ABITHA KARTHIKEYAN

** ******** ****** *** ** Stamford, CT 06901 Phone: 571-***-**** abmrzz@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

A Postgraduate diploma, in Human Resource Management an Engineer in Electronics &

Communication with more than 12.5 years experience in software design, development, testing

and maintenance. 9 years as Functional consultant, involved in requirement analysis, gap

analysis, documentation, business process analysis, customization and implementation of

Peoplesoft (7.5/8.0/8.8) HR, Payroll, Benefits, Benefits Administration.Has exposure to all quality

processes (SEI/CMM) involved in the software development life cycle.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP : Peoplesoft HR, Payroll, Benefits, Oracle Financials 7.x, Oracle HR,

Peoplesoft Financials 7

People Tools : Application Designer, Import Manager, Process Scheduler, Process

Monitor, Query, Application Engine, People Code, concurrent

Manager

Reporting Tools : SQR, SQL, Crystal Reports

Testing Tools : Quick Test Pro 6.x,Test Director

Hardware : IBM AS/400, Pentium

Operating System : UNIX,OS/400, Windows NT and Windows 95

Languages Databases : RPG/400, CL/400, Query/400, COBOL/400 and RPGLE,DB2/400,

Oracle 9i, Microsoft Office products

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Hexaware Technologies Inc., Jamesburg, NJ, USA.

Designation:Sr. Business Analyst Duration: Aug 1998-Feb 2010

Client : General Electric-Schenectady New York

Role: Sr. Business Analyst Duration: May 2004 – Jun 2009

Genesis is a project being run by GE to implement Peoplesoft HR, Payroll, Benefits and Pension systems that

will replace existing legacy systems for the US based population managed by GE US Employee Services.

This population is about 1 million HR records, 400,000 payroll payees and approximately 800,000 covered

lives.

Responsibilities:

• Making of the initial project plan with activities by phases, key milestones and

deliverables according to the scope of the RFP.

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• Elaborating Fit-Gap Analysis proposing possible solutions to develop new functionality

and some workarounds.

• The project included the implementation of Human Resources core modules work force

Admin

• Making of the delivery documentation for the Strategy and Planning phases, including

business processes diagrams.

• Up to date the project is in the Structure Phase.

• Monitor task progress to ensure adherence to established schedules.

• Coordinating with technical leader to align expectations and goals

• Ensures the tasks is delivered on time and produces high quality deliverables

• Manages all aspects of project.

• Manages project team including: Assigning roles and responsibilities, Assigns tasks and

activities, Resolves resource issues, Communicates accurate task status through reports,

sponsor reviews

• Create functional specification documents

• Creating Mid-level process flows

• Excellent experience in Requirement Gathering, Fit-Gap, Configuration, Design, Demo,

documentation.

• Understand the business requirements, functional and technical design of programs

completely before the tests and communicate with the business team for PeopleSoft

Payroll for North America, Time and labor, PeopleSoft Base Benefits, PeopleSoft

HRMS 8.8, Benefits.

• Involved in conversion of legacy data into Peoplesoft systems

• Involved in the comparison of legacy payroll data to Peoplesoft payroll data.

• Write test scripts, test cases, test scenarios.

• Writing DDWs (Dependency data worksheet), from Functional Specification and Business

Requirements

• Conduct the Functional Unit testing and record results (Open Kintanas in case of errors)

• Coordinate with the developers to identify the code errors and resolve them.

• Coordinate with the end-users and help them run UAT tests.

• Generating HIG003 and HIG006 files to Input data into Peoplesoft HR tables for Volume

testing.

• Co ordination with Offshore resources to allocate work, tracking progress

• Create Metrics for reporting purposes

• Writing Queries to get Benefits, pension and Payroll data for Business Users for analysis

and reports

• Involved in the Implementation of savings and security plans for GE using Fidelity as

Vendor.

• Involved in configuration for savings and security benefit plans.

• Assigning task and responsibilities to members of the team, including functional and

technical activities.

• Elaborating all the delivery documentation according to the methodology including Gap

Analysis and Development designs.

• Coordinate and supervise the progress of all phases of the project, those of Strategy,

Planning, Structure, Construct, Transition and Deploy.

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• Participating in meetings with members of the board notifying progress and proposing

solutions for some problems within the project.

• Applied QA for the entire configuration required.

• Involved in creating reports for legal department. (Anti-discrimination(ADP/ACP) and non-

discrimination reports-ABT)

• As the Change Management Coordinator for the peoplesoft Change Advisory Board

which meets at 1:00 PM each Monday, I managed the coordination and approval of Change

Requests.I also routinely processed Emergency Change Requests and publishing of custom

Change Notifications which in effect announced approved Changes and approved Kintanas

related to PeopleSoft enhancements. Finally, I gave technical support in the areas of policy,

processes and procedures as they relate to Change Management and wrote these policies

and kept them updated.

