Professional Summary

*+ years of experience in IT industry including Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and Implementation.

Experience in implementation of Workday projects from Design to Go-live.

Sound experience in Workday modules: Core HCM, Recruiting, Staffing Management, Compensation, Time Tracking, Absence, Payroll, Talent & Performance Management.

Configuration experience in cross functional modules, Security & Business Processes.

Good configuration knowledge on HR Business Processes related to Recruiting, Employee record maintenance, Staffing Transactions, Position management, Payroll, Time Tracking, Benefits, Talent & Performance Management, Applicant Tracking /On-boarding.

Configuring the Workday financial management module based on the organization's financial management needs, including setting up accounts, journals, chart of accounts, and other financial parameters.

Training and support to end-users on how to use the Workday financial management module.

Able to configure Manager Self Service (MSS) & Employee self-service (ESS) tasks.

Creation of User-based, Role-based, Job-base, Intersection & Aggregation Security Groups depending on project and business needs.

Abel to understand business requirements, create configuration workbooks for Workday project implementations.

Software Quality Assurance Testing in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Unit, Functional, System, Integration (SIT), Regression, Smoke and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

knowledge and experience with the Workday eco - system - both technical and functional QA aspects of Workday.

Extensive experience in different Project Methodologies like Agile-Scrum and Waterfall Methodologies.

Experience with ASAP methodology - Scoping, Project Preparation, ECC SD implementation, Business Blue Printing, Realization, Final Preparation, Go-Live and continuous support

Hands-on experience in preparing Testing artifacts: Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases/Scripts, Test Reports, Test Summaries and Documentation.

Strong Experience in using various defect management tools such as Jira, Asana, Test Director, HP Quality Center/ALM.

Time management & Communication skills.

Educational Qualification

Master’s in computer science at Georgia State University (GSU), Atlanta. CGPA:3.7

Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering

oVellore Institute of Technology, India CGPA:8.2

Technical Skills

Workday skills

Workday v30-33.2020R1/R2, 2021R1, Report Writer (Advanced, Custom Reports), Calculated Fields, EIB, Core Connectors, Packaged Integrations (PI), XSLT, XPATH, XSLT+

Development Tools

Java, C programming, Java Script, HTML Angular JS, Android Studio

Databases & Tools

Oracle v10, SQL Server, SQL Developer, MS Access

Testing Tools

JIRA, Smart Sheets, ASANA, HP ALM, Microsoft Azure DevOps.

Documentation

MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word

Instant messaging

MS Teams, Slack, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex, Skype

Experience

Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin June 2022 –

Workday Consultant

Assist with ongoing day to day Workday compensation support, creation of Job Profiles, Grade Profiles and Compensation plans.

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

Created test scenarios for testing all Business Processes like Hire, Job Change, Promote, Transfer, Terminate, Compensation changes etc. along with testing of security role mapping for each of the Business processes.

Serves as a subject matter expert on Workday Position Management functionality with knowledge, skills, and experience needed to work through day-to-day challenges.

Generated custom Workday reports and modified the existing custom reports.

Work with business team to review report requirements. Maintain/Assign security role assignments. Configured Workday security roles and groups to the required level of confidentially and segregation of duties.

Analyze data, develop and generate routine and ad hoc reports.

Interact with Business analysts and end users to clarify requirements and use cases.

Enabling of Account payables and receivables relating to vendor transactions, creating invoices, and issuing payments and reconciling accounts.

Assists with HRIS report writing requests for HR and other business units.

Using Smart sheets for Test scripts management, wrote sub-task for work items, test cases for test scenarios based on acceptance criteria.

Ad Hoc testing of One Time Payment (OTP) transactions e.g., gift vouchers, Bonus, Severance etc.

Developing Advance, Custom, Matrix and Composite payroll related reports to cater the day-to-day requirements.

Using calculated fields to extract the data from PBOs and RBOs.

Create Test Plan, cut-over plan, production support road map etc

Creating Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to cover the business requirements.

Serving as trusted advisor/SME and workday expert to the client by providing recommendations, best practices and lessons learned to enable a successful workday project.

Coordinating with other Work stream leads to establish timely baseline for all test cases and scenarios.

Custom reports were created for active employees, active employees by location overview, onboarding status summary, worker shift history, staff on leave, and dashboards were designed for the HR team

Payroll parallel testing to verify calculations such as 401K, Federal/State withholdings, Bonus etc

Participating in daily stand-up meetings (Sprint/Agile model) and sprint-retro meetings with team.

Creating and working towards issues resolution on JIRA tickets providing go-live support and bug fixes on reports.

