SUMMARY

• Overall 7+ yrs. of PeopleSoft experience with expertise in Core HR, Time and Labor, NA Payroll and Self - services modules. Have experience in working on PeopleSoft Implementation, Data Conversion and Development/Maintenance projects in an Offshore/Onsite model.
• Key strengths are strong commitment to results, customer satisfaction, excellent analytical, problem solving skills and self-learning skills.
• 7+ years of experience in IT, involved in various phases of software design and development, which included analysis, designing, testing and implementation.
• Strong Experience in working as a PeopleSoft Techno-Functional consultant.
• Extensive knowledge in Core HR, Time & Labor, NA Payroll.
• Experience in Base Benefit & ESS/MSS modules.
• Experience in handling HR data conversion projects from Legacy HR systems to PeopleSoft HRMS, Implementation, Enhancement and Support projects.
• Extensive experience in System Configuration for HR, Time & Labor, NA Payroll.
• Strong Expertise in PeopleTools such as Application Designer, Application Engine, Component Interface, PeopleCode, Process Scheduler, DMS, File layout, PS Query and SQR. Working knowledge of Integration Broker.
• Involved in development and customization of interfaces and reports using Application Designer, Integration Tools, and Reporting Tools like PS Query, SQRs.
• Well versed with Debugging tools like SQL trace, and AE trace for troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Experience in creating Functional specifications, Test Strategy, Test Scripts and Business Scenarios.
• Highly experienced in writing Test plans, Test cases and executing Functional, Regression, system integration and parallel testing.
• Worked very closely with Business users in capturing requirements and creating Functional Design documents (BRD & FRD) and designing Technical Documents based on FR.
• Extensive knowledge of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Have good exposure to Software quality processes and PeopleSoft Standards.
• Experience in all phases of ERP lifecycle Conversion, Production support and troubleshooting of PeopleSoft applications release 9.x
• Experience in providing end user training by creating job aids and training guides which simplifies the user’s understanding of the business processes and better explaining the new and enhanced functionalities.
• Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to quickly master new concepts and applications. An analytical thinker with excellent researching ability and communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Jose, CA

PeopleSoft HCM - Techno - Functional Consultant

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.0, PeopleTools 8.54, Oracle DB

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting HR, Time & Labor, NA Payroll issues as part of daily production support and supporting N/A Payroll module.
• Testing of Time & Labor and NA Payroll issues, ability to diagnose an issue, and execute driving towards a resolution and fixing issues on time to meet clients SLA.
• Conducting Unit, System and Integration testing and adhere to predefined quality assurance standards.
• Develop and coordinate application enhancements and bug fixes with offshore developers and testing resources.
• Involved in Ongoing maintenance, troubleshooting and issue resolution of PeopleSoft system.
• Provide daily functional support in maintaining the HCM system and working closely with users to understand and resolve processing issues.
• Troubleshooting issues as part of a team providing 24x7 production support.
• Responsible for fixing production issues and migration of the fixes to production environment and monitoring them.
• Involved in US Calendar Year End/W2 testing and production processing.
• Involved in the functional aspects of Time & Labor and NA Payroll Testing.
• Worked on North America Payroll while testing Tax Updates to ensure the integration of the system with the new delivered patches and bundles.
• Involved in running all the Year-end processes along with the Payroll Team.
• Created new Process definitions and customize SQRs to suit customer business needs and reporting requirements.
• Created Run control Pages, Components and Records and attached them to required menus through Application Designer and made them available to various operators through Maintain Security to have the SQR reports run under Process Scheduler.
• Modified Application Engine programs and processes (SQL and Application Engine PeopleCode) based upon business requirements.
• Modified PeopleCode & Application Programs by running PeopleCode Trace, SQL-Trace & AE trace to fix production issues in HRMS environment.
• Worked on performance related issues in AE programs using Managing Abends and application engine debugging, restarting ABEND programs.
• Performance optimization of several SQRs.
• Involved inmaintaining Securityfor all the custom components and pages by creating new roles and permission lists.
• Worked on PeopleSoft Security by creating and testing user roles and permission list.
• Preparation of SQL and DMS scripts for migration.
• Translating business requirements into functional design documents and technical design documents.
• Participated in business meetings with the team to discuss the functionality of processes.
• Working sessions with business process teams to demonstrate application capabilities related to that module.

