TAMIZ VEDACHALAM

**** ** **** *** **, Doral, Florida 33166 Mobile: +1-651-***-****; Res: +1-651-***-****

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Professional Synopsys:

SAP HCM / Success Factors Certified Professional with more than 12 + years of progressive experience in SAP HCM and Success Factors Implementations.

Worked in 2 Implementation and 4 support and 1 Testing Project

Worked in all phases of project from business prerequisites gathering, business process examination, applied outline, blueprinting, design, testing, and generation support.

Experienced in gathering Customer Business requirements and blueprinting, also recording the business process in Success Factors derived workbook configuration sheet

Worked in Test Case Preparation, Test Strategery and Scope Documentation

Currently working as a Success Factors Consultant and involved in Employee Central, Integrations

Dell Boomi Integrations, SAP PI, Redwood, FileZilla & SAP Idocs

Exposure in Automation Testing tool – Microsoft UFT

Exposure in Octane and Jira

Proficient in MS-Office: Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Project

Education

Master’s in Social Work (Human Resources), Madras University, Chennai in 2007

Bachelor’s in commerce at SCSVMV Deemed University in 2005

Certification

SAP HR ECC 6.00

Success Factors : Employee Central (Core) & Learning Management System

Safe Agile Certification

Roles and Responsibilities:

Designated as SuccessFactors Tester (Duration: September 2019 to March 2020 – Miami, Florida) in Harpro Tech Inc Pvt Ltd

Client: Royal Caribbean Cruise (Cruise Line) - US

Role: SuccessFactors Tester

Modules: Employee Central, Learning Management (Shore / Ship Operations), CPI (Integrations)

QA Analyst:

Builds the work needed to implement functionality from the product backlog defined by client/implementation consultants

Prepare required Test deliverables such as (Test Plan, Test Cases)

Work with SME’s to schedule testing effort and ensure QA Testing process is completed on time

Determine the size of user stories and deliver test sets against user criteria

Drive UAT Testing phase and acquire sign off from Business

Ensure necessary documentation are built: Go No Checklist, Defect Management Template, Entry and Exit Criteria, Test Plan road map and Scope documentation

Follows industry-standard agile software design methodology for development and documentation

Conduct daily SIT stand up meetings / generate test status reports

SAP SuccessFactors Testing:

Created Test cases in Employee Central Modules: Foundation Objects, Position Management, ESS & MSS, HRIS Data Update, Workflows and Mass uploads

Written test cases for SuccessFactors LMS relevant to standard functionalities. Written LMS End to End Test cases, Negative Testing against RBP roles

Written Test cases, specific to Client Ship Lab process and sound knowledge in Cachebox concepts

Create and Update User stories in Jira for Integrations against CPI

Assist Automation team to built test scripts for LMS and EC in Selenium tool

Designated as Team Lead SuccessFactors Employee Central (Duration: October 2014 to August 2019 – Minneapolis, USA) in Accenture Services Pvt Ltd

Project-1

Client: Cargill (Agriculture and Commodities Industry) - US

Role: Onshore Lead - SuccessFactors

Modules: Employee Central, Learning Management, ORD Reporting & Integrations, Dell Boomi

Integrations & Middleware (Dell Boomi):

Extensive knowledge in designing Integration solutions for Cloud, On-Premises and Hybrid scenarios

Proficient in Data Replication Monitor

SAP to SF integration for Core BizX and LMS

Extensively worked in Success Factors Integrations with Peoplesoft, Taleo, SAP HCM, SailPoint, Kronos

Worked in RBP Online designer jobs integrated with SailPoint systems

Employee Central:

Proficient in Position Management design

Foundation objects like legal entity, location, division, department etc and MDF objects.

Configuration of other objects including personal, employment and generic objects.

Worked extensively in XML files like corporate data model, succession data model, country specific succession data models for meeting the business requirements

Creating RBP Groups and setting up security authorization

Setting up the Corporate Data Model for all foundation objects and maintenance of associations between objects as per the business requirements.

Configured Succession Data Model for all Portlets, Imported relevant Pick list for Portlets and Foundation objects. Configured Event-Reason,

Derivation Rules and Setting up event-reason derivation rules

Setting up a new account in Provisioning and Creation of Super Admin and providing access & privileges to all users as per the requirement.

Learning Management System:

Instance fundamental settings – Passwords, Home Page, Welcome Menu, Company information, Employee documents.

Configured Administrator tools and Admin Privileges, Setting up organization Logos.

Managing Data User Records with Employee Data File, Permissions, Password Policies, Email Notifications, Change motor setup, Text Customization in Instance.

Troubleshoot user requests such as password reset, modifying learning plans

ORD Reporting:

Strong experience in handling in standard reports like Headcount, Hired Employees, Headcount by Age

Configured RBP and employee data synchronization (EC to EP) using scheduled reports and job

Excellent experience in Single Domain Report, Multi Dataset Report and Cross Domain Report etc

Agile Scrum Master Responsibilities:

Introduced & taught Scrum, Functional Testing, Test case management & Product backlog management.