Testing of integrations: EIBs, Core Connectors (CCB, CCW), Document Transformation (DT)

Environment: Workday HCM v2022R1, 2021R1/R2, Workday Report Writer, XSLT, XSLT+, SPATH, HTTP, HTML, sFTP Portal (WinSCP), Zoom, Slack, Exchange XML Editor v3.3, Studio, Windows 10, MS Outlook V14.0, Jira, Asana, Google Drive, MS Office 2013.

Advocate Aurora Health Care Inc. Oct2021-May2022

Workday Payroll Consultant

Analyzing the variances in Gross Pay Analysis to figure out the reasons for the discrepancies from the legacy system.

Conducting Payroll parallel testing from two different legacy system (Lawson & Peoplesoft) to Workday's Payroll

Data validation using PROVE reports.

Experience with staffing models.

Created Business process Notifications in workday.

Experience on Core HCM, Compensation, Talent and absence management.

Redesigned and maintained various business processes – hire, termination, onboarding, job change, comp change, job application and job requisition processes.

Managed day – to -day functionality of HCM system and taking responsibility for high quality support and provided continuous improvement of the system.

Expertise in Absence module to support and enhance the absence management.

Experience with configuration of dashboards and worklets.

Experience with business process framework including security policies and configuration.

Expertise in Recruiting Workgroup, Recruiting interview Management Workgroup, Workday Recruiter

Experience for End Users and Recruitment.

Tested Advanced and Custom reports related to Payroll (New Hires for Payroll, Payroll Accounting by Pay Period, Payroll Payment Elections) that were developed using standard and indexed data sources and PBO & RBO.

Testing of cash management to track cash balances, managing bank accounts and reconciling bank statements.

Configuring and testing of expenses including employee expense reports, approvals, reimbursements and reporting.

Grants Management testing which consists of manage grants, including creating proposals, tracking expenditures, and reporting.

Running the Settle Payments and Process integrations. Running pay calculations.

Running of regular and retro pay calculations, review and completing payroll.

Assigning the deduction Analysis to the team members to review the discrepancies in the deduction codes.

Participating in daily standup meetings.

Performing End to End (E2E) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.

Creating Test Plan about the implementation and new roll-out of new functionality.

Creating Playbook, Test Scenarios, Requirements Traceability matrix etc. to cover the business and functional requirements.

Use various functions such as Concatenate text, evaluate expression, text, and numeric constants, extract single and multiple instances, Lookup related value, True/False condition, Substring etc. while creating reports.

Conducting defect triage calls (prioritization, escalation, resolution), coordinating team effort between implementation partner, Business, and Functional leads.

Data Robot Inc. Jan 2021-Sept2021

Workday HCM Test Consultant

Having good knowledge and hands on experience in Workday Fundamental HCM.

Maintain Business process framework for Hire, On-boarding and transfer etc.

Mapping the legacy deduction codes to the workday deduction codes

Conducting payroll parallel testing from legacy system (People soft) to workday

Loading of Payroll data thru EIBs e.g., Put Period Schedule, Put Payroll History Payment etc.

Managed day – to -day functionality of HCM system and taking responsibility for high quality support and provided continuous improvement of the system.

Configured new Business process and updated existing BPs for my client requirement.

Configured calculated fields for report and BP condition’s purpose and good knowledge in both Inbound and Outbound Integrations using Workday Studio.

Worked on different Reorganization events as per requirement.

In depth understanding of system design, development, analysis, support and reporting.

Trained on creating custom reports using Report Writer, creating calculated fields using different functions and integration concepts for inbound and outbound reports using XSLT.

Providing customer -friendly handling and resolution of user inquiries, questions and problems, auditing of process data, analysis and resolution of problems and special cases, training and communications with operations, HR Business Partners and other stake holders.

Verifying Compensation Elements are tied to correct Compensation Element Groups (bridge between Compensation and Payroll modules).Create Matrix reports for internal audit purposes.

Develop and execute test plans for Workday HCM, Benefits, and Performance, Talent, Payroll, and Learning modules being implemented.

Testing of configuration for various Business Process’s related to Payroll

Testing the withholding orders and integrations related to it and conducting re-calc wherever required.

Setting up the deduction codes to the primary jobs in case where employees have multiple jobs and paychecks.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills and very good team member.

Strong problem solving and analytical skills.

Environment: Workday HCM v2020R2/2021R1, Workday Report Writer, XSLT, XSLT+, SPATH, HTTP, HTML, sFTP Portal (WinSCP), Zoom, Slack, Exchange XML Editor v3.3, Studio, Windows 10, MS Outlook V14.0, Jira, Asana, Google Drive, MS Office 2013.

