SUMMARY:

• Around 10+ years of extensive experience in the all phases of project life cycle including requirements, analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, quality assurance (QA/UAT), management, reporting, documentation and implementation of business application systems. Interface heavily with Business User Groups.
• Expert project mediator, effective communicator with senior and mid - level management, business and IT staff.
• Experienced in organizing productive training sessions, cross-functional and international team meetings.
• Extensive experience in multiple Global Workday implementations.
• Has extensively worked in Analysis, Requirements gathering, Design, Development, Testing and Maintenance of Workday Projects.
• Possess an excellent understanding of Human Resource Business Processes comprising of the life cycle of an employee, Core HR, Time Management, Talent & Performance, Recruitment, Compensation, Payroll, Employee Self-service and Manager Self Service
• Experience in Global implementation projects including US, Canada, Europe, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM other countries.
• Experienced in Workday Integrations, iLoad, Workday Data Migration and Workday Reporting.
• Workday training includes Fundamentals, Simple Inbound/Outbound Integrations, Business Processes, Calculated Fields, Report Writer, and Security Fundamentals.
• Hands on experience with Payroll Administration and Organization Management
• Involved in Workday Functional HCM configuration with responsibilities including Staffing Models, Job and Positions, Compensation, Defining Business Processes and Security Groups, Customized Report Generation.
• Hands on experience with E2E and parallel testing for Workday HCM and Workday Payroll.
• Experience testing the integrations with third party applications to and from Workday.
• Experience working with calculated fields for Custom Reports in Workday
• Extensive experience in SQL Server database design and maintenance by developing T-SQL queries, stored procedures, functions, tables, indexes, constraints, views and triggers.
• Thorough understanding of all phases of the Software Design and Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and methodologies like Agile/Scrum and Waterfall including prototype development etc.
• Involved in QA/Testing processes like User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and System Integration Testing (SIT). Experience with JIRA, Bugzilla, Clear Quest.
• Excellent knowledge in Global Human Capital Management (HCM) and Global Payroll, Taleo (ATS), Recruitment Management System (RMS), Peoplefluent (Talent Management)
• Experienced in identifying Gaps, Process improvements and mapping with Workday Best Practices
• Redesigned the HR business processes based on the identified gaps
• Completed test plan and project communication plan with a full control on the Defect and Change management log.
• Expertise in QA Testing methodologies, requirements gathering, generating Test Plans, Test Cases and Change management/Defect Management and Bug reporting using TestDirector/QualityCenter.
• Experience with Manual Testing, Quality Analysis process: Smoke/Sanity testing, Unit Testing (JUnit), Hands on with Load testing, Functional testing & Regression testing for applications using LoadRunner/QTP.
• Expertise in Functional, GUI, Database, Regression, Browser compatibility testing, Load and Performance Testing.
• Highly experienced serving as liaison between both onshore and offshore and managing and co-ordinating during all phases of Testing cycle.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Workday Tester

Confidential - Bethesda, MD

Responsibilities:

• Working with HRIT and HRIS teams to understand the platform tools and technology, understand data sources and WORKDAY application portfolio.
• Created user stories in Jira with well-defined descriptions and acceptance criteria based on the business requirements document.
• Worked on various modules such as Core HR, Benefits, Compensation, Time and Absence, Payroll, Recruiting and Talent.
• Working with Payroll functional team for integrations like Direct Deposit, Severance Pay, 401K and etc.
• Working with Benefits functional team for medical, dental and vision benefits integrations.
• Working with Kronos team for integrations like Timekeeper and Scheduler.
• Validating the non-time off hours from Kronos into Workday as Payroll inputs Time and Attendance by using TimeKeeper.
• Validating approved PTO and personal hours taken from Kronos into Workday.
• Using Atlassian JIRA for User Story management, wrote Sub-tasks for QA work items, wrote test cases for test scenarios based on Acceptance Criteria as defined in JIRA.
• Performed Integration testing, Acceptance testing of Workday application after Web-services confirmation, performed data validation and data migration testing of users from Peoplesoft.
• Actively participated in Agile standup meetings every day and attending Sprint planning & Retro meetings with team.
• Create test data for the integrations and launching the integrations manually from workday
• Working with different file formats (HIPPA, .dat, .xml, .txt and tab delimited) for different Integrations.
• Logging Defects in JIRA whenever any testing scenarios are not met according to the expected results, participated in defect triage meetings with HR IT team, QA management and updated on defect status daily.
• Comparing Peoplesoft to Workday migration data.
• Pre validation of EIB templates with data extracted from Peoplesoft and legacy systems.
• Created advanced reports with calculated fields.

