SUMMARY

• Expertise in PeopleSoft Applications involving Design, Analysis, Set - up, Fit-Gap, Study and Documentation of as-Is and To-Be Business Process and Business Process Mappings to PeopleSoft.
• 7+ years of extensive work experience in implementing PeopleSoft HCM for HR, Benefits and Payroll.
• Worked on PeopleSoft HCM 9.0/8.49, 8.9/8.47, 8.8/8.46,8.3/8.12,that include various modules like HR, Payroll (NA), Benefits, Benefits Admin, Time & Labor, e-Benefits,, ESS and MSS, Absence Management.
• Implementation of various People Soft modules and upgrades from 8.8 to 8.9 and 8.9 to 9.2
• Functional Expertise in Core HR, Position Management, Compensation, Base Benefits, ESS & MSS, Payroll.
• Experienced in requirements gathering, analysis, design, development and implementation of various applications.
• Proficient in designing & development of RICEW objects while implementing PeopleSoft modules using various PeopleTools.
• Technical expertise in working with different modules of PeopleSoft HCM which include Core HR,Base Benefits, North American Payroll, Time & Labor and Peoplesoft ELM(Enterprise Learning Management).
• Involved in the full life cycle of software development including Analysis, Design, Coding, Unit Testing, Integrated Testing Packaging and Release.
• Worked on Tax updates, Retro Pay, Garnishments and Year End W2 Processing.
• Highly experienced in writing Test plans, Test cases and executing Functional, Regression, and Performance testing.
• Worked as an effective liaison between the management, business, functional, development and testing teams.
• Extensively worked with Security Administrators to implement security in various levels creating Permission Lists, Roles, User Profiles and Row level security.
• Utilized Functional expertise to Lead Fit-Gap sessions with primary stakeholders and worked very closely with Business users in capturing requirements and creating Functional design documents and Technical specification documents.
• Provided valuable insights, keen analysis and team approach to implement best practices & processes.
• Extensive experience in providing end user training by creating job aids and training guides which simplifies the user’s understanding of the business processes and better explaining the new and enhanced functionalities.
• Excellent communication skills, analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with particular emphasis on clearly communicating/documenting detailed Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

HCM Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conduct fit-gap sessions with HR, Payroll, and Benefits business groups and gather business requirements for the Upgrade.
• Gathered business requirements, wrote technical system specifications, developed an Export Compliance System Interface utilizing PeopleCode, SOAP, XML document, XML Schema, Asynchronous Application Messages with HTTP Method Post going to vendor -- touch points: POs, Customer creation, and shipping.
• Facilitated offshore team for multiple reporting, PeopleCode modification and Application Messaging Projects.
• Gather requirements for the new functionalities to be implemented which include Payroll WorkCenter, Self Service - ePay, HR and Manager Dashboards.
• Create Test Strategy and Plan for the Upgrade and create test cases for HR & Benefit modules.
• Involved in Pre and Post production support of HR modules like Global Payroll, Absence Management, Benefits and ESS/MSS
• Co-ordinate in Benefits and absence management in the team.
• Design and configure the system and create functional specification documents.
• Define the Go-live execution plan and perform Sanity checks before implementation.
• Conduct UAT and mitigate defects with Technical team.
• Developed project schedule relating the work plan to the project timeline, in collaboration with the Technical and Business team leads
• Provide subject matter expertise for the implementation and integration of Self-Service, Benefits, Payroll, Time and Labor and Absence Management modules.

