SUMMARY

• Around 10 year’s of experience in IT industry, over 8 years as SAP Cross functional Consultant; SAP HCM/HR/HRIS analyst and BI/Business Objects Analyst and Software QA & Testing in the domains of Utility, healthcare, mortgage, insurance, investment/retail banking and technology with expertise in implementing large enterprise applications and providing ERP solutions.
• Experienced ERP Consultant /HR Functional Analyst with SAP HR/HCM with blended business analysis expertise, high level of education, and expertise including sub modules such as Payroll, Organizational Management (OM), Personal Administration (PA) and Time Management (TM), CATS and Benefits (BN),Compensation Management, SAP Solution Manager and SAP Reporting Tools(SAP BI/BO or BOBJ)
• Great deal of understanding of SAP HR ABAP and customized programs for client needs as well as data migration one system to other
• Demonstrated leadership in writing innovative and concise blue print or training documents for end user trainers
• Ability to work with cross - functional SAP consulting teams such as FICO, BASIS, BI professionals, and ABAP developers
• Experienced some extent in global payroll (UK, Europe, India, Japan, Australia and Chile) such as transfers from country to country and benefits proration’s middle of the month
• Ability to create and comprehend process-level and system-level documents including functional specifications, project scoping and project planning and leading a functional
• Worked on Legacy System Migration workbench (LSMW) for data uploads for various SAP Projects.
• Thorough understanding of the entire SDLC, including version and change control and new software rollouts
• Experience in software analysis and design including requirement gathering, functional specification, user interface specification and technical design
• Adept in identifying and converting business needs into technical and non-functional requirements
• Actively involved in business process re-engineering, process mapping, fit gap analysis, business refinement process and risk assessment
• Ability to communicate effectively with business users, Subject Matter Experts stake-holders, programmers, and technical staff
• Highly motivated team player with excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP Technologies: SAP HCM ECC 4.7 & 6.0 expertise (OM & PA, Benefits & Compensation architect, Payroll & Time management expert and ESS/MSS/Travel Management familiarity with PeopleSoft and Oracle and Workday and Extensively worked on SAP integration with ADP

Operating Systems: Windows NT/XP/Vista/7 and 8, Linux, Mac OS

Web and Creative Design: Adobe Dreamweaver 8.0, Photoshop 6.0, Corel Draw, GIMP, and MS Paint

Document Creation Tools: MS Office Suite including Visio, Excel, word, Publisher, Front Page, PowerPoint & Project

