Professional Summary

• Proactively involved in tracking the new requirements / changes in different phase of the project lifecycle.
• Organized the Status meetings and responsible for sending the weekly status report to the Project Management team as well as the business.
• Identified and credited for being a great business analyst especially in times of critical project deadlines.
• Provided leadership and guidance for the developing / testing teams on all aspects Strategy, planning and execution to meet the project deadlines.
• Have hands-on experience in Health Care, Financials, Publishing Media , Retail and web applications.
• Focused and highly motivated IT professional in business analysis of Design, Development and Delivery of cost-effective, high-performance technology solutions to meet challenging business demands.
• Extensive experience in business process engineering and re-engineering, business requirements analysis, modeling, streamline decision support systems.
• Strong experience in all phases of Software Development Lifecycle SDLC using Waterfall, Agile/Scrum.
• Extensive experience in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications employing Unified Modeling Language UML .
• Expert in Root Cause Analysis, feasibility studies, risk assessment and in conducting GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing UAT .
• Excellent track record in collaborating with teams, clients, partners and management to guide design and delivery of technology, business and operational strategies to increase efficiency and capability.
• Experienced in working with Business users, clients as well as the senior management.
• Over 6 Years of ERP experience focusing on PeopleSoft implementations for fortune 500 clients that includes Sony, Medco, Baylor Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, and Goldman Sachs.

Technical Skills

• Cloud Based Application:
• Workday HCM Human Capital Management
• ERP Applications:
• PeopleSoft HRMS 8.x Administer Workforce, PeopleSoft HRMS 8.x Recruit Workforce, PeopleSoft HRMS 8.x Payroll, PeopleSoft HRMS 8.x Base Benefits, PeopleSoft HRMS 8.x Absence Management, PeopleSoft HRMS 8.x Self Service, PeopleSoft HRMS 8.x Compensation, PeopleSoft HRMS 8.x Time Labor, PeopleSoft Financials 8.9 Accounts Payable, PeopleSoft CRM 8.9.
• People Tools:
• Application Designer, PeopleCode, PeopleSoft Security, SQR, Application Engine, Application Messaging, Component Interface, Workflow, File Layout, PS Query, Administration Tools Data Mover, PeopleSoft Audit.
• ECM Applications:
• IBM FileNet P8 3.5 BPM
• Testing/Tracking Tools:
• Rational Clear Quest, HP Quality Center, JIRA.
• Others:
• Microsoft Visual Basic, Java, Javascript, VB Script, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access,

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Co-founder Business Owner

• Confidential is a local yoga studio to the western suburbs of Confidential. Their mission is to empower individuals by bringing yoga and its related services to the community.
• The goal of the project was to design, develop and maintain the company's whole new Confidential clothing accessories Retail store available to Customers for Online Shopping.

Responsibilities:

• Led workgroup sessions with business managers to gain final approval on business requirements and solution documents. Delivered product features presentation in order to obtain buy-in from key stakeholders.
• Involved in Requirement Scoping and identifying high priority requirement for implementation.
• Facilitated review meetings to ensure that the project was implemented within the specifications of the contract
• Designed and developed project templates based on SDLC Methodology
• Participated regularly in Walkthroughs and Review meetings with Project Manager, QA Engineers and Development team
• Prioritized issues and allocated development and QA resources to ensure timely and quality deliverables.
• Assisted the QA team in reviewing test cases, test plans and tested the final application for usability testing to verify whether all the user requirements were catered to by the application.
• Facilitated User Acceptance testing UAT for the application as a Business User.
• Documented all Changes and request using Change Management forms in the SharePoint document library.

Confidential

Sr. Business AnalystIntegration Consultant

• Confidential is a diversified media company committed to delivering innovative experiences across all platforms. There are ten major local news and information media groups, a broad array of niche publications and best-in-class digital and marketing services and solutions that connect marketers with the audiences.

Responsibilities:

• Sr. BAWorkday Integration lead for a team of six consultants accountable for planning, implementation strategy and testing procedures for the Tribune Workday Benefits Integration implementation, Active Directory and Payroll.
• Responsible for all activities related to Workday's integration and testing within budget, while meeting all quality deliverables.
• Managed, gathered, analyzed, and wrote Business and functional Requirements Documents along with creating work flow diagrams
• Hands on experience in organizing, conducting and performing Workday Benefits system integration testing.
• Produced a comprehensive set of documentation and reports including progress reports, and quality monitoring.
• Created strategies for risk response planning, risk mitigation and contingency planning.
• Established milestones as needed for reporting to appropriate management levels.
• Created complete integration test cycle coverage in co-ordination with the vendors and tracked test results and records.
• Ran bug triage meetings
• Mentored Business Analysis and testing team members for ongoing projects, reviewed and provided feedback on requirement specifications, and testing deliverables
• Facilitated brainstorming and walkthrough sessions between the Business users, Vendors, development team and QA team.
• Created and maintained Test Report metrics and other reports for management and business team.

Confidential

Technical Business Analyst

• Confidential is a leading Health Care provider who provides high quality, affordable health care in an easy and convenient manner and has been serving the community with a personal touch.
• Confidential keeps track of each and every case details of the Kaiser Permanente health care group. The current system provides the ability for the call center to create and manage various cases reported in and around Confidential.
• Confidential system provides various Reporting capabilities to the management to extract data in the desired format.

