PeopleSoft Functional Consultant

Ph. Number: 614-***-****

************@*******.*** MANOJ RAJPUT

• Strong PeopleSoft Functional consultant with 8+ years of Extensive experience in PeopleSoft ERP Applications.

• Worked very closely with Business users in capturing requirements and creating Functional documents (BRD & FD).

• Hands on with various HCM modules: Administrator workforce, NA Payroll, Self Service (ESS & MSS).

• Utilize Functional expertise to lead fit-gap sessions with primary stakeholders to setup and configure the system.

• Strong Expertise in documenting the As-Is Process and performing Complete Fit-Gap Analysis

• Expertise in analyzing complex business process of various enterprise and design solutions in PeopleSoft.

• Worked closely with Developers, IT and UAT Testers to make sure work is progressing as expected.

• Documented all new changes in requirements and maintained up-to-date specifications for developers and testers.

• Have good exposure to Software quality processes and PeopleSoft Standards.

• Worked on various projects that include PeopleSoft Upgrade, Implementation, Development and Application Maintenance.

• Experienced in all testing types: Regression, Smoke, System integration, Data conversion testing.

• Experienced in writing the test plans, cases and scripts based on system specifications and expertise in regression system integration functional and performance testing.

• Have worked in three PeopleSoft HCM upgrade (PeopleSoft HCM 8.3 to 9.0 and PeopleSoft HCM 8.3 to 8.9) engagements.

• Extensively worked with Security Administrator to implement security in various levels creating Roles Permission Lists, User Profiles, Portal Security, Definition Security, Query Security & Row level security.

• Analyzing and developing strategic imperatives for organization / business units using various strategic management methodologies.

• Working as an individual Senior Functional consultant but have also worked in projects executed with onsite/offshore models.

• Worked on STAT, Quality Center (QC), QTP, WIN SQL, Toad, Remedy.

EDUCATION/TRAINING/CERTIFICATION

Bachelors of Technology in Electrical Engineering, University of M.J.P.Rohilkhand, Bareilly, May 2001.

ENVIRONMENT

ERP Applications : Peoplesoft 8.8/9.0 HRMS, Benefits Payroll, Time and Labor,

Peoplesoft technologies : Application designer, Application Engine, Process scheduler, Process monitor, Peoplecode, People tools, SQR

RDBMS: :Oracle9i Oracle 10g,

Languages : People code, SQL, PL/SQL

Operating Systems : Windows NT/2000/98, UNIX

Packages : MS Office, MS Word, MS Excel

Testing Tools : QTP, Quality Center.

Version Control Systems : STAT.

Reporting Tools : SQR, Crystal reports

MAJOR ASSIGNMENTS

PeopleSoft Functional Consultant, Jan 2010 – Present

Client: Kaiser Permanent, Pleasanton, CA

Project Description:

Kaiser Permanente is in health care services. Today, approximately 8.7 million people in nine states and the District of Columbia entrust their care to Kaiser Permanente, making them the largest nonprofit health care organization in the United States. This project involved the implementation of Taleo in Southern California and “R4” (CO, Exec, GA, KPIT, PO, MAS, OH) regions and the implementation of new interfaces from RSS to myHR for the Hire/Rehire and Job Change processes

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Gathering and Analyzing requirements for interface from RSS to myHR for the Hire/Rehire and Job Change processes for Southern California and “R4” (CO, Exec, GA, KPIT, PO, MAS, OH) regions.

• Prepare Functional Specification for Interface from RSS to myHR for the Hire/Rehire and Job Change processes for Southern California and “R4” (CO, Exec, GA, KPIT, PO, MAS, OH) regions.

• Tested RSS Gateway system with new changes.

• Involved in the UAT testing for RSS project.

PeopleSoft Functional Consultant/ QA Test sub-Lead, Jan 2009 – Dec 2009

Client: Kaiser Permanent, Pleasanton, CA

Project Description:

Kaiser Permanente is in health care services. Today, approximately 8.7 million people in nine states and the District of Columbia entrust their care to Kaiser Permanente, making them the largest nonprofit health care organization in the United States. This project involved the implementation of Taleo in three regions (Northwest, Hawaii & Northern California) and the implementation of interfaces from RSS to myHR for the Hire/Rehire and Job Change processes

Responsibilities:

• Prepared gap analysis and business requirements documents and developed functional design documents.

• Prepared and executed test scripts and sign off on changes to production environment.

• Prepared and delivered training materials used by both SIT and UAT testers during and post implementation.

• Mentored new team members.

• Prepared test conditions for business Signoff.

• Prepared and executed test scripts for External Applicant and Internal applicant in HP Quality Center.

• Prepared and executed test scripts for new Requisition (Taleo) in HP Quality Center.

• Prepared and executed test scripts for NEW Hire, rehire & transfer in HP Quality Center.

• Participated in group meetings for building the testing schedules.

• Involved in logging all the defects: code, documentation, Data issue, and environmental bugs in Quality Center.

• Participated in cross-functional initiatives and teams to drive process improvement changes.

• Followed as per company standards testing process of SOX compliance.

Environment: PeopleSoft HRMS 8.8, DB2.

