Sai Sidharatha
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Professional Experience:
Over 6+ years of Workday experience as integration and report developer working through requirements to production and support projects.
Worked in implementation of modules such as Core HR, Payroll, Time Tacking, Benefits, Absence, Organization Management, Recruiting, Hiring, Talent Management, Compensation, Manager / Employee Self-service and Security.
Have Technical advanced technical expertise on EIB (Inbound & Outbound), Core Connector, Document Transformation, Workday Studio, Reports and BIRT.
Built several inbound/outbound integrations in workday to establish connection with external vendor systems.
Experience in creating studio integrations with good usage of Workday studio Architecture, Business process framework.
Have an expertise knowledge in XSLT, XML, XPATH, MVEL, REST and SOAP based request.
Worked with critical vendors for integrations, major ones are ADP, MetLife, Fidelity, Equifax, PlanSource, Mercer ServiceNow, First Advantage, Concorde, All Star, Vanguard etc.
Run SQL queries from legacy system and convert that into Workday EIB template to load the data into workday.
Configured Workday core connector integrations such as core connector worker and core connector benefit integrations
Built various BIRT layouts for Compensation Statements, Performance, Talent.
Configured business process security policies, domain policies and security groups.
Able to understand and analyse business process related issues and requirements across all the functional areas of business.
Experience Working with cross-functional teams in configuring setup and designing integrations to comply with each other.
Expertise in handling offshore teams and make sure they were able to perform their tasks within the business timeline.
Worked with internal and external business stakeholders to lead new workday projects, while act as a business analyst to gather and translate necessary technical requirements for junior developers.
Extensively worked on business requirements gathering, Solution design, configuration, set-ups, testing (Unit
&Integrated) etc.
Worked on all development life cycle right from design document till the implementation.
Highly self-motivated with strong Communication and Professional skills.
Effective trainer and communicate the concepts in simple form to ensure maximum understanding among users. SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT:
ERP SQL, Workday HCM - Studio, EIB and Core Connector, Custom Reports, Calculated Fields, XSLT, XML, business process configuration, BIRT.
Reporting Tools Workday Report Writer (Simple, Advanced, Matrix) WD Studio Report Designer
Languages C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL, XML, XSLT, JSON WORKDAY SKILLS:
HRIS Technologies
Advance/Matrix Reports
Security
Recruiting
Benefits
Time Tracking
Absence
Integrations
On-Boarding
Training & Development
Projects
Compensation
Professional Skills:
Client: Infoblox, Santa Clara, CA March 2024 - Present Role: Workday Integration
Responsibilities:
Worked on different modules for the project implementation as Workday Integration.
Developed complex integrations using EIB, Core Connector, Studio, Webservices, WSDL, XML and XSLT document.
Worked extensively on building complex customized studio integrations and custom reports for the data load and extraction.
Built various custom reports and scheduled them as per the requirement by the business by providing the required security.
As part of the custom report built created various complex calculated fields such as lookup related value, extract single and multi-instance, Aggregate related instances, arithmetic calculation, conversions.
PlanSource is being used as benefit system which captures all life events and open enrollments. To calculate payroll in Workday built integrations with the PlanSource system to load benefits deductions into workday.
Developed multiple payroll integrations that are required to extract payroll deductions such as HSA/FSA, Fidelity deductions, Biweekly GL payroll deductions using EIB, CC and Studio.
Written XSLT codes for EIB integrations to change file format from XML output to csv, pipe delimited, text format.
Used ETV/XTT functions in custom XSLT file to transform the content in CSV format with validations.
Created ISUs and ISSGs for all the inbound and outbound integrations.
Created various security groups to support internal & external security of the system
Built BIRT reports for offer letters, Interview agenda, performance and merit statements.
Collaborated with business owners, SME (Subject Matter Experts), and security Audit team for requirements gathering and develop metrics, reports, worklets and dashboards to supper the needs of the business.
Utilized drill down analytics feature to create drill down dashboards and analytics and securing for appropriate end user audiences.
Create audit reports to identify data inconsistencies and worked with the production support team to fix those issues.
Plan, execute and document unit, regression, integration, and acceptance testing related to HR Systems enhancements, changes, and upgrades.
Configuration of Domain Security Policies and Security groups.
Ensure HR systems configuration meets SOX and other corporate compliance obligations.
