ASHWIN DEVIDAS MADIVAL

Email : ashwinm16@iimb.ernet.in
M: +91 8971107986

Professional Summary
 Eleven years of IT work experience with Oracle Technologies, HCL technologies, Versant technologies, SUPERVALU India
Services and Tesco HSC under various positions which include consulting, implementation, Development, Support and
Testing. I am currently working at Oracle Technologies as an Oracle Retail Trainer/QA lead /IC3 for products RMS(Retail
Merchandising System)/RPM(Retail Price Management)/RESA(Retail Sales Audit)
 Leading QA activities for RPM at Oracle technologies which involved working with teams located across geographies and
time-zones across Code lines 16.0, 14.1, 14.0, 15.0, 13.1, 13.2. I was responsible for reviewing the Requirements and
Functional Specification to add value in planning phase, create Test strategy, Test plan, provide test scope, estimates
for QA Tasks thorough analysis Review Release related Documentation and actively contribute towards overall QA project
Management.
 Actively participated in Customers Visits and training’s at Oracle university ,as an Oracle Retail trainer for Clients SIAM
MAKRO (Onsite Assignment), ACCENTURE, IBM, Wipro and GENPACT (Offshore assignment).
 Good understanding of Business Requirements Analysis, Functional Knowledge and Product Specifications across Retek
and other Retail domains. This encompasses CRP, End User training, Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Solution Design,
Development, Testing, Deployment, Maintenance and Troubleshooting/Support.
 Oracle Retail suite’s implementation and Support experience which includes Waltz Disney world SIMBA Oracle retail
version 12.1 production Support/Development as a senior consultant/Technical Lead . I have also worked for Al-sorayai
Saudi Arabia / Zawya Mart Dubai for their oracle retail implementation with v13.1.0 as their onsite co-coordinator/
functional consultant. My other major deliveries have been with clients Tesco US-Fresh and Easy, Tesco UK/ROI, Tesco
Group, Tesco Central Europe and Supervalu US for their oracle Retail implementation.

I value: Challenges, Teamwork, the firm's culture, looking at the big picture and participate in identifying and applying
innovative and time-effective solutions.

Professional Experience

 Oracle Retail Trainer ORPM,ORMS,ORESA,QA lead ORPM ,QA Lead ORMS/RESA(Oracle Tech)
 IT Support Analyst at Tesco for ORESA, OREIM for Tesco Group, Central Europe, US
 Technical Lead at Waltz Disney World (US)client, HCL technologies (Senior Consultant)
 Versant technologies : Functional Consultant
 SUPERVALU Services India(TCS subsidiary) : Software Engineer
 Tesco Hindustan Service Centre: Software Engineer

Educational Qualification

 Pursuing PGPEM (Post Graduate Program in Enterprise Management) at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
(2016-2018).
 Courses Pursued : Product Strategy & Product Development, Business and Big Data Analytics ,Decision Sciences
,Operations Management ,Supply Chain Management, Strategic Leadership, Financial Reporting and Accounting
,Corporate Finance , Investments ,Competition & Strategy ,Corporate Strategy, Marketing management, Research in
Management Decisions ,B2B Marketing ,Digital marketing, Corporate Governance & Ethics, Micro-Economics, Macro-
Economics ,Managing Organizations, Cost management, Management of Commercial Contracts .

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 Exchange Program through GNAM (Global Network of advanced Management) at Seoul National University, South
Korea for Emerging markets.
 Academic Projects: Optimum Price strategy for Microsoft office Exchange Online, Research in Marketing Decisions on
Product Evaluation, Usage, Attitude study on Apple Smart Watch, Marketing plan for Samarthanam, (NGO). Product
Strategy for Digital marketing through Oracle ATG, Endeca and integration with existing Oracle ERP(Micros ,oracle Retail
,Seibel ,JD Edwards )
 Completed Bachelors of Engineering (Computer Science Engineering) from PESIT Bangalore, Visveswaraya Technological
University, 2006.

