & SAP Mobile Document (06.2011 - 05.2014)


ABAP in Eclipse is a tool to help developers code more efficiently and on a java like IDE. ABAP in eclipse gives developers more
flexibility and easy to use IDE for their development activity.
SAP Mobile Documents offers programs (apps) that can be downloaded and run on multiple independent devices. You can use a
single app and keep your files in sync with the server files You can also keep your files in sync on all your devices where SAP
Mobile Documents is installed.
- Driving the Quality topics in the team

- Eclipse Plugin Development
- Test Planning & execution
- Functional/Automated Tests
- Extraction of test cases from customer use-cases.
- Responsible for Product Standard Compliance
- Driving Customer Engagement Initiative (CEI) for ABAP In Eclipse
- Building and maintaining the development infrastructure (Jenkins Infrastructure)


SAP Banking [Loan Management] (05.2009 - 05.2011)


SAP Banking Loan Management solution enables a Bank to handle a wide range of loans - from corporate, private, consumer,
mortgage, and specialty loans, to borrower's note loans and policy loans. SAP Loans Management for Banking, Suite Edition, with
its extensive parameter definition options, is a functionally comprehensive module that can manage both loans given and loans
taken processes.
- eCATT Developer
- Driving the Quality topics in the team
- Test Planning & execution
- Functional/Automated Tests
- Extraction of test cases from customer Requirement Documents (Waterfall Model).

Timeline

Project Manager (Fellowship)

SAP SE
01.2024 - 08.2024

Senior Quality Specialist

SAP SE
09.2016 - Current

Quality Engineer

SAP Labs India
08.2010 - 07.2016

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Bachelor of Science - Information Science & Engineering

Acharya Institute of Technology
Amit Kumar