Software Testing & QA: QTP, HP Quality Center 9.2, SDLC, and Agile methodology, unit testing, integration testing, and regression as well as user acceptance testing (UAT) facilitation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SAP HR Team Lead /HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a team lead directly facing the client almost every day, understand business scenarios and functional requirements. Reviewing and analyzing gaps and building the bridge and providing best SAP HCM/ HRIS/HR solutions to optimize the productivity of work force and business processes
• As lead or Coordinator on Managed On-Shore & Off-Shore team, participated in status updates of work flow (team size about 6 people working and handling various HR tickets)
• This project is a blend of production support & some area of new implementation as well as modification of some of the existing scenarios like enhancements. Most complicated issues without a proper documentation. Hence previous implementation partner IBM left in the middle of project.
• As a subject matter expert (SME) strategically approaches to the issues analyze and fixing
• Benefits; Configured the Benefits Area, First Program & Second Program for the enrollment and Calculation of Benefits Contribution based on the Employee Location (PA & PSA)
• Defined benefit areas and various groupings and assigned them using features including BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT, ELIGR, TRMTY and EVTGR
• Worked with standard benefit reports HRBEN0071 for employees and HRBEN0072 for participation
• Involved in creation of the Plans like 401K Saving, 401k Medical, Dental and Vision
• Configured the Coverage Variant, Coverage rule, Cost variant and Cost rule
• Maintained the yearly free tax limit amount based on the client requirement for the 401K benefits plan
• Configured the Insurance Plans like Short term Disability, Long term Disability and Group term life Insurance
• Worked on developing other miscellaneous plans based on the requirement
• Analyzed the existing 401K savings plans and Reconfigured 401K Plans, and employee and employer contribution rules and configuration of the limits
• Designed and configured the following voluntary Benefits: Accident, Additional Life, Voluntary Term Life, Critical Illness, Cancer Protection, Universal Life and Premier Disability Income
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• Designed emergency data voluntarily provided by the employee such as health conditions and current medications
• Configured qualifying status changes events (marriage, divorce, birth or adoption, termination of employment, increase or reduction in hours of employment
• Assisted with Open Enrollment and Benefit administration for retirees
• Created wage types for Benefits Integration to Payroll
• Time Management and &CATS; Worked on CATs extensively, as well attendances, absences and O/T issues
• As principal consultant reviewed over 70 work schedule rules, modified some of them as well as developed completely new work schedule rules with special day off and 3 days a week or 4 days week work week
• Modified Schemas and OT or PCR Rules to meet the specific client requirements and Involved in the integration of Time with Payroll
• Tested time data followed by Infotypes 2002, 2001 and 2006, 2011 and 2013, 2050, 2051 for time events like attendances, absences OT rules in development environment prior to moving to Quality and production
• Tested and maintained Time Quota generations, time transfer for CATS to SAP HCM
• Involved in maintaining of the CATSDB and CATSHR tables for evaluating the time sheets
• US Payroll; Dealing HR master data for additional payments and deductions (IT 0015, IT0014)as well as 2010
• Created and demonstrated client residence tax and work place tax issues and deal with infotype 0207, 0208, 0209, 0210 etc., worked on Tax reporter, w2 forms generation, 940, 941 and FUTA calculation and Postings of payroll results to FI
• Involved in Tax adjustments related infotype such as IT 0221, subtupe YANA, YAWA, IT 0234
• Garnishment infotype include IT 0194 and IT0195 as well as Garnishment Adjustment (0216)
• Created indirect or direct evaluation of basic pay increase as per union agreements configuration tables updatesor auto basic pay IT0008 increase upon proper configuration and running reports such RPU51000 and RPITRF00
• Generating TLM files for ADP for some of the specific payments to be processed in ADP.
• Reviewed numerous wage types and extended the validity or reactivated about 10 plus wage types and properly maintained their permissibility
• Created new wage types, Defined and maintained processing classes, evaluation classes and their specifications for maintaining wage type through logical values and mapped with symbolic accounts and G/L accounts
• Customization; Several user exit programs have been reviewed by sitting with ABAP programming professionals several hours and specifically modified as per the client requirements
• Mentored 2-3 ABAP’ers and one basis consultant to change the requirements as per the business needs
• Worked on user exits, in bound out bound interfaces for third party integration
• OM & PA; Reviewing periodic review programs for auto actions for specific periods of pay max, leave of absences
• Our automation process of personal action on every several weeks benefited over 2000 employees who are hourly and union as well as saved of efforts of manual entry of data on PA
• 40 actions with reasons as well as on customized ABAP programs for tenure based reviews as per union agreements. As a lead was able to provide interface between two activities and eliminated data entry processes as well as minimized manual errors.
• Heavily involved in OM reporting and compliance reports
• Pay Scale and Wage Type Structures
• Involved in integration with the personnel administration by using the RHINTE00, RHINTE10, RHINTE30, RHINTE20 reports
• Created and configured the Org Structure and built all the valid relationships using transaction codes PPOCE and PPOME
• Worked on Master data transfer or migration from SAP to sucessfactors (SF) or SF to SAP
• SAP HCM Testing:
• As lead involved in through testing of unit and integration testing and bug fixing prior to hand over to business end user acceptance testing
• Setup a MASTER DATA for Abapers to test the unit testing, integration testing or and after customization, regression testing and system testing of SDLC (software life cycle development)
• Testing of Inbound and Outbound process while dispatching IDOC from one system to other system
• Expertise Quality Centre, eCATTS and Share Point to upload the design, development and test documents with tracing of time lines in using
• Familiar with Quick Test Professional, test scripts, WinRunner and LoadRunner, and AutoTester

