SUMMARY:

• Versatile, results - driven Sr. Business Systems Analyst with over eight years of experience in various industries including: insurance, healthcare, government solutions, and finance.
• Specializes in business process engineering and the software development life cycle, including analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of software applications.
• PeopleSoft HCM Application Analyst with extensive experience in HCM data conversions, full-implementations, upgrades, strategic transformation, data migrations, end-user production support, along with a focus on designing and implementing efficient business solutions.
• Excellent technical writing and communication skills used to create Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specifications Document (FSD), Nonfunctional Requirements Document and Use Cases Specifications.
• Proficient with ability to identify business user needs and translate them into appropriate technical solutions. Motivated self-starter, tenacious with projects and love facing challenges.
• Good understanding of Integrations including Web Services, SaaS, Peoplesoft Architecture, Business Process Framework. Expertise with PeopleSoft HCM 9.2; 9.1; 8.9; 8.x and People Tools 8.54; 8.51; 8.50; 8.48; 8.47, 8.49(Application Designer, Application Engine, PS Query, Process Scheduler, Process Monitor, File layout, Component Interface), People Code and SQR, Requirements, performing fit-gap analysis, improving business process designs and client user training.
• Experience as a Peoplesoft Consultant Analyst and in modules like, Benefits, Grants Management, General Ledger, Absence Management, Purchasing, Compensation, Admissions, Campus Community, Student Records, Academic Advising, Financial Aid, Transfer Credit and/or Student Finance, North American Payroll, Project costing, SQL and having experience in Campus solution in universities. Extensive experience across PeopleSoft Financial and Supply Chain applications (thru v9.2) lifecycle that includes e-Procurement, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Supplier Contracts, Strategic Sourcing, General Ledger, Travel & Expenses, e-Settlements, and e-Supplier.
• Extensive experience in test designing, test planning, test automation, functionality testing, system testing, integration testing, regression testing, load testing, performance testing, usability testing, user acceptance testing and test execution of Client Server and Web Applications.
• Highly motivated Business Analyst with hands on experience in creating documentation and training material for end users and complete Software Development Life Cycle using Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid Methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: PeopleSoft 9.2/9.1/9.0/8.9/8.8/8.3 , People tools 8.5x/8.4x/8.18/8.16

Modules: Core HR, Base Benefits, Benefits administration, absence management, Payroll (Global & NA), E-performance

People Tools: Application Designer, Application Engine, Component Interface, Process Scheduler, Data Mover, File Layout

Peoplesoft Reporting: Peoplesoft Standard Reports and Peoplesoft Custom Report writer, Calculated Fields

Integration Technologies: XML, XSLT, SOAP, REST, WSDL, Web services

Methodologies/ Frame work: Rational Unified Process (Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, ClearCase, and ClearQuest), SDLC Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM, JAD, Data Modeling, Business Modeling, Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Class Diagrams.

Tools: SQL, PL/SQL, SQR, Crystal Info, Citrix and Visual Basic 6.0, Oxygen XML, XSLT.

Cloud Technologies Peoplesoft: Core Connector, Report Writer, and Security Taleo - Taleo Connect Client.

Business Analysis: Requirement’s Analysis, Data Flow Diagram, Flowcharts, Risk Analysis, Business Process modeling & improvement, SWOT Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Break Even Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Gap Analysis, Decision Tree, Change Request Forms/Logs.

Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Server, Unix (Solaris), Windows XP/07/10/vista and Linux

Testing Tools: HP Quality center, QTP.

Database: DB2, Oracle 8i.