Technical Skills

 Development Tools: Net 2005, Unix,SQL

 Application Server: Oracle Application Server (OAS) 10g, Oracle Web logic Server.
 Database: Oracle 9i/10g, PL/SQL, Oracle Forms 9i,TOAD and SQL Developer
 Technical Certification: ISTQB (International Standard for Testing and Quality Board), RIB 12.0 certified and RESA
certified from Oracle. Automation Tools :Synergy and OATS

Key Projects:

Name Oracle technologies

Duration 2 years and 8 months (Dec 2014-Present)

Client Oracle Technologies ,Oracle University

Role Senior Quality Assurance
Responsibility Oracle Retail Trainer , Oracle QA lead, Oracle Individual Contributor ,

Performed Oracle Retail training activities for Oracle Merchandising / Oracle Price Management and Oracle Retail Sales Audit Systems
with clients being SIAM MAKRO, Accenture, IBM, Wipro and Genpact. Leading as well as performed Individual contributor roles for
the QA product delivery for Oracle Retail Product code lines 14.0,14.1,15.0,13.1,13.2 and 16.0(Advanced Developer Framework)

CHALLENGES and RESPONSIBILITY

 Leading QA activities for RPM at Oracle technologies which involved working with teams located across geographies and time -
zones across Code lines 16.0, 14.1, 14.0, 15.0, 13.1, 13.2. I was responsible for reviewing the Requirements and Functional
Specification to add value in planning phase, create Test strategy, Test plan, provide test scope, estimates for QA Tasks tho rough
analysis Review Release related Documentation and actively contributing towards overall QA project Management
 Working as an Individual Contributor-3 (ERP Specialist) for Sustenance Engineering -Quality Assurance for Oracle Retail
Merchandising/Oracle Retail Sales Audit across versions, patches and Bundles. I am currently working in test planning/test
execution of ORMS/ORESA version 16, which is been built on the ADF framework.
 Creating Strategy and developing scripts of RPM with around 500 scenarios automated using an Automation java tool: Oracle
Synergy. Functional review of Automation scenarios which include Items, Cost Change, Foundation data validations.
 Mock Installation tests and troubleshooting, for Oracle Retail Price management and Oracle Retail Sales Audit.
 Experience in writing & executing Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and Test standards, Procedures and Traceability Matrix, Code
Migration Process, Bug Triage Process & Test Reports. Participate in software design reviews: Test Research, Planning, and
Execution. Functional Knowledge of the below Modules in Oracle Retail Pricing Management. These involve Pricing Setup,
Administration Pricing Events Process Integration flow Pricing Strategies End to End Integration of Retail Products RMS,RPM,
POS,RESA,SIM

Name HCL technologies

Duration 14 months (Sep 2011-Dec 2012) (May 2014- Till Date )

Client Tesco –Central Europe /Tesco- UK/ Tesco –Group countries

Role Senior Consultant
Responsibility Test Analyst /Support Analyst

Worked as a client consultant for Tesco Phase 3 performance testing for Group countries, Tesco OM System testing for NBS UK and
TICB-OM integration for their Clothing, Hard lines, CH and WIGIG business for Tesco central Europe

CHALLENGES and RESPONSIBILITY

 IT support analyst involving tasks of supporting/Troubleshooting RESA/REIM for Tesco Group, Central Europe and USA. Tasks

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 involved generating UNIX scripts to move CLOSED STORE files to a different path for saimptlogi to not fail. Capturing and mailing
batch information which run and mail the current day runtime to the support team for the same to take action.
 Successfully test delivery for modules Item set up, Item enhancements ,Item range ,Transfer ,shipment ,Purchase order request
generation via Upload tools for multiple business for Tesco international clothing business(TICB)–OM (operating model)with
TICB using RMS 10 and OM using RMS 12 .
 Being the part of Tesco implementation with Tesco successfully releasing their Performance code for Group countries, across 6
million items and 650 stores Design with applications GO (Group Ordering ),ORMS, ORPM, ORIB, Integration layer, Back Feed,
IDS and ORESA
 Foundation data set up for larger volumes of data for multiple scenarios, monitoring batch performance for GO (PIT/PST), defect
analysis, validation and tracking and execution of test scripts in HP-QC across 5*5 iterations.
 When at HCL base location, actively involved in the task of RMS /RPM COE setup, functional presentations for RMS/RPM and
sample flyer creation for HCL-oracle Retail.

