Summary

• Around 7 years of experience as a SAP HCM functional Consultant, including three full life cycle implementations and 1 Support Project.
• Participated in Public sector implementations.
• Participated in the Business Analysis, Blueprinting, Conceptual design, Configuration, Go-Live and Post Go-Live including production stabilization, maintenance and support.
• Extensive experience in gathering and analyzing business requirements for conceptual design and coordination with ABAP development team for customization and implementation of the same.
• Experience in the development of Business Process model, end user training, and documentation in the HR modules.
• Prepared test scenarios and test cases, conducted unit and integration testing within HR module to ensure all components fit together properly.
• Ability to bridge the gap between Technical and Functional teams in SAP HR Projects.

SAP HR Skills

• SAP R/3 Functional including: Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Payroll, Time Management and Benefits.
• Personnel Administration:Enterprise structure,Organizational structure, Organizational assignments, integration of PA/OM, maintaining master data, and Payroll Data (Pay Scale and Wage type Structures).
• Organizational Management: Organizational Plan(Organizational Structures, Reporting Structures, Relationships), Personnel Cost Planning (Simulations and Comparisons).
• Payroll: Wage Types, Processing Time Data, Payments and Deductions, Schemas, Functions, Calculation Rules, Internal Tables, Default Values/Features, Factoring, Taxes, Benefits/Payroll Integration, Garnishments, Bank Transfers/Direct Deposits, General Ledger, Third Party Remittance, Off-Cycle Processing.
• Time Management: Work Schedules, Time Evaluation Processing, Generating Time Evaluation Reports, Updating Time Management Info types, CATS.
• Taxes: Tax info types, tax tables, tax authorities, tax areas, taxability models, tax specific tables, tax related processing classes.
• Benefits: Benefit Concepts, Benefit areas, Benefit Plan attributes, Enrollment, Employee grouping for plans (including criteria grouping), Eligibility, Termination, Health Plans, Insurance Plans, Credit Plans, Savings Plans(Cost variants, Coverage Variants and related rules, Vesting and Investments, EOI conditions), and Reports, Payroll Integration.
• SAP HCM: Manager Self-Service (MSS), Employee Self-Service (ESS) and e-Recruitment components.
  
  SKILL:

SAP R/3 4.0B, 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.7, mySAP ERP 2004(ECC 5.0).

Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, MVS/ESA, OS/390

C, C++, JAVA, PL/SQL, HTML

Oracle, DB2

Microsoft Tools,Project Management and Mainframe tools

Professional Experience

Client- Confidential,Fort Worth, TX Jan,2011 to till date
SAP HCM Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway operates services and in the mid and western United States

• Responsible for testing Payroll,ESS MSS ,Erecruiting and other areas of SAP HR –Regression and Integration Testing.
• Creating Test Cases,Test Plans and Test Scripts.
• Co-ordinating with Leads and Project Managers to streamline the Project scope.

SAP Testing

• Responsible for testing Payroll and other areas of SAP HR.
• Part of Regression Testing Team testing interfaces and data conversion.
• Conducted payroll parallel testing using User Acceptance Payment Method.
• Verified data coming in SAP RT table and the data in the mainframe files.
• Performed Interface Run to verify SAP Output File with Mainframe files.
• Build the test cases for the same and creating test data in the form of 80 byte flat file, which in turn would be FTPed to Mainframe and executing the same.

Solution Manager

• Change Management and Quality Management
• Implementation Tools including, Asap Roadmaps, Blueprint, Configuration, training Material and Test Management
• Software Lifecycle Management
• Worked in Solution Manager for organizing documents.
• Reviewing documentation for different HR(PA,OM,TM,PY,BN) and Erecruiting business Process documents, Functional and Technical specifications
• Creating Business Design Structure in Solution Manager by business process area.
• Creating Graphic for Interfaces documents .

Client- Confidential,Marysville OH Oct to Dec 2010
SAP HCM Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0
Confidential,is the world\'s largest marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products, with a full range of products for professional horticulture as well.
The Project involves supporting the HRIS/Payroll division of SAP.

