People Tech Group Profile:

• About 9 years of Techno Functional experience in PeopleSoft HCM
• Extensive end to end experience in PeopleSoft development, upgrade and support projects
• Core HR, Base Benefits, Benefits administration, Payroll for North America, Candidate Gateway, and Talent Acquisition Manager
• SQR, Application Engine, peoplecode, Integration broker, Application packages, Component interface, PL-SQL stored procedures, COBOL, PS Query, JCL, Shell Scripts
• Hands on experience in Peoplesoft administration
• Worked on unix, windows and mainframe platforms
• Databases: DB2, Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Role: Peoplesoft Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developing solutions business processes through custom peoplesoft applications
• projects included Travel Analyzer system, Time off tool, enhancements to payroll deductions programs, HR data extracts for payroll through third party for counties outside US

Confidential

Role: Onsite coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Application upgrade for modules Core HR, Benefits, Payroll for north America, Time and Labor
• Active involvement in development and testing phases of upgrade.
• Main responsibility was to bridge the gap between offshore development team and on-site client team, as well as functional users during development and functional testing phases and provide technical solutions to requirements by business users.

Confidential

Role: Onsite coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Application upgrade for modules Core HR, Base Benefits, NA Payroll, TAM and CG. Managing 8 member team from onsite.
• Active involvement in all phases of upgrade. include Estimation and sizing, requirements gathering, fit gap, design, development, testing and post go-live support.
• Responsibilities include coordination between offshore technical team as well as business users, simulating test payroll runs which is very complex customized payroll, facilitating test moves with help of PS Admin.
• Working closely with other support teams which include DBAs, Unix admin, TSM storage, scheduling team, file transmission team.

Confidential

Role: Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Client was one of the major film studio in USA.
• Responsibility included HR, benefits and Payroll functional as well as technical issues.
• Administering Peoplesoft development and production environments
• Other Responsibilities included resolving Production issues as well as Development and testing of new enhancements and processes/reports.
• Design and review for other projects viz.Open Enrollment,Benefit outsourcing.
• Peopletools upgrade from 8.48 to 8.51
• Converting legacy data into Peoplesoft

Confidential

Role: Team Member

Description: Client was implementing a PeopleSoft enabled HR technology platform across the globe to drive process rationalization and consolidation of employee populations to achieve economies of scale, streamlined reporting and reduce total cost of ownership. As part of this project, interfaces are being developed.

Responsibilities:

• To coordinate with business analysts to gather requirements and prepare technical specification, coding and testing.
• The language used for developing interfaces is either SQR or Application Engine.

Confidential

Role: Tech Lead

Description: This project primarily involved maintenance, enhancement and customization of North American PeopleSoft HRMS systems. For Production Support tickets Priority : Emergency, High, Medium activities involved analysis of the problem, finding the root cause, sharing details with client/business users and making code changes when ever required.

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of an on-site coordinator while in Chicago, US and coordinated with a team of 30 associates.
• Provided primary on-call support during Batch Monitoring and handled critical issues such as Pay Calc and Pay Confirm abends during on-cycle payroll in production, valid pay deductions not being taken etc.
• Worked on emergency Expected Turn Around in 24 hours production tickets such as incorrect/missing demographic details on the external Vendor interface files, correcting data incorrectly loaded by a batch job etc. This involved detailed analysis of employee specific Job, Employment, Position data, Personal data and other HR related details.
• Raised concerns whenever required and worked closely with the business user and client team for issue resolution.
• Coordinated with offshore team to provide end to end solution.
• Mentored team members and helped them understand technical requirements and production issues. During daily Batch Monitoring guided the team with abend resolution, decision making and following escalation procedures.
• Involved in getting approvals from Quality Assurance team at client site and moving the modified code to Production.

Confidential

Role: Tech Lead

Description: The new Global Career Banding GCB project was to translate old grade values to new standards and to modify other processed which use these fields.

Responsibilities:

• Gathering and finalizing the requirements from business users.
• Understanding the impact of this change on business and designing the program accordingly.
• Analyze the impact of this translation of grades on overall system and make changes to other programs accordingly.
• Providing the support post implementation.

Role: Team Member

Description: Compensation Management System CMS project is an annual process of determining the Bonus and Merit increase amounts for North American employees and loading it into PeopleSoft payroll system.

In order to give managers exact picture of how organization will look like after the appraisal cycle, reports were needed to be generated outside people soft system. Cognos reporting tool was used in order to generate reports. Requirement was to generate and put data into intermediate tables so that cognos can pull data from these tables and generate report.

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of a Technical developer as well as coordinated with BI team
• Worked closely with the Business users and Client in requirements gathering, finalizing Technical requirements and issue resolution.
• Involved in Requirements Gathering, Technical Design and Development of PL/SQL stored procedure.

Confidential

Role: Team Member

Description: Upgrade went live during Sept 2007 and as a result of which multiple tax updates and bundles had to be loaded together post upgrade.

Responsibilities:

• Download Tax-update bundle from PeopleSoft Customer Connection.
• Study thoroughly the release notes and the new functionality developed.
• Identify customizations in the areas where PeopleSoft have made changes.
• Discuss the customizations with Functional users to retain them or not.
• Apply the tax-update to online objects as well as batch objects SQR and COBOLs
• Test the online application.
• Facilitate UAT different databases with business users
• Run Entire Payroll cycles to test Tax-updates

Confidential

Role: Team Member

Description: Client had upgraded its PeopleSoft HRMS from 8.3 to 8.9 versions. Involved in various testing phases of Upgrade - Functional, User Acceptance Testing and Vendor Testing for all North American programs. UAT phase involves testing all 8.9 batch programs for a particular payroll cycle. We fixed 8.9 coding issues as well. Some of the activities involve testing Batch programs for 8.9 Upgrade changes, ensuring programs' functionality are correctly working in 8.9 environments. Raising various defects at database level and making sure it is resolved.

Responsibilities:

• Involves verifying all vendor files have right data.
• Setting up Run Controls using new navigations.
• Testing 8.9 programs for FST Functional System Testing , UAT User Acceptance Testing . For uploads verifies if data is populated correctly on Pages.
• Fixing 8.9 bugs with respect to functionality of program and 8.9 changes.
• Coordinate with onsite team including clients and users for issue resolution.

Confidential

Role: Team member

Description: The PeopleSoft HR system upgrade is one of the largest global HR system upgrades undertaken. The project involved application upgrade from HRMS 8.3 to 8.9 and PeopleTools upgrade from 8.20 to 8.47. The team was involved in pre-upgrade analysis, customizations identification and estimation, analysis and design of 8.9 tech specs, re-applying the customizations in 8.9. The modules involved were Core HR, Workforce Administration, Base Benefits.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, design, development and various phases of testing.
• Working closely with the functional team and business users for analyzing the change request and to provide the technical/functional solution.
• Involved in the fine tuning of Queries/Table indexes to improve system performance.
• Involved in providing the resolution to defects in Mercury QC.
• Involved in the Batch upgrade of SQR'S and Application Engines