Name HCL technologies

Duration 8 months (Feb 2013-Jan 2014)

Client Waltz Disney World , SIMBA implementation (V 12.1.0)

Role Senior Consultant
Responsibility Senior Applications Developer/Applications lead

Waltz Disney’s SIMBA, is Oracle Retail’s biggest success stories in the US. Disney has implemented its supply chain, MOM, store
solutions and planning solutions with the help of oracle retail V12.1.0. The solution supports business users who are spread across
650 Disney stores and its two warehouses .The Stores are put up in Disney world, Disney Parks and Resorts and Disney cruise lines.
(ORMS, ORWMS, ORPM, ORDF, MFP OSIM, ORTM, and Allocation).

CHALLENGES and RESPONSIBILITY

 Part of the initial HCL SME team to get transitioned from waltz Disney world. The transition was set up in phases of absorption,
replication, observation and steady state as a part of HCL –Asset policy. Priority tasks included getting knowledge transfer done
from Disney SME’s and cross –training them back, creation of Run-Books for SIMBA-RMS and SIMBS-non RMS applications
which needed to reflect Application and Functional overview, architecture of SIMBA, Core business functionalities, Integration
points to in house systems like Mallory, SAP, Kleinschmidt,D3 ,customs, Item-cubiscan and others.
 Supporting SIMBA applications which included fixing tickets raised through HP service manager for Retek applications, meeting
SLA’s and OLA’s , troubleshooting RIB failures ,troubleshooting appworx scheduled jobs during nightly batch and regular batch
run, posting sales to RTP, troubleshooting tickets raised by business users raised on SIM printers, application, security ,Login
issues , VM patching ,Disaster Recovery ,Appworx and Maestro maintenance which being scheduling tools .
 Design, Development, Deployment of some minor enhancement’s from customers including cost change upload process, RPM-
RTP future price processing upload for new stores and item –cubical upload to RMS which earlier used 2 a separate business
process (validation +upload).A new process was designed to integrate the same into a single process and send the bad file back
to the business users.
 Using HP service manager efficiently for incident management, Change management, Problem Management, Service
management, Assignment group configuration areas.

Name Versant Technologies

Duration 6 months (March 2011-August 2011)

Client Zawya Mart Dubai / Al-Sorayai Saudi Arabia

Role Senior Functional Consultant

Responsibility Implementation Consultant ,Team Lead

Green Field Implementation of Oracle Retail Suite (RPM,RMS,ORPOS,ORBO,ORCO,REIM,RMS,RESA,OSIM)

CHALLENGES and RESPONSIBILITY

 End user Training, CRP sessions with Business users for RPM, RSM, effectively handling steering committee meetings and
analysis the issues and hence providing timely support in resolving the concerns. A ability to initiate and execute the work status
of the projects efficiently and in a timely manner and communicate status with external and internal resources
 Construction of a design document that includes: connection points between Oracle Retail Applications and other business
systems and mapping of business processes within Oracle Retail Applications;
 Raising Service Requests with Oracle Support, Solving and Implementation of ORPM, End to end testing, UAT for RPM, RPM -
POS integration, RPM-SIM Integration, RMS-RPM integration.
 Design, implementation and testing of Bulk upload for Promotions, Price changes, Clearance, Price strategies.
 Training a team offshore for RPM, RMS guiding the team to progress as an onsite coordinator.
 Generating SQL, PL/SQL queries as per business requirement.
 Support all go-live activities and post-production troubleshooting which includes Resolving system issues with functional setup
or technical work (customization or extensions),setting up the Oracle Retail MOM for new store roll-outs ,defining security rules
and cross validation rules, Initial Costing and pricing, Cost markup and prize markup and mapping the business process with
the integrated Applications

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Name SUPERVALU Super fusion (RPM 13 0 1 b) ,Price execution)
SUPERVALU Super fusion Complete Architectural implementation
Duration 21 months (March 2009 -Sep 2009) , (Apr 2010 - Sep 2010) (oct 2009-Mar 2010 ) (Jan 2009 -March
2009) , 3 months (Sep 2008-Dec 2008)
Client SUPERVALU

