Senior SAPHR/HCM Consultant with functional experience including various sub-modules of HR such as Personnel Administration, Organization Management, and Benefits Administration, Payroll,ESS/MSS,Compensation mgmt.

Professional Summary

• Hands-on experience in the Configuration and Full life cycle implementation processes including requirements gathering, GAP analysis, Blueprint, Testing and Go live support, Upgrade, Testing ECATT & Mercury tool.
• Currently associated with CIBER, Inc. as a SAP HR/HCM Senior consultant.
• Hands on role in Project Preparation, Blueprinting, Realization, Final preparation, Go-Live and Post-go live support.
• Two Full life cycle implementation with Benefits, Personnel Administration, Organization Management.
• Expertise in configuration of SAP HR (Functional) module with emphasis on Benefits(BN) Personnel Administration (PA),Organization Management(OM) and Payroll (PY)
• Experience in planning, writing and executing test cases and test scripts, based on business requirements or provided by another resource or business user using HP Mercury Quality Center and documenting same using SOX controls.
• Lead for UAT, Interfaces, Functional, Integration and Regression testing - Assign/Identify and manage the execution of the test cases by users and/or team members and report to management.
• Experience in writing and executing test scripts for SAP HR by automatic and manual execution.
• Worked on different interface IDOC/EDI testing.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, managerial skills and positive work attitude and self-motivated to work independently and as well as in a team.
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task and meet deadlines with minimal supervision
• Have a unique mindset to think innovative, proactively, with a strong Business Sense and Analysis experience
• Ability to manage confidential information appropriately.

• Organizational Management - Organizational Plan (Organizational Structures, Reporting Structures, Job and Work Center Indexes and Task Catalog), Simple Maintenance, Detail Maintenance, Evaluations and Reports, Integration of PA/PD.
  
• Personnel Administration - Setup Number Ranges, assignments for all plan versions, maintained user-defined settings for info types, Defined country-specific info types and Time Constraints depending on object type, Personnel Actions, Maintain Master Data, Personnel Number assignments, Configuration and Customization of Info type Menu, Maintained Personnel Actions and Authorizations. Organizational Assignments, Integration of PA/OM.
  
• Time Management - Work Schedules, Public Holiday Calendar, Break Schedules, Time Recording (Substitutions, Absences, Absence Counting, Concurrent Employment, Absence Quotas, Leave Entitlement, FMLA - Family Medical Leave Act).
• Payroll - Worked on Gross Payroll, Net Payroll, Wage Types, Payments, Deductions, Schemas, Functions, Internal Tables, Factoring, Cumulations, Integration of Benefits and Payroll, Garnishments, Concurrent Employment, Off-Cycle Processing, Payroll Organization, Payroll Reports, Payroll Posting to Accounting.
• Benefits - Worked in all the areas of Benefits Administration - Benefit Areas, Enrollments, Health Plans, Insurance Plans, Credit Plans, Eligibility, ConcurrentEmployment, Termination, including configuration of COBRA Events, Reports, Inbound & Outbound Interfaces and Payroll Integration.
• Personnel Development - Created Qualifications Catalogs, Qualification Groups, involved with the Profile Matching, Assigned appraisal forms to Employee Sub groups and Personnel Sub areas. Career and Succession Planning, Transfer qualifications from Recruitment and Personnel Administration modules.
• Compensation Management -Tested all the workflow inside the portal and ensure that its working fine and also ensured that all the approval process and appraisal process is working fine. Tested compensation admin decision making data via portal and ensured that its synchronized with SAP.( Checked APPSEARCH TCODE and table T710 to see the appraisal percentage and amount is reflecting in portal correctly )
• ESS/MSS: Tested all MSS/ESS Id' s and ensure that it' s working fine and user id have no security problem, Test customized Personal actions like on boarding employees, Employee movements including Transfer, demotion, promotion and reclassification within and out of organizational unit. Created the Master data for HR and employees and validating all functionality in Portal.

