Business Process Software Development

Nikhitha Ganta

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Overview:

Over 10 years of extensive experience in analysis, design, development, configuration, testing and deployment of ERP applications including years of hands-on experience in workday ecosystem.

Solid experience in implementation of workday modules such as Core HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Payroll, Benefits and Talent.

Streamlined various HR practices, and processes, while transforming the HR Technology.

Involved in full life cycle end to end Workday implementations and from requirement gathering to deployment and postproduction support.

Strong experience in defining Business Process in the areas of HCM, Recruiting, Talent, Compensation

Hands on experience in configuration of different types Advanced and Matrix Custom Reports in Workday using various data sources and business objects.

Strong knowledge and experience on Workday Security model.

Hands on experience in day-to-day Inbound EIB loads using spreadsheet templates and webservices.

Responsible to strategize and plan for Workday Semiannual Upgrades by analyzing new features, performing impact analysis, testing, collaborating with various stake holders.

Expertise in conducting Unit testing, UAT and Parallel testing by executing test scenarios and test matrix for integrations and reports and configuration.

Extensive troubleshooting skills with solid understanding of application administration

Exposure to all stages of Software Development and Software Testing Life Cycles in addition to usage of AGILE methodology involving tools like JIRA, HP ALM, Docx and Visio for project/test management.

Exposure for using change management tools such as Service now, JIRA.

Excellent collaboration, easy going, interpersonal, technical skills.

Excellent ability to articulate well with clients and adapt to changing environments.

Experience

APRIL 2022 TO PRESENT

Senior Workday Consultant El Camino Health Mountain View, CA

Job Responsibilities:

Analyzed client’s requirements, drafted BRD’s, configure, test and deploy their end-to-end implementation.

Implemented various projects in Core HCM, Compensation, Recruiting & Talent and modules based on business requirements.

SME for day-to-day support of Workday Security, Core HR, Recruiting, Talent, Compensation and Reporting configurations.

Configured, enhanced, and improved automation for candidate and recruiter experience in recruiting module.

Responsible to create/enhance various pay plans and associated with various grades and pay packages in compensation module.

Actively engaged in the launch of Merit cycle process with Advanced compensation module.

Responsible to configure, enhance and support Payroll & benefits modules.

Created reports in areas like Payroll, Benefits, and Recruiting by using various complex Calculated Fields and data sources, Business Objects

Actively engaged and collaborated with internal teams such as HR operations, Payroll, Recruiting, Compensation and Integrations.

Responsible to support and maintain various orgs including sup org, location, pay group, custom object etc.

Responsible to create and design various Review Templates for Annual & Incentive goals

Created and executed Test Scenarios many Business Processes like Hire, Job Change, Promote, Transfer, Terminate, Compensation changes, Employee Self Service process, Manager Self-service processes, etc.

Responsible to document and conduct audits as needed to maintain compliance for the organization.

Used various EIB spread sheets to load data and worked with third party vendors for integration requirement gathering.

Involved in QA/ UAT testing of reports and helped fixing the errors before go- live

JULY 2019 TO APRIL 2022

Senior Workday Consultant USAA San Antonio, TX

Job Responsibilities:

Analyzed client’s requirements, drafted BRD’s and deploy their end to end implementation.

Configured business processes and notifications on various tenants based on the designed business flow diagrams

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

Responsible to build compensation plans (salary, stock, bonus, commission, allowance), grades and grade profiles using various eligibility rules.

Responsible to build various recruiting business process, reports based on business requirements.

Design Built and Executed Data Conversion from SAP to Workday HCM for different Countries.

Used various EIB spread sheets to load data into multiple areas of workday on a day-to-day basis.

Responsible to support and maintain various orgs including sup org, location, pay group, custom org, custom object etc.

Responsible to configure support various users for ESS and MSS modules in workday.

Responsible to create role based, user-based security groups and ISU users.

Analyze Assigned Roles, Role based, segment-based security roles on a quarterly basis.

Responsible to create various review templates for Annual review cycle and conduct UAT.

Created and enhanced existing reports and worked with standard and Custom Reports by using various complex calculated fields and data sources, business objects.

Optimized custom reports by analyzing and tuning fields/calculated fields.

