SUMMARY

• Senior SAP HCM functional architect/Lead over 12 years of consulting experience in Energy & Utilities, Telecom, Automotive, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals and Public Services and expertise in System study, Design, Development, Implementation, Customizing, Analysis and User Interaction activities.
• Worked on various projects like SAP implementation, support, enhancements & upgrade. Have extensively worked on SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 7.0 version.
• Experienced in SAP HR modules - Organizational Management, Personnel Administration, Compensation management, ESS/MSS, Payroll, Benefits, time, training and event management, E-Recruitment and conceptual knowledge of HR Renewal, Fiori and Success factors.
• Strong client interaction skills and ability to analyze client needs, experience working on small fast pace project teams, ability to work under pressure and adhere to deadlines, excellent communication skills, strong business experience, outstanding end-user interaction, ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Experience in various implementation, Support, Upgrade and enhancement projects with US, UK, Europe & Indian clients.
• Has experience in Full life cycle Implementations (4 Full life cycles), Road Map, System Study, System Audit, Production Support, Maintenance and Impact Analysis.
• Strong experience in Business process mapping & design, Business process blue print, Functional design solutions, Technical design solutions and Integration solutions.
• Experience with Pay Scale Structure Configuration, Pay increase and Step Progressions.
• Created SAP’s HR Process Workbench framework/payroll model for Regular run, Off cycle payroll bonus run, Off cycle payroll correction run & Off cycle payroll run for subsequent activities.
• Experience in US payroll process, Annual maintenance and year end activities.
• Garnishments Configuration & post go live support.
• 3PR Configuration & post go live support.
• Wage type configuration & post go live support.
• Overpayment recovery module implementation along with SAP team.
• Off-cycle configuration along with inter-company.
• Executed end to end payroll process and also performed Parallel Payroll comparisons between HRSP and NON-HRSP systems.
• Created Custom Functions and Operation.
• Created sensitive Payroll Cluster Update programs to resolve some critical issues during payroll support.
• Worked as Onsite Payroll consultant with SAP team who has worked in Confidential project to correct teh overpayment functionality in SAP, as they have implemented many pivot OSS notes to correct teh standard functionality, assisted SAP in testing these changes as per teh notes released.
• Tested around 35-65 scenarios as part of Integration and regression testing cycles as part of Overpayment recovery project and halped in Data clean up as most of teh data in CLM cluster for Confidential employees during USFP GO live.
• Assisted and tested Remuneration statement changes to display teh overpayment and recovery amounts for teh employees.
• Provided timely updates to teh Project Manager.
• Presented a walkthrough to teh customer of all teh testing done as part of Integration and regression test cycles as part of overpayment recovery project in teh system and got approvals for go live.
• Assisted during and Post Go live with teh transports movement and validation of teh system after Go live and made sure teh Go live went smoothly and successfully.
• Hands on experience in ABAP & SQL Query, EPI USE Query and LSMW.
• Exercise judgment and analysis to arrive at recommendations or conclusions.
• High level of initiative with strong organizational skills.
• Energetic and creative with a special talent for troubleshooting and resolving complex technical problems and escalated issues.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong planner and organizer with demonstrated ability to master new concepts quickly, incorporate teh latest technology, and develop business solutions dat increase efficiency, productivity, and profitability
• Efficiently managed teams of various sizes and worked with teh team to achieve company and client’s goals.
• Have extensively given trainings on HR ABAP, SAP HCM and US Payroll.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Functional lead & Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Onsite Payroll consultant with SAP team, who has worked in Confidential project to correct teh overpayment functionality in SAP, as they have implemented many pivot OSS notes to correct teh standard functionality, assisted SAP in testing these changes as per teh notes released.
• Corrected Overpayment Recovery Records, Re-Implementation of OPR process.
• New Enhancements in USCLM functions to meet Business requirements
• Implemented 75 Pilot OSS notes for OPR and Prepared Test Scenarios and Cases for different Testing cycles as part of Overpayment recovery project and halped in Data clean up as most of teh data in CLM cluster for Confidential employees during USFP GO live.
• Assisted and tested Remuneration statement changes to display teh overpayment amounts and recovery amounts for teh employees
• Provided timely updates to teh Project Manager.
• Presented a walkthrough to teh customer of all teh testing done as part of Integration and regression test cycles as part of overpayment recovery project in teh system and got approvals for go live.
• Assisted during and Post Go live with teh transports movement and validation of teh system after Go live and made sure teh Go live went smoothly and successfully.

Confidential

Sr. Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leading teh team, attending workshops, gathering teh requirements,.
• Analyzing teh business requirements given and preparing teh functional Specification Documents.
• Configuring teh change requests based on teh given requirement.
• Was responsible for unit, integration & regression testing and preparing teh test scripts for teh build completed.
• Cut over and deployment activities- Doing teh activities which will be important for go-live.
• Post Implementation Support- Health checks, testing teh configuration changes for teh issues raised.
• Support User training - Providing teh information to teh user dat user has to do in some particular cases.