• Systems: MS-DOS, UNIX, Windows 95/ 98/NT/2000/XP/Vista, ERP: SAP R/3 Releases 4.6,4.7, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, ESS, MSS.
  
• Testing Tools: Mercury Test Director 7.2, Rational ClearQuest, ClearCase, Test Cases.
  
• Productivity Tools: MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, SharePoint, Access), Visio/UML, Project, WorkFlow…
  
• Other: SAP Best Practices, ASAP Methodologies, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).

• MBA
• B.com

June' 12 to Present:Confidential, Chicago, IL
Client: Confidential / SAP HR USA ROLLOUT

• Responsible to work with business user to review the global template to identify gaps.
• Responsible to work with technical team for USA specific development.
• Responsible to make the USA specific configuration and functional specific
• Responsible to perform Unit testing, Integration testing and to support UAT.
• Responsible to review training document and update for USA business processes.
• Provided training to the end user.
• Worked with core user during data conversion and validated all the conversion.
• Responsible for post GO-Live support for SAP HR.
• UsedWinshuttle to upload the master data.

March' 12 to May ' 12: Confidential, Chicago, IL
Testing and Production Support

• Involved in carrying out unit testing, parallel testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing for entire life cycle of Payroll, Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Benefits, Time Management
• Prepared Test plans and test cases based on client`s requirements in Mercury Quality Center
• Guided and tutored testers in executing of test cases and identifying of defects
• Involved in carrying out unit testing, parallel testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing for entire life cycle of Payroll, Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Benefits, Time Management
• Prepared Test plans and test cases based on client`s requirements in Mercury Quality Center
• Guided and tutored testers in executing of test cases and identifying of defects

July' 11 to Feburary' 12: Confidential, Portland OR
SAP Human Resource Consultant (Global Implementation for 51 countries)

• Have been brought on as a SAP HCM consultant for Personnel administration, Organization management, Benefits, and HCMTesting analyzing the requirement and design the functionality on the basis of Functional specification and Blueprint.
• Lead meetings and preside over meetings as the subject matter expert (PA/OM/BN)to the business users and stakeholders communicating, documentation, developed roadmaps, plans, strategies, comparingdeltas, discovery sessions, prepared the meeting minutes, AS-IS Process, Gap Fit Analysis, Business Process Procures, Business Process Flows and in the very earlier stage of blue printing for Personnel administration, Organization management, Benefits Management and HCM using SAP Best Practices.
• Configured the system for 51 countries for PA/OM/BN prospects on the basis of their requirement, worked on different Inbound and Outbound interfaces like SAPàKronos, SAPàHewitt, SAPàTaleo,SAPàActive directory.

Personnel administration:

• Created different personnel area and sub area for 51 countries. (466 personnel area within USA out of 560) and remaining for other 50 countries, and assigned personnel area to the respective company code.
• Defined employee group and employee sub group under personnel structure and assignment of employee subgroup to employee group (V_T503Z)
• Configured personnel data ,i.e., Forms of Address - T522G, Created name affixes - V_T535N,Created Marital StatusV_T502T, V_T5B14, V_T5B12 and created Religion - V_T516T
• Created address types
• Define name format for Nike global, and country specific local design.
• Maintained the number range interval for personnel numbers, define NUMKR feature.
• Define feature NLNAM specific for NETHERLAND
• Created address for all countries.
• Created dynamic actions for IT 0041, for Hire, Rehire, Change in position, Termination, Leave of absence, return from leave
• Define feature DTAEL, ZLSCH FEATURE FOR Default value for payment method.

Organization unit:

• Created organizational units, jobs, tasks and positions, assigned the tasks to positions and integrated all of these into the enterprise' s organizational plan using tables T527X and T528B.
• Assigned the various organizational units and positions to cost centers.
• Created the Root Organizational Unit, subordinate Organizational units.
• Created required Jobs and Positions as per the client requirement
• Maintained different evaluation paths
• Creation of different personnel actions related to Organizational Management
• Configured multiple plan versions to display organizational plans in different scenarios.
• Configured relationships between Organizational units, Jobs, Positions
• Maintained Info types for Objects like Organizational units, Positions, Jobs, Work Centers etc.

