SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience working as a Business Analyst in HR Benefits/Payroll/Time, GL and Workday.
• Expertise in different methodologies like Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile and Waterfall cycle
• Experience in interacting with business users and executives to identify Information needs, Business Rules, Gather Requirements and document them.
• Involved in business analysis activities for the Global Business Solutions Technology Human Resources team for the implementation of Workday.
• Staged data in Workday for testing and training purposes
• Expertise in Requirement gathering, Documentation, Writing Use Cases, Functional specification, Business Case analysis, Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Authored multiple Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), Project Requirement Documents (PRD), Functional Specification Documents (FSD) and Use Cases.
• Experience of Workday HCM system.
• Experience of Workday Payroll and Benefits Integrations.
• Extensive knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and UML Design using Rational Rose, Caliber RDM, MS Visio and have created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Swim Lane Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Process Flow Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Wireframe Diagrams, and Entity Relationship Diagrams.
• Expertise in Workday HCM, Benefits and Payroll concepts
• Workday HCM Product Experience:EIB (Integration System), Business Processes, Workday Report Writer.
• Experience of Automated Testing with Mercury Suite of products including Quick Test Professional (QTP), Load Runner, Quality Center.
• Expertise in reviewing & analyzing FRS (Functional requirement specifications), SRS (System Requirements Specifications), created detailed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Strategies and Test Scripts.
• Strong Analytical Skills and knowledge in End to End HR Processes.
• Experience in Implementing Workday Core HR, Payroll integration, Benefit Integration etc.
• Experienced in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Usability, Unit, Agile, Front End and Back End Testing using SQL queries.
• Hands on experience working on SAP HR modules for payroll and benefits.
• Excellent defect tracking and problem determination skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/00/XP, NT, IBM MAINFRAMES MS - DOS, UNIX (Solaris 2.8), Lotus Notes

Software Languages: JAVA,J2EE, C, C++, XML, HTML, VB Script, .NET technologies

Databases: Oracle 9i, 10g, 11i, My SQL, PL SQL

GUI: MS Visio

Bug Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Clear Quest, JIRA

Packages: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Visio

Automation Test Tools: Quick Test Professional, Load Runner and Win runner.

ETL Tool: Ab Initio 1.14, Business Objects, Informatica, Crystal Reports

DB Tools: TOAD, SQL*PLUS, SQL*Loader, SQL Navigator, MS Sharepoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified and analyzed business needs and provided innovative recommendations for technology solutions.
• Perform end to end work flow testing of all in-scope Business processes.
• Facilitated requirement walkthrough sessions with business users and key stakeholders to identify key business needs.
• Ensured successful implementation of Workday HCM, Benefits, Absence Management, Payroll.
• Lead discovery sessions with client and vendors.
• Design, Build, Test and Deploy integration solutions for Workday customers.
• Adopted a reverse reengineering approach to supplement requirements gathered from stakeholders
• Translated business needs of stakeholders into a formal BRD and coordinated signoffs.
• Collaborated with PM to identify all trade systems which had credit implications, in order to adequately mitigate and manage scope creep
• Involved in development of design documentation for inscope interfaces to and from Workday.
• Responsible for developing Uses Cases for Workday Integration testing of inbound and outbound interfaces to and from Workday and other third party system.
• Created matrix reports and attached to the dashboards in the workday.
• Proposed pros and cons to the HR executives for improvisation of the process.
• Participated in kick-off meetings, Workday Business Process walkthroughs, plan agenda and logistics.
• Worked on HCM Fundamentals and Business Process Fundamentals in Workday.
• Create test scenarios and test data for end to end testing from Business process to Integration to Payroll.
• Created and maintained library of Test Plans and Test Scenarios in HP Quality Center & SharePoint.
• Performed testing on version upgrades of Workday on critical Business Processes and identified upstream and downstream integrations
• Perform delta testing to ensure that full Payroll data has been extracted, cleansed, calculated and uploaded.
• Enhanced communications between Development, QA, and Training groups.
• Strong management and leadership for direct reports with capacity to mentor and coach QA staff.
• Implement, gather, and report team dashboard and project metrics from HP Quality Center which demonstrates business value and showing continuous improvement.

Environment: Workday, SQL Server, Android, Mountain Lion, Windows, Quality Center, MS Sharepoint.

Confidential

QA/BA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Employee Portal - Ability to view Claims status and coverage information from CI perspective.
• Generation of Paper Enrollment Kits - Note: This would require work by an outside vendor, Standard Register; they hold the rules and the text.
• Updated Web Enrollment and Enrollment Admin applications to address requested changes in Phase1 that were deferred to Phase 2.
• Developed & Executed Test Scenarios for HR, payroll, time, and compensation management & benefits.
• Extensively involved in testing of HR Personal Administration, Time Management and Payroll.
• Involved in preparing detailed Test Plan document in accordance to SDLC deliverables.
• Facilitated JAD sessions to understand the user requirements and also their system’s implementation.
• Involved in the development of a Project Plan in conjunction to the Business and IT areas.
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing on the broker view and Business-to-Business Transaction testing.
• Manually executed the test cases for positive and negative scenarios.
• Involved in Planning and execution of System Integration Testing (SIT)
• Logged and tracked the defects using Mercury Quality Center Performed Data Driven Testing and end-to-end testing.
• Used Sharepoint to track and maintain information shared with senior management and vendors.
• Wrote Test Cases referring System Requirements and Functional Design documents.
• Liaised with stakeholders, business owners, end-users and developed business/system use cases.
• Worked on re-engineering of Business Process to improvise the HR Function-TO BE Study.
• Prepared Test Plan and Test Strategy for different applications
• Used HP Quality Center 10 for defect tracking.
• Managed Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace and map Business requirements, Functional