PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 8 years of SAP HR/HCM experience including both Private and Public Sectors.
• Three Successful Full Life Cycle implementations with Payroll, Benefits and Time Management involving in Requirement Analysis, Gathering, Business Blue-print, Configuration, Testing and Production Support.
• Worked extensively with SAP R/3 4.6c, 4.7, E.C.C 5.0, 6.0,7.0.
• Responsible for implementation and configuration of various Sub modules in HR with extensive experience in Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Payroll, Benefits, Time Management, Garnishments, Deductions, Third Party Remittance, Taxes, CATS.
• Hands on experience in the Configuration of ESS, MSS modules and E-Recruitment.
• Experience in HP Quality Center authoring, uploading, executing and documenting test cases.
• Good knowledge of Business process analysis with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Worked on HR Interface Toolbox, HR Data transfer Toolbox, SAP payroll outsourcing, Legacy System Migration Workbench LSMW tool of SAP R/3 for migration of data between systems and good understanding in FI/CO and SAP workflow.
• Expert in analyzing the complex issues and solving them with ease with in the given time constraint.
• Experienced in the development of Business Process model, End user training, and Documentation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Operating systems: Windows 95/98/XP, Windows 7, 8.
• ERP: SAP R/3 4.6C, 4.7, ECC 5.0, 6.0, 7.0. Workday.
• Databases: Oracle 9i, MY SQL, SQL SERVER.
• Programming Language: SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, and JavaScript.
• Microsoft Tools: MS Office 2010, MS Visio 2010.
• Testing / Quality Tools: HPQC 10.0 HP Quality Center

SAP SKILLS:

• SAP R/3 HR Functional including: Personnel Administration, Organizational Management, Time Management, Payroll, Benefits, Employee Self-Service ESS , and E - Recruitment.
• Payroll: Benefits Third Party Remittance, Garnishments Storage, Taxes Internal Tables, Integration with General Ledger Accounts, Calculation Rules, Off Cycle Processing, Bank Transfers Direct Deposits.
• Time Management: Work Schedules, Time Evaluation Processing using schemas, generating Time Evaluation Reports, updating Time Management Info types, CATS.
• Organizational Management: Evaluations Reports, Org. Structures, Reporting Structures Relationships, Job Work center Indexes, Simple Detail Maintenance.
• Benefits: Benefit's Area Enrollment's, Health Insurance Plans, Savings Credit Plans, Spending Accounts, Eligibility Termination, COBRA Reports, Inbound Outbound Interfaces, Payroll Integration.

Confidential . is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Merck is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of innovative products to improve human and animal health, directly and through its joint ventures .

Role: SAP HCM Project Test Lead

Environment: SAP ECC 7.0 HPQC 10.0.

Responsibilities: On-shore Project Test Lead, for three Projects. Success Factors SF , Career and Compensation Framework CCF , Medgate Upgrade. Involved in application Testing, and Production Support.

Testing:

• Responsible for conducting Unit Testing UT , System Integration Testing SIT , Regression Testing, support Business to conduct User Acceptance Testing UAT , support Development team do Level Zero Testing, Smoke Testing and check Testing Environment availability.
• Representing Solution Verification and Testing Team SV T from Project Initiation Kick-Off to Application Deployment Production End to End Testing.
• Coordinate with Offshore Team, define Testing Scope, and design Test Plan, reviewing Test Scenarios, validate Test Scripts, Test Cases and monitor Test Incident Reports TIR'S Defects .
• Reported directly to Client, progress and status of testing activities in form of Daily Status Reports DSR , Weekly Status Report WSR and Bi-weekly Senior Management Review SMR Report.
• Provide Estimates, follow Testing Timelines as per the Project plan and allocate resources for each Application, Report, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement, Form, and different objects, to be tested.
• Understanding the Requirement Specification RS documents, Interface Functional Specification IFS , Technical Functional Specification TFS and Interface Data Mapping IDM .
• Analyzing Requirement documents, Configuration Workbook, Impact Assessment IA document, defining In-Scope and Out of Scope, and create a Strategy for Testing.
• Worked extensively on HP Quality Center HPQC , Obtained L1, L2, L3 Pre and Post test case execution approvals.
• Created Development Test Plan in consistent with Merck's System Development Life Cycle SDLC , Product Quality Assessment Report PQAR , update Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM , maintain Issues and Risks Management Log.
• Provide Test Summary Report TSR during Testing Phase of the Project, Quality Assurance Plan QAP . Scope Change Request SCR . Submitted Work Order/Statement of Work SOW , Production Change Request PCR , and Project closure documentation.
• Weekly Technical Meetings with the Project Team, representing Testing team, providing status of each testing cycle, discussing issues with Middleware, Project Manager and Business. Interacted daily with Business Analysts BA's and Development team.
• Assign defects if any and route it to the responsible team for resolution and close the defects after final resolution and document it in HPQC.
• Ran SAP to Success Factors Interface to generate a .CSV File of 85K Employee data.