Created test scenarios for testing all in scope many Business Processes like Hire, Job Change, Promote, Transfer, Terminate, Compensation changes, Employee Self Service process, Manager Self-service processes, etc.

Be the primary point of contact for workday security related questions.

Created and used calculated fields in reporting, business processes, conditional rules and other areas within Workday

Involved in QA/ UAT testing of reports and helped fixing the errors before go- live

Worked on migrating reports from implementation tenant to production tenant

MAY 2018 TO JUNE 2019

Workday Reports Consultant State Auto Columbus, OH

Job Responsibilities:

Responsible for defining requirements, designing, tracking and validating the Requirements in Workday tenant.

Responsible to create and configure many custom reports using various data sources and calculated fields as per the requirement.

Created custom reports for audits, data validations of the data loaded through EIB into each tenant.

Created Advanced reports to pull no of requisitions that are moved from each stage to fill the requisitions.

Responsible to build notifications on BP, create alerts, and build dashboards.

Responsible to build Multi Turnover Composite reports for the employee terminations.

Worked closely with IT and HRIS to advise and provide solutions for Workday contexts and issues.

Responsible to build reports and configured EIB inbound integration to load organization changes data.

Created Matrix report to calculate the number of approvals are made by E-staff and VP’s for job Change transactions.

Created validation reports for data validation of the data loaded into each tenant.

Involved in through analysis of system configuration, capturing defects and providing guidance for teams to setup UAT to meet the business requirements.

Configured Job Requisition and propose compensation offer business processes in Recruiting as per the business requirements and approval matrixes.

Responsible to build Employee Head Count Reports separated by each organization.

Responsible for analyzing new Workday release features and conducting UAT which impacts usage of Workday application by various Users.

APRIL 2017 TO MAY 2018

Workday Analyst Alight Solutions Hyderabad – India

Job Responsibilities:

Responsible to gather requirements from HR team on configurations in Workday.

Worked with Integration team/Functional Team in Field mappings for existing HRIS data into Workday and assisting teams to work accordingly.

Training the internal HR team on the business processes and organization structures

Responsible to maintain and creating of Workday Supervisory Organizations, Locations, Positions, Staffing Models, Cost centers, Cost Center hierarchies.

Changing the supervisory Organizations, Inactivating an Organization and moving the workers into different Supervisory Organizations

Hire into Position Management, Create Compensation for new hire employees, Review employee hire, edit workday accounts and resetting the passwords.

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

Experienced to work with Workday Report Writer and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).

Created and used calculated fields in reporting, business processes, integrations and other areas within Workday.

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

Configuring Role based and User based Security Groups.

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

APRIL 2016 TO APRIL 2017

Peoplesoft HCM Business Analyst NTT Data Services Hyderabad – India

Job Responsibilities:

Hands on experience in configuration of PeopleSoft HCM modules Manage project data and revenue in PeopleSoft Project Costing and Contract Analysis module.

Bi-Directional replication of HR and Finance Data between Oracle and SQL Server PeopleSoft Environments.

Worked in Analysis, Coding, testing (FUT, SIT) and review of various interfaces, reports and customizations.

This included custom approval workflows for the PeopleSoft applications, eBenefits customizations, Open Enrollment processes, COBRA processing

This included custom approval work flows for the PeopleSoft applications, eBenefits customizations, Open Enrollment processes, COBRA processing

Resolved employees Benefit (COBRA/LEAVE) enrollment issues & plan participation issues.

System integration testing of COBRA Qualified Event (QE) for participant and dependent Based on qualified events such as divorce, retirement, leave of absence, termination, acquisitions, rehires, return to work, lack of work, age 65 and death.

Created System Test scripts and coordinated sample employee data for the System Test Cycle.

Worked with Pension Post-Production functional team to transfer knowledge Created user-training materials for the Training rollout.

Skills

Workday Configuration: Core HCM, Compensation, Payroll, Recruiting, Talent, Benefits, Custom reports, Security

Workday Reports: Standard, Advanced, Matrix – All modules.

Tools: EIB, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio, Notepad, Outlook

Education

APRIL 2016

Bachelor of Pharmacy JNTUK Kakinada – India

Activities

Art • Yoga • Swimming • Travel

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