PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of experience that includes Analysis, Design, Development and Implementation of Business application systems in Workday and Oracle Applications.
• Around 3 years of hands on experience in Workday HCM applications which includes Business Requirements gathering, BP Process Maps design, BP Configurations, Custom Reports development, Integration development and supports & UAT testing activities.
• Hands on experience in BP Configurations & building custom reports in Workday Workforce Administration, Benefits, Talent Acquisitions & Talent Management and Manager/Employee Self - Service.
• Hands on experience in existing Business process optimization to meet latest business requirements.
• Hands on experience in building advanced custom reports with calculated fields where in used different business objects and related business objects.
• Hands on experience in interacting with Business / Third party vendors like AON 401K Benefits, BCBS and internal teams as part of requirement gathering process and function design documentation.
• Experience on developing /supporting various integrations as part of Taleo (Recruitment system), Payroll System (ADP Payroll), Benefit Providers and other third party systems with Workday.
• Hands on experience in building/customization integrations with EIB, Inbound/ Outbound integrations, and Core Connectors.
• Hands on experience working with Supervisory Organizations, creating/updating Locations, Creating Leave types, working with Positions & Requisitions data, Business Process (Hiring and Termination) and Security like Role/User/Job Based Security groups.
• Strong knowledge in compensation elements (grades, grade profiles, pay periods, configuring eligibility rules).
• Worked on Test Cases, System testing, UAT, System Integration testing and Regression testing throughout the life of Workday implementation.
• Participated in business requirement work sessions, process flowcharts, detail design functional specifications, fit gap analysis, data mapping
• Good understanding and experience on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Provided assistance for users, managers, database administrators, system engineers and other developers. Has excellent analytical, debugging and problem solving skills, pays attention to details, dedicated, go-beyond to find solutions.
• Ability to multitask and organizational skills and confidence in proposing ideas on improvement of performance in business
• Excellent communication and written skills, capable of working closely with users, able to rapidly translate user requests into technical specifications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: Workday HCM, Oracle Applications

Tools: Workday Reports Writer, EIB, Document Transformation, Core Connector

Modules: Workday Core HR, Workforce Administration, Benefits, Talent Acquisition & Talent Management, MSS and ESS

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux and Confidential AIX 7.1.

Incident/Tracking: BMC Remedy/SMS- Incident Tracking, PHIRE (Change Management, Version Control).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Workday systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the functional team, involved in preparing Business Requirement gathering, Process flow diagrams, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Case studies, Test Cases and UAT testing activities.
• Worked on creating various Leave Types, creating Locations as part of routine Maintenance, Change Job & Termination BP optimization process, supporting various production issues related to WFA, Talent Acquisitions, Talent Management and Benefits modules.
• Responsible for gathering business requirements, for Workday HCM product and create documentation as needed.
• Administers systems security ensuring users are granted only access for which they have been approved.
• Troubleshooting the system when issues have occurred and report details to manager.
• Hands on experience in creating Process Map documents for various BP’s and working with business/service centers to provide knowledge on the process and any training issues.
• Hands on experience in creating calculated fields for manipulating data, setting up scheduling standard/custom reports and ad-hoc & Analytic support in the areas of Benefits and dependent reports, Talent, Regional and Global teams, Recruiting Activity, Trending data, Key Transactions, New Hires and Terminations, monitor Business Processes (i.e. hiring), Position Management
• Supported various global reports, Integration & various process related production issues
• Coordinated with business users regarding Pre load and Post load validation which includes data analysis, data mapping, data cleansing, data extraction, data transformation, data validation, error reporting activities during Conversion to Workday from various source systems
• Setting up appropriate security access for users
• Acts as liaison with business stakeholders on all system related issues.
• Tracks all inquiries/errors in the system and periodically analyzes the data to identify trends and reports to manager findings and recommendations for improvement.
• Replicate issues, submit cases to WD Support, and follow-up to resolution
• Coordinate and support the end users related to all phases of testing including Data Conversion testing, SIT, UAT and Production deployments
• Providing End user support for EMEA, Asia Pacific and Latin American Countries, including new functionality requests, data management and training.
• Gained excellent Knowledge in functional areas with in workday, good experience in navigations and core concepts.