PeopleSoft Functional Consultant, April 2008 – December 2008

Washington Mutual Inc., Seattle WA

HRMS Support & Upgrade 8.8 to 9.0

DESCRIPTION: Washington Mutual is one of the largest financial and Banking Company in United States, with 43000 employees. This project involved upgrading & Support of Human Resources system (HR, Benefits, Payroll and Self Service modules) from current release 8.8 to release 9.0.

Responsibilities:

• Authored and oversee all business processes within the modules

• Prepared gap analysis and business requirements documents and developed functional design documents

• Prepared and executed test scripts and sign off on changes to production environment

• Prepared and delivered functional training materials to end users during and post implementation

• Participated in cross-functional initiatives and teams to drive process improvement changes

• Drove system configuration and process improvement changes

• Daily PeopleSoft system maintenance and reporting as needed.

• Performed Hire, Rehire, Transfers, Retire, Terminate and data change events in PeopleSoft and tested the work flow process for provisioning and access control changes to the down stream systems.

• Involved in developing the Test strategy, planning, estimate, risk, assessment, mitigation and test cases for QA Evaluations.

• Participated in group meetings for building the testing schedules.

• Tested Payroll Interfaces

• Worked on Payroll work Requests and Reports.

• Worked closely with creating pay calendars, creating Pay Sheets and running through the final payroll process.

• Ran On-Cycle and Off-Cycle Payroll for Employees both US

• I have run North America payroll while testing Tax Updates to ensure the integration of the system with the new delivered patches and bundles.

• Involved in the System Integration testing of PeopleSoft to Pay Planner Interfaces.

• Involved in the System Integration testing Pay Planner to PeopleSoft Interfaces.

• Involved in the System Integration testing of PeopleSoft to Talent central interfaces.

• Developed PS Queries as per the user requirement.

Environment: PeopleSoft HRMS 8.8, PeopleSoft HCM 9.0, UNIX & Oracle 10g.

PeopleSoft Techno Functional Consultant, July 2007 – March 2008

Weyerhaeuser US, Federal Way, WA

Weyerhaeuser Company is an international forest products company dealing with forest products industry, from growing and harvesting trees to producing pulp, newsprint, packaging, building products and homes.

Weyerhaeuser has implemented PeopleSoft HRMS 8.8, which is further customized for their business. PeopleSoft HRMS is the source for the people information. Enable managers/administrators/ Help Desk personnel to manage various types of organizational users like employees, International employees and contractors from an easy to use-centralized self-service application interface.

Worked as a Business Analyst/Functional Consultant for Weyerhaeuser’s Workers Compensation project. Weyerhaeuser has self-insured their worker’s compensation process and the process resides and processes on an IBM AS/400 computer to web based client server environment. Worker’s Compensation project was converted from the legacy system to PeopleSoft.

The following responsibilities are carried out during the project:

• Study of current system to the legacy system (DISMA).

• Gathered functional requirements and prioritizated for application enhancements

• Acted as a liaison between the business community and PeopleSoft Support Team

• Study of different interfaces

• Documented, tested, and oversee all business processes within the modules

• Prepared and executed test scripts and sign off on changes to production environment

• Designed a Prototype in PeopleSoft based on the study of current system.

• Designed, developed, configured and tested new functionalities for Workers Comp – Create Claim, Claim Management, Payment, Reserve, Transaction Digest, and Setup Page for Non PS Employee & NCCI - WA Code.

• Designed, developed, configured and tested new functionalities for STD: Claim Management.

• Involved in the System Integration testing of new SQRS Reports.

• Involved in the System Integration testing of new Application Engine program for SHIMS to PS Claim Incidents.

• Involved in the in System Integration testing of Data Conversion SQRS for Workers Comp & STD.

• Responsible for preparing and maintaining the functional Test Plans.

• Involved in functional testing of Workers Comp & STD. in the PeopleSoft.

Environment: PeopleSoft 8.8, UNIX & Oracle 10g.

PeopleSoft Techno Functional Consultant, Feb2007 – June 2007

Belk Stores Inc., NC

HRMS Upgrade 8.3 to 8.9

DESCRIPTION: Belk Stores Inc is the nation's largest privately-owned department store company with more than 310 stores in 16 states in the southeast, southwest and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. In order to incorporate the new functionalities delivered with PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9, This project involves upgrade of PeopleSoft HRMS 8.3 system, which is currently on DB2 and ZO/s to PeopleSoft 8.9 on Oracle 10g and Unix environment.

Responsibilities:

• Documented, tested, and oversee all business processes within the modules

• Prepared and executed test scripts and sign off on changes to production environment.

• Prepared gap analysis and business requirements documents and developed functional design documents (HR).

• Responsible for preparing and maintaining the System Integration Test Plans for Online Pages.

• Involved in the security (Role) setup in 8.9.

• Responsible for preparing and maintaining the Functional Test cases (SIT) for HR Module.

• Tested Payroll Interfaces

• Worked on Payroll work Requests and Reports.

• Worked closely with creating pay calendars, creating Pay Sheets and running through the final payroll process.

• Ran On-Cycle and Off-Cycle Payroll for Employees both US.