Benefits:

• Assigned and Configured Basic Settings, Plan Attributes and Employee Groupings.
• Customized new Health Plans, Insurance Plans, Savings Plans, Stock purchase plans, miscellaneous plans and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Configured the credit rule using the feature CRDV1, to differentiate the employees based on geographical location and job classification besides the parameter grouping based on salary, age and seniority.
• Configured Eligibility rules for the employees based on their duration of hours.
• Defined new Cost Groupings, Cost Rules, Benefit Program Groupings and Benefit Programs for the plans.
• Defined Benefits Adjustment Reasons, Participation and Coverage Termination Criteria.
• Defined Evidence of Insurability Conditions for Health and Insurance plans.
• Configured the features BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT and ELIGR

Functional Testing:

• Writing the Testing Scenario for UAT and End-to-End, Functional Testing.
• Involved in testing the integrating of the Personnel Administration component to Organization Management.
• Prepared Test Scripts for Unit testing, Integration testing.
• Tested all MSS/ESS Id' s and ensure that it' s working fine and user id have no security problem.
• Tested PA/OM (Hire to retire, Expat Planning,Activation at Host,Withdraw at Home,Repatriation, Change in position, Country reassignment,Reorganization)
• Testing the test data on the PA30, PA40, PP01, and SE16 & SM30.
• Test customized Personal actions like on boarding employees, Employee movements including Transfer, demotion, promotion and reclassification within and out of organizational unit.
• Creating the Master data for HR and employees and validating all functionality in Portal.
• Testing and validating the interfaces file coming from SAP server either coming from Vendor side to validate.

• Review the Business requirement and functional design document and work with client to finalized the test script to support all the business procedure. Prepared Test script for all the Business procedure which included unit / integration and Parallel testing Prepared Test script for regression testing to make sure new changes should not impact any existing business procedure being used in different division Worked with HP consultant and uploaded all the test script into HP mercury tool.
• Setup and Validated test data in QA environment being used for Testing. Executed all the test scripts manually and documented result in Quality Center by coordination with other areas.
• Involved in regression testing and analyze data for feature and selecting testing environment and platform for relevant regression testing. Provided inputs and recommendations on issues during testing and worked with technical and Business user for defects been identified during testing Communicated to management progress via daily status/defects meetings and reporting .
• Build test cases and scenarios in Quality Center for Functional, Integration, Regression and UAT testing and reviewed the ones written by other team members based on Functional Specs and requirements Conducted one-on-one UAT sessions with the business for all business test scripts and support all the issue related to SAP- HR
• Co-ordinate with development team and Functional Team for clarificationof requirement or any issues.
• Supported OM/PA Senior Functional Analyst by helping in defect resolution, test preparation and documentation. Updated Functional Specs based on revised requirements, communicated with business and developers.
• Responsible of incident (OVSC) and change management for the SAP-HR (Responsible to manage projects fall under SAP-HR. Responsible to prepared estimate for enhancements & projects. Responsible to monitor batch jobs and make sure all jobs executed on time. Developed the program which sent support team notification about the failure. Responsible to handle the entire interfaces related issue and their resolution. Responsible to meet project' s deliverables like writing functional specification, Test scripts.

Write and execute test scripts using HP Quality Center for - PA, OM, PD, Learning Solution, Benefits, Payroll, (ESS and MSS), as well as TALEO, and document imaging (PDF) based on Functional and Technical Design documents and walk-throughs with Functional Analysts and Developers. Perform functional, integration, end-to-end, interfaces & security . Build and prepare test scenarios/cases for the users to perform UAT testing.

• Gathered Requirements, conducted GAP Analysis, designed Business Blueprint
• Worked on Solution Manager

Reporting

• Created SAP HCM group in MS SharePoint
• Used MS SharePoint for SAP HR Project documents.

