Praveen

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Workday Consultant

+1-(469)-(347) -(3075)

linkedin.com/in/praveen-g-3b059624b

Professional Summary

• Having 12+ years of experience in SAP and Workday Consultant with around 7+ years of experience in Human Resource including Workday Payroll, Business Analysis, Business Process Flows, Security, Reporting and Integration.

• Worked on various Workday modules with Techno functional experience in Core HCM, Payroll, Finance, Procurement, Recruiting, Compensation, Benefits, Time tracking and Absence management.

• Experienced with different modules of Workday i.e. HCM Module, Workday Integration, Reports and Migration. Substantial functional expertise in HCM business process analysis, mapping solutions to these processes, and determining best approaches based upon leading and emerging business practices.

• Functional and Technical experience in Business Analysis, Business Process Flows, Reporting and Integration Possesses.

• Managed all aspects of testing, including creation of test scenarios, test plan, integration testing, scenario and defect metrics and reporting, status reporting, and coordination with additional teams (e.g. development, conversion, and third-party vendors).

• Troubleshoot integration issues and demonstrated functional experience in Time Tracking, Absence Management and Human Resources.

• Provided Test Management Tool (Smartsheet) training and support to clients.

• Assisted with Workday release testing for HCM, Time, and Absence modules and Integrations.

• Partnered with clients to create test strategy and test plan using Alight best practices.

• Managed all aspects of testing, including creation of test scenarios, test plan, integration testing, scenario and defect metrics and reporting, status reporting, and coordination with additional teams (e.g. development, conversion, and third-party vendors).

• Worked on creating Advanced, Customer Reports to meet the basic needs of HR applications.

• Worked on modifying and troubleshooting the existing custom reports and trouble shoot the integrations.

• Worked on creating EIB inbound and outbound integrations.

• Knowledge on different security groups like Role Based Security, User Based Security, and Job based Security groups.

• Created EIB’s and provided necessary security for related functional area to Launch EIB’s.

• Hands on experience in inbound/ outbound integrations Using Core Connector, Workday Studio, managing business processes, working with EIB, Report Writer, Creating Workday Calculated Fields and Custom Reports.

• Experienced in Edit Tenant setup related configuration for System, Security, and Work lets, Business Processes and Notifications and reporting.

• Expert in Workday HCM using modules such as HR, Staffing, Position Management, Performance Management and Payroll.

• Experienced in Edit Tenant setup related configuration for System, Security, and Work lets, Business Processes and Notifications and reporting.

• Good Understanding with Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT), Created multiple 22 BIRT Reports like Talent Card, Employee Potential Reports, Offer, Termination, Hire, Confirmation, and Merit Letters, Customer Invoice, Purchase Order, Supplier invoices for Premier and Subsidiary companies.

• Experience in Extracting the data using Workday Web Services for all benefit connector integrations and carefully planned open enrolment to ensure proper setup and testing of benefit provider integrations.

• Good experience in Workday implementations, Workday business process configurations, Workday security,

• Workday Time Reporting, and payroll domain, Client and Vendor management.

Technical Skills

Web Integrations

SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT, DT, calculated fields, Custom reports, Cloud Connects, Core Connectors, EIBs.

Data mapping

Transferring data between two systems, Microsoft Excel, Adaptive integration

Document Processing

MS Office MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Web, MS Excel.

Quality Management

Test Director, Win\ Load Runner

Methodologies/ Framework

Rational Unified Process (Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Clear Case, and Clear Quest), Waterfall, JAD, Data Modelling, Business Modelling, Visual Paradigm.

Data Modelling

Visio, Rational Rose

ETL\Reporting

Informatics, Business objects (BOXI) R3 with Crystal Report, BIRT.

Database

Oracle 10g, 11g, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 R2/2012, MS Access.

Reporting Tools

Workday Report Writer, WD Studio Report Designer, SQR, Kronos.

Operating Systems

Windows Server 2000. 2003, XP, Seven, Vista.

