PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over Five years of IT experience including Analysis, Design, Documentation, Development, Implementation and Testing of business application systems.
• Worked as Business analyst from requirement gathering, doing fit gap analysis, functional specification document (FSD) and business process flow and charts (current and future state).
• Experienced in HR Transformation, HR Processes, HR Systems Implementations/Improvements, HR Outsourcing & Continuous Improvement
• Involved in creating test scripts and test cases for various project and executing these scenarios under testing tool application for Quality assurance
• Experience in managing Post production support.
• Adept at managing complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for both development and implementation projects with onsite and offshore teams; experienced in managing multiple concurrent projects.
• Adept in Client Relations and Negotiations, communications, employee & development and general management, etc.
• Extensive experience in conducting Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions, Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with committee of SME’s, senior management and IT groups to converge early towards a goal acceptable to customers and feasible to a designer to complete.
• Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Able to manage large project teams and known for high - quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets
• Core areas of skills are Functional, Integration, System, UAT, Regression and End-to-End Testing of Web, Security and Client Server Applications.
• Business Analyst with many success stories in managing software development project.
• Extensively worked with most of the Reporting tools used such as PS Query, SQR, Crystal Reports, and SQL Queries

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP: PeopleSoft 8.x / 9.x

Functional Modules: HRMS/Payroll/Base Benefits/Benefit Administration, ESS/MSS

Operating System: MS-Windows 2000/XP

Languages: C, C++, COBOL, HTML, SQL

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server, SQL Base, MS Access

Reporting Tools: Crystal Reports

QA Testing Tools: WinRunner, LoadRunner, Test Director

Other: Microsoft 2007 Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Served as liaison between Client and other members of DEV team as a functional analyst.
• Involved in creating and modifying reports using PS Query and other tools for client needs.
• Collected and researched specific client requirements for projects and any other business needs.
• Merged multiple reports together (Benefits, Payroll, Demographics, etc) into one singular report per the client’s request using Access
• Mapped Config Tables to Visier, an end-to-end cloud-based application, which included:
• Benefits
• Taxes
• Deductions
• Job Transactions
• Demographics
• Performance
• Development
• Payroll
• Created hierarchies based on data relationships for Visier.
• Validated data sets for the integration of Visier.
• Created analytical charts such as Pie charts and Bar graphs for clients using Visier.
• Participated in project management process, including participating in project meetings.
• Involved in Kaiser acquisition projects.
• Conducted Fit-Gap analysis when converting reports from Lawson to Peoplesoft during KP Washington Project.
• Validated reports when KP Washington went live.
• Built and modified reports using IBM Cognos Report and Query studio.
• Participated in the design sessions of the custom packages that were implemented in IBM Cognos.

Environment: HCM 9.1, Oracle10g, and Windows 10, MS Office 2007

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted integration testing of Hire Interface from Salesforce to PeopleSoft.
• Contributed in the review and updating of design documents for payroll and HR modules.
• Generated reports for the TCAST time sheets, which were an important input to the key business players.
• Created the test scripts required for HR and Payroll for functional testing and executed them in HP Quality Center.
• Conducted parallel payroll runs.
• Process Payroll in test after applying Tax Upgrades to make sure that payroll reports/checks/balances are as expected.
• Supporting issues for NA Payroll during bi-weekly payroll processing.
• Running the Pay Calculation for North America Payroll and testing of Reports.
• Utilized the JIRA tool for the system of records and manage day to day tasks and track continuous progress.
• Interacted with cross functional teams and run the co-ordinations to get the tasks completed.
• Participated in development process and provided feedback and recommendations wherever necessary to DEV and QA teams.
• Executed tasks part of the Job Order and SPID module, for their integration testing.

Environment: HCM 9.1, Oracle10g, and Windows 8, MS Office 2007

Confidential, Chambersburg, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather business requirements for meeting data conversion and other business needs as they currently exist in the legacy system.
• Analyze data with various system/business users of the legacy system.
• Conduct Fit-Gap analysis of the data conversion efforts.
• Develop conversion matrix at PS payroll record and data element levels.
• Mapping Legacy payroll configuration codes like earnings and deductions to People Soft Codes.
• Worked with Benefits team in setting up deduction codes, earnings codes etc.
• Worked on Functional Design documentation for Payroll to Custom GL Interfaces.
• Interact with system and business users on data mapping based on various business rules in the legacy system.
• Analyze converted data following every mock conversion for data quality and integrity.
• Document data conversion related issues and working towards resolutions with business users.
• Design application configuration document.
• Configure applications with base lined configuration design document.
• Conduct functional testing of the configuration and application data for data accuracy and integrity.
• Provided post production support on resolving issues related to employees pay.
• Worked on parallel testing to compare the results from Ceridian system to PS 9.1 payroll.
• Execute and troubleshoot tasks per conversion cut over plan.