Confidential

Confidential is a Life Sciences/Health care company that manufactures tools for hospitals and doctors. Over 14,000 worldwide employees helping to improve profitability and advance clinical and operational effectiveness within the high-cost, high-risk procedural environment.

Role: Sr. SAP HCM Techno - Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0 Workday

Responsibilities: Involved in Application design and Development.

Organizational Management:

• Defined and maintained the Master Data.
• Maintained the Organization Structure through Simple Maintenance, Expert Mode.
• Created the standard objects like the organizational units, jobs and positions.
• Maintained number ranges, info types and relationships.
• Edited Organizational plan, created tasks, maintained matrix organizations and OM reports.
• Worked on Integrations from Workday ERP to other SAP modules, transferring IDOCS using PFAL program ALE Distribution of HR Master Data to different downstream systems to multiple clients.
• Defined Logical system and assigned client to the logical system using transaction SALE.
• Worked on functional designs RICEF Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Extensions, and Forms .
• Responsible for designing, implementing and supporting applications, systems and IT products required to enable Care fusions business objectives.
• Worked on different server systems of Development, Testing, and Production environment.

Personal Administration:

• Maintained the Production Support Tracking portal SharePoint for current and future production releases and worked on HR Production related issues.
• Involved in Change Control Board meetings and created Minutes, post meeting follow-ups after every production related issue team meetings.
• Resolved tickets related to IT Human Capital Management team and HR Service Centre.
• Written HCM Functional Specification Documents FSD'S and HCM Interface Specifications.
• Worked on Inbound Outbound Interfaces from Workday to SAP HR to SAP CRM.
• Interacted with Outsourced third party Vendors ADP Pay Force for Payroll, Hewitt for Benefits, Taleo for E-recruitment, and Fidelity for retirement benefits.
• Created Documentation for Validated Systems for upcoming release for the current project.
• Worked on the internal and external number range feature NUMKR allocation for the employees.
• Configured Custom Address infotypes, Communication sub- types to accommodate the requirement using SM31 Table T778U, T777Z position for infotype T5585 and modified the screen with associated feature in Personal Data Screen using Table T588M.
• Assigned the Custom number range type using NUMKR feature to Contingent Worker's to accommodate the data fields flow from Workday to SAP.

Confidential . is a world leader in the design and manufacture of high productivity mining equipment for surface and underground mining. BUCYRUS surface equipment is used for mining coal, copper, iron ore, oil sands and other minerals, and underground equipment is used primarily for mining coal.

Role: SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities: Involved in implementation of Payroll and Benefits

• Defined and maintained set up for payroll organization. Created wage type catalog and check wage type group for basic pay, additional payments, recurring payments and deductions.
• Configured the features LGMST, TARIF and ABKRS to default the basic pay wage type, pay scale type and area, and payroll accounting area, respectively while creating the basic pay infotype.
• Defined employee subgroup and personnel sub area groups for the primary wage type and defined wage type permissibility for PS and ESG in basic pay.
• Defined Tax Company and assigned to each personnel area/sub area of the enterprise.
• Configured and designed form layouts using HR Form Editor PE 51
• Defined Period modifier, Date modifier, and generated Payroll periods for multiple payroll areas.
• Maintained the Setting up of report variants for off-cycle activities and did off-cycle Absence Valuations.
• Performed the Year End Adjustment through Adjustment workbench, earning, deduction, and tax wage types were entered on IT221 with subtype YANA to adjust YTD.
• Created and maintained the posting variant that are specified in the selection screen when creating a posting run.
• Tested the Payroll part of the configuration thoroughly in Unit testing, Integration testing and System testing. Created the test scripts to help the users to test the System.
• Maintained Tax Authorities Federal, State, County, City, School District , Tax Areas, Tax Types EE disability Tax, Withholding Tax , and defined Tax Models.
• Made changes to original tax forms correction tax forms based on client requirements.
• Configured master data and payroll to process garnishments and maintained the infotypes for processing the garnishments.
• Created recovery wage types and maintained processing classes 5, 6 and 20. Adjusted the wage type characteristics for retroactive issues in arrears processing.
• Worked with info types needed for taxes like 0207, 0208, 0209, 0210, 0234, 0235.
• Worked with the US payroll schemas and sub-schemas U000, UTX0, and UT00 and payroll driver RPCALCU0.
• Prepared the documentation for the changes that were performed and created user manuals to assist the users.
• Maintained the prepaid deduction for the employees and handled the retroactive issues related to the prepaid deductions.

