SUMMARY

• Senior Workday Analyst with over 11 years of experience in HCM system administration, Talent, Payroll integration and business analysis.
• Offers over 5 years’ experience in Software Development Methodologies and Project Management.
• Comprehensive background encompasses expertise in system maintenance, including: review, testing, documentation and implementation of system upgrades or patches.
• Experience in Business Process, integrations 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.
• Manage overall implementation and support of Workday HCM/Payroll integrations related to HR Technology transformation strategic initiative for deployment of SaaS based HCM product, replacing enterprise PeopleSoft HCM/Payroll application.
• Work on Workday conversion processes and tools like iTool, EBI, Workday Studio.
• Hands on Implementation of Workday and Data Migration using EIB, Core Connectors and Workday Studio in addition to creating Simple and Advanced reports.
• Skilled in creation of standard/custom quarterly, annual and ad - hoc reports as needed by business and transforming existing PeopleSoft reports to Workday Reports as part of migration.
• 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, Lawson, Ceridian system functionality and partnered with the HR and Payroll teams to review system functionality to ensure accuracy.
• Expertise in Back-End/Front-End Testing, Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Data Driven Testing, Integration Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Efficient in writing Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD), Use Cases, User Interface Specifications (UIS), System Requirement Specification (SRS) and Report Specifications Documents (RSD)
• Experience in performing GAP Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
• Thorough understanding of all phases of the Software Design and Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and methodologies like Agile/Scrum and Waterfall including prototype development etc.
• Good knowledge of Taleo SMB and Taleo Enterprise software and integration with Workday.
• Experienced creating Source-Target-Mapping documents along transformation rules as per the business and technical needs.
• Experienced in BPM (Business Process Modeling), using BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) to design Use Cases/ Process Flows and Activity diagrams. Created FRS.
• Have experience in transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams like Use-Case and sequence-diagram and developed wireframes, mockup screens, and prototypes with MS Visio.
• Skilled in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications and building business process flow charts using MS Visio and Enterprise Architect to communicate project functionality to the development team employing designing techniques like OOAD and Unified Modeling Language (UML).
• Experience in performing GAP Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
• Performed AS-IS and TO-BE business process flow for clear translation of Functional to system requirement specification.
• Expert in tracking and managing requirements through Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM).
• Extensive experience in gathering system and application requirements and creating requirements and design use cases in Rational Requisite Pro.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000. 2003, XP, Seven, Vista

Databases & Tools: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access

ERP System: SAP FI/CO 4.3, 6.0

Methodologies: Rational Unified Processing (RUP), AGILE Methodology, Joint Application Development (JAD), Rapid Application Development (RAD), Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and Unified Modelling Language (UML)

Operating System: Linux, Unix, Sun Solaris 8, 9/AIX, Windows XP/NT/2000/2003 Server

Test/Defect Tools: HP Quality Center, QTP, Manual Testing, LoadRunner, WinRunner, IBM Rational ClearCase/ClearQuest

RDBMS: Oracle 8i/9i/10i, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Business Modelling Tools: MS Visio, MS Project, UML Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro.

Databases/Query Tools/Web: Perl/CGI, ANT, UNIX Shell, Java, J2EE, HTML, DHTML, XML, Java Script, VB Script, PL/SQL, .Net, ASP, MS Access, JSP, Visual Basic, Dream Weaver, C,C++,C #.

Additional Skills: Microsoft Office, MS ACCESS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Workday Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Creating end to end recruiting process for clients from creating bp like job application, offer, hire, and onboarding, setup external career site, questionnaires, offer letters and review
• Created Supervisory organization, cost center hierarchies, and location hierarchies' maintenance staffing model, job details and job family
• Worked with advance compensation like bonus, stock, and merit plans. Created a compensation matrix based on the time portion rules.
• Configured absence management including vacation, parental leave and other LOA type
• Developed inbound integration to bring in result to workday after payroll run in complete
• Implemented workday performance management including goal setting, mid-year, year-end, processes. Configured various notifications for integration.
• Developing standard, advanced and custom report using report writer tool as per the user requirement. Involved in production support. involved in transferring data from SAP to Workday worked on Payroll complex reports, Payroll security, Payroll accesses.
• Developed both inbound and outbound EIB integration in various segment of workday system.
• Worked on Payroll web service like PICOF and PECI interfaces.
• Developed the custom reports using workday report writer tool and deploying it into workday tenant
• Create the integration and used XSLT code to transform XML data to safely deliver files using SFTP server. Though understanding in using in different APIs for connecting the third-party system
• Created various EIB integration using workday templates and engaged in validating and customizing BP's for integration. Build new custom report and modified existing project
• Understanding the client requirement and configured based on the requirement in the workday solution through the development of prototype system, and testing the workday solution
• Worked with implantation partner during the development and unit test for payroll integration.
• Worked with team to create Payroll, benefit plans, benefit groups, benefit eligibility rules as per the client requirement, added them into enrolment plans, and managed the enrolment rules.
• Developed asset life cycle, Income statement, balance sheet, trail balance related reports
• Build studio integration related workday project and time keeping project
• Created inbound Studio integrations to update external payroll deductions.
• Created new hire integration to pull the new hire information using core connectors
• Coordinating and supervising the daily activity of the work day HR system and acts as a primary point of contact to monitor. Handled time and labor rules for NA payroll.
• Design Business form layouts using a Studio Reporting tool called BIRT.
• Working with different staffing models, defining hiring restriction to position, job and head count management. Worked on setting up stock plans and launched employee stock grants
• Supporting the queries from business users of UAT testing of integration/ report
• Ensured the client takes advantage of workday practice.
• Worked with Workday Studio to fix integration related issues.
• Created reports with workday reports writer and created custom integration with third party applications using workday cloud connect and Enterprise interface builder (EIB).

