Kiran Kattamuri
Ashburn
Summary
Accomplished Oracle Federal Financials professional with significant experience at DHS-Trio, specializing in Contract Lifecycle Management and application testing. Demonstrated success in enhancing operational efficiency and streamlining processes, leading to improved project outcomes. Proficient in developing impactful training materials and effectively training teams to deliver high-quality solutions aligned with business needs. Possesses strong analytical and problem-solving skills, driving continuous improvement.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Oracle Federal financials & CLM- SME
DHS-Trio
01.2019 - 03.2025
- Facilitated operations and maintenance for monthly releases across Oracle modules specializing in CLM, P-card, IPAC, Concur travel system, and MarkView.
- Collaborated with functional team to provide pre-production and post-production go-live support for TSA/USCG systems.
- Enhanced the CBA system and managed Tort claims.
- Functional support Tier 2 level in triage of Production O&M Defects
- Supported implementation, configurations, and requirement gathering, as well as testing activities for sprint testing, UAT support, and newly implemented items.
- Conducted testing on pre-production support for G-invoice.
- Executed CBA and Tort claims effectively.
- Payroll interface: Bear interface
- Facilitated execution of tests during different reporting cycles, including month-end and year-end.
- Performed functional application defect testing for the full suite of Oracle EBS modules, including Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Payroll, Budgetary, and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) interface testing, and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM).
- Trained and assisted new members to the test team, including new test team lead
- Established standardized testing methodologies.
- Coordinated establishment of centralized test team repository.
- Created SOAPUI Troubleshooting Guide and SOAPUI Configuration Guide
- Performed detailed and extensive testing scenarios for GL_SLAs, Interfaces, AP, AR & CLM
- Troubleshooting of SOAPUI interface appltn including network connectivity, authentication, XML file errors
- Configured Application Accounting Definitions (AADs) and Journal Line Types (JLTs), created Journal Line Definitions (JLD) and updated Accounting Derivation Rules (ADRs) and associated Conditions
Project Oracle R12 –Shared services Oracle Cloud
DOI
06.2015 - 12.2018
- Oracle federal financials & CLM – (O&M) Functional support SME
- (CLM/Purchasing, Account Payables, General Ledger), Projects Billing and Costing, iProcurement, Order to Fulfill Modules (Order management, Receivables, GL, Inventory,TCA)
- Analyzed client requirements related to enhancement / customizations as per the new business demands specific to the CLM side
- Provide requirement analysis, implementation, sustainment, and enhancement of a shared service Global P2P Model including process functionality, configurations, and common extensions
- Provide expertise in application configurations and system settings in support of training, testing activities
- Provide analysis and problem resolution for fixes to reported problems escalated from help desk team
- Involved in evaluation of FPDS-NG recertification
- PIID upgrade
- Provided tier2 SME- support in resolving the production tickets
- Provided year-end support for closing the Books
- Gather business requirements based off of client business process to support the configuration of the CLM software
- Provide recommendations regarding how the Oracle software can improve current client business processes
- Work with the vendor and client in on site meetings to directly resolve, document and provide recommendations regarding current production issues
- Provide Tier II Operations and Management Help Desk Support
- Tested software solutions and configurations to include exception testing
- Lead/Participate in End to End, Late Cycle and Use Acceptance testing events with the client
Functional support SME
Department of Education
01.2013 - 05.2015
- Project: EDCAPS
- EDCAPS is a central automated processing system
- It is the department's effort to streamline its core management work process as it has consolidated 3 legacy accounting systems to form EDCAPS
- Mainly it deals with GL, Funds management, Grants, Receivable management, Cost mgmt
- Responsibilities: FMSS oracle eBusiness application – Provided functional support in configurations and validating business process of FMSS (Oracle financial system to CLM systems)
- Member of the 11.5.10 FMSS-CLM production support team working on Federal Administration, Financials and Federal Financial Statements and GTAS, Facts 1, Facts 11i
- Played a key role as consultant with Production support issue for FMSS /ORACLE FEDERAL FINANCIALS, Oracle CLM R12
- Database testing using toad/QC/Clear case/IBM rational test manager
- Provided support in Functional, integration testing between the two System CLM and Oracle apps –FMSS, SQL
- Issue & Enhancements GTAS, TASBETC, IPP, due date calculation
- Interacted with Project Management for project direction and timelines
- Provided clear written and verbal communication on all testing deliverables to the QA Coordinators, offshore QAs, systems analysts, project managers, and developers
- Configuring the oracle applications for Financials, HRMS
- Executed test scripts for Oracle service Contracts-Install Base
- Provided weekly project status report and testing metrics for all QA & Dev activities
- Defect tracking, management, and metric reporting using the Quality Center tool
- Ensured periodic defect review meetings are established
- Coordinated the creation and execution of end-to-end integration test scripts across all areas of the Oracle ERP application
- Requirement gathering on Oracle Applications R12 – Finance/purchasing/Supply chain
- Participated in go/no go decision and provided recommendations as required
- Planned and conducted Post-Implementation Review
- Supported Finance QA Coordinator in test script development and execution, based on functional and technical specifications
- Evaluated and tested new or modified software programs to verify that programs function according to user requirements and conform to functional specification in the Finance area
- Worked directly with subject matter experts and technical teams on resolving issues
Sr Functional O&m Support
American Red Cross
12.2011 - 09.2012
- Project: Oracle Financial – Ariba.
