Alex Kouwenhoven

SAP ALM, S4/Hana, Coupa, Blackline, Cevinio, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, Conga/Apttus CPQ, Quote to Cash, CLM, ServiceNow, OneTrust, ConfigIT, Navetti, Amdocs, Sinlg.eView, BSCS, Oracle BRM

Delivery Manager (80%) and Test Manager (20%) Implementation of a common Data integration Hub (SAP BTP) which connects multiple Cloud SaaS solutions to 15+ SAP systems. Solutions which are in scope: Blackline (GL), Cevinio (AP), Coupa (Spend), HighRadius (R2R), Brenntag Connect, AWS / Salesforce integration and NetFira (Docu) Managed a successful go-live of Coupa R34 and AWS / Salesforce Roundtrip demonstration from Brenntag Connect to SAP and back via the new DIH (SAP BTP with S4)

I was responsible for the rollout and configuration of ALM. I managed the following workstreams: I2M, O2C, OM, M2O (CC, D2C), R2R, GTS, P2P, FTP, IWD, 3PL, GF, IBP (DP, SP, S&OP). I was responsible for the Program Test Strategy, Test Preparation, Leading the testing of SIT1, SIT2 and UAT for the SAP and non-SAP, TCS and non-TCS systems. I managed a team of 15 testers from TCS and more than 100 acceptance testers for Versuni. I managed Tricentis and SAP (Advisory board) for the automation testing in SAP ALM.

DACOTA is the programme for implementing the General Data Protection Regulation in the Volkswagen group, which includes the GCMP, GPMT (Group Privacy Management Tool "Onetrust"), DPMP and DPCoRe (Data Privacy Company Reporting "ServiceNow") projects.

Single point of contact for the near shoring of the QA (Regression) Test Automation project - Supporting the QA automation team as the Tosca expert, guiding and training functionality, usage - Create Action plan for phased approach and POC for QAAS. - Creating Automation Test Strategy, Test Code documentation and Tosca Upgrade documents - Performing the upgrade of Tosca Server, Tosca License Server, Tosca Commander. - Creating POC of all systems in scope by using Tosca only instead of Selenium integration.

Managing the migration from ALM to Octane using the Microfocus Migration tool. Managing the Microfocus Connect tool (for e.g. Jira and other tools) Synchronisation to Octane. Initial setup of Automation testing and CI-CD integration.

Request for Information (RFI) for a Global Billing System. All Lines of Businesses are involved such as Acquiring, Issuing and intercompany. I performed following activities: Gathering Business Requirements, Creation of High-Level Requirements for RFI vendors. Creation of RFI, BRD and SRS documents from scratch. Business process modelling in BIC Cloud (BPMN) – as-is and to-be processes. Meetings with Software Integrator Partners (long-list) to select Partner for Analysis phase/RFP.

Test Manager for UAT (End client VACUUBRAND, Wertheim, DE) End to End Test Management of the following SAP modules: - S4 Hana (SD, MM, FI, CO, PP, QM, CS) - GTS - EWM (with new Automatic Warehouse, 2 Lanes) / AKL Automatisches Klein Lager WE Wareneingang / WA Warenausgang - HCM - BDE - ME

As a Test Manager within the ABB Testing Team, I managed several projects: 1) SAP S4/Hana Order Management and SAP R3 Order Capture plus Fiori Apps 2) Salesforce Regression testing and new functionality 4) Apttus Order 2 Cash shopping cart calculation and Order to SAP 5) Navetti PricePoint to manage prices of products and update price changes in SAP 6) Apttus CLM, Contract Lifecycle Management with X-Author in Ms-Word and DocuSign

As the RAS 1B Test Lead I was directly responsible for managing 7 Test Execution Leads (TEL) from all work streams, regarding the test -preparation, - planning, gateway’s, - kick off and - execution (progress and defects). I was managing 75-100 testers located in 5 rooms in Cologne, being the first point of contact regarding testing (training, system access, support) of FS-RI functional customisations (requirements / MDL's), configurations and Change Requests.

Local Test Manager (Acceptance Testing) in Munich and Leipzig for all Defects, Problems, Issues and appropriate Rework activities of all BMW models, during production, maintenance (at dealers) or after sales of vehicles in 8 worldwide plants in German, English and Chinese language. Common Defect description of all BMW models for dealers, customers, production and suppliers (parts) to eliminate all Defects, zero error policy.

During the End-To-End Business Process Testing (Abnahme / UAT), I organised the testing of all the business processes (Finance, Sales, Customer Service and Production) 1) Creation of a Test strategy, finding existing Requirements, Defects and Manuals 2) Selection of a Test Tool and managing HP Switzerland vendor 3) Configuring and importing existing defects and requirements, setup Releases and Cycles 4) Optimizing the Release Strategy from 1-month cycle to 2 months Cycle and include Testing