Confidential

Application Development Lead

Responsibility:

• Conducted series of Fit/Gap sessions with the Payroll Director, Manager and processors to understand the current Payroll processes and identified the gaps between their business processes and the delivered functionalities of PeopleSoft 9.1.
• Configuring Absence Management system for all required Collective Bargaining Agreement Accrual, Eligibility, Leave validation and pay calculation rules with no customizations.
• Performed detailed analysis on the customizations by using compare reports created in the initial pass which compared 8.9 Prod with 9.1 Demo and also by interviewing the Payroll functional users.
• Responsible for all unit and integration testing before going to Business UAT.
• Analyzed Business, end-users, and external vendors reporting, interfaces and quality requirements.
• Determined customizations that can be replaced by the delivered functionalities, which ones should be carried forward and if any new customizations are required to cater to the Client’s current and future needs.
• Performed thorough analysis of the new functionalities offered with the version 9.1 using CFO tool and upgrade release notes.
• Prepared Functional specification documents to serve as a baseline for detailed technical design for customizations and retrofitting analysis.
• Created Unit Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Test scripts and master test plan.
• Developed Application Engine programmes as a part of Business requirement.
• Executed Unit testing and System Testing in Pass 2 and helped the Payroll functional users to execute UAT in Pass 3.
• Worked with the Payroll Director in executing multiple Payroll Parallel testing and balanced the results with Production and compared the Payroll Summary report (PAY018).
• Worked on Year End processing and two Tax updates.
• Worked on customizing the Self-service view PDF paycheck (PYCHKUSA) and Direct Deposit Advice forms (PYDDAUSA) and configured Paycheck Options Table.
• Responsible for designing the new HCM workflows as per the client requirements.

Confidential

HR & Benefits Lead

Responsibility:

• Partnered with client personnel including C level executives in leading the Business process re-engineering workshops and HR process design workshops
• Spearheaded the effort in reducing the number of customizations by over 75% resulting in huge in cost savings for the client and/or project
• Led the effort in data conversion mapping, functional design and detailed functional design of over 100+ integrations
• Helped the technical team in transition from PeopleSoft 8.9 to PeopleSoft 9.2
• Conceptualized the design and led the development of critical self-service workflow needs of the client around Employee Self-Service, I9 requirements, etc.
• Led the effort in the first ever implementation of Latest PeopleSoft 9.2 features like Activity guides, Forms and approval builder for Onboarding.
• Configuration lead for all HR/ Benefits tables and installation parameters in PeopleSoft 9.2 HRMS
• Loading the Leave request information from Work Brain (Time and Labor) system to Absence Management Absence Event entries component through Component Interfaces.
• Helped build various tools and techniques to accelerate the development / testing timelines

Confidential

HCM Analyst

Responsibility:

• Responsible for designing Data Mapping, conversion strategy, development standards, track & deliver RICEW objects.
• Responsible for taking the requirements from the client team and convert it to Functional - Technical Designs.
• Assisted with the development of Business Processes across the entire HCM suite, as well as Configuration activities.
• Working with developers to ensure their understanding of the functional requirements and designs for developing the technical components
• Fully customized Payroll to GL interfaces based on client requirement.
• Responsible for allocating work to technical team and track the deliverables.
• Facilitated in Functional / System Testing and troubleshooting for various HR modules.
• Designing Test Scenarios & Delivering High Quality Test Scripts.

Confidential

PeopleSoft Analyst

Responsibility:

• Evaluate existing functionality and translate business requirements into high-fidelity functional designs for simple to moderate and complex features
• Responsible for taking the requirements from the onsite team and convert it to Functional & Technical Designs.
• Working with developers to ensure their understanding of the functional requirements and designs for developing the technical components
• Facilitated in Functional / System Testing and troubleshooting for various HR modules.
• Designing Test Scenarios & Delivering High Quality Test Scripts.
• Review bug/request backlog, replicate reported issues, coordinate with client team for any updates and additional information, discuss and define a scope of the fix, assign the bugs as advised and necessary
• Participated in the UAT testing with Client.
• Providing workarounds for the stakeholders and suggesting the change to the stakeholders in their existing business process.

Confidential, Atlanta

Technical Consultant

Responsibility:

• Interacting with the client for gathering the business user requirement
• Understanding the Business requirement in the Functional Specification and Preparing the Technical Design Document.
• Involved in developing test plans and test scenarios to ensure proper business compliance.
• Involved in unit testing, peer testing and user acceptance testing.