- Involved in the configuration and setups of the Ariba On-Demand solution (Request) by building interfaces via BizTalk to and from Ariba On-Demand to Oracle Ebiz.
- Master file and transaction data will be interfaced to and from Ariba via web services and batch file transfers
- The integration would require the creation of approximately 30 to 40 interface files or events.
- Integration project between procurement systems and the ERP system via BizTalk that will drastically reduce maintenance costs.
- Supplier/Buyer – Setups verification.
- Involved in backend testing for validating HR data, employee records sent through BizTalk.
- Conducted integration testing between Oracle ERP and Ariba Procurement systems.
- Created and executed unit test plans for web testing (Redcross.org/cross net portal).
- Employee/User data is coming from the HRIS interface (OBIEE mapping). BizTalk is sending data to Oracle tables.
- Developed comprehensive test plans for web testing.
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect requirements and business process information.
- Supervised group of 3 testers.
- Created functional specifications from the Business Requirements Document.
- Interacted with business users, the database team, to know their requirements in developing stored procedures.
- Tracked and documented requirements aiding in managing various artifacts.
- Responsible for estimating the LOEs for each of the modules, creating work plans, allocating work to the team, and providing status updates to the project manager every week.
- Managing and tracking the progress of the development effort and resolve the issues with development needs
Functional support SME
NJVC-DOD
07.2011 - 11.2011
- Produce training content using UPK for financials
- Validated business flows one time across financial R12 modules by using Oracle user productivity kit in creation of user test scripts in Oracle financials R12 modules and I Expenses, the system transactions can be defined and tested before go-live, providing the necessary materials to ensure user adoption
- Support Procure to pay activities for NJVC/Asset acquisition
- Implement Help Menu Integration on Oracle eBusiness with UPK content simulations -HEMI
- Used IAS Configuration Utility to set options for integration
- Act as liaison between oracle technical teams and web admin teams to configure oracle user productivity kit for Multi server installation process
- Validated business rules and all artifacts with users, approval and sign off
- Provided technical and business knowledge to clients
- Gathered user and business requirements through interviews, surveys, prototyping and observing from Fixed Income Portfolio Managers/Advisors
- Stored and modified requirements in MS Word
- Planned and defined system requirements to Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using the AGILE methodologies
- Played a Major role in Interface testing both functionally and manually
- Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Test Director
- Collaborated with Quality Assurance Analyst in Manual Black box testing
- Suggested measures and recommendations to improve the current application performance
- Analyzed and prioritized user and business requirements as system requirements that must be included while developing the software
- Validate & create user manuals for Human resources and Payroll process according to Business use cases
- Payroll timesheets module test scripts and user manual preparation
SME Functional / Training
American Red Cross
12.2009 - 05.2011
- Project: BioArch - The BioArch Program is a major Red Cross initiative to introduce a new set of systems and procedures for the processing and tracking of blood donations and blood products
- The program utilizes an established COTS medical software system that will be customized with Oracle software development efforts and integrated with eProgesa, Biz talk, Mac Oracle ERP, CRM
- The BioArch solution includes the conversion of the National Biomedical Computer System (NBCS) functions to eProgesa, a biomedical manufacturing and inventory tracking database
- Responsibilities: Developed manual test cases based on the functional requirements and specifications for the ERP application
- Executed and maintained test cases and generated automated reports to monitor test progress
- Create and standardize all test documents (daily status, test plan, test cases, test summary, test case metrics)
- Conducted technical research on customer related issues / questions for the Order Management software module
- Tested transfer of Blood Donor records from the legacy eBDR process to ePROGESA using BizTalk Server 2010
- Track and certify code changes and enhancements prior to release on production servers
Oracle Fusion
Nanosolar
02.2007 - 11.2009
- Company Overview: Nanosolar is a global leader in solar power innovation
- Nanosolar is a global leader in solar power innovation
- They are setting the standard for affordable green power with solar cell technology of distinctly superior cost efficiency, versatility, and availability
- They also played a major role in global implementation for financial modules, iExpenses, Global rollout Oracle eBiz R12 replacing old QuickBooks in 4 sites of which 2 in US and 2 in Europe (Europe localization with e Tax and SLA, Bank Centralized model)
- Responsibilities: Pre-production & Go Live Support
- Preparing BR100’s for entire financials
- For all 4 countries Switzerland, Germany, Cayman Islands, US