Confidential, AZ

SAP HR Consultant/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a team lead managed or oversee the activities of our HR functional team/crew on configuration of Organizational management (OM) and Personal administration, Time management and payroll as well as integration of data from TM, PY, BN master data, planned working time, absences and attendances, creation of holiday calendar, integration of time date with HR master data (IT 0007) hiring employees on the organization units, assigning cost centers as well as fast lane entries followed by PA 30 and PA 40
• Demonstrated the OM superior over PA in terms of default values on to HR master data, as a set rules, which have been graded out in PA master data modifications (PA 20, PA 30, PA 40)
• Reviewed the SAP blue print created by our junior team and delegated with company personal for authorization and explained the scenarios in layman terms to end business users
• Visualization of organization flow chart with main and sub units, or column view as well as o-o-s-c relationship, as well as fixed the problem of viewing in expert mode or organization of staffing of entity which lacks a proper start date or assignments
• Oversee the activities of SAP HR implementation and production team.
• This project is a completely a new implementation of OM and PA sub module at client side
• Worked on this project through a contractor who is a subject matter expert in SAP HCM
• Gathered technical requirements from HR teams for OM and PA, ESS/MSS etc.
• Developed the HR blue print and identified and filled the gaps
• Configured benefits and tested, integrated with payroll
• Created employee groups and subgroups and tested their integration with OM (organizational assignment info type 001) and FICO
• Our team developed an enterprise structure, organizational units, positions, jobs, hired employees, integrated with PA, assigned cost centers etc., and assigned a testing team to validate the configuration by doing the unit testing and integration testing
• We trained the HR employees, on expert mode- simple maintenance, or Organizational assignment or Staffing etc.
• Created several info types and modified desired functions and info types and customized as per the client needs
• Created enterprise structure, wage types, positions and jobs and demonstrated a hire, terminate and rehire the employees as well as how to include depended in SAP HCM to cover the benefits to employee families
• Defined groups based on salary structure or payment type likewise, monthly, semimonthly, bi weekly, weekly and hours and reviewed the company rules for benefits coverage to part time and full time employees
• Trouble shoot errors on final Payroll Processing upon bug report by testing team
• Currently supporting a production team including payroll teams, testing, and third party positions, off cycle payment, year-end payroll, ACH transfer, check printing, and w2 printing.
• Developed blue print and strategies for 401 K savings, dental & health plans, life insurance or flexi spending accounts, employee and employer’s contribution rules as well as special scenarios.
• Maintained tax related info types like 0207, 0208, 0209, 0210 and 0267
• Integration of employee master data with time management - Planned working time info type (0007)
• Design or development of client specific Holiday Calendars and Work Schedules,
• Configured Work Schedules Rules according to Client requirements using tables T550A T551C and T508A and maintained the feature SCHKZ
• Configuration of system to record Attendance, Absence types and time quota’s time info types (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 & 2011)
• Over time, Holiday pay custom rules
• Worked on CATS (Cross Application Time sheet) and CATS mini master
• Worked on Schemas and Rules
• Worked on the Test Plan, which specifies testing overview, testing approach, testing strategy, and scope of testing
• Testing was conducted thoroughly like unit testing and integration testing both on time as well as payroll results, simulations and RT or CRT tables.
• Performed stress testing and volume testing manually
• Conducted Regression Tests after code conversion
• Done Performance testing and worked with performance optimization
• Involved in the planning, preparation, and execution of testing
• Utilized the Quality Centre tool to prepare Test Plan and Tests Cases
• Participated in testing with Load Runner for Web Performance and Stress Testing
• Performed Manual and Automation testing, using HP Interactive Tools (Quality Center, Quick Test Pro (QTP))
• Mentored the quality assurance (QA) an testing teams to ensure the accuracy of configurations and find the bugs and fix and expedite the testing process

Environment: SAP R/3 (ECC 6.0)

