PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Information Technology Analyst with over 6+ years of experience in implementing, configuring, analysing, customizing, maintaining software systems. 3+ years of extensive experience as a Workday Consultant. Worked with Custom Reports, Calculated Fields, Payroll, EIB’s, Cloud Connector, Report Design and Solutions. Administration and most recently as the WORKDAY functional Consultant at Aviva Corporation.

KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

3.5 years of experience in implementation, support of Workday HCM, Recruiting, Reporting and EIB’s.

Experience in all phases of the Workday implementation lifecycle namely – Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development and Testing

Well versed with functional knowledge of Workday HCM and Recruiting modules - from configuration/setup to ongoing changes.

Maintained and created various staffing models for Position Management Staffing Models, Headcount management Staffing Model and Job Management Staffing Model for various customers with different requirements.

Drive and assist in user acceptance testing, defect tracking, logging and follow change management process for implementation.

Experience creating custom reports using Workday Report Writer to meet the business needs of HR, Payroll and functional business groups.

Strong experience in requirements gathering fit/gap analysis, business and technical user’s interaction and presentation.

Developed testing strategies and verification scenarios along with project Scope and Requirement documents, diagnosed functional issues, report bugs, and take ownership of issue resolution.

Good understanding of Kainos SMART workday testing platform.

Good understanding of business process for Benefits, Payroll, Time and labor.

Hands on experience in inbound/ outbound EIB’s, Core connectors.

Experience in defining, documenting and testing functional business processes for different areas of workday.

Responsible for loading completed test scripts into Quality Centre

Excellent analytical and logical skills with a good understanding at the conceptual level.

Versatile team player with ability to perform under stress and satisfactory client interaction, Good communication skills, self-motivated and quick learner.

Experience in doing code reviews and validating vendor delivers for overall effectiveness and success of the project.

Experience in setting up benefits plans, merit plans and compensation restructuring.

Quick learner and excellent team player having ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Workday

Workday Studio, EIBs – Enterprise Interface Builders, Core Connectors, Cloud Connectors, Migrations using iLoads & Solutions, Document Transformation - XSLT, XTT, Core HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Core Finance, Core Finance, Expenses, Calculated Fields, Reporting.

Database

SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Access

Operating systems

Windows 2007/XP/2000/NT, UNIX, Linux

Web Technologies

Java Servlets, DHTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT

Design Tools

MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Aviva, Chicago, IL Sep2014-Tilldate

Sr Workday Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

Gathered and documented requirements, fit/gaps, setup, configuration and developed functional design specifications.

Configuration of Workday’s business process framework, configured conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes.

Involve in global expense credit card transaction and responsible for calculating credit card transaction error.

Involved in structuring companies, organizations, locations, location hierarchies, cost Centers and custom organization types.

Responsible for loading completed test scripts into Quality Center: Workday, Reports, End-to-End etc.

Led activities for retiring old legacy systems supporting compensation/payroll.

Responsible for driving Implementation - Configuring system, Security, Roles, Business Processes, Payroll Testing, Reporting, Data Integrity.

Experience in setting up time entry rules, eligibility rules, validations, payroll and time tracking period schedules.

Liaise with HR, payroll, other internal departments and third party vendors and developed test plans and test scenarios for functional, end to end, system integration, user acceptance and parallel acceptance testing.

Responsible for managing providence file experience in configure credit card transaction.

Day to day support of Workday HCM, Security, Compensation and Reporting issues.

Creating the new business processes and notifications in deployment and sandbox tenants based on the designed business flow diagrams

Configured PICOFs to integrate with 3rd party payroll vendors

Worked on creating Workday Report Writing for the compensation projects like Budget Allocation, Bonus Allocation, Stock Allocation etc.

Created Inbound Studio integrations to update external payroll deductions data coming from external vendors Wage Works, Your Cause and reports

Wellversed in all phases of recruitment and hiring, including defining job roles, assessing needed skillsand qualifications, and evaluating candidates.

Sanofi, Bridgewater, NJ Feb2013-Aug2014

Workday Consultant

Responsibilities:

Analysed client’s HR/Payroll business needs through client working sessions and supported development of new business processes and a future state design.

Participated in the design and optimization of all global HR processes. Ensured the Workday HCM system is configured and leveraged to support HR business processes.

Participated in the discovery sessions with client and vendors, create the design and mapping documents and submit the same for sign off.

Day to day support of Workday HCM, Security, Compensation and Reporting issues

Worked on several country payroll integrations (India, UK, Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore, South Africa, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico, Honduras, Gaugamela, Canada and North America payroll).

Configured Workday compensation packages including salary, bonus, allowance, commission, and merit plans for multiple states including merit and bonus plan processing.

Rolling out employee self-services for Leave, time off, payment and tax elections and personal data maintenance.

Worked with different staffing models, defining Hire restrictions, job management, position management and Headcount Management.

Proposed Compensation for New Hire, Edit Government Ids, Edit workday Account.

Worked on creation of benefit plans, job profiles and job families.

Participation in Complex Human Capital Transformation projects, and payroll.

Building and implementing HR service delivery models and organizational designs using workday.

Configuring Compensation Plans, leave of absence and time off plans, configuring validation rules, security groups and business process.

Used SAP BODS 3.2 as ETL to extract the data captured from PICOF and to provide the integration files based on the requirement for payroll vendors (Master data, Compensation data, Time offs, Leaves, Dependent and payment elections.

Help team in functional configuration and technical integration of the Workday application

Developing testing strategies and verification scenarios along with project scope and Requirements documents.

Symantec, Mountain View, CA Mar2011-Jan2013

Workday QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

Developing project functional requirements by meeting with users.

Involved in preparing Test Plan and Test Cases based on the function specifications.

Analyzed the application and performed Black Box and end-to-end manual testing.

Planned, coordinated and monitored project levels of performance and activities to ensure project completion on time.

Involved in the review of requirements with business analysts and technical specialists.

Checked for the Database Integrity using the SQL Queries.

Involved in User Interface Testing to verify the functionality of various systems.

Backend testing using SQL queries and PL/SQL procedures.

Involved in configuring security for modules including permission lists, roles, and user profiles.

Maintaining consistent delivery of PeopleSoft and other supported applications throughout the product suite by adherence to rigorous code development standards and the architecture framework

Developed and customized workflows based on the business requirement.

Gather data conversion requirements for functionality that should be migrated.

Assisted in the setup of benefits providing employees online access to their benefit programs.

Developed SQR reports for non-qualified employee report, benefits confirmation statement.

Analyze, design, build, test, document, and implement reports and interfaces/ conversion programs.

Idhasoft, India Jun2009-Dec2010

Data Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

Initiated DBA interactions for resource requirements and modifications.

Created new mappings and updated old mappings according to changes in Business logic

Performed major role in understanding the business requirements, designing and loading the data into data warehouse

Used Business Objects Data Integrator to load data from source system to data Mart.

Migrated all ETL Jobs and Data Base (Data Mart and Staging) into Production from Development Server

Handled several issues which came under production support.

Modified the universe, created classes and objects by retrieving the data from various data sources

Implemented SCD using normal transformations (Other than Table comparison and History Preserving) in Data Integrator to increase performance.

Used Business Objects Web Administrator to schedule and monitor Batch jobs

Implemented Automation process, Polling, Failure and Recovery Mechanism for ETL Job Execution.

Used Debugger to troubleshoot the mappings between source and target tables.

Implemented performance tuning logic on Targets, Sources and mappings to provide maximum efficiency and performance.

Defined Target Load Order Plan for loading data into Target Tables

Prepared Unit Test Cases.

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