SUMMARY

• 8+ years of progressive experience in developing enterprise business solutions and QA testing with an emphasis on Human Capital Management, Payroll, and Reporting.
• Focused on the Workday platform since Jan 2014 working majorly in areas including HCM, WFA, Recruiting, Compensation, Reporting, and Data Conversion.
• Over 2+ years’ experience in Design and Configuration of Workday Human Capital Management processes.
• Experience in implementation and support of Workday Workforce Administration, Recruiting, Compensation, and Absence Management.
• Experience in system configuration and testing of approved changes as well as break/fix items.
• Developing configuration changes that would result in more efficient processes. Changes include creating validation rules, condition rules, notifications, help texts etc. in business processes.
• Actively work with Project Managers and business users to identify any problems/solutions with current configurations.
• Experience with Workday Report Writing including Advanced and Matrix Reports.
• Experience in Data Conversion (Loading Data) using EIB Template Model.
• Experience in preparing the as - is and to-be business process documents, Software requirements document, Process Flow Diagrams, System Test documents and KT Documents
• Strong knowledge and understanding of SDLC and concepts
• Cross Functional experience gained while working on core ECC functionalities like FI-CO, SD, MM, and WM Modules of SAP
• Hands on usage of BOBJ tools like Crystal Reports, Webi, Explorer and XCelsius dashboards
• Proven experience with delivering high quality software products within a full development lifecycle
• Highly developed communications, organization and interpersonal skills across multiple cultures
• Configuration of Workday’s business process framework, configuration of conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes, creating Notifications and Help Texts.
• Configuring Workday Workforce Administration, Recruiting, Compensation, and Absence Management.
• Configuring Workday Compensation including creating new Compensation Plans, Grades, Grade Profiles, and Eligibility Rules. Knowledge of Advanced Compensation.
• Configuring Workday Benefits, including groups, plans, coverage types, event types, and eligibility rules for multiple countries.
• Configuring Workday security roles and groups to the required level of confidentially and segregation of duties.
• Custom HCM, Benefits and Compensation Reports.
• Have created Staff Turnover Report using Composite Reporting.
• Experience in Workday Functional and Technical Testing. Proven ability to translate HR business requirements into testing specifications
• Experience in Integration testing across Workday Business Processes and Upstream/Downstream Third Party applications.
• Liaises with Functional Global Test Leads and Testing Team, Functional and Technical Project Team, and Country Implementation leads.
• Help define the Test Strategy and Master Test Plan.
• Provide testing guidance to the Functional and Technical Test Lead
• Coordinate all Phases of implementation (Prototype 2, SIT, UAT, and Parallel) activities in collaboration technical / functional project managers to ensure testing timelines are aligned.
• Manage checkpoint testing calls with business and project teams during the test preparations and execution of end to end testing.
• Provide support to create test script templates as required for respective test phase.
• Support the Project Test Team in developing and improving best practices and testing standards. Prepare Phase Testing Status Reports
• Loading Data into Workday (for US, EMEA, APAC, LATAM).
• Loaded data into Workday for Mass Hire, Mass Rehire, Former Workers, Benefits, Compensation, Comp Changes, Terminations, and Previous System History etc.
• Understand technical data conversion issues, expertly resolve issues and communicate solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Workday Modules: HCM, Benefits, Compensation, Security Administration, Business Process

Workday Tools: XML, XSLT, EIB, CCB, Reporting, Custom (Advanced, Matrix, and Composite) Reporting, Integration Testing, System Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Workday Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Production support of global implementation including assisting in Mergers and Acquisition projects.
• Handling support tickets and configuration for core HR, Recruiting, Compensation, Talent Management, and Absence Management.
• Document requirements for enhancements to Business Process related to Recruiting, Talent Management, HCM, and Compensation.
• Identify solutions to meet requirements; execute Proofs of Concept to determine feasibility of solutions.
• Update Workday Configurations for Employees / Job related process (e.g. Job Change Process).
• Support User Acceptance Testing including building test scripts and scenarios, tracking and fixing defects, and assembling User Acceptance Testing (UAT) documentation needed to move configuration to production.
• Notify Confidential leadership team of any issues, risks, constraints foreseen in the overall implementation.
• Provide status reports to Confidential Leadership and Participate in Project leadership status call
• Create Custom Reports including Advanced, Matrix, and Composite Reports.
• Day to day responsibilities including loading and updating data using EIB Template Model. Loaded data for Talent, Recruiting, Compensation, and HCM.
• Configuring Workday Compensation including Compensation Elements, Eligibility Rules, Grades, Compensation Packages, and Compensation Plans).
• Generated ad-hoc reports Workday report writer including the use of calculated fields.