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

SAP HR Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Gathered technical requirements from HR/Payroll teams, configured the payroll system accordingly
• Developed the HR blue print and identified and filled the gaps
• Redesigned the Deductions, optimized the payroll with benefits integration and TM modules
• Updated garnishments, printed W2 forms, ACH transfer, third party postings as well as off cycle payroll, designed the payroll system for off cycle payroll such as early payment during the Christmas season or bonus payment in the form of a special check or bank deposition
• Configured the holiday calendar, payroll calendar and pay date adjustments
• Expenses posting to FICO
• Configured third party posting like paying to the vendor from the employee and employer groups that include health plans, 401 K or 403 B, optional retirement programs or dental and vision insurance vendors
• Configured Enterprise Structure in HR module such as Personnel Areas & Personnel Sub Areas, Employee Groups, and Employee Subgroups & Payroll Areas
• Trained the HR personnel on how to deal with master data of the company using the transactions PA30, PA40 as PA70 for fast lane entries
• Organized a live demo on Organizational structure objects like, organizational unit, Jobs & Position and clarified the doubts of the staff in a special Q & A session as well as shared a troubleshooting experience and discussed the difference between jobs and position in the SAP stand point
• Provided the HR staff an intensive training on Info type Menus, Info groups and Action types, like Hiring, Promotion, Transfer, and termination, as well as organization assignment time and payroll integration
• Demonstrated how to integrate the HR module with FI so the employee pay or other payments will reflect in the company balance sheet
• Maintained Employee Number Ranges using NUMKR feature.
• Changes the info groups as for the client needs
• Created Wage Types from Model Wage types to integrate in the Basic Pay IT0008.
• Created holiday calendar, work schedule ( daily or weekly or shift), worked on CATS and mini master CATs
• Demonstrated the time related info types for attendance and absence type
• Integration of Time Management with other components
• Carried out unit testing and integration testing of various aspects
• Performed stress testing and volume testing manually
• Conducted Regression Tests after code conversion
• Done Performance testing and worked with performance optimization
• Involved in the planning, preparation, and execution of testing
• Utilized the Quality Centre tool to prepare Test Plan and Tests Cases
• Participated in testing with Load Runner for Performance and Stress Testing
• Performed Manual and Automation testing, using HP Interactive Tools (Quality Center, Quick Test Pro (QTP))

Environment: SAP R/3 (ECC 6.0)

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

SAP HR consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on organizational hierarchy configuration, cost center integrations or assignment, employee group and sub group
• Worked on 401K, 403 (b) health and dental plans, life insurance plans assignment
• Worked on HR master data, Organizational assignment info types
• Configured areas and sub area of employees
• Configured various health, dental, 401 K plans and tested prior to go live implementation
• Extensively worked on off cycle payments, yearend payroll, W2 form generation, payroll corrections or deduction adjustments
• Assisted production support teams in quality assuarnace3 and testing the configured scenarios as a sample test cases on payroll running upon integration of wage types, benefits or time and work schedule
• Worked on Tax Reporter, simulated payroll, resolved check printing issues and fixed errors including payroll calendar correction
• Tested some of the sample data HR master data of employees prior to go live project
• Evaluated the cost centers, which fall on HR master data for accuracy
• As consultant gathered the requirements to define the employee groups and employee subgroups as well as integrated HR module with FI
• Integration of employee master data with time management - Planned working time infotype (0007)
• Design or development of client specific Holiday Calendars and Work Schedules
• Configuration of system to record Attendance and Absence types

Environment: SAP R/3 (ECC 6.0)

Confidential, Flanders, NJ

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated stakeholder requirements gathering sessions with the purpose of defining functional and system requirements.
• Detailed the business processes of the secondary mortgage company in setting the reporting, forecasting and automatic transfer fund feature.
• Managed requirements and requirements traceability matrix (RTM) for the amortization package with business rules and calculation logic for ARM products using Rational RequisitePro.
• Presented Use Case Diagrams to the stakeholders in internal and external requirement reviews, so that all the actors, their roles and their functional specifications were defined.
• Designed Activity Diagrams to chart out the various workflows and process models that occur during customer transactions, and presented them to the SME.
• Effective use of Agile/Lean methodology in setting up the analysis model.
• Created the various models of the process to establish state transitions for the system and developed state diagrams.
• Assisted ETL experts in mapping specifications from requirements and used Informatica as an ETL toolto create source/target definitions, mappings and sessions.
• Analyzed table joins and reviewed Stored Procedures before the data mapping was performed.
• Identified and documented issues, IT risks and gaps, their descriptions, their impact and provided recommendation and alternatives to develop the application to meet the user requirements.
• Reviewed and validated PL/SQL stored procedures in Oracle 10g for the batch jobs of data in the customer portfolio and forecasting module.
• Participated with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance testing. Verified the Business Scenarios on new builds to allow extended testing by the QA team
• Involved in the Change Management team to address change requests and coordinate and track changes to the project scope to meet business requirements.
• Monitored transition process during the implementation phase and assisted in the development of user manuals and training guides.

