SUMMARY:

• Excellent Client facing skills, served as liaison between third party vendors, business owners, end users and technical team. Proven ability in communicating highly technical contents to non - technical people.
• Hands on experience in inbound/outbound integrations Using Core Connector, Workday Studio, managing business processes, working with EIB, Report Writer, Creating Workday Calculated Fields, Document Transformation and Custom Reports
• Energetic, result oriented professional possessing strong leadership, analytical, decision making, problem solving, negotiation, conflict management, issue/risk/change management skills. Proven ability in QA/QC, Process Improvement, configurations management and release management.
• Excellent oral and verbal communication and training skills along with strong stakeholder management skills.
• 4+ years of experience as Workday Techno - Functional Analyst and having strong experience in Implementation, Up-gradation and Production Support of ERP Applications with Hand on experience in HCM, Compensation and Benefits and close with a focus on Workday implementation projects
• Expertise in implementation and support of Workday HCM application
• Experience in Business Process and configurations of the Compensation, Time and attendance, Time and Labor, Absence management, Performance Management, Payroll, Talent Management, Recruiting, Benefits for having the thorough understanding of pulling information to the report.
• Hands on Implementation of Workday and Data Migration using EIB, Core Connectors and Workday Studio in addition to creating Simple and Advanced reports.
• Knowledge in Core HR in understand of client business requirements, Organizational Hierarchy setup, configurable Security setup, Tenant setup, Custom field mapping, and system process designs.
• Experience managing enterprise wide, complex projects; ability to organize and prioritize multiple project tasks.
• In depth knowledge of the Human Resources business processes which comprises the life cycle of an employee from recruiting, training, identifying and developing talent, employee record maintenance, payroll, and benefits.
• My approach to change management begins by understanding clients needs during structured interviews. It is important to me to maintain the integrity of the partnership and assist in optimizing their vision.
• Experience successfully leading projects and programs to on-time, on-schedule, within budget close.
• Experience on various Workday integration tools such as EIB, Document Transformation, Workday Studio and library of Workday Cloud Connect.
• Skilled in creation of standard/custom quarterly, annual and ad-hoc reports as needed by business and transform existing PeopleSoft reports to Workday Reports as part of migration.
• Analysis, Design, Requirement gathering, Configure, apply bundles/patches, Tax updates, test (unit, Integration, UAT), and support PeopleSoft HCM application modules HR, T&L, Ben Admin and Payroll.
• Good Knowledge in testing of Converted Data in Workday Tenant, Test Cases, System testing, UAT, System Integration testing and Regression testing throughout the life of Workday implementation.
• Served as functional analyst by analyzing PeopleSoft system functionality and partnered with the HR and Payroll teams to review system functionality to ensure accuracy.
• Worked on HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Time Tracking, EIB Loads, Absence Management
• Broad knowledge/experience with multiple SaaS HR technology platforms and tools.
• Ability to use Quality tools and metrics to solve issues and drive business results (ACE)
• Good understanding of Integrations including Web Services, SaaS, Workday Architecture, Business Process Framework and iLoads.
• Specialization in PAYROLL Module, Tax Computation and PAYROLL integration with Leave Management, Time Management and Reimbursement modules.
• Expertise in Back-End/Front-End Testing, Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Data Driven Testing, Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Extensive experience in test designing, test planning, test automation, functionality testing, system testing, integration testing, regression testing, load testing, performance testing, usability testing, user acceptance testing and test execution of Client Server and Web Applications.
• Hand on SQL Queries, Requirement traceability Matrix, Mockups and Wireframes.
• Deep understanding in Analytical exposure of UML such as Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, State Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagram and Entity Diagram.
• Extensive experience in SQL Server database design and maintenance by developing T-SQL queries, stored procedures, functions, tables, indexes, constraints, views and triggers.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Test Methodologies from project definition to post-deployment documentation.
• Expertise in Requirement gathering, Documentation, Writing Use Cases, Workday- Functional specification, Business Case analysis, Quality Assurance and Testing including Cloud Connects, Core Connectors, EIBs and Studio.
• Technically competent with various software programs, including but not limited to Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), Microsoft Projects, Service-Now, Basecamp or similar Project management tool.
• Knowledge of System, UAT, Integration, and Regression testing throughout the life of Workday implementation.
• Knowledge of medical terminology, ICD10 codes and HIPPA
• Highly proficient in working with users and stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements using User interviews, JAD and Brainstorming workshops.
• Worked with methodologies like Agile/Scrum and Waterfall including prototype development etc.
• Experience Confidential working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Tools: MS Project, Primavera PM Tool, EcoSys, PRISM, RequisitePro, MS Visio, MS Office, HP Quality Center, Clear Quest, Rational Portfolio Manager (RPM), Power Point, RALLY, JIRA, RTC (Rational Team Concert), SharePoint
• Configuration Management Visual Source Safe, Clear Case, CVS, PVCS, Share Point
• Methodologies Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, iterative methodology, IT Unified Process
• Databases and Data Modeling tools Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, MS Access and ERwin Data Modeler
• GUI tools and Programming Languages SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, Transact SQL, Crystal Reports, Oracle
• Web tools and other technologies J2EE, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, API Services, EDI, XML, WSDL, DHTML, JSP, SERVLET, APPLET, ACTIVEX, AJAX, JDBC
• HCM/CRM - HR/Payroll Workday HCM, Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIB, Custom Reports, Calculated Fields, iLoad Conversions and Salesforce,