Role Software Engineer

Responsibility Functional Analyst ,Module Lead

Module Handled:

Price Execution- A Oracle Retail Complete RPM implementation for Price changes to fit in sync across the Organizations along with
Customizations for Coupons /Deals
Super fusion -Oracle Retails biggest implementation based on Data base size spanning across 13 banners ,the Integration involved
testing RMS ,FDS (an Integration database ) ,EA and CID (legacy systems for Items and Supply chain ) ,Vendor collaboration an d
Data Rationalization .DR was the first step of Oracle Retail implementation at Supervalu. Cluttered data from EA and CID were
collaborated and rationalized and loaded into Oracle Retail database.
Idea Sales - A web portal Project .A unique initiative taken by SUPERVALU to spread across the various Ideas implemented across
its 13 banners. This initiative would help the Business users across different banners to report in their sales and Submit th e ideas
so that the business initiatives would span across the organization

CHALLENGES and RESPONSIBILITY

 Leading a team of 7 across Supervalu, for RPM which included team members for Supervalu, Wipro and UST global.
 Attending Triage meeting with Onsite, Higher management to discuss priorities, resource management, Work allocation, Defect
reviews.
 Working along with Wipro Enabler for consulting, at Wipro for 6 months with Client been Supervalu
 Design, Execution of Test pack across All RPM,RSM functionality (UI/Batch/Database)
 Conducting various Training sessions across Supervalu US, SUPERVALU India, Wipro as well as UST team to get a hang Of
Oracle Retail Price management.
 The team recorded a total of 210 defects with more than 40 valid base defects registered to oracle.
 Worked across RMS Foundation data Release for Super fusion including Item creation, Deals, Item discontinuation, Vendor
Collaboration, RMS-FDS-EA/CID integration.

Name NBS Integration Testing , Tesco Operating Model

Duration 13 months (Nov 2007-Aug 2008) , 6 months (Feb 2007-Aug 2007)

Client Tesco HSC

Role Software Engineer

Responsibility System’s /Integration Engineer

New Buying System (NBS) (Role: Test Engineer) is an extensive project on which the Tesco UK and ROI business will be
handled .NBS would be going forward an End to End ERP where in Tesco will incorporate Retek, BizTalk, abnitio thus part by part
replacing the legacy Mainframes by the new technology such that they are in sync with their Competitors and keep themselves
ahead in the business.
GFO (Group Forecasting and Ordering): TOM (Tesco Operating Model) (Role :Test Engineer)has been developed for Retail
Supply chain Management, The TOM architecture will cater to End to End Functionality in Tesco’s Retail Business all over the world
expect UK/ROI. In a Nutshell, GFO is a mainline system for forecasting Sales and suggesting orders to RMS ERP. GFO, a derivative
from UK-CR (Mainframe) with Micro focus being the Unix tool used to run JCL’s with DB2 as its database. GFO is a part of the TOM
architecture which Tesco used when it started its operations in US and then for the other countries .The Project was executed with
Tesco /Infosys Collaboration.

Corporate Purchase (Role: Development Engineer) is an Automated Tool developed which Tesco HSC uses to procure
products from its vendors. Corporate Purchase consisted of Requester, Approver, CPTEAM, CPMANAGER, LEADERSHIP,
DEPARTMENT HEAD pages with unique Accesses. The process would Involve vendors mailed regarding the product procured,
Admin maintaining the Information to check and validate and later Finance paying the Final Settlement to the Vendors. Cost
Center Page, Item Master page, Supplier, Currency were the master pages for Data entry on to the Software .I was involved in
Designing the web pages, Deployment of the software on the server.SQL 2000 was used to execute the back end queries and
ADO.NET as the integrator.

Personal Skills /Achievements/ Extracurricular Activities

 Received Peer Award, Excellence from SUPERVALU from my Project Manager and Super fusion Director respectively for
excellent Customer Service.
 Gift of appreciation award from Tesco TOM integration

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