- Functional support to check printing Enhancement functionality
- Configure Multi org structure entirely new in R12 Assigning multiple minor categories to one major category (solution) Setups for financials, AR, AP
- CRP, Verification & validation, System, Integration all kinds of testing activities (Include Test evaluation scripts and Test planning)
- Developing test plans and leveraged existing test plans to effectively strategize test planning
- Executing test cases and analyzed / report test results
- Provided document for end user training material on UPK
- Verified data/reports for backend tests with SQL
- Knowledge of Menu creation and roles assigning and modification of profile options at different levels using sys admin or AOL
- Performing manual, regression, negative, black box, UI, white box, backend, integration and for the software application projects
- Prioritizing and logging issues, in the defect tracking project spreadsheet
- Coordinating with the business and development teams to ensure clear communication
- Nanosolar is a global leader in solar power innovation
Sr Tester Functional / Training
CMS-HIGLAS
11.2005 - 01.2007
- Company Overview: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an operating division of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs
- The approach to implementing HIGLAS involved piloting the solution (i.e
- Oracle Accounts Receivable (AR), Accounts Payable (AP), General Ledger (GL), Cash Management (CM), and Federal Administrator (FA) modules and associated processes and Reporting, as well as Letters) for all contractors Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base serves as the foundation for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) HIGLAS (Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System) History System
- CMS launched the HIGLAS dual entry system in 2005 to create a uniform financial management system to account for more than $600 billion in annual healthcare outlays
- Involved in co-ordination of Production support and setup activities such as regression testing, unit and sys integration and functional testing
- Running/Loading data into oracle custom table (271,274,831 etc) using Auto sys threading process built on COTS (Integrated 3rd party component)
- Participated in configuring Loan and advance collection module
- Involved in pre-post upgrade Production validation analysis during 11.5.10 upgrade
- Participated in HTB health care transaction Base cutover plan
- Created packages that verify payable and receivable to GL integration which is useful for reconciling pre and post Healthcare Transaction Base HTB upgrade project
- Validation of Testing and Financial activities between Application / Business users
- Job duties involve co-ordination of Production support and testing activities such as regression testing, unit and sys integration and functional testing
- Involved in pre-post upgrade Production validation testing during 11.5.10 upgrade
- Participated in HTB health care transaction Base pre-post cutover plan
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an operating division of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs
ESS, EDCAPS, FSA, GRANTS/ GAPS Support/ AR/AP WEBLOGIC G5 TEAM
Department of Education
01.2003 - 10.2005
- The Department of Education is doing an upgrade from the Oracle public sector Financials version 11.03 to 11.5.10
- This project involves customization and implementation of BE (Fed Admin), Federal vertical
- OEPB, AR, AP & Purchasing Module of Oracle Applications 11i
- Responsibilities: Validation of Testing and Financial activities between Application / Business users
- Job duties involve co-ordination of testing activities such as regression testing, unit and sys integration and functional testing
- Verification & validation of Employee setups
- Validated and created job aid EDCAPS OMB Custom Trial Balance Report
- Involved in pre-post upgrade Production validation testing during 11.5.10 upgrade
- Verified and planning and budgeting setups
- Worked with Department of Education (Education) personnel gathering requirements to define and validate test objectives, test conditions and test scripts for Oracle Federal Administrator and Account Receivables and Payable, Purchasing and GL
- Design Enhancement 28 FSG Reports
- Extensively used IBM rational tools for test data reporting and managing results
Education
Master’s Degree - Accounting And Finance
Osmania
Hyderabad03-1994
Skills
- Oracle Federal Financials
- Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
- Application Testing
- Quality Assurance
- Procurement Support
- Training Materials Creation
- Oracle Financials Commercial
- G-invoice
Security Clearance
5c
Personal Information
Citizenship: US Citizen
Timeline
Oracle Federal financials & CLM- SME
DHS-Trio
01.2019 - 03.2025
Project Oracle R12 –Shared services Oracle Cloud
DOI
06.2015 - 12.2018
Functional support SME
Department of Education
01.2013 - 05.2015
Sr Functional O&m Support
American Red Cross
12.2011 - 09.2012
Functional support SME
NJVC-DOD
07.2011 - 11.2011
SME Functional / Training
American Red Cross
12.2009 - 05.2011
Oracle Fusion
Nanosolar
02.2007 - 11.2009
Sr Tester Functional / Training
CMS-HIGLAS
11.2005 - 01.2007
ESS, EDCAPS, FSA, GRANTS/ GAPS Support/ AR/AP WEBLOGIC G5 TEAM
Department of Education
01.2003 - 10.2005
Master’s Degree - Accounting And Finance
Osmania
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