CHRONOLOGICAL OVERVIEW:

Sr. Peoplesoft Consultant

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Key member in implementation, configuration, testing and support of Peoplesoft HCM modules including Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Talent Management, Recruiting and Onboarding Also Reviewed the business processes and enhanced the processes to meet client requirements in PeopleSoft 9.2.
• Worked in Peoplesoft modules like Core HCM, Benefits, Compensation, Staffing, Recruiting, Payroll, Security Groups, Absence Management, Performance, Recruiting, Talent Management and Time Tracking.
• Documented business, task, and workflow processes using industry standard methods including business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, diagrams, flow charts, etc., ensured that these deliverables can be used to design a solution to the stated business problem.
• Involved in evaluating migration to cloud based HCM product - creating functional design specifications, technical specifications, and documenting custom modifications in PeopleSoft batch and online processing.
• Done testing in all Integrations from End-End for Payroll, Benefits, Time Keeping and other downstream applications also done Enrollment Rules Configuration.
• Strong understanding of software test methodologies and knowledge of modern software development processes, including Issue/Bug Tracking, Release Management, Requirements etc.
• Created various test cases for Payroll and Non- Payroll Integrations which involved different Staffing Events and data changes for the employee records.
• Designed and modified various Business Process Definitions - Hire, Change Job, Job Requisition with validation rules, condition rules and custom notifications.
• Created detailed system integration specifications, field mappings, and system process designs and document the detailed functional design.
• Involved in test execution of major business processes like Recruiting, Onboarding, Position Management, and Hiring process, Compensation, Absence & Leaves in Peoplesoft for both Publishing and Media companies.
• Involved in writing Junit/Selenium Test cases and Test Methods and executing them in Web Driver and Performed Test Automation under Agile/Scrum environment where continuous development of regression test suites was developed for User Stories in each sprint.
• Configured Peoplesoft compensation packages including salary, bonus, allowance, commission, and merit plans for multiple countries including merit and bonus plan processing.
• Done the implementation of new Peoplesoft and Peoplesoft functionality as well as providing production support post go-live.
• Security policy configuration for many business processes such as Benefits, payroll and planning of workforce to the organization.
• Tested Peoplesoft HCM (Recruiting, Compensation, Benefits, Time Tracking, Team Performance HR and Payroll) also Done HCM-Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and (UAT).
• Created training materials and presentations to explain the functionality of Peoplesoft Modules to end users.
• Conducted fit-gap analysis prior to implementation of Peoplesoft systems to demonstrate the effectiveness of Peoplesoft systems over legacy systems.
• Created multiple staffing models for Job & Position Management by defining job family groups, management level hierarchies and work shifts.
• Created Custom, Advanced, Matrix and Trending reports - Headcount Reports, Turnover rate, Census Reports, Benefit Enrollment reports and Payroll deduction reports.
• Assisted in the planning, development and roll out of all Peoplesoft system development and support, Including upgrades, new functionality rollout and milestones support/train HRIS peers in elevated level issues/needs.
• Used specific test scenarios and conducted testing in Peoplesoft for Payroll testing due to Payroll engines being replaced by Peoplesoft Payroll.
• Generated various kinds of reports - Simple, Advanced and Matrix reports to meet client requirements within the peoplesoft tenant.
• Followed Agile Methodology as defined process with regular sprints (each sprint of 2 weeks) planned by Scrum Master
• Responsible for analyzing and preparing Project Deliverables such as Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Requirement traceability Matrix and proposed changes for process improvement.
• Partner with other team members to manage the delivery of small HR system projects including configuration changes and functionality deployment (including configuration, testing, documentation, peer review, sign off, training, change management.