Environment: Peoplesoft CRM 8.9, EPM 8.8 and Peopletools 8.45, DB2 8.0

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement gathering for CIWRS and EPM and worked closely with business and technology groups to identify best methods for promoting/implementing new process.
• Participated in developing solution by formulating objectives, planning deliverables and preparing functional specification and leading the exploration, evaluation, and design of technical solutions.
• Managed and documented Business requirements and dependencies by thoroughly analyzing the systems to have a clear understanding of the business processes and associated system workflow.
• Estimated deliverables based upon the Business requirements.
• Maintained development plans/schedules.
• Conducted Gap analysis to understand new business model and additional functionalities to be incorporated into the new application.
• Participated in various architectural development sessions to provide technical teams with a better understanding of the business requirements.
• Responsible for the preparation and submission of Functional Requirement Document based on the Business Requirements with details of proposed screens, and Functional aspects of the Application developed.
• Presented weekly updates to senior management on development progress and project status, current risks and risk-reduction plan, solution to technical and development problems for timely business decisions.
• Creating new Process definitions and Run control pages for crystal reports.
• Masked data from production to Development and Testing Environments.
• Review and track application accomplishment against procedure and Standards
• Communicated intensively with clients, sub-contractors and vendors to establish cordial/effective working relationship.

Confidential

Business Analyst/ ERP Team Lead

• Confidential provides solutions that allow businesses to maximize the value of Enterprise Content Management systems using IBM-FileNet P8 line of Suites. Worked as a Business Analyst/ ERP Team Lead and co-ordinate the development efforts of the Accounts Payable Solution using IBM-FileNet P8 as Enterprise Content Management framework for storing images and metadata of Invoices and using PeopleSoft Financials for Accounts Payable Processing.

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering for the FileNet- PeopleSoft AP integration solution.
• Managed, developed, derived and clarified specifications for system related projects to ensure business unit needs are identified and communicated and to ensure technical programmers understand the functional requirements of the business unit.
• Gathered User and Business requirements through meetings, interviews, surveys, prototyping and observing from account managers and User Interface of the existing system.
• Responsible for the preparation and submission of Functional Requirements Document based on the Business Requirements with details of proposed screens, and Functional aspects of the Application developed.
• Ensured creation, identification, prioritization, and sign-off of business requirements
• Broad interaction with the Business Stakeholders and compliance team.
• Created system design and architecture documentation
• Worked with designers and software developers to understand application functionality and navigational flow.
• Coordinated and clarified to the Development team at all stages till the UAT signoff for all functional queries.
• Involved in the Analysis, design and execution of Testing for AP Solution
• Led the ERP testing team in developing the test strategy, test plan, test scripts etc. and execution of the system testing phase between FileNet and PeopleSoft.
• Testing of Components, Pages, Component Interface, SQR based on the requirement.

Confidential

Senior PeopleSoft Business Analyst

• Worked as a Senior PeopleSoft Business Analyst for Confidential which is one of the leading HR Management consultants and provide Total Benefits Administration to most of the Fortune 500 companies across US and the world over. The turnover of the client is around 1.4 Billions and has approximately 11, 000 employees.
• Product WM is a centralized and integrated service for Employees, HR Manager and HR representatives which allow the client to manage HR related tasks and at the same time improve effectiveness of the HR program. It involved enhancement of the delivered functionality of PeopleSoft HRMS modules for the Implementation for Confidential.
• Have hands on experience on the HRMS modules listed below:
• Workforce Administration
• New Hire/Rehire, Background check, PDC, Contingent Worker, Death, Retirement
• Payroll
• W2, W4, Direct Deposit, Voluntary Deduction, Payroll Process
• Benefits
• US FMLA Leave, Non FMLA Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement, PTO Sell/Donate, Adoption assistance
• Compensation
• Sign-On Bonus, Relocation Bonus, Referral Bonus, Collection Bonus
• Time and Administration
• Weekly Punch Time, Elapsed Punch Time, Time off Request

Responsibilities:

• Interactwith the Business Stakeholders and compliance team and involved in the subsequent preparation of requirements documentation.
• Managed and developed business specifications for system related projects to ensure business unit needs are identified and communicated and to ensure technical programmers understand the functional requirements of the business unit.
• Performed business process mapping for change requests and new requirements
• Involved in different phases of Project life cycle from Inception to Transition.
• Involved in Setting/Implementation of standards.
• Coordinated and clarified to the Development team at all stages till the UAT signoff for all functional queries.
• Estimation, Task Allocation and Review of Performance, Meeting delivery schedule and accountable for all the deliverables made by Offshore Peoplesoft team.
• Defining/Adherence and Maintenance of Quality as per CMM Level 5 directives.
• Managed and document project requirements and dependencies by thoroughly analyzing the systems to have a clear understanding of the business processes and associated system workflow
• Estimating deliverables based upon requirements
• Managed client expectations by ensuring the delivery of the highest quality service
• Responsible for the Weekly status report.
• Presented weekly updates to senior management on development progress and project status, current risks and risk-reduction plan, solution to technical and development problems for timely business decisions.
• Validated that proper deliverable and phase stage containment is occurring where required, e.g., signoffs are scheduled and completed, dependent deliverables are completed, phase plans are completed and agreed to by project leads before the phase starts
• Proactively managed and monitored execution of deliverables and status in an effective manner
• Managed all change requests and communicate approved changes to all teams
• Masked data from production to Development and Testing Environments.
• Developed Tool for tracking the project workflow at each stepwise for EM.
• Performed key role as Production Support during critical situations.
• Review and track application accomplishment against procedure and Standards

Environment: Peoplesoft HRMS 8.x, JSP, Cognos, Informatica, Rational Suite, DB2 , Windows.