SUMMARY

• A dynamic professional with over 9 years of extensive experience with the Human Capital Management related applications.
• Industry experience includes Banking, Finance and Automotive.
• Significant experience of working with customers, delivery managers, project managers and technical teams for securing & executing projects
• Proven skills in working with teams to work in sync with the corporate parameters & motivating them for achieving business and individual goals.
• Possess strong understanding in aspects of various modules in PeopleSoft HRMS - HR, Payroll, Base Benefits, Benefits Administration and Manage Self Service.
• Excellent process orientation in performing project scoping, business process re-engineering, fit-gap analysis, requirements gathering, functional design, application configuration, user interactions, testing and production support.
• Involved in Production Support and join tech line calls to help resolve issues.
• Strong expertise in Quality Assurance as part of full life cycle implementations of the above modules with specific emphasis on creating system/integration test plans, requirements traceability; developing manual test cases/test scripts; performing functional, integration and regression testing; managing defects and preparing comprehensive test metrics.
• Proficient in PeopleSoft technologies like Application Designer, PeopleCode, Application Engine, SQR, Process Scheduler, PS Query, Data Move and SQL
• Extensive knowledge on Data conversion, Data mapping, Performance tuning, downstream interfaces, Online request handling, Change control, Version control and working with Third-Party systems.
• Solid background in Release management, Risk management, Quality management and Project management
• Self-motivated fast learner, diligent, hardworking and active team player with high analytical, research abilities, presentation and problem solving skills and effective communication. Skilled in proactive identification and resolution of critical issues
• Well versed in the Global Delivery Model for execution of projects involving onsite and offshore teams.
• Demonstrated proficiency in leading and mentoring individuals to maximize productivity and forming cohesive team environment.
• An effective communicator with relationship management skills with the ability to relate to people at any level of business and management.
• Currently working on Workday HCM Implementation involving direct contribution to Data Conversion and Testing of Integrations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Technology Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering requirements, analysis, development and testing of EIB based inbound and outbound integrations.
• Coordinate to the Offshore for developing sqr programs to extract and transform legacy PeopleSoft data to populate data gathering workbooks (DGWs) for loading into Workday.
• Perform system wide analysis (on PeopleSoft) as requested by business users to gather information that aids in Workday related decisions.
• Provided Knowledge Transfer to the Vendors on the Benefits Integrations.
• Design, develop and test custom utilities that aid the Workday implementation project like a sqr to create per employee per year pdfs consisting of the full year paycheck information for prior years etc.
• Assign tasks to the offshore team and system test the offshore deliverables.
• Participate in weekly and monthly status reporting and governance meetings with the customer.

Confidential

Technology Analyst \ Technology Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering, Project Scoping, Project Estimation
• Supervised the Issue Resolution by the technical team
• Conducted Conference Room Pilot for Application Upgrade from People Tools 8.49 to 8.51, delivered tools changes, configurable tools options that can be used in the release.
• Involved with Oracle database upgrade from 10g to 11g that included the phases of assessment, design, build, testing and production cutover.
• Implemented new functionality in PeopleSoft for Non Employees and Contingent workers.
• Conducting the meetings on the BRD, ‘TO-BE’. functional design and technical design
• Performed Fit & gap Analysis for Customization effort.
• Prepare Proofs of Concepts on new features introduced
• Design and Implementation and Development of new Interfaces for Base Benefits
• Creating new designs, new SQR programs, and enhancement of existing SQR programs.
• Involved in Development and Coding Activities
• Testing PeopleSoft HRMS Bundles and Tax Updates for Version 8.9 Planning for Tax Bundles, Fixes and other activities
• Troubleshooting for all batch jobs, critical processes of Payroll, Benefits
• Level 2 and Level 3 Help Desk Tickets and ensuring that the SLA’s have been met by the Support Team.
• Effective Communication with steering committees on the status of the projects, risk mitigation.
• Business Impact Analysis, Customization Analysis, Functional and Technical Design
• Performed functional, integration, system, user experience activities based on plans and also involved in performance testing.
• Responded to production issues with appropriate solution based on inputs from stakeholders with effort estimation, test cases and solutions
• Prepared and participated knowledge transfer sessions, document understanding, primary responsibility activities
• Work with Client Management as an onsite coordinator to provide right level of information and to undertake specific onsite activities of the project to ensure successful delivery of the project.
• Assign support tickets, Work Requests to team according to priority and providing status updates to client and team members
• Tracking the issues resolution time for SLA reporting purpose to client
• Provide expert advice and guidance on reporting, data analysis and issues.
• Participation in PeopleSoft Benefits Open Enrollment Activities like changing the setups and preparing Proof of Concept for the same.
• Training the Team with PeopleSoft functional knowledge in Base Benefits, Payroll for North America, HR, Workforce Administration, Manage Self Service, Employee Self Service
• Production Support for Issues Related to Payroll, Benefits and BenAdmin and HR