Confidential

Sr. Functional lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis for Functional objects.
• Attending workshops, Business Discussion & Writing Functional specifications.
• Onsite Offshore Coordination.
• Managing resources with optimal use so dat all teh applications can be covered within teh phase.
• Ensure dat teh processes design considers multivendor scenario
• Making sure teh logistics are sorted out.
• Maintaining overall responsibility for teh execution of offshore activities.
• Provide even loading of work among all resources to ensure dat resources are fully utilized to achieve teh delivery schedules.
• Coordinate activities to ensure teh software meets specifications and technical/functional architecture.
• Formalize test plans, test data, and expected results for system.
• Cutover activities, Customer Updates & end user trainings

Confidential

Sr. Functional lead

Responsibilities:

• Fixing HR objects as per notes(SPAU/SPDD/UNICODE)
• Did functional testing & walkthroughs to customer for all teh objects being changed
• Implementing QA process and conducting functionality reviews
• Provide guidance and supervise to offshore consultants
• Overall responsibility for timely delivery.
• Interaction with implementation consultants, solution management and solution.
• Development teams to provide support to post implementation activities with regard to SAP R/3 Applications and Middle ware.
• Involved in Planning, Analysis, Design, testing & Go-live. Updating Design Documents, Testing - unit & Integration testing, business review and sign-off.
• Parallel payroll comparisons for HRSP and NON-HRSP systems
• Go-live and post Go-live support

Confidential

Onsite coordinator & Techno functional lead

Responsibilities:

• Aligning with Business on time slots and arranging meetings with offshore team
• Managing resources with optimal use so dat all teh applications can be covered within teh phase
• Making sure teh logistics are sorted out.
• Based on Pre-KAP sessions, To freeze KAP plan and decide on teh dates and time to have transition
• Tracking all KAP Sessions
• Any diversion from teh KAP plan to be aligned with Business
• Reporting daily and weekly status on Transition at Various Levels (NSN and Wipro).
• Identifying flex and core resources
• Applying Lean methodology to reduce bulge
• Increasing operating margin by resource optimization.
• Arranging training sessions to reduce dependency on resources
• Resource optimization to increase offshore/onsite ratio

Confidential

Senior technical consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developing teh HR objects (RICEF) as per teh requirement.
• Doing code walkthroughs for all teh objects being developed
• Implementing teh QA process and conducting code reviews
• Conducting peer reviews to teh build done by teh team.
• Do performance review, technical spec review and test script reviews for teh build done by team.
• Provide guidance and supervise offshore developers.
• Overall responsibility for timely delivery.
• Interaction with implementation consultants, solution management and solution.
• Provide RICEF plan for all phases of project implementation.
• Involved in all stages of project i.e from Analysis, Design, build and Testing - unit/integration/regression testing.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for generation of Technical Specifications to objects, using appropriate onsite/offshore resources.
• Maintaining overall responsibility for teh execution of offshore activities.
• Provide even loading of work among all resources to ensure dat resources are Fully utilized to achieve teh delivery schedules.
• Coordinate activities to ensure teh software meets specifications and technical/functional architecture.
• Formalize test plans, test data, and expected results for system.
• Involved in performance tuning, analysis and build of several programs.
• Carrying out Code Review and technical Specs review.
• Support project deliverables defined.
• Monitor project progress on daily basis.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Was part of global template and did roll outs for china, South Africa and US.
• Developing or enhancing teh HR RICEF objects as per teh requirement.
• Helped team members in solving complex issues.
• Preparing Technical Specifications for teh Objects based on teh Functional Specs like providing estimate design time.
• Coding using ABAP following proper coding standards and following proper naming conventions.
• Capturing common issues in a log like clarification from teh functional team.
• Handling escalation from teh client and interaction with teh client to clarify their technical issues.

Confidential

Duration

May 2007 - Nov 2007

Position

Sr. ABAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in resolution of tickets (Support Issues) and work lists as part of production support, which includes Reports (Classical/ALV), BDC’s and Data Dictionary objects.
• Involved in ALV conversions of classical and interactive reports in MM /Purchase module
• Worked on Several work lists to add additional functionality.
• Involved in performance tuning and analysis of several programs.
• Involved in program certification which includes converting of several old programs to Tyco standards as well as optimization of code.
• Preparation of technical design document of existing programs after thorough understanding of program functionality.

Confidential

Sr. ABAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of teh specifications provided by teh clients
• Design and Development
• Coding to meet teh specific requirement
• Testing - unit testing & integration testing
• Responsible for overseeing teh Quality procedures related to teh project.