Environment: JIRA, Confluence, Peoplesoft 9.2, Workday 31/32, Kronos 8.0.14, MS Office 2016, Oracle 11.2, Windows and Linux.

Workday/QA Analyst (Consultant)

Confidential , Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Created data flow diagrams for HCM Workday Business Processes for Taleo, Position Management, Recruitment Management system, Onboarding, Request compensation change, Job change - Transfers, Promote, Termination, etc.
• Reviewed and perform gap analysis technical and non-technical business solutions required for the successful development and implementation of new Taleo to Workday functionality and applications.
• Developed requirement documentation for all inscope business process, Taleo processes and integrations, Talent and Performance module, Peoplefluent, Onboarding module, Compensation and Payroll by working closely with the HRIS, Talent Acquisition team and global HR Partners.
• Developed end to end work flow testing of all in-scope business processes Taleo processes and integrations, Talent and Performance, Onboarding, Compensation and Payroll
• Development of design documentation for inscope interfaces to and from Workday including Taleo and other 3rd party systems
• Involved in the gap assessment for Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP) calculation engine, Long-term incentive (LTI) and long-term performance plan (LTPP): Grants and awards
• Responsible for developing functional specifications for inbound and outbound interfaces to and from Workday Taleo, Kronos and other third party systems.
• Organized, coordinated and performed Taleo - ATS (Applicant Tracking System) integration and testing with all the other critical upstream and downstream integrations such as Taleo Requisitions, Cost Center, Hiring Manager, Process level and Work Location (Outbound), Taleo EIN (Inbound), Taleo (Email addresses)
• Hands on experience in organizing, conducting and performing PY system integration and E2E testing of the critical integrations
• Conducted working sessions with APAC, EMEA, LATAM and NAM countries local HR and SMEs and also walk-through of the Workday Business Processes and integration requirements gathering and testing
• Worked on creating and maintaining security groups through domain security policy and business process security policy.

Environment: Workday, Selenium, TestNG, Eclipse, XPath, CSS, HTML, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Web Driver 3.0, Web Services, JDBC, Java API, Maven, Provar Tool, Java Script, SOQL, Windows, JIRA, MS Outlook, MS Word, Excel.

Senior Workday QA Analyst (Remote job)

Confidential - Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Worked with HRIT, Payroll and Finance teams to understand the platform tools and technology, understand data sources and WORKDAY application portfolio.
• Created story cards in Jira with well-defined descriptions and acceptance criteria based on the business need
• Collaborate with product team members and technology team to elicit/author scope documentation and detailed requirements for Product Backlog Items including User Acceptance Criteria.
• Created Test cases in Excel and uploading those test cases into JIRA for Integration testing.
• Worked with WORKDAY Business Analysts and Integration teams to review test cases for testing.
• Worked on various modules such as Core HR, Benefits, Time and Absence, Payroll, Recruiting, Talent and Compensation.
• Worked on various Workday Finance integrations such as Accounting, Expenses,
• Procurement and Inventory.
• Used Atlassian JIRA for User Story management, wrote Sub-tasks for QA work items, wrote test cases for test scenarios based on Acceptance Criteria as defined in JIRA.
• Performed Integration testing, functional testing, Acceptance testing of Workday application after web-services confirmation, performed data validation and data migration testing of users from legacy system.
• Actively participated in Agile standup meetings every day and attending Sprint planning & Retro meetings with team.
• Validated XML files for the integrations generated by MuleSoft (Inbound integrations) and Workday (Outbound Integrations)
• Expert in doing settlements for Payments loaded into Workday
• Created test data for the integrations and launching the integrations manually from workday
• Worked with different file formats (HIPPA, .dat, .xml, .txt, tab delimited and JSON) for different Integrations.
• Used POSTMAN tool for Web service testing to run the Jobs.
• Involved with Developers to place the files & change the files in SFTP folder for QA
• Supported Audit team to complete their Auditing process for each integration
• Logged Defects in JIRA whenever any testing scenarios are not met according to the expected results, participated in defect triage meetings with HR IT team, QA management and updated on defect status daily.
• Coordinating with QA team to collect the status and share with the team every day
• Verified the tickets created in ServiceNow tool when employees New hires, terminations are generated through Workday.
• Tested Ceridian outbound integrations for employer tax filing.
• Using MYSQL for MuleSoft Database, SQL Server for Guidewire Claim center Database
• Working with Guidewire Claim center team for claim status sending back to PNC bank
• Working with different teams (Guidewire, EDW, etc. ) for different integrations.
• Involved in Workday upgrade version 30 validation.

Environment: JIRA, Confluence, Workday 29/30, ServiceNow, Ceridian, SQL Server 2012, Windows, MySQL, MuleSoft 4.0, Postman and Guidewire.