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Technology Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Handpicked to serve as team leader for the enhancements to the project
• AS- IS, TO- BE, process sessions for People Services, Payroll and Benefits
• Identifying fit and gap between the PeopleSoft and Oracle Data.
• Mentoring the team members in development, coding, designing, testing and maintenance.
• Provided solutions and guidance to team to solve the problems and queries relating to Data Conversion
• Resolving conversion Issues in Payroll, HR, Benefits
• Involved in writing logic in SQR for converting data from PeopleSoft to Oracle and Validation.
• Performed research to migrate the data from FoxPro to Oracle and provided solution to the client.
• Testing Strategy for a Successful Upgrade including Unit, System, Integration and Parallel
• Understanding project plans, templates, checklists and standards
• Coordinating with the on-site team for requirement gathering.
• Leading the Offshore team and played a role as Configuration Controller
• Analyzing the business cases and the critical production issues to prioritize the implementation of fixes into production.
• Estimating the effort required and preparing technical documents based on functionalities
• Creating new designs, new SQR programs, and enhancement of existing SQR programs.
• Preparing detailed Design, test plans and test execution documents
• Review of Design, Code & Unit Test results including preparing detailed test plans and test execution
• Participated in knowledge transfer sessions and prepared documents for understanding.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided support from offshore for entire interfaces and reporting tracks.
• Analyzed the requirements and communicated issues to the clients.
• Developed SQR and SQL queries.
• Appreciated for quality and prompt delivery.
• Mentoring the team members in development, coding, designing, testing and maintenance.
• Provided solutions and guidance to team to solve the problems and queries relating to Data Conversion
• Involved in writing logic in SQR for converting data from PeopleSoft to Oracle and Validation.
• Performed research to migrate the data from FoxPro to Oracle and provided solution to the client.
• Testing Strategy for a Successful Upgrade including Unit, System, Integration and Parallel
• Analyzed the requirements and communicated issues to the clients.

Confidential

Technical Developer / Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as PeopleSoft a Developer, demonstrated PeopleSoft programming technical skills.
• Designed technical solutions for PeopleSoft applications using an Oracle RDBMS & support other web applications, interfaces and related custom & packaged code.
• Customization of Application as per the Business requirement and developing new functionality flow.
• Involved in Unit Testing for all upgraded SQR programs and tuned them to resolve performance base issues related to them.
• Working on Enhancement Requests from Design to deployment phase and migrating in to Training and Production Environments based on Business confirmations.
• Created new Pages, Components, Records and Views to implement the functionality of Delegation in Manager Self Service.
• Modified Application Engine programs and processes (SQL and Application Engine PeopleCode) based upon business requirements.
• Resolved issues with HR and benefits reports and interfaces, by correcting the logic and making necessary modifications as required to the SQR programs.
• Performed Production Support, enhancements and customizations of PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9.
• Preparing the technical documents, developing the enhancing existing SQRs and processes and also for batch and Online Objects
• Estimating the effort required and preparing design documents based on business functionalities
• Developed an SQR to print the employee’s personal information, benefit plan type, and the deductions amount for the plan type using HR, Benefits and Payroll tables
• Created new Application Engine program to upload employee’s new Compensation rates from input file to Job component.
• Developed various Outbound and Inbound Interfaces for transmitting employee Data to Benefits vendors and process the receiving data to insert into various PeopleSoft Tables
• Developed new SQR programs to pull the Payroll related data from PeopleSoft HRMS Database and to generate Flat files.
• Preparing detailed test plans and test execution of the same
• Unit testing of the retrofitted/custom created objects in test environment
• Creating/Reviewing Portal definitions for all custom components in test environment and moving them to QA
• Design and Implementation of Time and Labor, Base Benefits, HR, Payroll for NA
• Development of new Interfaces for Benefits /Time and Labor/ Payroll for NA.
• Analysis and technical feasibility discussions to in corporate new business requirements within existing application.
• Involved in security for all the custom components and pages.
• Worked on Data Mover Scripts(DMS Scripts) on HR and Benefits tables to validate in different environments
• Created Run control Pages, Components and Records and attached them to required menus through Application Designer and made them available to various operators through Maintain Security to have the reports run under Process.