Testing Tools

Load Runner, QTP, QC

Workday skills

ERP: Workday, Custom Reports, Calculated Fields, Payroll, Packaged Integrations, EIB, Core Connectors, XSLT, iLoad’s, Workday Studio

Education:

• Masters in mathematics, Nagarjuna University Guntur 2011

Role: Workday Integration Lead

Client: Skechers Oct 2023 to till date Location: Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Adept at crafting and executing comprehensive testing strategies for end-to-end Workday solutions. Ensure robust system functionality and data integrity.

• Led and implemented Workday's testing methodologies, processes, and tools globally by collaborating with cross-functional teams, defining standardized testing approaches, and establishing a central repository for test documentation.

• Led successful migration of Existing HR applications to Workday and Job Architecture, working closely with functional teams, designing custom data mapping and transformation strategies for a seamless transition.

• Developed comprehensive test strategies and plans, covering unit testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing, minimizing post-implementation issues.

• Created complex calculated fields and custom reports related to Integration Process, Work Schedule, and Time Tracking.

• Optimized Workday's Delegation of Authority functionality by leading the design, configuration, and testing of delegation rules and workflows, streamlining delegation processes.

• Demonstrated expertise in Workday's Job Architecture framework, leading the design, integrations, and execution of comprehensive test scenarios globally.

• Implemented test automation and management strategies, developing automated test scripts, reducing manual effort, and enabling faster regression testing cycles.

• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to drive business process improvements within testing workflows globally, identifying pain points, and implementing streamlined workflows for cost savings.

• Developed EIB Integration using custom report to send the US, Canada, Costa Rica, EMEA and APAC employee’s timecard data from Workday to Various External Systems.

• Created core connector integration to send the new hire changes data to Service Now downstream system and scheduled to run on daily basis.

• Created In bound studio integration to Import the SDworx, Protime, Itrent Time Clock data for Europe countries to Workday system.

• Created Core Connector integration to send the employee changes data from workday to Various Applications.

• Created EIB Inbound integration to load the data from Ceridian to the Workday using Edit Service dates template to load the Service dates.

• Created complex calculated fields and custom reports related to Integration Process, Work Schedule, and Time Tracking.

• Re-designed Business Process such as adding notifications, editing process, steps, security policies and creation of condition rules.

• Uploaded period schedule for Monthly, Weekly, Bi-monthly and Annual periods through EIB.

• Have prepared EIB inbound integration to generate and upload the list of holidays for all the Southeast Asia countries.

• Configured various notifications in integrations.

• Worked on Object Transporter (OX) to migrate the objects between the tenants.

• Developed and modified complex XSLT/XPath to resolve the production issues.

• Supported and have done enhancement on the existing HCM integrations.

• Monitored and resolved the issues related to Payroll Integrations (PICOF) for three major countries.

• Worked on several Time tracking and Absence related issues and resolved them using Service Now ticketing tool.

• Involved in the board meeting to discuss about the tickets, service requests and new enhancements to the project activities.

Role: Workday Consultant

Client: Premier Inc. Dec2018 to Aug 2023 Location: Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Work with stakeholders to develop an overall integration strategy that aligns with the organization's business goals and objectives. Identify opportunities for new integrations or improvements to existing ones.

• Patient portals-Used for creating patient portals to access their insurance records and to communicate with health providers.

• Created BIRT report designs for financial checks as well as reporting for workday financials. made original BIRT reports, workday dashboards, and changed old reports.

• Skilled in managing data, creating custom reports by combining different calculated field combinations, and using Workday Reports (BIRT, Advanced, Matrix, Simple, search, trending, and Transpose).

• Verified earnings, deductions, and benefit plans considering any associated integrations.

• Used adaptive integration to enhance efficiency to reduce manual data entry to make organizations more informed.

• Developing Codes, Groups, and Time Entry Templates for Workday Integration

• Provided support to end-users and other team members who rely on integrated data. Address user inquiries, troubleshoot integration-related problems, and offer guidance on data extraction and usage.

• Worked on integrating Workday Core HCM, Benefits, and Payroll modules with systems from customers and vendors.