• Responsible for maintaining Jobs, Positions, Organizational reporting Structure.
• Maintaining the Reporting Hierarchy, relationships of Chief to Organizational unit.
• General Maintenance of Reports related to PA and OM.
• Collaborated with other team members to resolve issues encounter during testing.
• Reviewed Open Positions and the one which needs to be reorganized into another division.
• Responsible for assigning Positions to new hires, rehires or changes within organization.
• Assisted Payroll division in maintaing Pay Scale changes.
• Understand project requirements and develop test plan.
• Design system, system-to-system, performance and/or User Acceptance Tests.
• Understand and interpret user requirements & develop test scenarios, test cases & test scripts.
• Create automated scripts for performance and load tests.
• Create test data for testing.
• Execute test scripts, log & track defects and publish test reports.
• Execute performance test scripts and publish test results.

Client- Confidential,India Dec 09 to Sep 2010
SAP HCM Consultant
Company-TATA Consultancy Services
Environment: ECC 6.0

The Shipping Corporation of India a Government of India undertaking was established on 2nd October 1961,today has a significant presence on the global maritime map with an annual turnover of approximately US$ 820 million.

The Project involved SAP HR new Implementation. Involved PA,OM,PD,Time,Payroll,ESS and MSS. Worked Onsite till May during Implementation Phase. Worked Offshore from US till Sep during Production Phase.

• Responsible for Configuring Payroll and Time Management.
• Requirement gathering and Involved in Preparing Blueprint.
• Prepared Functional Specifications for ABAP team to understand worflow of leave request.
• Created PCR’s to fulfill requirement of Client.
• Prepared Data Templates for Data Migration.
• Defining Payroll areas, control record, Period parameter, date modifier and generated Payroll
• Assigning Pay Scale structure to Enterprise structure.
• Revised Pay scale Groups and Levels.
• Configuring wage types and their characteristics.
• Defining valuation of base wage types and used indirect valuation methods.
• Schema and PCR modification.
• HR – FI integration for payroll posting.
• New Pension type creations
• Loan sub type creations.
• Time management configurations up to the payroll limitations

Time Management

• Involved in gathering requirements and preparing the functional and technical specifications for configuration of the system.
• Configured Work Schedules Rules according to Client requirements and maintained the feature SCHKZ.
• Defined Attendance Types and Absences Types according to client requirements.
• Configured Absence Quotas and maintained the quota type selection group using the feature QUOMO.
• Configured the Absence Quota generation through both RPTQTA00 and time evaluation schema.
• Configured absence valuation using T554C table and configured Time Wage Type Valuation.
• Responsible for running Time evaluations using Time evaluation schemas TM00 and TM04.
• Evaluated time using Time evaluation report RPTIME00.
• Part of go-live support team.

Payroll

• Created the payroll area, generated payroll periods using payroll and date modifiers, and assigned a control record to each payroll accounting area.
• Configured basic pay, additional payments, and recurring payments wage types and maintained the tables T512W, T511 and T539J.
• Created Process Models to define the sequence in which processing steps are performed in a payroll run

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Testing

• Involved in User Acceptance Testing, System Integration Testing.
• Worked in parallel testing, optimizing, the legacy results and SAP results.
• Analyze Code, Production data, looking at Screen wire frames, generated reports and review functional and Technical documents with business Users
• Create Test Plan, Test Scenario’s and Test cases for Test of changes to be implemented. Testing effort comprised of Unit Test followed by User Acceptance Test assisting Business users with the TEST and finally getting sign off for its implementation in Production
• Changes are migrated to transport manager and promoted to production environment. Implementation is accompanied documentation for turnover, listing purpose of the change and associated technical details, providing retracting procedures in case of issues encountered with implementation of the change

Client- Confidential,Chicago, IL Sep 07 to Nov 09
Company- Confidential,
SAP HCM Consultant
Environment: ECC 6.0

Confidential, is a global fledging water treatment company with presence in 130 countries and with over 20,000 employees.
Worked in complete life cycle project from \'kick off\' to \'go live\' Designed work plan, work around for the business needs that cannot be fulfilled by the standard SAP.

• Involved in the creation of the Blue Print structure for the business processes and gathered the business data requirements from the client.

performed for payroll subsequent activities.

• Handled high severity critical issues while on support.
• Resolved assigned tickets within the specified SLA.

