SUMMARY

• Over 12 years of professional experience as Business Analyst with extensive experience in Requirements Documentation, Fit - Gap Analysis, Implementation, Upgrade, Conversion, and post production support of Workday and PeopleSoft applications.
• Experience in Business Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Quality Assurance.
• Created Workbooks for moving legacy PeopleSoft Data to Excel Workbooks and validated the workbooks data loaded to Workday
• Configure Tenants for Business Processes for HCM, Hires, Onboarding, Notifications, Calculated Dates, Performance Management Templates, Succession Planning & Talent Review
• Played Liaison role between Technical Team for converting requirements to development and Testing team for application testing
• Maintained Data setup Workbooks, Configuration workbooks, Business Process workbooks for post-go live support
• Prepared Job-Aids for Workday Business Process/Functionality for Business Users & trained them on application usage
• Created Custom Reports in Workday for Data Validation & Integration Testing comparison (Outbound & Inbound Integrations)
• Excellent Documentation skills in the creation of Functional/Technical Design Documents, Test Scripts and Detailed Design Documents
• Good working knowledge in SDLC methodologies like Agile, Verification & Validation and Waterfall methodologies across the span of various projects
• Team player with excellent interpersonal communication skills and Technical documentation skills
• Conducted Functional Design Reviews with Business Users to get sign-off
• Conversant with different types of Software Testing including Test Plan, Test Execution, Test Reporting, Functional Testing
• Involved in Integrations Testing including Outbound & Inbound Integrations
• Expertise in QA Life Cycle, which includes Designing and Developing and Execution of the entire QA Process and Documentation of Test Strategy, Test Requirements, Test Design, Test scripts, Test cases, Test plans, Test procedures and testing standards for Manual and Automated Testing using Mercury Interactive tools, Quick Test Pro products.
• Good experience in using the JIRA, SharePoint, HP ALM Quality
• Expertise in testing of interfaces and conversions from Legacy/Third party systems to Workday and PeopleSoft applications
• Extensive expertise in Business Process Analysis, System Analysis and Use Case Analysis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: Workday HCM - Core HCM, Onboarding, ESS, MSS, Benefits, Time Tracking, Talent - Performance Management, Succession Planning, Talent Review. PeopleSoft HCM Core HCM, Onboarding, ESS, MSS, Benefits, Time Tracking, Talent - Performance Management, Succession Planning, Talent Review).

Development Tools: People Tools, Mainframe Cobol, JCL, Hogan, Roscoe, File Manager, TWS, ELIPS, SPUFI, TCA & ASA

Reporting Tools: PS/Query and Workday Custom Reports

RDBMS: MS SQL server, Oracle 7.x/8.0/9i/10g/11g, IBM DB2.

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA, SharePoint

Languages: SQL and C.

Packages: MS- Project, MS- Visio, MS- Word, MS- Excel, MS-Access, MS-Power Point etc.

Operating Systems: Windows 7/ NT/ XP, Windows 95/98/2000, UNIX/AIX 5.3.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago

Workday HCM Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Implementation partners for configuration changes/defect fixes and clarifications on Business Processes
• Involved in Requirement Gathering & Prepare Functional Design documents
• Gathered Requirements for configuring Business Process - HCM Create Positions, Hiring, Onboarding, Job Changes like Promotions, Transfers, Terminations, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence Management, Performance Management Templates, Succession Planning & Talent Review
• Facilitated Requirement gathering/demo sessions to Business Users/Developers/Testing Team of requirements and make sure all teams are on same understanding
• Created Workbooks for moving legacy PeopleSoft Data to Excel Workbooks and validated the workbooks data loaded to Workday
• Prepare System Test Plan/Test Strategy based on Functional Design documents
• Configure Tenants for Business Processes for HCM, Hires, Onboarding, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence Management, Notifications, Calculated Dates, Performance Management Templates (Annual Goals Template, Mid-Year Goal Template, Annual Performance Evaluations), Succession Planning & Talent Review
• Prepared detailed User Manuals on Business Process documentation/Integration
• Manage system integrations, upgrades, testing, data analysis, and process improvements ensuring firm-wide data integrity

