Team Lead, Application Analyst

SOUMYA SAHA

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North York, Ontario M4A1K9 Cell: 647-***-**** / email:******.***@*****.***

BUSINESS PROFILE AND ACCOMPLILSHMENTS

Senior Technology Executive With Leadership Expertise:

• 4 years 9 months of experience in the IT industry(Peoplesoft)

• 3 years of Canadian Experience

• Sound background in Peoplesoft Technical and Finance Domain.

• Currently working as a Team Leader of a 10 member team in a PeopleSoft EPM 9.0/ETL project with IBM Canada for a Top Canadian Bank.

• Sound knowledge of Peoplesoft Enterprise Performance Management – Funds Transfer Pricing, Allocations, Enterprise Warehouse, Metadata.

• Oracle Certified Peoplesoft Financials General Ledger (GL) 9.1 professional.

• Oracle Certified Peoplesoft Asset Management 9.1 professional.

• Hands on experience in Application Designer, People Code, Application Engine, SQR ,Component Interface, PS Query, Workflow

• Proficient in SQL (DB2)

• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle

• Experience in Understanding Business User Requirements and translating requirements into system design.

• Strong Problem Solving & Troubleshooting skills.

• Providing QA Support & assistance in formation of the Test Plan.

• Experience in Upgrade of platform from Peoplesoft EPM 8.8 to 9.0

• Excellent troubleshooting, root cause analysis and investigation skills.

• Experience in creating and reviewing Project Technical & Functional Documentation.

• Experience in Peoplesoft FSCM 8.8.

• Knowledge of C, Unix, CPP, HTML, Cobol, PL-SQL.

• Fluent in English.

TECHNILOGY LEADERSHIP EXPERTISE INCLUDES:

Software Development

• Requirements Gathering & Feasibility Analysis

• Working with the Business Users to understand the requirements and expectations

• Translating the Requirements for an Enhancement into the Design of new system

• Suggesting Improvements to the existing system to increase efficiency of the system.

• Design, Development and Unit Testing

• Impact Analysis of any change to the system

• Experience in developing Application Engine Programs, Peoplecode, Component interfaces, PS Query, SQR, New Pages, Components.

• Preparation of Project Documents – Requirement Document, Design Document, Implementation Instruction Document & User Manual

• Preparation and execution of Unit Test Plan

• Preparing the Traceability Metrics.

• Planning the Implementation of new enhancements to Production.

Functional Knowledge

• Sound knowledge of Peoplesoft Enterprise Performance Management – Funds Transfer Pricing, Allocations, Enterprise Warehouse, Metadata.

• Basic Understanding of ETL

• Understanding of the key terms and concepts in Finance

• Understanding of the Reclassification & Reconciliation process in the Finance Industry.

• Sound knowledge of Hierarchies and Trees.

• Understanding of Financial Reporting.

• Knowledge of PS General Ledger (GL), Journals.

• Knowledge of PS Asset Management.

Leadership Skills

• Gathering the Requirements from the user and passing it to the team members.

• Estimating the effort needed for any development.

• Designing the solution and preparing the System Architecture.

• Interacting with all upstream & downstream teams to analyse the impact of the new enhancements.

• Reviewing all workitems before delivery.

• Ensuring Delivery within proper timeline.

• Keeping a track of resource availability and work availability to ensure 100% utilization of all resources within the team.

• Regular focus on Knowledge sharing process within the team

• Briefing the management about the possible improvements that can be made to the existing processes.

• Prioritizing the change requests to meet the delivery deadlines

• Participating in key meetings with client to get requirements and design specifications approved.

• Identifying new developments that can be implemented to make the existing business processes simpler and faster.

QA Support

• Providing a thorough understanding of the business requirements to the QA team.

• Providing a walkthrough of the solution and design of the new development to the QA team

• Helping the QA team in designing the Test Plan and preparing the Test Cases

• Planning the data backup required for verification

• Verifying the list of jobs to be executed for test of a new development and providing appropriate knowledge for running the jobs in QA to the QA team.

• Preparing the cleanup for the jobs to be run for testing

• Investigating the Root cause of any issue or defect that comes up during the Testing

• Supporting UAT and communicating with Business Users during UAT

Supporting Production Applications

• Making Recovery Plan and strategies to handle incidents.

• Doing Post incident reviews and Root cause Analysis

• Analysis of day-to-day Production Issues, suggesting solutions and finally fixing bugs.

• Investigating the cause for anomalies in data identified by the users.

EMPLOYMENT

IBM Canada, Toronto, Ontario Date Started/Date Ended

Team Lead, Application Analyst March 2008/Till Date

IBM India, Bangalore, India Date Started/Date Ended

Application Developer June 2006/March 2008

SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS: (in reverse chronological order)

Employer : IBM Canada (March 2008 – Till Date), IBM India (Feb 2007 – March 2008)

Client : A Well Known Bank in Canada

Duration/Size : Feb 2007- Till date/ 10 Member

Role : Team Leader, Application Analyst

Environment : PeopleSoft EPM 9.0, People Tools 8.49, AIX DB2.