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Sr. Workday Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Work as single point of contact for all activities related to Workday and HR systems - configuration planning, requirement analysis, data privacy, data validation, testing of business processes and integrations, post production plan and maintenance.
• Configured Workday HCM and Time Tracking modules, create/run reports, design job aides, and develop training documentation for Workday end users.
• Responsible for project scheduling, staffing plans, creation of Communications plan, and creation of change management plan.
• Developed integrations using web service SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT on the Workday cloud platform such as Payroll integration, ADP inbound/outbound and Taleo integration. Worked to fix integration related issues.
• Manually completed the HCM workbook and worked with payroll and benefits resources to complete the Payroll, Benefits and Absence workbooks.
• Created custom calculated fields for Time Tracking, Absence Management.
• Actively involved in full life cycle of employee recruitment, retention, staff development, employee record management and policies development
• Defined flexible recruiting process in which candidate can be moved from one stage to other flexibly according to company legal requirements, Conduct design and testing sessions for Workday Advanced Compensation implementation.
• Configured Time Tracking in Workday to record "Worked hours" for employees that were eligible and developed Time calculations to capture the time entries based on location and Job families.
• Reviewed and upgraded the SOX policy and procedures.
• Workday courses completed in Peoplesoft HCM, Report Writer, Calculated Fields, Security, Integrations, and Core Connectors and Document Transformation.
• Created complex, dynamically generated database schema based on iLoad templates. Continuing work to integrate with Workday Studio's Database Loader tool Involved.
• Developed different custom reports including matrix reports, advanced reports, composite reports on all modules, which includes Compensation, Benefits, Core HR, Recruiting and Payroll.
• Developed simple and secure integrations using Workday Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) and worked with Workday Studio and Cloud connectors to fix integration related issues.
• Manually completed the HCM workbook and worked with payroll and benefits resources to complete the Payroll, Benefits and Absence workbooks.
• Worked extensively on Business Process condition rules, Calculated Fields, Advanced Reports, setting up Alerts & Notifications, Dashboards & Worklets.
• Worked with HIPPA compliant ANSI X12 837 formats for all the types of claims.
• Provided competitive market research and prepared pay studies to help establish pay practices and pay bands that help to recruit and retain superior staff.
• Ensured data sets were formatted within the guidelines of the HIPPA polices
• Manage the Workday functional team activities and Workday integrations technical team activities.
• Worked on EIB's and iLoads to load the new data and change the existing data
• Involved in data conversion from legacy system and creation of iLoad files.
• Worked on few enhancements in modules like Performance Management, Time Tracking (Early Close Day functionality, Overtime)
• Leveraged robust Workday Web Service API framework to load payroll inputs into Workday via Workday Studio development.
• Updated Time Tracking Eligibility Rules to provide Time Calculations access for employees.
• Expert in PeopleSoft HCM (8.3 - 9.1) and Workday HCM(18-23) using modules such as HR, Benefits, Total Compensation, Base Compensation, Variable Compensation, Position Management, Profile Management, Performance Management, Recruiting, Payroll and Manager and Employee Self Service modules (eProfile, eCompensation, and ePay).
• Developed Test plans to list out all activities based on the scope of business processes, integrations and Payroll.
• Understanding and knowledge with retrieving data using Web services APIs. Used SOAP UI for testing service oriented architecture. Develops, maintains, manipulates and analyzes databases for department, extracting data from other systems as necessary and developed metrics to track performance plans.
• Involvement with Analysis, Setup and Configuration of Workday HCM conducted an internal evaluation of current HRIS environment, identify short comings and risks.
• Configured Leave Plans for multiple international locations. (configure annual leave, sick, etc. with some requiring approvals).
• Upon completion of the project, summarize lessons learned and transfer process knowledge to HRIM team.
• Created reports and made them available as Worklets
• Identified business process improvements to avoid potential defects and SOX compliancy issues