Environment: Workday (Core HR, Workforce Administration, Benefits, Talent Acquisition & Talent Management, MSS and ESS ), Remedy, Service Now

Confidential

Oracle Apps Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering user requirements from business users and written functional and technical design documents.
• Implemented and Supported Inbound and Outbound Interface for Oracle HRMS Modules
• Designed and Developed New Reports, Ad-hoc reports and publish them using XML Publisher and analyze them
• Created Templates and Data Definitions and attached the Data definitions to the Templates in the XML Publisher
• Used API’S extensively (HR EMPLOYEE API, HR ORGANIZATION API, HR LOCATION API, HR JOB API, HR ASSIGNMENT API etc…) in all inbound / outbound interfaces and developed mapping documents.
• Take-over / transitioning of the post-implementation support role for Oracle HRMS and Accounts Receivable and resolution of the flow issues
• Customized various reports RTF Template using XML Publisher to add more fields and changed the layout of the report
• Wrote SQL*Loader scripts to migrate the data from the text files and populated the intermediate tables across HRMS and Financial modules.
• Customized HRMS module Workflows according to business requirements using the Workflow Builder 2.6
• Worked on Production Tickets for Oracle HRMS modules.
• Provided level2 / level3 production support and closely worked with Oracle Development Team to resolve the issues.

Environment: Oracle Apps Release R12 (HR, Payroll, iRecruitement), JDeveloper 10g, Oracle Reports 10g, Oracle Forms 10g, Oracle Discoverer 10g, BI Publisher 10g, SQL*Loader, TOAD, Win XP and UNIX

Confidential

HRMS Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, and Business Rules to identify Test Requirements, Test Plans, Design Test Cases and Test Data
• Maintained Test Cases in Quality Center (ALM), Created requirement traceability using Quality Center (ALM)
• Performed smoke testing, regression testing, and applying automation testing to improve the delivery of the team
• Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts and procedures based on business requirement and/or functional specification
• Create and execute test cases for manual testing
• Documented software defects, and report defects to developers and project managers
• Been part of plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates
• Requirements, Test Plans, Design Test Cases and Test Data
• Maintained Test Cases in Quality Center (ALM), Created requirement traceability using Quality Center (ALM)
• Performed smoke testing, regression testing, and applying automation testing to improve the delivery of the team
• Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts and procedures based on business requirement and/or functional specification
• Create and execute test cases for manual testing
• Documented software defects, and report defects to developers and project managers
• Involve in development of Test plan, test cases based on functional requirements, technical specification and use cases
• Use Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning and executing tests, and tracking defects
• Used TOAD Database Testing Tool, for SQL query
• Requirements gathering, researching and resolving HRIS problems
• Review, test, and implement HRIS system updates and collaborate with the necessary parties - both internal and external - to ensure timely completion.
• Implementing new processes and workflows in the HRIS (Workday).
• Extensively used SQL to verify and validate the data loaded
• Submitted weekly bug or issue report updates to the Project Manager in the form of the QA Error Log

Environment: Oracle Applications (HRMS & Financials), Windows XP, Quick Test Professional, ALM

Confidential

Manual Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created scenarios for testing and mapped them to the requirements to improve test coverage.
• Participated to test plan to drive the entire testing process and guided the entire team to meet the schedules.
• Involved in writing the test cases, test scripts, test scenarios, and executing them.
• Tested the application functionality, business flow, and integration and operating System compatibility.
• Interacted with project developers and managers to understand the business functionality
• Attended change request meetings with users and planned the testing for the enhancements to the system
• Performed regression testing to certify the application's functional consistency.
• Written SQL queries for back - end testing.
• Attended meetings and walkthroughs and reported testing status to the Test Manager on a Daily basis.

Environment: Oracle Applications (HRMS), SQL Server 2005, Crystal Reports 9.0, Windows 2000 Server