Environment: Windows XP, Rational RequisitePro, Rational Rose, Mercury Suite, MS Office Suite, IBM WebSphere, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL, InformaticaPowerCenter, InformaticaPowerMart

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicited requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirement workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, and work flow analysis.
• Gathered operational data required to assess the claim settlement process and vendor details for the Vendor Management System.
• Managed requirements traceability information and worked with managers to track requirements status throughout the project and created different traceability views
• Created activity diagrams using Rational Rose to communicate the system activity flow in the claim settlement process to the developers and testers
• Conducted gap analysis and identified operational risks associated with IT and made recommendations.
• Set up definitions and process for testphases including product, integration, and system test.
• Analyzed business processes to accommodate and implement at a later stage Six Sigma standards.
• Participated with Data Analysts and Data Warehouse developers to create Star Schema Fact tables and Dimension Tables for the Data warehouse and Business Intelligence.
• Assisted in the extraction, transformation and loading process (ETL) using InformaticaPowerCenter. Also contributed in creating metadata for data management of vendor records.
• Frequently updated the requirement and defect status as per the current status of the testing project in ClearQuest
• Facilitated the QA team to conduct UAT, review test cases, test scenarios, and data sets

Environment: Windows XP, Rational Rose, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Agile Methodology, UML, SQL, Mercury Suite, InformaticaPowerCenter, Star Schema, SQL Server

Confidential

Business Systems /SAP HR Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved on two different projects during my tenure one is on SAP implementation and played a key role as SAP HR Analyst as well as business analyst involved in portfolio management
• Reviewed all the ERP technologies in the market and analyzed cost to benefits ratio to see which one will fit well for our company need with long term sustainability.
• Invited subject matter experts (SME) to present the strengths of various ERP technology solutions such as PeopleSoft and SAP. As per the SME advice we adopt SAP implementation based on our client needs and future expansion or diversification of portfolio.
• Been trained on SAP HCM (OM, PA, TM and Payroll) by consultants when we started implementing SAP HCM module apart from FICO and MM and SD
• I have extensively worked on PA and enroll several employees and tested their benefits functionality and trained employees for self-services (ESS)
• Analyzed and reviewed material about Credit Markets and Credit Instruments to gather business requirements for the system.
• Identified reporting requirements and documented portfolio performance measures and portfolio management process strategies
• Related business rules and business processes of the firm with the theory of portfolio management
• Assisted the development team to review stored procedures in the SQL Server environment.
• Described use cases for initial portfolio building, blending portfolios, reallocating portfolios and rebalancing portfolios
• Developed use cases, class diagrams, activity diagrams as well as interaction and behavioral diagrams for initial portfolio building, blending portfolios, reallocating portfolios and rebalancing portfolios using Rational Rose
• Designed the navigation flow and user interface for the full-featured reporting functionality
• Extensively involved in user acceptance testing and black box testing

Environment: Windows XP, SAP HCM (OM, PY, TM, PA and Benefits), Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, UML, SQL Server, SQL, QTP

Confidential

Software QA & Testing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created test cases, test scenarios, as a team member participated in in team environment
• Tested several online GRE and TOFEL, GMAT or CAT exams relates practice exam software’s manually, how they functions how was the end results stored, identified bugs and fixed by programmers
• Professionally trained by senior personnel on several automation testing tools including QTP, Load Runner and so on
• Worked on the Test Plan, which specifies testing overview, testing approach, testing strategy, and scope of testing
• Performed stress testing and volume testing manually
• Conducted Regression Tests after code conversion
• Done Performance testing and worked with performance optimization
• Involved in the planning, preparation, and execution of testing
• Utilized the Quality Centre tool to prepare Test Plan and Tests Cases
• Participated in testing with Load Runner for Web Performance and Stress Testing
• Performed Manual and Automation testing, using HP Interactive Tools
• Updating the Project Plan for the QA activities and reporting to the manager on a weekly basis for the progress in QA activities
• Performed test analyses (Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Network Testing) based upon needs and requirements