Involved in carrying out unit testing, parallel testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing for entire life cycle of Payroll, Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Benefits, Time Management
Prepared Test plans and test cases based on client`s requirements in Mercury Quality Center. Guided and tutored testers in executing of test cases and identifying of defects. TestedPA, Benefit and Payroll functionality (one time and recurring deductions and/or payments, off-cycle runs, payroll runs,) detecting defects and documenting same Documented test cases, executed test scenarios for following SOX compliance and controls (documenting system tested, steps taken, actual results, expected results, sign-off date, etc.)

Lead for Defects Management, Interface assignments and Regression testing prior to Go-Live - Assigned and managed the execution of the test cases by team members and reported to management
Supported Go-Live efforts by testing defects and support Functional Analysts in their tasks (i.e. unit tests, interfaces, reports, etc.), and maintain defects logged in Mercury Quality Center
Identify test cases based on Functional Design documents. Lead in UAT and Regression testing efforts prior to go-live for and during production support, in person and via web with a diverse set of users from the Payroll, Benefit, OM and PA teams UsedMercury Quality Center to build and organize test scripts and log defects

Jan' 2007 to Aug ' 2007: Confidential - SAP HCM Functional Consultant
ECATT in SAP ECC 6.0

Project: Conducted workshopsand for business users and stakeholders communicating, documentation, developed roadmaps, plans, strategies, AS-IS Process, Gap Fit Analysis, Business Process Procures, Business Process Flows and wrote business, functional and technical Specs, defining the Architecture and ensure that all nonfunctional requirements are captured

Description: It is an Upgrade Project (from 4.6c to ECC 6.0). This project is encapsulation of HR, SD, MM, PP, FI, CO Module Team and ABAP Team.
The Scope of HR team is Personnel Administration, Time Management, Payroll and Benefits for APME, United Kingdom, United State and Ireland Countries.
I was involved in the testing the HR Test Scripts based on the HR Scenarios provided by the on-site team and recording & testing the eCATT HR Test Script in SOLMAN.

TESTING, TRAINING AND DOCUMENTATION:

• Developed automated test scripts for all the HR Business procedure.
• Developed ECATT scripting and mapped with SOLMAN business process.
• Validate Master data / test data in testing environment with coordination with Core user.
• Executed unit/ integration testing and prepared document with proper test evidence.
• Coordinated with Technical team to fix run time error while conducting test.
• Provided UAT support to client and resolved any issue reported by client
• Provided inputs and recommendations on issues during testing.
• Provided ECATT training to core users

• Created organizational units, jobs, task and positions assigned the tasks to positions and integrated all of these into the enterprises organizational plan.
• Assigning chiefs to various levels of hierarchy and linked all the subordinates to superiors and created the reporting structure for all positions.
• Maintained Account Assignments and inheritance as well as the reporting structure for positions to maintain the hierarchical structure.
• Configured the matrix type for the organization and the working time to generate the work schedules for positions.
• Maintained the number ranges for organizational units.
• Reporting structure, Matrix structure for positions.
• Involved in unit testing for various configuration changes done at the organizational level.
• Integration between PA and OM using PLOGI tables.
• Maintained "External Person ID" Info type (0709) for Global Assignments of Employees.

Personnel Administration

• Customization Procedures and User Interface by modifying and creating the Info type groups and Info type menus.
• Customized Personal Actions as per the requirements of the company.
• Maintained Master Data using transactions PA30 and maintained personnel actions using PA40.
• Configured the feature NUMKR for default number ranges for employee numbers.
• Configured and designed various standard and custom PA Info types and maintained their subtypes.
• Configured the Info type screens as per the requirements.
• Worked with integration tools RHINTE10, RHINTE30, RHINTE20 to transfer of data from Organizational Management to Personnel Administration.

