Varun Koukuntla

Phone: 408-***-****

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Workday Integration Consultant

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Workday Consultant with Overall 5+ years of IT experience in design, development, Implementation & support of Workday &Business Applications

5+ years of experience on Full Life Cycle Implementation, Workday Studio and Production Support of Workday HCM Applications.

Expertise in HCM functionality to configure, integrate and maintain business processes, supervisory organizations, Staffing models, job profiles, positions, locations, compensation, cost centers, reports, and security.

Proficient use of HR processes such as Recruiting, Hiring, Payroll, Benefits, Employee Record maintenance, Training, Pay Planning, Performance and Talent Management, Applicant Tracking, On-boarding,

Involved in complete software development life cycle (SDLC) of project.

Extensively worked on Data conversions, Integrations, Composite Reports, Advanced Reports, and Security in Workday HCM Projects

Worked on multiple third party system integrations, extensively worked on Workday Studio integrations

Configured Absence types, Quota Deduction, and Absence counting rules.

Developed detail Test strategy, plans and scripts to test specific HCM, Advance Compensation business process in HCM and Integrations

A minimum of three years of enterprise resource planning (ERP), HCM or Financial implementation and Integration experience

Extensive experience on EIB Inbound/Outbound integrations, Workday Core Connector, Workday Studio, Workday Report Writer and Calculated Fields, Workday API’s, BIRT’s and Core Connectors in various segments of Workday system

Good working knowledge of Agile Project Management methodologies

Extensively worked on discovery sessions in Workday including requirement gathering as a Technical Workday Consultant

A minimum of three years of enterprise resource planning (ERP), HCM or Financial implementation and Integration experience

Self-motivated with the ability to work both independently and in a team environment.

Team player, quick learner with good communication, interpersonal and time management skills, highly organized with attention to details.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SaaS Applications:

Workday, SSO, Service now

Workday Modules:

HCM, Benefits, Advanced Compensation, International HR, Talent and Performance Management, Workday Payroll for US, Workday Payroll Interface (PICOF), Talent Acquisition, Absence and Time Tracking.

Workday Technical Tools:

Business Process & Security Configurations, Calculated Fields, Custom Objects, EIB’s, Core Connectors, Studio, Document Transformations

Reporting Tools:

Advanced, Matrix, Simple, BIRT

Data Base Tools:

Erwin, Power Designer, Oracle, SQL Server.

Other Applications:

JIRA, Oxygen, Altova Spy, MS Visio, MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HPQC- ALM, Team Foundation Server (TFS).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Workday Integration Consultant

Motorola Solutions, Chicago, IL OCT 2020-Present

Responsibilities:

Involved in Development, Enhancement, Upgrade and Maintenance of Workday HR, Base Benefits, Benefits Administration, Absence Management, Payroll and Time & Labour.

Performed Fit/Gap analysis in the system and interacted with Business Analysts to figure out the Process flow in HR various Business processes.

Developed several Inbound and Outbound Integration using EIB, WD Studio and Cloud Connectors etc.

Created Custom reports using Workday Report Writer and BIRT.

Proposed Compensation for New Hire, Involved in Editing Government Ids and workday Account.

EIB's - outbound and inbound with custom transformation using XML, XSLT and XPath.

Responsible for driving Implementation which includes Configuring system, Security, Roles, Business Processes, Payroll Testing, Reporting, Data Integrity, & Upgrades.

Developed comprehensive testing collateral, built test logs, gathered, audited, formatted and loaded test scenarios, facilitated preparation, kick-off, status testing meetings & UAT sessions, managed Change/Defect documentation and processes from testing output.

Created User-Based, Role Based, Segment-Based security groups and configured the domain security policies for them.

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

Configured business process for Hire, Create Requisition, Propose compensation, Assign Organizations and created web service in the integrations to replicate the BP automatically.

Developed web services for vendor to pull required information from Workday.

Made enhancement for Business Process.

Created Integration system security groups and configured the security policies based on the integration field attributes and field overrides.

Created Integration system user in an integration system security group and added them to the integration.

Involved in resolving the access issues of an individual in the company. Experience in creating Security groups for the integration like Benefits and payroll and maintained them with other groups like Employee as self and Intersection type security groups.

Created Technical Design Document from Functional Design Documents in Core HR, Benefits, Payroll and Time Tracking.

Created XSLT and Document Transformation Scripts to Transforms the XML Data.

Created XSLT scripts for Integration to transform XML data.

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

Provided mentorship, End User Guidance for Reports and Integration.

Created Workday Studio Inbound Integration to Populate the Payroll data from Kronos into Workday.

Environment: Workday, Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Package Integration, PECI, PICOF, Workday Report Writer, Document Transformation, End to End business process, SOAP UI, SOAP API’s, REST API’s, Web Services, User acceptance testing (UAT), XML/XSLT, XML editor.