Sr. Workday Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the workday integration of business processes across disparate systems.
• Lead HRIS resource for bi-annual as well as weekly Workday maintenance and upgrades configuring and UAT testing prior to go-live.
• Involved in full life cycle implementations, which includes Discovery Phase, Planning, Gap Analysis, Development, Testing, Reporting, Go-live and Post Go-live support of Workday modules (HCM - Benefits, Compensation, Talent Management) automation Kainos Work Smart.
• Worked with business partners to load mass data changes within Workday.
• Partner with other analysts to ensure accurate security and process configurations to ensure simple integrations run smoothly.
• Responsible for testing new features of Workday releases as they pertain to simple integrations, business processes, and security.
• Developing Complex Benefit Integrations, Custom reports associated with it and configuring new Benefit Plans in the Workday
• Worked on building the Workday integrations between Workday and vendor systems.
• Monitor the integrity of Workday ATS data & reporting through regular audits, troubleshooting irregularities, as well as partnering with the HRIS team to research, correct discrepancies, and ensure data reliability.
• Gathered requirements for integration and scoping out the list for the workday implementations.
• Worked on modules HR, Payroll, Benefits Created Technical design documentation for different customizations.
• Engaged in the updating of existing solution from older versions while in charge of integrating solution with code from partner Company and producing successful builds.
• Configuring and Maintaining the business process like Hiring an Employee, Changes like Position of the employee, compensation with the usage of different staffing models.
• Built integration with ADP to report out the historical data of withholding orders from Workday.
• Responsible for core HR business processes including HRMS, Manager Self-Service, Employee Self-Service, Staffing, Talent Management, Benefits and Compensation.
• Responsible for code optimization and test the website across different browsers
• Effectively manage projects and scheduled releases to meet targeted release dates.
• Research and resolve simple integration problems, unexpected results or process flaws.
• Effectively prioritize and escalate system and customer issues as required.
• Suggest and design solutions and efficiencies to existing data upload and audits.
• Research, test, and present proposals for new features of Workday.
• Audit all comprehensive data to ensure data accuracy.
• I was Involved in implementation, upgrade, maintenance &support of PeopleSoft HRMS projects
• Build and maintain documentation of simple integrations for internal and external purposes.
• Validated the scripts that they executed correctly and meets the scenario description and Participate in development projects as advisor in the area of business and systems use.
• Develop testing strategies and verification scenarios along with project Scope and Requirements documents
• Serve as Location Specialist on the team supporting the 2300 plus staff at the firm. Maintain and follow HR business rules for location mapping to ensure employees are aligned to the correct cost center and location to reduce financial impacts.
• Contributed to the development of HRIS strategy, policies and procedures.
• Defined business processes and proposed new or improved processes by Functional Analysis with Validated new processes with the business process owners.
• Generate different kinds of custom reports - Simple, Advanced and Matrix reports to meet client requirements within the workday tenant.
• Audit and analyze data on a weekly basis to maintain integrity along with researching and developing new procedures for process improvement
• Take ownership of testing efforts for the HCM, Payroll, and Absence application.
• Develop, execute, and debug automated functional tests for Workday applications.
• Work closely with development and functional QA teams.
• Work closely with the environment team to ensure efficient and stable builds.
• Diagnose functional issues, report bugs, and take ownership of issue resolution rain and mentor other team members on an ad hoc basis.
• Develop impact and preliminary analyses in SDLC, and participate actively in their implementation. VISIO and MS Project, Excel as Reporting Tool.

Environment: Workday, PeopleSoft, Log management, Logs reconsolidation, Data Warehousing, Data Cleansing, MS project, User acceptance testing (UAT), Rational clear case, Clear quest, Use cases, UMLMS Office, Requisite Pro, Excel, EERS, I Load, Workday Studio, EIB, CII, COB, TOAD