Description:

The EPM system supports the Bank’s objective of producing Organizational Profitability reporting. The system is comprised of an ETL Layer, PeopleSoft EPM Financial Analytics system and supports a Web-based Reporting Delivery system. Using the PeopleSoft EPM Financial Analytics system, financial data is complied from various systems in the bank and using the Fund Transfer Pricing (FTP) module transfer price is calculated at the instrument level, thereby deriving a more exact cost of it’s banking activities. Use of the Allocations within EPM further enables the Bank to allocate costs based on banking activities, thereby shifting the cost view of the bank to an ‘Activity based’ view of the Bank’s profitability on an enterprise wide basis.

There are many phases in the project including Production Support, Maintenance,Enhancements and Customizations with tight implementation timeline and complex integration points.

As a Team Lead and Application Analyst I am responsible for Requirements Analysis, Technical design, development, unit testing of enhancement requests and implementation of emergency quick fixes for Production related issues. Responsible for providing support to the QA team. Responsible for reviewing others work. Making Recovery Plan and leading from the front during major incidents. Conducting Post Incident Reviews. Also responsible for monitoring the Jobs that run during month-end cycle and investigating the cause of failure of any job, if there is any.

I have also facilitated the client in upgrade of the Peoplesoft EPM from version 8.8 to 9.0

Responsibilities:

• Communicating with the Business Users to get the requirements for any new change request.

• Design of the solution for a new development.

• Experience in developing Application Engine Programs, Peoplecode, Component interfaces, PS Query, Pages, Components, Component Interfaces.

• Making Recovery Plan and strategies to handle production incidents.

• Doing Post incident reviews and Root cause Analysis

• Preparation of Project Documents

• Monitoring jobs and processes, finding the cause of failure of any process.

• Analysis of day-to-day Production Issues, suggesting solutions and finally fixing bugs.

• Preparation and execution of Unit Test Plan

• Providing QA Support

• Investigating the cause for anomalies in data identified by the users.

• Impact Analysis of any change to the system

• Suggesting Improvements to the existing system to increase efficiency of the system.

• Planning the Implementation of new enhancements to Production.

• Interacting with all upstream & downstream teams to analyse the impact of the new enhancements.

• Gathering the Requirements from the user and passing it to the team members.

• Estimating the effort needed for any development.

• Reviewing all workitems before delivery.

• Ensuring Delivery within proper timeline.

• Keeping a track of resource availability and work availability to ensure 100% utilization of all resources within the team.

Employer : IBM India

Duration/Size : Aug 2006 to Jan 2007/ 14 Member

Role : Application Developer

Environment : PeopleSoft FSCM 8.8, People Tools 8.45, AIX DB2.

Description:

Resource Management Project to address the operational needs of IBM Global Services India. The system integrates with core business process areas, which helps in managing resources and their efficiency.

It enables IBM India to accurately match resource requirements to the supply of resources based on factors like skills, experience, qualifications. There were many phases in the project including Production Support, Enhancements and Customizations with tight implementation timeline and complex integration points.

As an Application Developer responsible for Requirements Analysis, Technical design, development, unit testing of service requests and change requests.

Responsibilities:

• Design, Development and Unit Testing

• Experience in developing Application Engine Programs

• Modifying existing SQRs and People code to incorporate new utilities in the existing functionality.

• Creation of New Pages in the existing functionality.

• Analysis of day-to-day Production Issues, suggesting solutions and finally fixing bugs.

• Preparation of Technical Specification and Technical Design Documents

• Preparing and executing of Unit Test Plan

EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (NIT), DURGAPUR, INDIA

Bachelors in Engineering(Degree 4 Year Course) : Computer Science (June 2006)

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES

WOCN 2006 Bangalore India(IEEE event): Presented a paper titled “A Soft Service Specific Trust Management and Authentication Scheme for Mobile Adhoc Networks” presented in Third International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communication Network- WOCN 2006 Sponsered by IEEE and IFIP at Bangalore, India from April 11-13, 2006. The paper has been published by IEEE in its website ieeexplore.ieee.org

Attended IBM training on Peoplesoft Technical mainly PeopleSoft Internet Architecture, Application Designer, People Code, SQR, ApplicationEngine, PS Query,Workflo,Component Interface

Attended Oracle training on Peoplesoft Asset Management 9.1 & Peoplesoft Financial General Ledger 9.1

Awards/Recognitions

IBM Bravo Award, Most Valuable Person Award from Client.

References Available Upon Request

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