Confidential, Collierville, TN

PeopleSoft HCM - Techno - Functional Consultant

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.2, PeopleTools 8.53, Oracle DB

Responsibilities:

• As a technical developer, providedproduction supportandmaintenancefor various PeopleSoft applications.
• Analysis and technical feasibility discussions to in corporate new business requirements within existing application.
• Analysing the FDD documentation impact and working with the documentation team to clear the understanding of requirements.
• Involved in setting up working prototype and participated in Prototyping sessions, explaining the users about the functionality.
• Conducting Fit-Gap Sessions with users and suggesting alternative solutions and bolt on wherever required.
• Analyzing delivered functionality to determine the effectiveness/fit as possible solutions to identified issues. Participate in requirements gathering, system analysis, system configuration and configuration documentation, Conversions and system testing.
• Involved in testing, checking for the required functionality and also discussed with team mates and users in various aspects to improve the quality.
• Walk-through of the design with the technical consultant and resolving queries regarding functionality of any object.
• Developed prototype of additional information processing application. Facilitated collection of requirements from system users and preparation of business requirement documents that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype.
• Working on Enhancement Requests from Design to deployment phase based on business confirmations.
• Providing solutions to team members for any technical related issues.
• Validating Effort estimation for individual change requests.
• Responsible for design and development of Data Interfaces using Application Engine and File Layouts to migrate the bulk data.
• Handled enhancements on the existing Application Engines along with testing and production movement of new enhancements.
• Created a Component Interface between Payroll and Time & Labor System to report employees who have exceptional time reporting codes.
• Developing App Engine Programs and scheduling them using Process Scheduler to run in the background.
• Involved in Unit Testing for all upgraded SQR programs and tuned them to resolve performance base issues related to them.
• Worked on Security Administration, PeopleSoft Query along with significant SQL skills and Application Designer experience.
• Involved in Inbound Integration and Outbound Integration of data using Excel to CI, Application Engines, File layouts.
• Developed Public and Private Queries using PS Query for user reporting purpose.

Confidential, Dublin, CA

PeopleSoft HCM - Techno - Functional Consultant

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.0, PeopleTools 8.53, Oracle DB

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Gap Solution, writing Functional Design documentation, Configurations, Support, defect/issue analysis, CSR testing and resolution, designing reports and queries, data cleanup etc.
• Performed fit/gap analysis, designed gap strategies and recommended business process changes to take advantage of delivered functionality and eliminate obsolete customizations.
• Analyzing delivered functionality to determine the effectiveness/fit as possible solutions to identified issues.
• Participate in requirements gathering, system analysis, system configuration and configuration documentation, Conversions and system testing.
• Prepared functional system requirements for system changes to support new business processes.
• Participated in cross-functional initiatives and teams for process improvements.
• Participated in preparing plans for testing and implementation of updated/revised business policies and practices and executes plans.
• Walk-through of the design with the technical consultant and resolving queries regarding functionality of any object.
• Developed prototype of additional information processing application. Facilitated collection of requirements from system users and preparation of business requirement documents that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype.
• Configured and Maintained configuration tables in the HCM Production and related databases.
• Played key role in Time & Labor and Payroll setup table design. Ensured that setup tables were configured and maintained per business requirements and trouble-shoot set up table configuration to ensure that design meets business requirements and performing quality assurance testing.
• Configured Time Reporting Code, TRC Program, Workgroup, Override Reason Code, Task Template, Task Profile, Task Group, Schedules, Value List & Security Groups.
• Maintain/add Time Reporting and Earnings Codes as needed; updates TRC Programs and maps the TRCs to the appropriate earning codes.
• Involved in Calendar Year End/W2 testing and production processing.
• Involved in analysis, customization and implementation of HR/T&L/Benefits/Payroll modules.
• Involved in the design, development and testing of all HR, Benefits
• Customization of HR, Payroll menus, enquiry pages as per the user requirement so that user can view more information.
• Involved in developing various routines to transform the date to the Client database format by using SQRs and Application Engine programs.
• Involved in setup of SetID table, Company Information, Location, Department, Salary plan, Job Code and Pay Group tables for HRMS System.
• Created new SQRs by cloning the existing and modified them to generate the SQRs.
• Designed and developed customized overtime calculation report for the employees with shift and more than 40-hour workweek calculation.
• Maintaining PeopleSoft user security using user profiles, roles & permission lists
• Created customized SQL Views, records

Confidential, UT

PeopleSoft HCM - Time & Labor Lead

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.2, PeopleTools 8.53, Oracle DB