• Created Time Calculation, Time Calculation Groups, Eligibility rules, Time Entry codes, and Calculation tags to identify Shift, Overtime, and Consecutive days calculation based on employee’s time entry codes.

• Worked on Outbound integration using EIB and Custom report for sending the employee insurance data to benefit vendor.

• Production Support/Enhancements for Business Process configuration/optimization, HCM, Payroll, Time tracking, providing recommendations and troubleshooting issues.

• Create integration design documents that outline the data flow, data mapping, and transformation logic between Workday Adaptive Planning and other systems. Determine the integration approach, such as batch or real-time integration.

• Leverage integrated data for reporting and analytics purposes. Create dashboards and reports to provide insights into financial, operational, or other key performance metrics.

• Checked wages, deductions, and benefit plans considering any integrations that may have occurred.

• Configure Workday so that it can support company activities such as human capital management, benefits, payroll, compensation, performance management, and absence management.

• I took part in the implementation of several Workday HCM modules, such as Payroll, Compensation Benefits, Performance Management, and Time Management.

• Created reports in various functional areas such as New Hires, Onboarding, termination, Benefits, Talent Management, Compensation, Payroll and Recruiting.

• Assisted in connecting the Workday Core HCM, Benefits, and Payroll modules with those of clients and suppliers.

• Hands on experience in creating security groups by assigning Domain Security Policies and

• Business Process Security Policies.

• Configuring bank accounts for suppliers and creating settlement runs for Supplier invoices, credit card transactions and worker expenses.

• Created corporate credit card program synchronization with Bank of America for expenses and procurement payments.

• Automated the process of supplier and customer screening with third party systems.

• Led design, discovery, preparation and review of solution approaches and post development review of integrations for performance tuning, error handling and future scalability.

• Integrating third party systems for synchronous information flow using Workday SOAP web services and Public Rest APIs for HR and financial interfaces.

• Developed HR, Benefits and Core Payroll integrations using PECI (Payroll Effective Change interface) for different geographies.

• Hands on experience in inbound/ outbound integrations Using Core Connector, Workday Studio, managing business processes, working with EIB, Report Writer, Creating Workday Calculated Fields and Custom Reports.

• Experienced in Edit Tenant setup related configuration for System, Security, and Work lets, Business Processes and Notifications and reporting.

• Unit testing and Assembly testing for all the integrations by interacting with business users on daily basis to create all possible test scenarios for testing.

• Workday upgrade operations management with testing of processes, integrations, security and all new functionality with Workday upgrade

Role: Sr. Software Engineer

Client: VWR Lab Products Pvt Ltd Nov 2011 to Oct 2018

Location: Coimbatore-India

Responsibilities:

• Gather and analyze customer requirements based on their needs and recommend best approach’s.

• Communicate with Client coordinator the status of tickets and provide high level and detailed information.

• Check, review and update blueprint and functional requirements.

• Provides documentation for each configuration that will be used as reference for other consultants.

• Check error and issues raised by the client.

• Responsible for testing new SAP notes and share manual instructions as needed so client owner will be prepared and aware for the new changes in the system.

• Help client owner to determine impact of HRSP implemented.

• Provide job aid / DWI to clients as needed.

• Responsible for explaining to the clients the result of the investigation and action that must be done.

• Generate report of all active Headcounts/ EE Metrics.

• Bound to commit weekly updates to Client for the open items.

• Secure to back up all necessary information before making any configuration.

• Report to Client coordinator daily update of the tickets.

• Communicate with SAP / ABAP for other legal changes and reports.

• Create functional specifications.

• Create impact and estimation analysis for Change requests.

• Generate transport, review all existing tickets and collate all test evidence for SOC1 control.

• Review all creation/ revocation and user with critical authorization for Logical Security.

• Updating of role matrix to ensure that all users adhere to

• Check and assess all transactions granted per user and determine if this is significant and appropriate according to her/his role.

• Generate report of all users existing in all environments for clients’ reference.

• Communicate with the user and auditor for the justification of authorization granted.

• Provide user log on a monthly basis for customer review.

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