Center for Autism Related Disorder, Inc July2020 – Dec 2020

Workday HCM Test Consultant

Developing and maintaining test cases related to existing and new configuration across all modules including: Core HCM, Compensation, Talent, Payroll, Time, Absence and Benefits.

Creating the PPTs for testing phase kickoffs and conducting workshop to gather test requirements, User Acceptance criteria.

Working in all levels of testing cycle phases: Functional, System, Integration, Regression, E2E and UAT.

Conduct KT sessions for testing team, Functional and Business Users in new and updated configurations, Workday’s semi-annual releases.

Conducted 2020R2 Release upgrade (from 2020R1), creating test plan, testing all the functionality that will be retiring, Do Not Use (DNU), executed Audit and Exception reports.

Identified the features that are available in 2020R2 and created adoption planning.

Testing of Security configuration across all functional areas including Core HCM, Compensation & Advance Compensation, Talent, Payroll, Absence, and Reporting.

Partnering and managing with Workday administrator to coordinate, co-lead and configure Workday security policies (Domain and Business Processes).

Organized meetings to review of new functionality in 2020R2 with Business, Functional Leads and Alight resources.

Perform day to day production support activities such as activate/deactivate WD accounts, Password reset requests, adding/removing security groups to WD accounts, complete staffing transactions etc.

Providing security related Audit and Exception reports to identify improvement opportunities and for security audits

Production support of integrations, Listing of Files, correcting File Sequence ID Generators, Transport Protocols, eligibility criteria for identifying target audience

Testing and assist in developing of Custom/advanced reports, matrix and composite reports.

Configuring Talent functional area for new hires to capture the skills, interests, education, certificates, profile group configuration.

Create and execute test plans and partner with others to ensure thorough testing of all impacted domains.

Assist team and business with Workday security configuration testing.

Defect Management process, triaging defects and generate the burndown chart, send daily and weekly status emails.

Assist/coordinate the reporting of security bugs, their correction and migration of security fixes to the Workday tenants.

Conducting Defect triage calls and performing defect management process.

Escalating and resolving the testing issues, maintaining the testing artifacts in SharePoint site.

Environment: Workday HCM v2020R1/R2, Workday Report Writer, Zoom, Exchange XML Editor v3.3, Studio, Windows 10, MS Outlook V14.0, Jira, SharePoint, MS Office 2013.

Aveanna Healthcare Inc, Atlanta, GA Aug 2018 – June 2020

Workday Consultant

Thorough testing of Integrations, EIBs (both inbound and outbound), Core Connectors (Worker, Benefits etc) for data being pulled in and out of Workday.

Testing of Payroll Process Framework (Period Schedule, Run Category and Pay Group) and Parallel, Integration and regression testing.

Launching and scheduling of integrations, Transfer Integration Schedule Ownership to ISUs.

Creating Project Plan, Test Plan, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Test scenarios.

Validating of data for the inbound and outbound integrations such as Benefits, Medical and St of GA: New hires and terminated employees.

Participating in maintaining test data and testing tasks such as creating Jobs, Pre-hire, hiring candidates into position, termination, re-hire, entering time, Payroll calculations.

Testing of Custom Reports that are being used a Data Source for various integrations

Proxying as Employee and Manager to verify the self-service tasks in Workday.

Hands on testing of activities related to parallel testing, Functional, Regression & System testing.

Performing End to End (E2E) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.

Creating Test Plan about the implementation and new roll-out of new functionality.

Creating Playbook, Test Scenarios, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) etc. to cover the business and functional requirements.

Data validation between Job Boards Interface (JBI), iCIMS & Taleo, troubleshooting of data issues.

Logging defects in iMeet Central & JIRA and maintain the defect management process.

Organizing daily Sprint standup meetings

Working as a core member of Workday Update team. Currently working on upgrade from version 32.0 to 33.0

Proxying as Employee and Manager to verify the self-service tasks in Workday.

Performing End to End (E2E) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.

Worked with Implementation partners with the implementation of core HCM, Benefits and compensation module.

Active participation in Workday upgrades, researching new functionalities in Sandbox Preview tenant, Testing the Audit reports and Production tenant implementation and post production testing.

Assist in the review, testing and implementation of HRMS system upgrades or patches. Collaborate with functional staff to meet the existing business needs.

Working as Named Support Contact (NSC) for Aveanna in communicating with Workday.

Environment: Workday HCM v32.0/v33.0, 2020R1, Workday Report Writer, Exchange XML Editor v3.3, Studio, Windows 10, MS Outlook V14.0, iCIMS, JBI, Taleo, Jira, El Sevier, iMeet Central, Fuze, MS Office 2013.

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