Peoplesoft Consultant

Confidential, Burlington, Massachusetts

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for functional and technical exposure of PeopleSoft modules like HR, Talent Acquisition and Management, Payroll, General Ledger, Travel & Expense, Accounts Payable, Benefits, Employee Self Service(ESS) and Manager Self Service(MSS).
• Done Upgrade/Customization of Peoplesoft HCM 8.8 to 9.1 to 9.2 Application and Tools from 8.46 to 8.5,
• Worked on the end-to-end PeopleSoft HCM implementation flow: requirement gathering & analysis, design and development, tenant configuration, data extraction, data migration and report development.
• Worked on upgrading PeopleSoft PayBill, Contracts, Commitment Control, from 9.1 to 9.2 and peopletool which include Fit-Gap analysis.
• Created Integrations/Reports on the modules for Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Performance Management, Recruiting, Talent Management, Absence Management, Time Tracking. Created number of Calculated Fields using distinct functions as per different business requirements.
• Coordinated with users gathering requirements and designed the functional specification for different countries to build new Payroll Interfaces, Global Payroll and worked with Pay performance and Security Peoplesoft Applications.
• Worked with Core HR and Talent Management modules on planned activities and coordinate across offshore teams, tasks, issues and risks of functional process.
• Worked with development and requirements analysts to define test scenarios and ensure that test requirements are correct and complete.
• Worked extensively on PeopleSoft tools like SQRs and Application Engines for reporting, Mass uploads, Outbound and Inbound Interfaces.
• Worked extensively on Business Process condition rules, Calculated Fields, Advanced Reports, setting up Alerts & Notifications, Dashboards & Worklets.
• Configured and Maintained the business process like Hiring an Employee, Changes like Position of the employee, compensation with the usage of different staffing models.
• Collaborated with Peoplesoft functional and technical resources to redesign current PeopleSoft integrations to function in Peoplesoft and documented current PeopleSoft processes and future Peoplesoft processes for the new system.
• Done Configurations of core compensation like Compensation Eligibility Rules, Grades/Grade Profile, Compensation Plans and Compensation Packages.
• Worked on Business Process, Compensation, Configurable Security, and Custom Reports and on Modifying the Business Process as on business needs like Hire, Terminate, &Promote.
• Performed Benefits setup across multiple countries and edited Benefit groups, Plans, Events and underlying eligibility rules, Enrollment Rules Configuration.
• Traced Requirements to Elevated Level Design, use case Models, Test Cases and Scripts, and product requirement using MS Word and MS Visio.
• Interacted and Coordinated effectively with the HR (Recruiting & Onboarding) and Payroll teams to ensure curvature is leveraging the full capabilities of Peoplesoft.
• Done Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Stand-ups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review and Retrospective.
• Worked on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Test Methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation.
• Created Custom G/L Integrations from Peoplesoft using Journal Lines data source to send the Post payroll result to Lawson Financial system.
• Worked with client's implementation team and internal configuration team (cloud deployment services) to gather functional data requirements needed for a successful peoplesoft implementation.
• Facilitated UAT testing with the business users and prepared Test Plan/Requirements traceability matrix to execute the test cases.
• Configured various earnings and deductions related to benefits, compensation, time tracking and absence. Responsibilities include the accurate and timely administration & processing of semi-monthly and bi-weekly payroll.
• Done analyzing and documenting artifacts such as Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRD), Software Requirement Specification (SRS), Scope documents, and Use Case Specification.
• Executed the day to day activities of PeopleSoft advisory engagements for a variety of clients including process design, package implementation lifecycle support and project reviews.