Payroll

• Worked on PayrollSchemas (PE01) and Functions (PE04).
• Worked on US specific payrollschemas and sub schemas U000, UIN0 and UT00. Also Payrolldriver RPCALCU0.
• Worked on payrollInfo types such as 0008, 009, 0011, 0207, 0210, 0234, 0235, 0267 and 0032.
• Defined Payroll periods and pay dates for different payroll area.
• Configured Screen modification and Info type characteristics. Maintained user groups and user groups.
• Configured and maintained wage type Processing Class, Cummulation Class and Evaluation class.
• Maintained wage types according to the specific client requirement using OH11.

Benefits

• Defined benefit areas (BAREA), benefit providers and the basic settings for the plans.
• Configured health plans; insurance plans, saving plans (401K plan) and COBRA plans.
• Defined different cost formulas and calculation rules for health plans and insurance plans.
• Defined qualification events, coverage termination types, rules, criteria employment concurrent.
• Assigned the wage types to health, insurance, savings, spending accounts, credit plans.
• Defined and configured the vesting rules.
• Defined Evidence of Insurability conditions for health and Insurance plans.
• Created wage types for all benefits plans to enable Benefits-Payroll integration.

Sep' 2005 to Jan' 2006:Confidential - SAP HR Consultant
Production Support on SAP ECC 4.6C

A multi-disciplined petroleum services company providing services to Oil & Gas companies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

• Worked with project team to get KT and delivered AID.
• Worked on incident and change management to support the application.
• Responsible to track the ticket /incident progress and updated same to delivery manager.
• Responsible to meet all the deadline based on SLA and sent out the communication in case of P1 & P2 incident.
• Responsible to prepare the RCA and presented same to client for P1& P2 incidents
• Configured Master Data: forms of address, name affixes, address types, zip codes, Contract types, determined default contract elements, Objects on loan, Grievance types, reasons data for processing grievances.
• Created one-appraisal criteria to store appraisal points hide all fields not relevant; eliminated dynamic action triggered populating monitoring of tasks for next appraisal.
• Configured Monitoring of Tasks, Date types, Communication types.
• Configured reasons for change of Basic pay, wage type catalog, wage type group Basic Pay, employee sub-group for primary wage type.
• Managed configuration of default values for Pay Scale Area/Pay Scale Type, permissibility of wage types.
• Assigned pay scale types to Currency.
• Configured Info type Menus, Info groups, Personnel Action, reasons for
• Personnel Action, Action Menu, determined choice of info type menu.
• Created, Maintained Dynamic action for various date types, change of address,
• Customized user interfaces, created header/screen modifications as required.
• Created Standard Reports, Customized reports using Adhoc Query.
• Developed, Participated in data conversion activities and interfaces.
• Maintained Master Data through Initial, Current conversion.
• Prepared Configuration documentation and BPP' s.
• Prepared Test Scripts for Unit testing, Integration testing.
• Fixed all defects in unit/integration testing.
• Reviewed all documentations relating to end users training.

• 6 years of SAP HR/HCM experience.
• 2 YEARS as a SAP User
• 3.5 Years as a SAP HR SUPERUSER.
• 4 years as a SAP HR TRAINER to new employees, updated old training materials, created new training material and FQA documents.
• 5 years of quality Centre experience.
• Strong generalist with hands-on experience in the functional areas of policy development, recruiting, employee relations, compensation/benefit administration, performance management, organizational development, professional development and employee communications.
• Change Management
• Business Process Flows
• Proven record of initiating and implementing human resources Metrics/strategies to achieve business results, improve organizational effectiveness, and support employee development.

Full life Cycle project:
Design; gather requirements, Planning, Gap Fit Analysis, Configuration, Testing, Rollout and Post-Implementation Support of Personnel Administration (PA) Performance Management and Compensation Management.

Lead Business Analyst: Gather requirements from End-Users and Technical Team members wrote Business, Functional, Technical Requirements, Cross References, Use Cases, Flow Charts, and Spread Sheets.

Test lead Experience: Wrote Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Conditions, Defect Tracking spreadsheets, UAT Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing, Unit Testing, SSO (User Names, Emails) Testing, Manual Testing… Was responsible for the entire testing and worked closely with XI and ABAP developers to test and fix errors.