Payroll

• Extensively Defined deduction frequencies and set limits on recurring payments.
  Developed Basic Pay Wage type and Payroll Accounting Area for re-classification of accounts.
• Determined the category of employees for account determination.
• Defined symbolic accounts and wage type postings.
• Customized remuneration statements for easy payment scheme.
• Provided outsourced customer and HR management solutions and billing services.
• Determined and processed the customer\'s arrears in the last seven months.
• Configured ABKRS and TARIF to be able to calculate employees\' loans.
• Created Payment Model to identify accounts who have defaulted on their dues.

Benefits

• Worked on Benefit Areas, Benefit Groups, Providers, Enrollments, Health Plans, Insurance Plans, Credit Plans, Eligibility, Termination and reports.
• Defined Evidence of Insurability (EOI) conditions for health and insurance plans.
• Maintained the benefit administration process: enrollment, maintenance, and termination of participation using features BENGR, BSTAT, CSTV1, ELIGR, and TRMTY.
• Involved in the configuration of eligibility rules for the employees based on their number of working hours for individual benefit plans within a benefit program.

Go-live Support

• Addressed issues affecting the production environment on Time, Payroll & PA modules.
• Handled high severity critical issues while on support.
• Resolved assigned tickets within the specified SLA.

Client- Confidential,MO Jan 07 – Aug 07
Company- Confidential,
SAP HCM Business Systems Analyst

Anheuser-Busch is one of the biggest beer manufacturing industries in USA.
Involved in SAP implementation using the ASAP methodology.

• The project involved the implementation of ECC 6.0 in Time & Compensation. Responsible for planning and integrating approximately 1800 new users as part of a recent merger.
• Mapped the data for conversion from older version to new version
• Sap Solution Manager Workshop and scope statement.
• Worked on Customization Procedures and User Interface by modifying and creating the Infogroups and Infotype menus.

Time Management:

• Configured the IMG settings (Work schedules, Daily, Period work schedules, Break Schedules, Absences, Attendances and Quotas) required for Time management.
• Responsible for running Time evaluations using Time evaluation schema TM04.
• Evaluated time using Time evaluation report RPTIME00.
• Configured different data entry profiles for the Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS) for employees entering time data into CATS.
• Implemented various user parameters for Time sheet, customized data entry screen, and customized reports to display time sheet data.

Compensation Management:

• Created budgets for the individual departments to ensure that the department heads keep to the budget allocated
• Defined compensation areas, area features, plan periods and system parameters.
• Defined pay grade and pay scale area/types, pay scale groups and levels.
• Define salary structures and collate market survey data.
• Create wage types to define wage type groups for Compensation adjustments.
• Define wage type models for adjustment, adjustments and reasons.
• Personnel cost planning-Set up integration with CA and define parameters for personnel

cost planning

Client- Confidential,Phoenix Jul 04 to Dec 06
Sap HR Functional Analyst
Company- Confidential,

The project emphasis on Production support and implementation of SAP HR.It is a Semi Conductor Product Sector. Identified and fixed issues in the application as a part of the Production Support effort.

• Project included the testing of the Organizational Management and Personnel Administration modules as well as data entry for go-live.
• Supervised Organizational Management end users who were responsible for the accuracy of SAP information and for the completion of any necessary approvals by Senior Management.
• Developed and led the end-user training program for Organizational Management and Personnel Administration.
• Team management: team work planning, deadlines coordination, deliverables quality validation.

End User Training

• Created training material and executed global WebEx for multi-country (Latin American, China, Poland and US) for service centers on new Standard Operating Process\'s and report fulfillment
• Managed project team of Trainers and developers to create comprehensive end user training manuals for Personnel Administration (PA), Payroll (PY), Organizational Management (OM) and Benefits (BN) modules highlighting client customization.
• Executed successful training course for Trainers of Time Management, Personnel Administration and Benefits module resulting in smooth transition to internal trainers
• Supported TTT effort during end user roll out and acted a liaison to developers to clarify user issues and define system errors
• Conducted training for HR unit on client specific needs and created Go-Live strategy for error free support transition.
• Designed work flow process\'s for all actions to flow into SAP. Worked with international development team to ensure integration.

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science
Post Graduation Diploma in Computer Application
MBA in Project Management