Served as the subject matter expert on all Workday integration issues and played a vital role in the team for providing solutions.
Promote Code from Development to Test to Production in Workday environments, following standard SDLC principles.
Serve as a technical point-of-contact for assigned functional areas and assists subject matter experts with ensuring data audits, integrity, testing of system changes, report writing/running/scheduling and analyzing data flows for process improvement opportunities.
Client: Republic Services, Scottsdale, AZ Sep 2022- Feb 2024 Role: Workday Integration and Data Migration Consultant Responsibilities:
Worked as Workday integration & migration specialist, to help client move from Lawson system to Workday ERP system.
Daily tasks include development of various integrations such as EIBs, core Connectors, web services and Studio integrations.
Design, create and deliver Reports (Advanced, Matrix and Composite).
Worked on various EIB integrations, mainly includes integrations related to payroll and Human Resources Data Warehouse (HRDW).
For HRDW integrations, worked extensively with business owners for conversion of reports from Lawson (legacy system) to workday.
Actively engaged business owners and vendors during development and testing phases of various critical integrations.
Run SQL queries from legacy system and convert that into Workday EIB template to load the data into workday.
Coming to studio integrations, developed various important and complex integrations the major ones include First advantage background check, Concorde drug test (inbound & outbound), All-star Inbound, Vanguard Payroll integration and so on.
Assist offshore team developers when they face difficulty while building the integrations.
Worked closely with implementation partner Deloitte to support post go live tasks.
Worked with simple and advanced reports, defining columns, Business objects, column heading overriding and multiple sorting and grouping techniques.
Worked closely with cyber security team, making them aware how web services work, what are the security challenges client might face in future and how to deal with it.
Also helped them (Cyber Security team) to use workday standard reports and custom reports for auditing purpose.
Played a crucial role in quality assurance and UAT testing of integrations such as EIB, Core Connector and Studio.
Apart from developing and testing integrations, also assisted client to know more about workday technical and functional side by having knowledge transfer (KT) sessions.
Client: JOHNSON & JOHNSON, NJ Oct 2019 – Aug 2022
Role: Workday Techno-Functional Consultant
Responsibilities:
Worked extensively on various critical functional areas such as Recruiting, Benefits, onboarding, Compensation, Talent & performance, Staffing, Payroll, absence, time tracking and integrations.
Streamlined and reconfigured the whole Job application process as per new business requirements.
Extensively made use of Mass Operation Management (MOM) in the onboarding process to fast track the hiring process.
Configured Merit, Bonus and Stock plans as per the business requirements and built the compensation EIB integrations such as Request Compensation Change, Eligible Earning Override, retention value and compensation grade updates.
Copiously worked with HR team on preparation for annual compensation cycle. Set up annual compensation cycle grid and compensation review process template.
Worked extensively on building compensation matrix for various plans.
Create annual and mid-year performance templates as per the business requirements.
Modify or edit the performance review business processes to accommodate changing business needs.
Worked on restructuring supervisory organizations and cost center changes.
Worked substantially on time tracking like updating the validation rules and modify templates as per end user needs.
Managed benefit coverage types and created various Benefit groups and providers for Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, and other voluntary plans.
Configured benefit enrollment instructions and benefit electronic signatures.
Created benefit eligibility rules for various benefit plans based on age, country, and other worker types etc.
Configured enrollment events and rules for start coverage, loss coverage, levels of change and coverage rules.
Worked extensively with the business to configure open enrollment setup in Workday, main tasks include are updating the benefit rates, cross plan dependencies, auto enrollment, default coverage and evidence of insurability (EOI).
Configured passive events for new hires, to auto enroll in 401k plans.
Built demographic, enrollment data transfer integrations for the various benefit providers. EIBs, core connectors and studio integration types are used for the build.
Documented test scenarios and other exceptional events as per SOX compliance and validated them thoroughly before launching open enrollment in production.
Built SOAP and REST services to transfer data from workday to external systems.
Design, develop and test complex STUDIO integrations. Also, work on the existing ones if they come across any issues/errors.
Implemented inbound and outbound integrations with XSLT specifications to transform the XML data into the desired file format.
Create complex custom reports and calculated fields to provide the required data from Workday system to the end-user. Education:
Masters in Computer Science from Campbellsville University.