Environment: Workday, HCM, WFA, Compensation, Integration Testing, Payroll Parallel Testing, SIT, UAT

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Helped in testing effort for entire Workday application (HCM, Benefits, Compensation, Time Tracking, and Payroll). Tested and made sure all the functional requirements are covered during SIT, UAT, and Parallel Testing phase.
• Providing functional support for core HCM, Compensation, Talent Management, Recruiting, Business Process and Security Groups.
• Experience in configuring & supporting Workday business process in any key functional areas.
• Worked on Transactions - hiring process, promotion, demotion, & termination.
• Hands on experience on configuring Recruitment modules.
• Created advanced reports and attached to the dashboards in Workday. Created Workday Calculated Fields, Custom Object and Custom Reports.
• Responsible for testing all the Workday Reports and Integration (HCM, Benefits, Compensation, Time Tracking and Payroll).
• Interacted with Business and Development teams for requirement analysis and development of test strategy.
• Reviewed the requirements with Business and the Development teams for the identification of testable requirements.
• Coordinated with Business and Third Party Vendors and made sure they receive the Integrations output files via SFTP.
• Participated in all phases of Workday Testing including System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Parallel Testing.

Environment: Workday, Microsoft Word/Excel

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Been a liaison for developments in reporting areas of Business analytics and BOBJ between IT and business
• Responsible for preparing scheduled and month-end reports as well as provide analytical support
• Provided user manuals, work instructions and training documents for users and their reporting needs
• Involved in estimating the efforts for the enhancement feature requests and submitted the same to the client
• Experience with SQL queries to verify data
• Performs month-end incentive processing, analysis, maintenance and distribution
• Calculates incentives on a manual basis when applicable as well as solves elevated sales incentive problems and issues
• Played a key role in Blueprinting and gap analysis of the Rapid Deployment Solution (RDS) for Supply/Demand planning
• Played a key role in validating Sales and operation report, Expiring Inventory report, Cost centers SG & A and Profitability P & L reports.
• Helped in preparing DOH and Forecast accuracy for SOP group
• Regularly assist the Finance team with Month, Quarter and year end close processes by running ad-hoc queries and consolidating in Excel
• Worked hands on in Crystal reports, WEBI, Business explorer XCelsius dashboard and Mobile technologies in BOBJ 4

Environment: SAP-FI/CO, SD, MM, WM modules, Business Explorer, Crystal Reports, BOBJ

Confidential

Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on post-implementation support and enhancements
• Worked hands on in Crystal reports to generate end of day reports and Adhoc reports
• Generated views and stored procedures in PL/SQL from multiple tables to satisfy any user requests
• Helped isolate issues with master data management
• Transformed and consolidated master data from multiple sources for an acquisition project
• Document, report and track application changes
• Coordinated in performing Unit testing and Integration testing

Environment: Oracle 10g, Crystal Reports, BusinessObjects XI

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Meet with customers to gather requirements for new reports or enhancements
• Developed ad-hoc reports, monthly and yearly reports as specified including the use of calculated fields
• Worked hands on PL/SQL to generate complex queries for the calculation of employee benefits
• Responsible for data conversions and customizations of the reports like employee salary slip, bank statement and yearly tax statement
• Generated reports in Crystal Reports and exported to Excel for further analysis and pivoting
• Perform system UAT throughout the life of the implementation
• Provide technical support on the issues raised by business during their day to day operations and serve as a subject matter expert/provide training to educate system end users on how to navigate and use the system as needed
• Assisting in data migrations between different versions of the system
• Documentation of system changes, and business processes for upgrade, and capture of business processes

Environment: VB 6.0, Oracle 9i, SQL, PL/SQL, Crystal Reports