Workday/QA Analyst

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing the story cards and related requirement documents like Story Cards, BRD's, UE Specifications, mockups and Prototypes
• Working in Agile environment, attending Scrum meetings, Sprint planning, review and bug resolution sessions.
• Gathered test data from billing center team.
• Participate in Workday Communities to remain connected with Workday and customers
• Summarized open/submitted issues tickets, questions, response, bug-fixed, resolved, and enhancement requests
• Leading the End-End Testing, third party vendor testing, Standalones, Integration
• Worked with business process framework, well verged with multiple configuration options in staffing, compensation, benefit events, time off/leave events, Talent Management Events.
• Participation in workday systems integration building complex integrations using Workday Studio, Cloud Connect and Document Transformation
• Testing and parallel testing Worked on Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) for integrating location of employees, performance ratings, assigning organizations and updating payroll Id's.
• Participation in workday systems integration building complex integrations using Workday Studio, Cloud Connect and Document Transformation
• Track issues and risks, communicate status and escalate concerns to project management.
• Served as a tester during unit and functional testing of the production support tickets.
• Worked with different staffing models, defining Hire restrictions to Job Management, Position Management and Headcount Management.
• Tested job scheduling and validate end results
• Worked with Simple and Advanced Reports, defining columns, business objects, fields, columns heading overriding, multiple sorting techniques, sorting by secondary objects
• Developed test and deploy integrations required to meet business requirements.
• Created the user requirement specifications, helped convert them to system functionality documents, and managed them.

Peoplesoft Test Analyst

Confidential - Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - (Agile/Waterfall test methods) from initial business requirements to deployment and production support. Participate Grooming session, Release and Sprint Planning meeting as well as Daily Agile Scrum meeting.
• Demonstrate basic principles, theories, and concepts of the software development process with extensive subject matter expertise for the system under development.
• Supported the Peoplesoft PTF process and developed test scripts.
• Analyze User Story and Acceptance Criteria, define test condition, and test scenario.
• Create/maintain test procedures. Investigates and analyzes test defects. Build and maintain automated regression test suites and integrates with build processes.
• Works with the Senior Test Lead to ensure test processes and procedures are followed. Designs, develops and executes reusable test cases and procedures based on requirements relevant to automated test planning and creation using HP Quality Center/HP ALM.
• Performs Unit testing within HP Agile Manager.
• Interfaced with Peoplesoft functional support team and the user community to establish the requirements for the development of solutions needed to meet the needs of the user community, then implemented these processes or changes for their benefit.
• Identifies, creates and secures test data as necessary. Update/maintain Detailed Test plans and the Contractor's Test Management Plan (TMP) that defines the approach, processes, and procedures that integrates with and supports the Government's Integrated Test and Evaluation (T&E) approach and Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP).
• Maintains and update the Requirements Traceability Verification Matrix (RTVM) with imbedded Testability Matrix that maps test methods and events, test scripts, scenarios, and test results to the applicable requirement, to include test-related artifact changes using HP Quality Center/HP ALM.
• Develop test cases, test execution scenarios, and manage defect using HP ALM
• Conduct test activities for subsets of complex Systems and Subsystems and assist in development and execution of test cases, verification of system capabilities and system enhancements or changes, script development, requirements verification, performance testing, regression testing, high availability testing, end user testing, system and software level integration troubleshooting, test plans, test reports.
• Experience in Agile development, SQL Server stored procedures, a JavaScript framework like jQuery and some background with testing.
• Execute data validation process using Data Stage into Oracle 12C database
• Analyze data validation and perform root cause analysis in Oracle database Involved in unit testing and integration testing of OBIEE reports and dashboards

Environment: PeopleSoft, Java, Selenium WebDriver, Jenkins, TestNG, Maven, Jira, Git, Eclipse IDE, SQL, Internet Explorer, Appium, IOS, Android, Firefox, Chrome, Oracle, Windows.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing Functional Requirement documents and Design Documents.
• Managed the completed testing process in Test Director.
• Verified CSS and functionality of the web pages and make sure it matches with UE specs and Prototypes
• Testing different applications in multiple web browsers according to the company standards
• Writing code snippets/ scripts for both UI based & Non - UI Based applications.
• Executed various types of tests Example: Web services, M-Queue Calls & Web Based Scenarios.
• Monitoring the performance of servers to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Execution & Monitoring Client & Server level metrics Reporting Performance metrics & sign-off from Clients.

Environment: HTML, Java Script, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2005, Windows XP/2003, Sun Solaris 2.7, Cognos, MS office, Toad, SQL, PL/SQL, LoadRunner 9.51, Test Director 8 and QTP 9.1.