I am a SAP QA Analyst with 10+ years of experience delivering robust testing solutions across Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, e-commerce, Manufacturing, and Public Sector. I have hands-on experience in SAP testing, data integration testing, regression testing, UAT, and defect management, with strong skills in JIRA, HP ALM, QMetry, Tosca, and ServiceNow. I collaborate closely with product owners, developers, and offshore teams to ensure high-quality releases. I also have knowledge of FDA regulations and experience working on state projects including child welfare and eligibility. I am passionate about building scalable test strategies, maintaining traceability matrices, and driving QA process improvements. I enjoy mentoring teams and ensuring alignment with business requirements and quality standards.

VENKAT KIRAN RAVULA

I am a SAP QA Analyst with 10+ years of experience delivering robust testing solutions across Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, e-commerce, Manufacturing, and Public Sector. I have hands-on experience in SAP testing, data integration testing, regression testing, UAT, and defect management, with strong skills in JIRA, HP ALM, QMetry, Tosca, and ServiceNow. I collaborate closely with product owners, developers, and offshore teams to ensure high-quality releases. I also have knowledge of FDA regulations and experience working on state projects including child welfare and eligibility. I am passionate about building scalable test strategies, maintaining traceability matrices, and driving QA process improvements. I enjoy mentoring teams and ensuring alignment with business requirements and quality standards.

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I am a SAP QA Analyst with 10+ years of experience delivering robust testing solutions across Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, e-commerce, Manufacturing, and Public Sector. I have hands-on experience in SAP testing, data integration testing, regression testing, UAT, and defect management, with strong skills in JIRA, HP ALM, QMetry, Tosca, and ServiceNow. I collaborate closely with product owners, developers, and offshore teams to ensure high-quality releases. I also have knowledge of FDA regulations and experience working on state projects including child welfare and eligibility.

I am passionate about building scalable test strategies, maintaining traceability matrices, and driving QA process improvements. I enjoy mentoring teams and ensuring alignment with business requirements and quality standards.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

SAP Quality Analyst at Cognizant
February 1, 2025 - Present
Defined and developed the test strategy and test plan for the Regression Testing cycle. Worked as a Quality Analyst for Lease accounting module in Finance4u Product. Collaborated with Product Owners to identify and finalize test scenarios; developed detailed test cases; used QMetry to create and review test scenarios. Tested integration between SAP SD, MM and FI Modules. Responsible for end-to-end QA process including test planning, scenario creation, test case management, and execution reporting in QMetry. Coordinated with Product Owner, developers and offshore QA team to ensure smooth test execution and defect resolution. Participated in daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Contributed to continuous process improvements in QA practices and documentation standards. Used HP ALM for tracking bugs and reviewing existing test cases. Environment: SAP FICO, SD, MM; JIRA, QMetry, HP ALM.
SAP Test Coordinator at Cognizant
December 1, 2023 - February 1, 2025
Led EHP8 Upgrade project testing. Reviewed and clarified project requirements; developed and executed comprehensive Test Plans, Test Scripts and Scenarios. Created Test Scenarios and Test Scripts for System Integration Testing in collaboration with Business and SAP Functional/Technical teams. Maintained Test Scenarios in JIRA and linked all Test Scripts for System Integration Testing. Monitored execution of Test Scripts; assisted with Integration Testing and UAT. Performed end-to-end testing of SAP SD Order-to-Cash processes (sales order, delivery, and billing). Led Pre- and Post-upgrade activities and monitored Post-Upgrade Hypercare. Created metrics in JIRA and ServiceNow for weekly leadership reporting. Assisted in developing and maintaining regression suites in Tosca covering SAP FI and MM modules. Environment: SAP SD, FICO, PTP, MM, PP, RTR, CRM, JIRA, ServiceNow, Tosca, HP ALM.
SAP QA Analyst at Cognizant
November 1, 2022 - November 1, 2023
Functional and Integration tester for SD and FICO; identified RICEF with end-to-end test scenarios; performed system integration testing; created steps for Sales Order, releasing credit block order, and checking Sales Order outputs. Created and executed test cases and scenarios for SAP CAR functionalities; created steps for Payment run and checked outputs. Responsible for refinement and retrospective meetings and provided testing feedback and presentations. Created manual sales order scenarios and prepared for business scenarios testing. Worked across testing teams for integration cycles; tracked defects in ALM/JIRA; participated in REST/XML interface testing.
Sr. QA Analyst at Cognizant
March 1, 2021 - November 1, 2022
Test planning for SAP SD, FICO, PTP and Retail. Functionally tested across FI with MM and SD integration cycles. Prioritized test cases based on severity for Dev and Staging. Reviewed and analyzed Requirements, High-Level Design, Detail-Level Design and Business Functional Specification to develop test plans, scenarios. Maintained defects in JIRA. Performed manual testing, integration testing, and interface testing for 3rd party SAP applications. Tracked, reviewed, analyzed, and reported bugs using ALM.
Sr. QA Analyst at Cognizant
September 1, 2019 - February 1, 2021
Test planning for SAP modules; connectivity testing; SCRUM participation with Development and Product Management; tested REST APIs; performance, regression, smoke and end-to-end Integration testing. Reviewed functional requirements and designed test plans and scenarios; created and executed test cases; uploaded results into ALM; defects tracked and reports generated.
Manual Tester at Cognizant
January 1, 2016 - July 1, 2019
Application Migration from VB to .NET for a financial services client. Performed functional testing, wrote and maintained test scripts; tested across browsers and devices; SQL data validation across Oracle, SQL Server and Teradata; conducted UAT; automated test development with QTP/UFT; load, performance, and stress testing with Load Runner; defect management in ALM; participated in Agile sprints.
SAP QA Tester at Cognizant
February 1, 2014 - August 1, 2014
Executed test scenarios; created functional test plans; maintained Test Director; created test plans; manual testing; legacy SAP integrations; test data creation; traceability; client: Select Comfort-MN.
Manual Tester at Cognizant
September 1, 2014 - December 1, 2015
Testing OTC, Pricing, Material Determination, Account Assignment, Sales Incompletion Logs, Credit Management, Batch Management, Material Types, Account Determination in SD and MM; test plan creation; regression testing; ALM defect tracking; cross-functional integration testing.
Manual Tester at Cognizant
February 1, 2014 - August 1, 2014
Project: PNC Bank – Web-based Bill Payment; reviewed business design, use cases; performed functional testing; cross-browser validation; wrote SQL validations across Oracle, SQL Server and Teradata; UAT; LoadRunner performance testing; defect tracking in HP ALM; contributed to agile script development.

Education

Master’s in business administration at University of Findlay, Ohio
January 11, 2030 - April 22, 2026

Qualifications

Scrum Master (CSM)
January 11, 2030 - April 22, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Healthcare, Software & Internet, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Retail