Environment: PeopleSoft HRMS 8.3, PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9, UNIX & Oracle 10g.

PeopleSoft Functional Consultant, Feb 2006 – Jan 2007

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc, San Francisco, CA

HRMS Support & Upgrade 8.3 to 8.9

DESCRIPTION: Charles Schwab is one of the largest financial services providers of securities brokerage, wealth management, and related financial and investment services, with 16000 employees. In order to incorporate the new functionalities delivered with PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9, the client had PeopleSoft 8.3 implemented to satisfy their Human Resources specific needs. This project involved upgrading the Human Resources system (HR, Benefits, Payroll and Self Service modules) from current release to release 8.9.

Responsibilities:

• Documented, tested, and oversee all business processes within the modules

• Prepared and executed test scripts and sign off on changes to production environment.

• Prepared gap analysis and business requirements documents and developed functional design documents (HR).

• Performed Hire, Rehire, Transfers, Retire, Terminate and data change events in PeopleSoft and tested the work flow process for provisioning and access control changes to the down stream systems.

• Involved in developing the Test strategy, planning, estimate, risk, assessment, mitigation and test cases for QA Evaluations.

• Responsible for preparing and maintaining the Functional Test cases (SIT) for HR Module.

• Prepared analysis document and design methodology to meet new enhancements.

• Prepared Technical Design Documents and Impact Analysis Documents and responsibility of reviewing all documents of critical priority.

Environment: PeopleSoft HRMS 8.3, PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9, UNIX & Oracle 10g.

Technical Lead, August 2004 – Jan 2006

PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK India

PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK HRMS 8.8 Re-implementation

DESCRIPTION: Punjab National Bank (PNB) is a leading Public Sector bank with 62000 employees, 4000 branches, 71 regional offices and 26 zones. With growing employee strength and the need for consolidation, PNB decided to implement Global Payroll with PeopleSoft HRMS 8.8. The implementation and support is done from the Head Office, located at New Delhi. PNB has implemented the core PeopleSoft delivered HRMS with customizations in areas of transfer, Employee History Sheet, Labor Relations, Manpower Assessment, recruitment, training, LFC, Hospitalization, Industrial relations, Performance management, Promotion and terminal benefits (Pension, PF & Gratuity).

Responsibilities:

• Functional design and review of PeopleSoft Application data conversions, interfaces, custom reporting, and custom application.

• Defining and re-engineering business processes. Setup the data for foundation/setup tables for HRMS.

• Conducted business process analysis, gathered and analyzed requirements, created design specifications, developed customizations and conducted user training in the field of PeopleSoft-ERP.

• Performed system study and analysis of PeopleSoft HRMS modules to accurately interpret customer needs using Application Engine, People Tools & People Code.

• Designed fit gap analysis to help clients clearly identify problems and understand Business Processes.

• Designed, developed, configured and tested new functionalities – Manpower Planning, Employee History Sheet, Labor Relations, Relieving / Reporting, Transfer Order Issued and Promotion.

• Worked extensively on Security, Tree Manager, and Roles & Permission List.

• Worked on customized Salary Slip (bilingual-Hindi & English labels) and salary register.

• Ongoing end user support for PS Query, HRMS and report issues.

• Designed, developed and tested the Application Engine for generating seniority list for officers and sub staff.

• Designed and developed data upload programs using file layout and component interface (ExcelToCI).

• Used Excel to CI utility to upload manpower planning data into PeopleSoft.

Environment: PeopleSoft HRMS 8.3, PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9 & Oracle 10g.

PeopleSoft Analyst, Oct 2001 – Jul 2004

PeopleSoft Inc, USA

Post Implementation Support of PeopleSoft Application

DESCRIPTION: The scope of the project involved to provide the post-implementation support to PeopleSoft Global Clients. It includes solutions to the customers of PeopleSoft, when they face any problems in People Tools/PeopleSoft applications. This includes installation instructions of the People Tools and PeopleSoft applications, different troubleshooting information related to People Tools and PeopleSoft applications and configuration of application server, PIA, and web server.

To help clients by providing the necessary guidelines in case of any problem faced by them in creating or maintaining the Application Engine programs. Sometimes replicate the issues in house and let them know the outcome with the screen shoot.

Responsibilities:

• Provided post-implementation support to PeopleSoft customers. I am responsible to provide the technical solutions to the customers of PeopleSoft, when they face any problems in People Tools or PeopleSoft applications. This includes installation instructions of the People Tools and PeopleSoft applications, different troubleshooting information related to People Tools and PeopleSoft applications and configuration of application server, PIA, and web server.

• Involved in in-house Installations of People Tools 8.12.

• To assist in replication of client’s problem.

• Setting up the internal PeopleSoft environments. Setup PeopleSoft test environments; including file server configuration, client workstation configurations, application/database installation and configurations. Application server and Web server (Web logic 5.1/6.1/8.1) configurations.

• Discussing various issues with team lead and design strategy to improve work, work area, performance of team members etc.

• Take care of backlog, customer satisfaction surveys (rating for the group), team appraisal etc.

Environment: PeopleSoft HRMS 8.3, 8.8, UNIX

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