Benefits:

• Worked with employees during open enrollment and event enrollment.
• Configured the benefit module by setting up of benefit plans such as health plans, insurance plans and saving plans.
• Customized the benefit / Payroll integration.
• Defined different cost formulas and cost formula calculation rules for Health plans and Insurance plans.
• Configured features for BAREA, BENGR, BSTAT, CSTV1, ELIGIR and TRMTY.
• Defined contribution rules, vesting rules and investment options for saving plans.
• Worked on standard benefit reports HRBEN0071 for eligible employees, HRBEN0072 for participation.
• Enrolled an employee into COBRA plans / qualifying events / custom letters.

Maintained info-types 0171, 0376, 0378, 0021, 0219, 0375, 0041 0019.

Confidential is an international, integrated energy company. It is the third-largest U.S. integrated energy company, based on market capitalization, as well as proved reserves and production of oil and natural gas, and the largest refiner in the United States.

Role: SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities: Involved in implementation and production support of Payroll and Time Management

• Maintained recurring payments/deduction and additional payments using the personnel calculation rule U011 with in personnel calculation schema UAP0.
• Customized the infotype menu using V T588B.
• All customized rules were reviewed to add new personnel area/subarea in rules.
• Defined payroll program for the Adjustments Workbench and defined the Variants, Constraints and Permissibility of Wage Types for Payroll result Adjustments.
• Defined Tax forms W-2, 940, 940c, 941 etc. for configuring Tax Reporter and generated as well.
• Verified and processed payroll for US and Canada, also worked on calculation of hours, special adjustments, bonuses, advances, deductions, taxes, etc.
• Modified properties of infotype field in the Infotype Screen Control table using T588M.
• Handled the retroactive tax accounting and claims processing issues. Maintained the infotype 0221 payroll results adjustment.
• Worked on HR form Editor PE 51 .
• Maintained Tax Related Processing Classes 68, 69 and 71. Configured schemas UTX0 and UBD0.
• Defining employee grouping/account assignment, symbolic accounts, wage type posting attributes and account assignment for Posting to Financial Accounting.
• Worked with garnishment related issues.

Time Management:

• Defined various work schedule rules and defaults for each PS ES groupings using feature SCHKZ.
• Defined and configured attendance and absence quotas.
• Defined Public Holiday Calendar, assigned holidays to Calendar.
• Worked on Time Evaluation Schema TM04 by creating more than 50 rules.
• Worked on configuration of time capture front-end like CATS.
• Defined daily work schedules, with planned working time calculated the planned hours for one day, taking the break schedule into consideration.
• Created period work schedules by specifying the sequence of daily work schedules for a work schedule for one or more weeks.
• Involved in configuration of Special Vacation schedule in Time and also involved in solving the Absences and Overtime issues for US and Canada employees.

Confidential is a leading producer of specialty materials with revolutionary developments in everything from electronic materials and polymers for paints to personal care products.

Role: SAP HCM Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities: Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation and training materials for end users, of Personal Administration, Personal Development and Time Management.

Interacted on daily basis with business team, gathered requirements configured the following

Personal Administration:

• Enterprise structure was expanded to incorporate new company in existing system.
• Created and configured the Enterprise structure Personnel areas, and personnel sub areas and the personnel structure Employee group, employee sub group .
• Configured new MOLGAs in Dynamic Actions T588Z .

Personal Development:

• Maintained Employee data edited Info types, familiar with Fast Entry and Dynamic Actions.
• Changed the start date RHBEGDA0 for OM objects Organization Unit Position .
• Integrated Organizational Management with Personnel Administration by running the RHINTE reports RHINTE 00, RHINTE 10, and RHINTE 20 .
• Customized the tasks in the task catalog.

