Sr. Workday Consultant HCM/ Peoplesoft consultant

Nischala

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Professional Summary:

Overall 10 years of Experience with around 3+ years of experience in Workday HCM Implementation and Support.

Core HR- Experienced in understanding Client business requirements, Organizational hierarchy setup, Configurable security setup, Custom field mapping, and System process designs.

Supported migration from legacy applications to Workday

Worked on the 3rd Party Payroll Integration (PICOF, PECI) to Ceridian, Kronos

Strong Experience with Workday Report Writer - Custom Reporting (Calculated Fields, Advanced, Matrix Reports)

Proficient in performing Business process analysis, creating design specifications and solutions in Workday

Proficient in setting up/working on various modules of Workday like Workday HCM core, Compensation, Recruiting, Absence Management & Time off.

Worked on the Object Management Systems like Role Based Security, User Based Security, Job Based Security groups.

Good experience in developing both inbound and outbound EIB integrations in workday system.

Worked on various enhancements related to EIB Integrations, Core Connectors, PECI, PICOF, Studio Integrations and Custom Reports.

Extensively involved in testing of interfaces and conversions from Legacy and Third-party systems to PeopleSoft and workday applications.

Strong Experience in PeopleSoft finance and SCM modules like Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Asset Management, and Lease Accounting.

Worked on new features, enhancements, Upgrade, Fit-gap analysis and Testing of PeopleSoft applications.

Experience in spanning Product management, Development and end to end project life cycle Management for PeopleSoft- Finance & Supply Chain Management product

Performed Unit testing and supported System Testing and User Acceptance Testing

Proven ability to mentor and work with teams of multi culture, multi domain across the globe. Excellent ability to work with different teams, people and manage business expectations and deliverables while working in a team or as an individual.

Technical Skills:

Cloud Technologies/ERP: Workday, PeopleSoft FSCM 8.9, 9.x, People Tools 8.x

Workday Tools: Report writer, Calculated Fields, EIB, Core Connector, Workday Studio

Workday Modules: Workday HCM, Absence and Time off, Recruiting, Compensation

PSFT Modules: Accounts Payable, Asset Management, Lease Accounting, Purchasing

PeopleSoft Tools: SQL Validator, Data Mover

Automation Tools: PTF (PeopleSoft Test Framework) Exchanger XML Editor

RDBMS: Oracle

Operating Systems: Windows XP/ 7/10, Mac OS (Tiger & Leopard)

Reporting Tools: Bug smart, HP-QC, BUG, ICE, Service Now, Remedy

MS Office: Word, Excel & Power Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project #1

Role: Senior Workday Consultant

Client: Kraft Heinz Company

Location: Chicago, IL Dec-2018 – Till Date

Description:

The Kraft Heinz Company is an American food company formed by the merger of Kraft Foods and Heinz based in Chicago, Illinois and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Roles & Responsibilities

Assist with ongoing day to day support for Workday integrations, Recruiting, Core HCM, Absence and Time off modules

Created Integration System Security Groups and Role based security groups per requirements.

Managing functional support for core HR process, Business Process, and Security Groups.

Worked on various enhancements like developing and altering integrations, creating new alerts, Compensation plans, Grade profiles, Offer letters, conditional rules

Configured integrations and system security groups to control the security for running and scheduling integrations.

Configured Job Application, Offer and Convert Contingent Worker to Employee Business Processes

Created various Time off and Leave plans for different countries based on requirement.

Managing and created candidates, candidate pools, questionnaire and referrals.

Configured External and Internal Career Sites

Created XSLT’s to manage format of output data and extract complex mappings

Migrating custom reports within different Workday application tenants and validated data for all tenants.

Performed Unit Testing and supported System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.

Develop training materials and provide end-user support

Built and managed integrations using Calculated Fields, EIB, Document Transformation, Workday Connector, XML, XSLT and Payroll integrations.

Extensive use of new integration to pull the new hires information using Core Connector Worker and Document Transformation which uses connector integration XML Output as its data source input.

Managed Workday upgrade cycles to ensure current operation is not impacted.

Developed outbound integration using EIB, Web Services SOAP, WSDL, XML and XSLT Document Transformation for several integration from Workday to downstream internal and vendor systems and provided necessary security for related functional area to launch integrations.

Key details: Calculated Fields, EIB, Document Transformation, Core Connector, XML, XSLT, Payroll integrations, Business Process, Security, Core HCM, staffing, Absence & Time off

Project #2

Role: Senior Work Day Consultant

Client: Fidelity Investments

Location: Infosys Ltd, Bangalore Jan -2018 – Dec 2018

Description: Fidelity Investments Inc., commonly referred to as Fidelity, is a multinational financial services corporation

Role & Responsibilities:

Involved in implementation of workday HCM for various HR modules

Build Custom Integrations (Inbound/Outbound) via Core Connectors, EIBs

Worked on Custom reports, Calculated Fields, Document Transformation, Business Process configuration

Developed complex XSLT using Studio to generate customer specified output format

Coordinated with Onshore on requirements gathering, implementation, testing and enhancement of Integrations

Worked with the client to help convert legacy data into Workday

Worked on testing of functional flows of different modules like Absence management, Time tracking, Benefits, Payroll related

Been significantly involved in conducting peer reviews and Quality check for the Unit Test Cases

Involved in Development, Enhancement, Upgrade and Maintenance of Workday HR, Absence Management, Payroll and Time & Labor.