Implemented Issues Tracking in Version One to effectively track impediments against user stories.

Additional Responsibilities:

Responsible for delivering monthly dashboards to leadership

Use Accenture Internal tools : DCM to validate to master data between Success Factors and Sail point

Project-2

Client: 3M (Healthcare and Consume Goods) - US

Role: Team Lead - SAP HCM & SuccessFactors

Modules: SAP HCM - PAOM, Payroll, LSO, Travel & Expenses, Integrations, HR Security & Success Factors - Recruitment

SuccessFactors – Recruitment

Created Offer letter templates

Picklist Management

Responsible for troubleshooting Boomi Integrations in Position Management Jobs

SAP HCM - PAOM

Defined Enterprise structures, Personnel structures, Payroll Area, & Organization structure.

Configured Info type Menus, Info groups

Configured Number range intervals and created customized info type and module pool screen

LSMW

SAP HCM - Learning Solutions

Assessed training needs, blending Instructor Led Training (ILT), eLearning (WBT/CBT)

Third party content implementation with Authoring tool using AICC / SCORM packaged courses

LDAP ESS Portal Configuration

SAP HCM - Travel & Expenses

Configure Trip Ranges and Travel info types, Expense Types

Configure GL codes, Expense types

Responsible for managing Travel Integrations, Idocs & Concur Integrations

SAP HCM - Payroll & Time

Configured basic pay in payroll by setting up the pay scale area, pay scale type, pay scale group, vacation calculation and payroll period.

Wage type configuration

Designated as Senior Software Engineer (Duration: July 2011 to October 2014 –Chennai, Bangalore & Hyderabad - India) Accenture Services Pvt Ltd

Project-1 Client: 3M (Healthcare and Consume Goods) – US

Role: Senior Software Engineer

Modules: SAP HCM - PAOM, Learning Solutions, Travel & Expenses

SAP HCM - PAOM

Defined Enterprise structures, Personnel structures, Payroll Area, & Organization structure.

Configured Info type Menus, Info groups

Defined Personnel Actions (Hiring, promotion,tc) Personal Data, Organizational Assignment, PWT and Basic Pay.

Configured Number range intervals and created customized info type and module pool screen

SAP HCM - Learning Solutions and Travel & Expenses

Preparation of qualification catalogue and assigning to its jobs and positions.

Designed LMS business processes for learning with new dimension in SAP LSO like Learner Roles, Due Diligence reports

Assessed training needs, blending Instructor Led Training (ILT), eLearning (WBT/CBT),

Configure Trip Ranges and Travel info types, GL Codes & Expense Types

Project-2

Client: Novartis (Pharma Industry) – Germany & Nordics

Role: Software Engineer - SAP HCM

Modules: SAP HCM - HR Admin (PAOM)

SAP HCM - PAOM

Defined Enterprise structures, Personnel structures, Payroll Area, & Organization structure.

Configured Info type Menus, Info groups

Defined Personnel Actions (Hiring, promotion, confirmation etc) Personal Data, Organizational Assignment, Planned Working Time and Basic Pay.

Configured Number range intervals and created customized info type and module pool screen

Project-3

Client: Shell Petroleum (Resources & Oil) – France, UK & Germany

Role: Software Engineer - SAP HCM

Modules: Payroll & Time Management

SAP HCM - Payroll & Time

Creation of customer wage types from model wage

Creation of Pay Scale Type, Area, Group and Level and default with Feature TARIF for Personnel Area

Created Period work schedule, creation Holiday calendar and deploying with the new work schedule rule

Configured Inland requirements for operating PAYE scheme that allows Tax components

Designated as “Process Executive” (Duration: June 2010 to May 2011 – Chennai, India)

Tata Consultancy Services, India – (US Client)

Role: Engineer Process Analyst / SAP Tester

Modules: SAP HCM – PAOM & SAP FI – General Ledger, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)

HR Payroll & General Ledger

Payroll Confirmation On cycle payroll on Biweekly basis and FI Posting

AP Vendor Payment process & Weekly ADP Tax Posting

Monthly GL Balance managing in Hyperion Financial Management

Involved in SAP Business Regression Testing in newly deployed SAP FI applications

Designated as “Officer” (Duration: December 2007 to June 2010 – Chennai, India)

WIPRO, India – (US Client)

Role: HR / Payroll Analyst

Modules: PeopleSoft 8. 9 - North dAmerica Payroll

Client: Sears & Kmart - US

Payroll & Time Management

Weekly payroll activities and time management by confirming payroll on unit level inclusion of payroll & tax error

Kronos time loading and error validations

Designated as “Associate” (Duration: August 2007 to December 2007 – Chennai, India)

Role: Recruitment Support Specialist

Module: Peoplesoft HR – Recruitment

Client: Standard Chartered Bank (In House)

Recruitment & Master Data Support

Hiring Form processing

Preparation of Offer letters

Conduct employee reference checks

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