Workday Integration Developer

VISA, Austin, TX Sep 2019-May 2020

Responsibilities:

Developing the integrations using workday studio tool and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Core connector and deploying it into workday tenant.

Extracted data from legacy system performed a data transform to workday compatible format.

Built an integration to send existing, new and changed job requisitions to external vendor applicant tracking systems.

Built Core HR related integrations to send employee, position and cost centers data.

Developed inbound integration to bring in results to workday after payroll run is complete.

Proficient in transforming the data by using XSLT.

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

Configured business process for Hire, Create Requisition, Propose compensation, Assign Organizations and created web service in the integrations to replicate the BP automatically.

Developed web services for vendor to pull required information from Workday

Developed the Custom reports using workday report writer tool and deploying it into workday tenant.

Created calculated fields based on the requirement from the client and used in custom reports.

Actively participated in meetings with team lead to discuss about timeline of the project.

Helped customer implement and go live with Workday Core HCM and Benefits.

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

Tested integrations and supported post productions support for reports and integrations.

Environment: Workday, Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Package Integration, PECI, PICOF, Workday Report Writer, Document Transformation, End to End business process, SOAP UI, SOAP API’s, REST API’s, Web Services, User acceptance testing (UAT), XML/XSLT, XML editor.

Accenture Inc., June2015-Dec2018

Bangalore, India.

Workday Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in configuring and testing Workday BPs for HCM including Hire, Change Job, Request Compensation, Job Application, and Termination etc.

Configure, Develop and Test Cloud Connect HCM between Workday and External Systems

Participating in re-engineering of Core HCM, Benefits, Compensation and Payroll BPs.

Understands key components of the system and all interactions, including but not limited to Payroll, the HR Help Desk, Benefits, Absence, Compensation, Self Service and Talent Management.

Coordinates all HR User Acceptance Testing to ensure that all business processes and system functionality are fully tested and function.

Setup custom security roles and setup the security process flow according to business requirements.

Moving custom reports & security setup within different workday tenants and validated data in all tenants through various EIBs and I-Loads.

Maintaining Security within Workday application – Adding/Removing users within the security groups. Configured Workday security roles and groups to the required level of confidentially and segregation of duties.

Defect Resolution particularly in Security, HCM, Benefits, Core Compensation, Advanced compensation, Talent and Performance management modules.

Maintains a broad understanding and consults on how HRIS and other key systems supporting HR operate and interact.

Coordinates all HR User Acceptance Testing to ensure that all business processes and system functionality are fully tested and function.

Develops and executes unit and system integration test plans.

Acts independently or with limited direction. Is responsible for deciphering and understanding moderate to complex system and process requirements to develop adequate testing processes.

Helped in testing the Integrations on all the Workday tenant prototypes P1, P2, P3 and Gold Tenants. Performed System Integration testing of the all-in scope inbound and outbound integrations.

Primary role as Inbound Integration creation using Studio to load Payroll data in to Workday system using Web services.

Worked on Absence Management integrations both inbound and outbound to Prudential, experience in handling leave of absence.

Worked on Studio for doing several Modifications on Payroll by splitting the pay codes for Deferral Percent and Deferral Amount.

Building Custom Integration (EIB), Custom report, and Calculated Fields and Writing XSLT generate customer specified output format.

Developed Outbound and Inbound Payroll integrations using EIB, Web Services, Document Transformation and Workday Studio for several integrations from Workday to downstream internal and vendor systems.

Worked on Workforce planning by creating Eligibility, workforce analytics in workday for measuring statistics of the project. Reporting test status on a weekly basis - publish reports on Defect Management, Test Progress and Test Metrics.

Created Test Plan and Test Scenarios and Performed Functional, Performance, Integration, Regression Testing, UAT, SRT and Dress Rehearsal Testing.

Coordinates all HR User Acceptance Testing to ensure that all business processes and system functionality are fully tested and function accurately as one integrated system.

Tested Workday Security configuration, objects including Management Hierarchies, Regions, Locations, edited Domain and Business Process Security Policies for few security groups, audited Tenant setup.

Experience working on all types of data sources and all Workers, Supervisory Organization, Cost Centers, Location and its Hierarchies, Position Management, Indexed Workers.

Responsible for Tracking and preparing the report of testing activities like testing results, test case coverage, required resources and defect triage.

Received and sorted payroll changes (new hires, promotions, awards, absence deductions, final settlements and housing and relocation advances).

Designed business flow diagrams and processes, which included processes in Staffing, job benefits, Advance compensation grades and packages.

Environment: Workday Report Writer, Testing (UAT& Regression), XML/XSLT, XML, Core HCM, Security set ups.

EDUCATION:

Masters in Business Analytics from Texas A&M University.

Bachelor’s in Business Administration at Bangalore University, India.

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