Ananth Murty

Senior Test Analyst and Release management

043 111 5196
ananthsmk@gmail.com
Citizen of Australia

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A solutions-driven and details-oriented IT professional with overall experience of 15 years in leading the
development, documentation and delivery of process and initiatives usingwaterfall and agile, managing
internal and external stakeholders, defining SAP as-is and to-be business processes to ensure the agreed
benefits are realized. Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to
relate with people at all levels of business and run projects from inception through to successful
completion. I endeavour to continue my professional development in a challenging role ahead.

SNAPSHOT

 Applying strategic thinking and ability to identify goals, strategies, and actions.
 Proven analytical skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business need
and translate them into application and operational requirements.
 Release administration and receiving sign off from the ato business team and from stake holders
 Preparing user acceptance business scenarios and presenting with stake holders and
business analysts.
 Requirement analysis and gathering in agile methodology, agile, scrum.
 Providing timely and relevant metrics-based reporting on the end-to-end testing progress
 Created and Executed SQL queries against the database to verify the backend data.
 Proficient in softwares - SAP R/3 4.7, SAP Solution manager 4.0, MS Office and ECC 5/6.0
 Automation and execution using Q.T.P tool, Quality Centre, Hp ALM, sap ECATTs.
 JIRA end to end administration, JAMA, Jama connects for aligning tests and requirements.
 As–Is and To–Be determination using Gap analysis.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Competencies: Integration testing Lead at ato , HR and Payroll testing, Systems, System Integration, UAT,
PVT, TVT, Mobile Devices , work experience in cloud Pen testing , Cyber security Penetration testing ,
Vulnerability management Investigation, Defect Status , Test Data Creation , JIRA Project management, ,
Accessibility, Compatibility. Microsoft SharePoint administration for ato agile program, Azure hands on.
SDLC Methods: Agile methodology, Waterfall model, incremental (SCRUM)
Agile: Agile Approaches, Agile PI planning, Agile Planning and Estimation, User Story Definition,
Continuous Integration, Stand Ups, Show Cases, Retrospectives
Tools: Jira, TFS, HP ALM, Quality Centre 9.0, QTP 9.0., MS Office, Google Analytics
Databases: Apache, IIS, Oracle 9i, Web logic, SQL

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 PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Australian Taxation Office

Senior Test Analyst and release management
Feb.2021 – October 2023
 Work with business stakeholders, IT product owners and solution delivery teams to elicit, analyse,
translate, document, and communicate business requirements.
 Designing the end to end corporate business calendar for Release management
 Conduct business process analysis and identify critical issues and gaps for processes.
 Integration testing of multiple in-house applications along with cloud migration testing
 Build relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate and enable optimal levels of solution design input
and application management support.
 Designing integrated release program management deployment schedule calendar
 Ensuring the build deployment cycles are progressing steadily.
 Build stability validation testing via executing automation scripts and bugs fixes.
 Coordination of build deployment verification activities from the respective teams
 Environment Shakedown post build deployment to check the build stability.
 Resolving shakedown issues and making sure the environment down time is reduced and handing over
back to the project teams quickly.

AGL Energy
Test consultant
June 2018 – November 2018
 End to end testing of meter to cash business process, experience in meter read order.
Business master data management and contracts pdfs generation testing.
 Testing of invoice generation, and new customers pay account conciliation processes.
 Preparing user acceptance business scenarios and presenting with stake holders and
business analysts.
 Involved in accepting and approval of new builds upon conducting unit testing along with Dev team.
 Preparing test strategies, test plan document and taking leadership of the end-to-end testing
activities at the project inception levels and end to end quality assessment before testing sign off.
 Proactively communicate and facilitate the resolution of issues including the root cause analysis.
 Defining and testing the corporate data model, country specific and sap integration testing
 Preparation and execution of test plans and test scripts

Fonterra
Test Consultant
Feb 2015 – March 2017
 Creation and testing of purchase requisitions, POs approvals and integration with sap.
 Tracking and test management of purchase order statuses and credit control by adding watcher to the approver.
Integrating the credit check testing specialization along with consultant Transaction
 Integration Testing between different PR’s and PO’s integrating to company codes and materials.
 Testing support for customized customer credit management system during sales order creation which resulted in
tracking customers with up-to-date credit history.

 Accountable for change benefit realization whilst working from project inception, requirement definition &
planning, project execution, and project closeout stages for multiple initiatives.
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 Map “AS - IS” and “To-Be” processes, identify continuous improvement opportunities to support our advisor
network using business process re-engineering methodologies.
 Business case creation, including planning and estimating.
 Document preparation (e.g., Business Requirements, Feasibility Study, Business Case, Test scripts, Training
materials and Status Update), briefing papers and materials for presentation.
 Apply industry best practices e.g., Agile, ITIL, Project management.

H.C.L Corporation
Test consultant
Jan 2012 to Jan 2015
 Integration testing of sap HCM and success factors
 Sap functional testing and training end users with Sales and distribution workflow
 SAP sales and distribution testing with Finance and Material Management
 Preparing automation scenarios and reviewing of automation scripts for the regression suites
 Preparing automation business scenarios and regression suite during pre-test dry runs
 Managing, recording, and tracking status of new change requests from customer and provide feedback to
customers in change control board meetings.
 Deriving revenue generating business scenarios for test cases preparation
 Understanding of client business processes, develop business scenarios and walk through of the same to the
business and team.
 Solutions for RFI, RFP in tandem with Apps sales team to win new contract deals.
 Providing stringent business blueprint analysis of customer systems, gap analysis and providing feedback on the
gaps and prospect IT solutions for the same to the concerned sales team and win new business deal from
customers.
 Prepare fish bone analysis document for effort wastage and defects leakage.

Accenture
Senior software Engineer
July 2010 to Dec 2011
 Single point of contact as software quality assurance and testing lead
 SAP functional testing and integrating modules to sales and distribution.
 Implementation of the business priority new features and change requests in Agile
 Access the overall nature of Impact to the new feature derived out of software change control board meetings and
communicate to take the sign offs from the stake holders.
 Preparation of work break down document, high level testing phase-by estimates walk through to the team and
receive sign off.

Hewlett Packard
Clients: Telstra, FedEx, Lloyd’s Banking Group U.K, Norwegian Cruise Lines and World Bank
Nov 2005 to July 2010
 Approval for acceptance of new builds after conducting build verification testing and smoke testing.
 Deriving automation business scenarios for pretesting dry runs and report test results.
 Resolving user specific requirements through functional testing and assisting client end users in sap sales and
distribution functionalities flow
 Participating in requirement gathering, testing business scenarios, addressing real time
 Customer side end user’s Issues and postproduction support

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 Certifications and trainings

 ISTQB Certified Test Analyst

 Training in Agile scrum master and product owner at ato
 Microsoft Share Point tailored learning program in collaboration with ato
 Successfully completed the ITIL/ISO 200 00 training.
 Participation in various soft skill, leadership, and management trainings.

EDUCATION

Qualifications Date of Completion Institution /Awarding Body Course duration

Bachelors of Engineering in July, 2005 Vishweshwarya Technological University 4 years

Information Technology

International MBA in June, 2012 United Business Institutes, Brussels 1 year

Information Technology
(Belgium, Europe)