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Workday HCM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuration planning for Workday functionality, requirement analysis, data privacy, data validation, testing of business processes and integrations, payroll and hypercare as part of full life cycle implementation.
• Served as data management expert in data migrations from PeopleSoft HCM to Workday and delivered data mapping and transformation documents.
• Responsible for Build and Delivery of Workday Integrations that were built using EIB's, Cloud Connect and Workday Studio.
• Have utilized market data for salary, benefits and hiring trends to create programs and solutions for optimized workforce.
• Developed/configured HR applications mainly in Absence Management and Time Tracking
• Re - Configured the different associated Business Processes for Workday Recruiting.
• Involved in Creating Custom Recruiting Reports and Custom Security Groups.
• Primary role as Integrations expert and Data reporting design for Workday Recruit Applicant Tracking System and Workday HCM for conversion from BrassRing ATS to Workday Recruit ATS and Testing the system functionality and Business processes to ensure smooth transition.
• Created custom reports to pull Benefits data into the Benefits Workbook for client.
• Attended the Workday Rising conferences and attended several of their classes to include calculated fields, report writing, Workday Studio, and EIB/iLoads.
• Part of implementation in Talent Management and Recruiting modules, did data validations before loading into Workday Interface.
• Attended the Workday Rising conferences and attended several of their classes to include calculated fields, report writing, Workday Studio, and EIB/iLoads.
• Gathered and designed global and local requirements for Workday BPs for Core HR functionality including Hire, Change Job, Termination, Propose Compensation, Termination, Reorganization, International Assignment, Time Tracking, etc based on the blueprint documentation.

Test Manager/Lead Analyst (End to End)

Responsibilities:

• Managed end to end Testing and implementation of various Projects including Cloud Integration and implementation. Most of the Projects involved API Service development and enhancements. Enhanced Confidential &T Business Direct E-order user interface for existing E-order Customers by adding MACD AVPN site configuration on existing AVPN Network, Transport, PPP,MLPPP, FR-Encap Port types using Business Direct applications.
• Prepared Design and Mapping documents based on the Business Requirements.
• Create Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on the requirement and review with the End users for the sgn-offs.
• Closely worked with internal software development team and external software vendors to ensure on-time delivery of software to meet mandate requirements and Release Management timeliness.
• Planning, scheduling and tracking projects based on the risks and issues without impacting scope, quality, schedule and cost.
• Create and manage master project schedule to manage inter project dependency and project critical path to ensure on-time delivery of internal and external software, pro-actively implement preventive actions based on lessons learned from past releases.
• Created Test Scenarios/ Test Strategy and Test Cases based on the Requirements.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Technical/Test Lead.

Responsibilities:

• I have closely worked with internal software development team, Testing Team and external software vendors like Confidential, Confidential, Confidential to ensure on-time delivery of software to meet mandate requirements and Release Management timelines. Worked very closely with the EDI team to transfer all the legacy data to Oracle DB. Also, worked with the Imaging Team to scan all the paper documents into the system in order to implement the AML tool.
• Created and managed master project schedule to manage inter project dependency and project critical path to ensure on-time delivery of internal and external software, pro-actively implemented preventive actions based on lessons learned from past projects.
• Created weekly status reports to provide the health of the project. Milestone status, tasks delays, delay impacts and corrective actions, risks and issues are reviewed in the stakeholder meetings.