Confidential

PeopleSoft/Workday HCM Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Workday Architect sessions with Implementation Partners on Workday HCM Modules - Core HCM, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence, Talent-Performance Management, Talent Review, Payroll
• Performed Fit gap analysis to identify the gaps during Workday Implementation
• Interacted with Implementation partners for configuration changes/defect fixes and clarifications on Business Processes
• Involved in Requirement Gathering & Prepare Functional Design documents
• Gathered Requirements for configuring Business Process - HCM Create Positions, Hiring, Onboarding, Job Changes like Promotions, Transfers, Terminations, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence Management, Performance Management Templates, Succession Planning & Talent Review
• Facilitated Requirement gathering/demo sessions to Business Users/Developers/Testing Team of requirements and make sure all teams are on same understanding
• Created Workbooks for moving legacy PeopleSoft Data to Excel Workbooks and validated the workbooks data loaded to Workday
• Prepare System Test Plan/Test Strategy based on Functional Design documents
• Configure Tenants for Business Processes for HCM, Hires, Onboarding, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence Management, Notifications, Calculated Dates, Performance Management Templates (Annual Goals Template, Mid-Year Goal Template, Annual Performance Evaluations), Succession Planning & Talent Review
• Prepared detailed User Manuals on Business Process documentation/Integration
• Manage system integrations, upgrades, testing, data analysis, and process improvements ensuring firm-wide data integrity
• Validated Business process for Hire, Onboarding, Benefits, Transfer, Terminations, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence Management, Talent-Performance Management/Reviews & email notifications
• Defect Management using IMeet Central/JIRA tool, Involved in Daily Defect Triage calls with Business users/Project Team & Implementation Partners
• Provided UAT support for Business Users to provide clarifications for the issues/defects raised during UAT
• Good experience in End-to-End Testing and Integration Testing process/files interacting with Workday and feeds from Workday to different Vendors like Discovery, LMS, Concur etc.
• Provided written documentation support for existing system functionality as well as future upgrade functions to maintain a baseline of customizations and standards for the modules and applications.
• Created User Manuals with screen shots for users to know flow of Business Processes for various entries.

Confidential, Austin

PeopleSoft Tester

Responsibilities:

• Functional testing & Regression testing for People Tools 8.53 upgrade with PeopleSoft HR 9.1 application version
• Maintained test script library by module for all the test phases.
• Prepared System test plan, managed, tracked, & reported system test execution
• Worked with track leads to prepare Integration test plan represented by the block schedule diagram, which shows the dependency of test scripts across the modules.
• Coordinated & monitored the integration testing across the modules and served as a liaison between vendor QA team and functional track leads.
• Provided daily updates with dashboard on vendor testing to the project team and upper management.
• Prepared UAT test plan, User sign in sheets, user sign off sheets as part of user Acceptance testing.
• Prepared requirement traceability document showing forward/backward traceability between requirements and test ids for audit and governance review.
• Conducted daily defect meetings to go over the defects at each testing phase.
• Monitored all the test evidences for each test phase are correctly loaded into SharePoint

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.1(HCM, Onboarding, Talent - Performance Management, Succession Planning, Talent Reviews) People Tools 8.52, SharePoint, PS-Query Manager, Process Scheduler, Oracle 11.2

Confidential, Columbus, OH

PeopleSoft Functional Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design & fit gap sessions for Phase II implementation.
• Participated in requirements management, including reviewing requirements for testability and overseeing the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Defined & prepared testing strategy, testing phases, & testing timeline for MARS Phase II.
• Involved in the implementation and customization testing of the PeopleSoft HRMS 9.1 (Core HR, Performance Management) modules based on organizational needs and requirements
• Functional testing & Regression testing for People Tools 8.53 upgrade with PeopleSoft HR 9.1 application version
• Maintained test script library by module for all the test phases.
• Prepared System test plan, managed, tracked, & reported system test execution
• Worked with track leads to prepare Integration test plan represented by the block schedule diagram, which shows the dependency of test scripts across the modules.
• Coordinated & monitored the integration testing across the modules and served as a liaison between vendor QA team and functional track leads.
• Provided daily updates with dashboard on vendor testing to the project team and upper management.
• Prepared UAT test plan, User sign in sheets, user sign off sheets as part of user Acceptance testing.
• Prepared requirement traceability document showing forward/backward traceability between requirements and test ids for audit and governance review.
• Conducted daily defect meetings to go over the defects at each testing phase.
• Monitored all the test evidences for each test phase are correctly loaded into SharePoint as per internal audit requirements.
• Reported daily testing status, defect list throughout the testing phases and alerted the senior management about the critical issue.

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 9.1(HCM, Onboarding, Time Tracking, Benefits, Talent - Performance Management, Succession Planning, Talent Reviews) People Tools 8.52, SharePoint, App Designer, PS-Query Manager, Process Scheduler, Oracle 11.2