Peoplesoft Analyst

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked in full life cycle implementations Peoplesoft HCM using modules such as HR, Benefits, Total Compensation, Base Compensation, Variable Compensation, Position Management, Profile Management, Performance Management, Recruiting, Payroll and Manager and Employee Self Service modules.
• Utilized Peoplesoft testing methodology for System Development and Implementation, developed detail Test Strategy, Plans and Scripts to test specific HCM Business process in Peoplesoft HCM.
• Led analysis, requirements gathering, design phases of the implementation.
• Designed and developed custom pages to allow ESS and MSS users to view real time summary and detail leave time usage and balances.
• Designing and integrating interfaces between PeopleSoft Absence Management and WorkBrain(T&A).
• Involved in developing test cases for different added functionality as per the Requirement Specs and Functional specs in Quality Center test management tool.
• Created positive and negative Functional Integration test cases by analyzing requirements and test conditions and created condition rules and validation rules.
• Created Supervisory Organizations, Cost Centers, Cost Centre Hierarchies, and location hierarchies' maintenance, Staffing Models, Job details Positions and Job Requisitions.
• Created a custom report to pull the current Benefit Enrollments of the employees for the OE process.
• Involved in the Human Capital Management (HCM) And Finance functional area of Peoplesoft and PeopleSoft and done data Migration from Peoplesoft to Peoplesoft.
• Configured Outbound Benefit Interfaces using Peoplesoft Cloud Connect for Benefits.
• Provided mentorship for Creating Reports and Calculated Fields and modified Peoplesoft Standard reports according to the Client Requirements.
• Created and used calculated fields in reporting, business processes, integrations and other areas within Peoplesoft.
• Partially involved in creating benefit plans, benefit groups, benefit eligibility rules as per the client requirement and add them into enrolment plans and manage the enrolment rules.
• Worked with Excel (Macros) to maintain the project status and to do tasks across the agile development process and Participated in Agile Retrospective Meetings to improve the process, best practices to implemented in the project.
• Peoplesoft HCM Expansion Projects: Managed Security Rationalization, AIP Eligibility and performance Management Deployments across all divisions and businesses worldwide.
• Build reports using Peoplesoft's report writing tools and helped clients resolve reporting issues requiring in depth expertise in the Peoplesoft solution.
• Involved in the requirement gathering, Documentation, Writing Use Cases, Peoplesoft- Functional specification, Business Case analysis, Quality Assurance and Testing including Cloud Connects, Core Connectors.
• Worked with subject matter expert for the implementation and integration of Self-Service, Benefits, Payroll, Recruiting and Onboarding Time and Labor and Absence Management modules.
• Worked with client to build new reports from scratch and build a fit/gap related to the technical aspect of PeopleSoft reporting.
• Worked on interacting with users and collecting business requirements and prepared functional and technical specification documents and defined reporting standards documentation and developed BRD's and FRD's
• Assisted the integration consulting team in helping to configure and test integrations between Peoplesoft and third party/custom solutions.
• Performed fit-gap analysis and Retrofitted the customizations after doing the impact analysis on what is delivered for Fields, Records, People Code, SQR and Application Engines
• Involved in Migrating the data from one Environment to other using New Object Transfer tool.
• Worked on Sales force Inbound and Outbound Connectors to send the Employee Change details.
• Developed test scripts for other outside systems that interface with Peoplesoft: Benefit interface with vendors, Time & Labor interface with Kronos system and Payroll Interface with PeopleSoft Payroll system.
• Designed Built and Executed Data Conversion from PeopleSoft to Peoplesoft HCM for different Countries.

Business Analyst/Data Analyst

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated client meetings to determine requirements for implementing solutions using an Waterfall methodology.
• Interfaced with clients and conduct presentations around project kickoffs, requirements, governance and other related tasks.
• Involved in conversion of employees benefits from the legacy system on to the PeopleSoft 9.1 Benefits Administration system and Prepared field to field mapping documents for the benefits data from legacy to PeopleSoft system.
• Drove successful expansion of business capabilities as well as enhancements in Oracle - PeopleSoft Applications and User Performance.
• Established contingency plans for PeopleSoft HCM &Finance and Operations in conjunction with disaster Recovery with system enhancements and Defined and documented customized business requirements and functional specifications.
• Translated documented business requirements and migrated them into technical requirements (specifications for developers) by way of user stories.
• Recorded, maintained and updated tasks, goals and assignments in JIRA. Acted as liaison between developers and client to clarify requirements.
• Analyzed and prepared Project Deliverables such as Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD).
• Tracked and Monitored the progress of the project activities and reported status, risks, issues, action items; recommended adjustments to ensure the successful completion of project
• Facilitated Sprint Demos and Retrospectives, Supported the Project Manager in ensuring that the project deliverables are on time, within budget and at the required level of quality and achieved the expected outcomes of the project.
• Worked closely with the functional consultant to understand the current logic, prepared the technical specification document and implemented the new solution.
• Assisted in the Configuration of Peoplesoft compensation packages including salary, bonus, allowance, commission, and merit plans for multiple countries including merit and bonus plan processing.
• Analyzed and developed Use Cases for Core HR module, Compensation, Absence Management, Benefits.
• Drafted requirement document to capture global and local requirements for reports for Compensation, Stock, Merit, Bonus, etc. capturing the used and calculated fields.
• Created test scenarios for testing all in scope Business Processes like Hire, Job Change, Promote, Transfer, Terminate, Compensation changes local and global processes, Access Testing, Talent and Performance, Employee Self Service process, Manager Self-service processes, etc.