Environment:

People soft 8.8, PeopleSoft Payroll for North America, PeopleSoft Base Benefits, PeopleSoft

HRMS 8.8, Benefits Administration, Unix, Oracle 9i,TOAD, Kintana, Quick test Pro,PL/SQL

Client : Exult - Bank Of America- Charlotte-North Carolina

Role: Senior Business Analyst Duration: Feb 2002 – Apr 2004

Exult Inc. specializes in Human Resources BPO and Bank of America is one of their important

clients. Bank of America Corporation is one of the leading financial institutions in the United

States with its presence in multiple domains has about 150,000+ HR records. This project

involves SIT-testing the developments/enhancements to the Peoplesoft Payroll, HR for Bank Of

America. Also involved in the testing of interfaces and other applications like Success Factors

Application, Mercer Application, Wage Works Application and Employ! 4.x Recruiting system.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the business requirements, functional and technical design of programs

completely before the tests and communicate with the clients.

• Prepare detailed Functional and Technical test scripts.

• Conduct the System Integration tests and record results (Raise Testing Problem Reports

in case of errors)

• Coordinate with the developers to identify the code errors and resolve them.

• Coordinate with the vendors/client extensively on interface testing.

• Coordinate with the end-users and help them run UAT tests.

• Prepare metrics data for reporting to Senior Management

• Success Factors is a vendor application for Performance Management that was rolled out

for bank of America associates. Successfully used Quick Test Pro to test the functionality

of the application.

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Environment:

People soft 7.02, Unix, Oracle 8.0,TOAD, Maestro, Vista Plus, Quick test Pro,PL/SQL

Client : TDF ReXNet Production Support

Role: Maintenance Team Leader Duration: Jan 2000 – Jan 2002

Transamerica Distribution Finance has engaged Hexaware to provide ERP post implementation

support for its PeopleSoft Financials suite called ReXNet – Receivables Express Network.

Transamerica provides commercial credit services to corporations like Sears, CSK & Autozone

and either buys or manages their Accounts Receivables including Billing and Collections.

Hexaware provides 24 * 7 production support by managing their batch processing,

troubleshooting, problem management and user support through an offshore – onsite model

aiming at preventive maintenance and constantly adding value through proactive analysis and

performance management. Hexaware also provides programming support for fixes,

enhancements, customization reports and upgrades. An important feature of this service offering

is the ERP portal made for Transamerica for managing and accessing documentation for

knowledge management and an ERP Help desk for User support, training and tech support

through a web based call management system.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Batch monitoring, Preparing and reviewing Daily status reports and Monthly status

report, trouble shooting and problem management.

Environment:

Peoplesoft Financials 7, SQR and UNIX.

Client : EMI Capitol’s – Re-Hosting MPRS ON AS/400

Role: Team Leader Duration: July 1999 – Dec 1999

The project involved the migration of EMI Capitol’s Mainframe Publisher Royalty System (MPRS)

from IBM mainframe to IBM AS/400. The project included the migration of CICS COBOL

programs, Batch COBOL programs, JCLs / PROCs to CL programs, developing RPG programs

to replace the DYLAKOR programs which were used to generate reports, developing the screens

and programs to replace the KEYFAST utility which was used for data entry functions. The project

included the creation of AS/400 files based on the MPRS files, data migration and testing the jobs

based on the test scripts and test data provided by EMI.

The challenge in the project was the simulation / migration of mainframe’s GDG concepts in the

CL programs of AS/400. To mitigate the risk, a “proof-of-concept” phase was included in the

project to migrate a sample logically connected units. The migration strategies were refined

based on the migration of proof of concept software elements.

Responsibilities:

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Involved in writing business requirements, Technical Specifications Unit test plans, integration test

plans solving internal group issues, Preparing and reviewing Daily status reports and Monthly

status report, trouble shooting and problem management.

Environment:

Dylakor Report and Data Management Utility, RPG/400, CL/400 and DB2/400 on AS/400

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Client : Devro TeePack – YEAR 2000 Conversion

Role: Team Leader Duration: Aug 1998 – Jun 1999

The client DEVRO TEEPACK had in operation, a Finance and Manufacturing System provided by

Solution Providers - JD Edwards and Prism. The project scope included Y2K conversion of

source code (RPG/400, COBOL/400 and CL/400) from three different modules - JD Edward,

Prism and their Custom model, all using different date formats. It also included Query/400 queries

and SEQUEL/400 views.

An efficient Y2K tool (HEXA 2000) was used to carry out Inventory Analysis and Data Migration.

Copybooks (Date Conversion routines) were used during code correction to maintain uniformity of

the newly introduced code.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Impact Analysis and Code Correction of RPG/400, CL/400 programs and Query/400

queries. Also involved in the DDS Expansion of Physical and Logical files.

Environment:

RPG/400, CL/400, and Query/400 on IBM AS/400

BHARI Information Technology Systems Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India

Designation: Faculty /Programmer Duration: Jun 1997– Jul 1998

BHARI Information Technology systems Pvt. Ltd., is one of the leading training organization for

software products in India.

Responsibilities:

Wrote course materials for AS/400 a mid range computer system using reference manuals.

Review questions, conducted Training classes for students who enrolled in the class and trained

them in AS/400.

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