Key details: Custom reports, Calculated Fields, Document Transformation, Business Process configuration.

Project #3

Role: Workday HCM Principal Analyst

Client: Quintiles

Location: Wissen InfoTech Ltd., Bangalore, India Jan 2017 to Dec 2017

Description: Quintiles IMS Holdings, Inc., is an American multinational company serving the combined industries of health information technologies and clinical research

Role & Responsibilities:

Understanding the Requirement from the AD-HOC request received from the client

Created various EIB Inbound, outbound integrations for sending worker data from Workday system to external PSFT system

Developed various Custom Reports and Audit Reports using Calculated Fields.

Involved in creation of simple, advanced, matrix reports.

Scheduling the custom reports on daily, weekly, monthly basis based on client requirement

Worked on Core Connectors inbound and outbound integrations

Worked on P2P, Project Costing to Contracts to Billing to AR flow

Written test cases for Quintiles upgrade projects CSO, Lexmark and FOM for AP, Expenses, PO, Billing, AM

Worked on journal import from Excel to CI

Key details: custom reports, calculated fields, core connector, EIB

Project #4

Role: Principal Analyst – People Soft

Client: Oracle India Pvt. Ltd

Location: Bangalore, India Dec 2010 to Jan 2017

Description: Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation

Role & Responsibilities:

Scoping Analysis, Debugging and testing of various customer reported issues and Severity 1 issues (PRPs) in 9.2 release which covers majority of the components and functionalities of Asset Management, Accounts Payables, Lease Accounting, Purchasing

Prepare Functional Design document and prepare prototype of the new feature and present it to development crew

Preparation of Test Design Worksheet

Execution of test cases and tracking the bugs through ALM

Fixing the bugs in case of higher bandwidth need

Performing Platform testing, Functional Upgrade testing, security testing and Accessibility testing using OGHAG tool

Role includes Analysis, debugging and resolving of Business-critical issues

Performed root cause analysis (RCA), regression analysis, code review and unit testing

Worked on Forward Fits (FF) and Backward Fits (BF) for the bugs fixed in a release

Worked on the bugs raised on various functionalities of Financial products

Mentoring the new members in understanding the products and the application

Support Customer reported issues that includes various functionalities in Asset transactions, Interfacing from Purchasing, Payables and Project Costing, Reports, Lease Administration and Processing

Role includes Analysis, debugging and resolving of Business-critical issues providing technical support by fixing issues and cover unit testing

Performed root cause analysis (RCA), regression analysis, code modification and unit testing.

For escalated bugs, prepared POCs which were delivered immediately to the customers and the same were included in subsequent bundle releases after proper testing.

Worked on Forward Fits (FF) and Backward Fits (BF) for the bugs fixed in a Particular release

Worked on the bugs raised on various functionalities of AM, REM(Lease Accounting)

Involved in testing of Order to AR interfacing, purchasing to AM, purchasing to AP, AP to Project costing, PC to AM

Respond to various forum postings with detailed analysis and advice

Automating functional testing to execute more tests with greater accuracy during a shorter time. Record manual test procedures and save them within the framework and executing those tests against the application to verify regression

Trained on PeopleSoft test framework for developing scripts for verifying regression after each PUM image or bundle

Self-automation of overall business process flow through PTF

Debugging of the issues raised by automation team in each of the PUM cycles to ensure the existing functionality remains unaffected

Updating the progress in Application Lifecycle Management tool

Understand PeopleSoft update Manager, A new methodology accepted in PeopleSoft for the customer’s flexibility in selecting the bug fixes for their change package deployment

Understanding PeopleSoft Update Manager and deploy bug fixes through change assistant

Creating Dynamic Environment Provisioning database for testing purposes by development and testing teams located globally

Deployment of the desired Unit of Work in the environment based on customers specifications.

Project #5

Role: QA Engineer –Oracle Apps

Client: EIS Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Location: Hyderabad Jan 2010 to Nov 2010

Roles & Responsibilities:

EiS eXpress Reporting Solutions is a customized extension of the Oracle e-Business Suite Applications with Oracle-recommended standards and practices.

The EiS eXpress Reporting product enables client users to create and store custom reports in a custom folder on the production database server.

XL-Connect A user can generate various reports within excel using Excel Connect by choosing various parameters of report.

When user submits a report, the Excel Connect will connect to EiS Reporting Tool and populate the concerned report into excel sheet

The Time entry Application would provide employees the ability to create and submit their timecards and able to access already existing timecards.

Administrator can create/edit the Client, Project and Tasks. And maintain the relations between the Client, Project and Tasks. Administrator can create, edit, delete, submit and approve the timecards along with the complete access on the timecards.

Reviewing Business Requirement documents & Functional Document.

Understanding the Functionality

Trained peers on the functionality of the projects

Involved in project meetings.

Test Case Document authorization.

Performed all phases of front-end testing for the web application.

Tracking of Bugs using Bugzilla.

Involved in communication with Developers for bugs.

Achievements:

Appreciation from senior development team for raising highest number of bugs that were also raised by customer-Oracle

Outstanding contributor award for delivering high quality feature “Book Threshold and Lease accounting phase 1” – Oracle

Outstanding Team award for Lease Accounting Phase-II testing –Oracle.

Appreciation from management for enhancements suggested and implemented as part of New development-Oracle.

Best employee award -EIS Technologies.

Certifications:

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ISEB-ISTQB certified in foundation level software testing

Education:

Completed M.Sc. Bioinformatics from Thiruvalluvar University

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