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a countywide implementation of PeopleSoft Time and Labor version 9.2.
• Set up Core Time and Labor setups, which included Workgroups, Rule Programs, and Value lists. Defined Holiday Schedules, Schedule calendars, TRC Programs and Time periods, which would be used in the Rules.
• Worked on requirement gathering, Fit Gap Analysis, creating Functional Design Documents for several Complex Custom Rules, which take care of Holiday, Holiday premium, Call Back and Comp Time pay for state employees.
• Defined Exceptions, PeopleSoft Application Engine sections, Validation criteria, Override reason codes.
• Set up Calculation Elements, Eligibility rules, Accumulators, Schedules, Absences, Absence approvals and Delegations in Absence Management.
• Worked on mapping the Time Reporting Codes to Earning Codes created Leave Plans, Benefit Plans as well Benefit Programs.
• Enrolled Time Reporters into the System. Defined Badge Details, Group membership.
• Involved in setting up Row Security Permission Lists for employees enrolled in Time and Labor.
• Worked on Defining TCD Setup Data, Data Elements to send to a TCD in the PeopleSoft Time and Labor system. Involved in the System Integration and parallel testing of Time Tracking system Interfaces to PeopleSoft like Smart Track systems and Vice versa.

Confidential

PeopleSoft HCM Developer

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.1, PeopleTools 8.50, Oracle DB

Responsibilities:

• Performed fit/gap analysis, designed gap strategies and recommended business process changes to take advantage of delivered functionality and eliminate obsolete customizations.
• Involved in setting up working prototype and participated in Prototyping sessions.
• Modifying customer HR & Time & Labor processes.
• Configuring the company, departments, job codes.
• Modified all the existing Data Conversion programs for Personal Data, Job Data, Tax Data.
• Created the test plan, test case lab & mapping to requirement in HPQC. Responsible for defect resolution through HPQC.
• Prepared functional system requirements for system changes to support new business processes.
• Created the functional documents for the bolt-on and alternative solutions.
• Participated in preparing plans for testing and implementation of updated/revised business policies and practices and executes plans.
• Configured and Maintained configuration tables in the HCM Production and related databases.
• Played key role in Time & Labor and Payroll setup table design and ensured that setup tables were configured and maintained per business requirements for the S-Tec Company population.
• Ensured that the design meets business requirements and performing quality assurance testing
• Setup, configuration and testing of pay groups, payroll calendars, pay run ids for payroll processing.
• Configured Time Reporting Code, TRC Program, Workgroup, Override Reason Code, Task Template, Task Profile, Task Group, Schedules, and Value List & Security Groups.
• Maintain/add Time Reporting and Earnings Codes as needed; updates TRC Programs and maps the TRCs to the appropriate earning codes.
• RetrofittedHRandPayrollbased on new requirements and customizations.
• Created customizedApplication Engineprograms based on user requirements.
• WrotePeopleCodeto customize the delivered objects for HR records.
• Worked on several customs TableAuditsand created Test scripts for functional test.
• Involved in the testing phase of the Application by setting up the test cases.
• Conducted User Training.

Confidential

PeopleSoft HCM Developer

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.0, PeopleTools 8.49, PeopleCode, Oracle DB

Responsibilities:

• Creation of PeopleSoft objects like Fields, Records, Pages, and Components as per the requirement.
• Involved in retrofitting the Fields, Records, Pages, Components, Record field PeopleCode, Component PeopleCode, SQRs, Application Engine Programs and other objects.
• Developed and modified the SQRs, App Engines and PS Queries as per the new functional requirements and ensures timely delivery.
• Created Mass upload outbound App Engines using run control pages.
• Involved in analysing and resolvingday-to-day production ticketsin HR, Time & Labor, NA Payroll.
• Involved in Maintenance and support, responsible to setup Time Periods, TRCs, Workgroups, Compensatory Time Plans, Time Reporting Template, Rule Programs.
• Coding and delivering the PS customizations in Time & Labor Module.
• Handling Support tickets related to UAT issues, existing bugs, Impact Analysis, Enhancements, works that come as a part of New Requests. Prepared Technical design documents for the enhancements and customizations.
• Had direct user interaction during UAT testing and made the customizations as needed.
• Analysis of problem, the data and cause of the problem, suggesting the solutions for the same.
• Met client’s SLA (service level agreements) for resolving emergency, high and medium priority tickets.
• Technical Design development according to the Williams functional specifications provided in Business Requirement Document.
• Performing the migration of the objects from one environment to other.
• Attending daily and weekly review meeting and update the status of the development.