Time management:

• Maintained the personnel subarea grouping for work schedules, assign personnel subarea grouping for daily work schedules.
• Defined Attendance, Absences, Substitutions, Overtimes and Availability as per client requirements.
• Worked with personnel structure Employee Group, Employee Sub Group and enterprise structure Personnel Group, Personnel Sub Group , Break Schedules and Day types, configured of time types, time transfer types and wage type generation rules.
• Created public holiday calendar and assigned public holiday classes to holidays defined in the calendar. Created work schedule rules and assigned them to the employees using info type 007.
• Created personnel calculation rules for generating quotas such as absence quotas info type 2006 , attendance quotas info type 2007 .

Confidential is the largest Hispanic food company in the Confidential . With around 2,500 employees worldwide, it produces products that are available in local grocery stores and supermarket chains throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and international markets.

ROLE: SAP HR Functional Consultant

Environment: Upgrade version from SAP R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0

Responsibilities: Involved in up-gradation and implementation of Payroll, Garnishments and Benefits.

Payroll:

• Defined the Enterprise structure, Personnel structure and Pay scale structure.
• Configured user parameters and maintained number range intervals for personnel numbers using NUMKR feature.
• Defined administrators for personnel areas using PINCH feature.
• Defined the info groups for customizing personnel actions as per the business requirements and activated the feature IGMOD.
• Proposed an interface format for out sourcing payroll master data to ADP for payroll processing.
• Involved in both outbound and inbound interfaces from ADP which are related to populating YTD, QTD and payroll postings.
• Defined and generated feature ANSAL for Annual salary calculation.
• Maintaining Personal Calculation Rules PCR to process wage types according to employee groupings and wage types.
• Modified the infotype screens to suit the business requirements.
• Configured Taxes according to the client needs.
• Worked with the Finance team to have the Cost centre and Bank keys Set up.

Garnishments:

• Defined the Remittance rules and setting up of HR Accumulators.
• Defined Cost / credit formula criteria.
• Defined order types, created adjustment model for the disposable net, defined priorities, created and assigned forms to various letter types.
• Defined remittance rule, setup HR creditors, maintained wage types for processing and remittances and assigned symbolic accounts to GL accounts.

Benefits:

• Created various custom wage types for salaried and hourly employees including bonus wage types, wage types for deductions, and additional payments.
• Maintained the benefit administration process: enrollment, maintenance, and termination of participation using features BENGR, BSTAT, ELIGR, and TRMTY.
• Prepared the Training materials and Test scripts for End user training and trained them on Personnel actions and other Master data maintenance aspects including Reports, Adhoc queries.
• Configured a wage as base wage type and wrote PCR to validate wage type against non-zero Employee contribution in infotype 0169 for 401K plan.
• Configured Infotypes to include dependents above a certain age to be a part of employee benefits.

• Reviewed and tested the 401k interface and worked with a team of developers to fix bugs.
• Confidential system with a diverse enrollment of more than 340,000 students from over 100 counties, offers innovative educational programs at its 392 schools, including elementary, middle, senior high schools and alternative, specialized and vocational centers.

Role: SAP HR Functional Lead Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 6.0

Responsibilities: Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation in HR Module Organizational Management, PA and Payroll

Organizational Management:

• Created the standard objects like the organizational units, jobs and positions.
• Maintained number ranges, info types and relationships.
• Integrated OM components with PA components. Used RHINTE20 to check the consistency between PA and OM.
• Maintained organization plan as per workflow requirement.
• Corrected configuration issues in IMG for the time constraints of the allowed relationships between objects.

Personnel Administration:

• Configuration experience with Personnel Administration, Enterprise Structure, Information Groups, Actions, Master Data Setup and Conversion, Menus, Info type Screen Modifications, personnel actions and dynamic actions.
• Customized different personnel actions like hiring, re-hire, termination, and set their respective info types.
• Maintained the Production Support Tracking portal SharePoint for current and future production releases and worked on HR Production related issues.
• Written HCM Functional Specification Documents FSD'S and HCM Interface Specifications.
• Resolved tickets related to IT Human Capital Management team and HR Service Centre.

Payroll:

• Configuration experience with Personnel Administration, Enterprise Structure, Information Groups, Actions, Master Data Setup and Conversion, Menus, Info type Screen Modifications, personnel actions and dynamic actions.
• Configured the features LGMST, TARIF and ABKRS to default the Basic Pay Wage type, Pay Scale Type and Area, and Payroll Accounting Area, respectively.
• Worked on Retroactive accounting, Wage type valuation and Absence Valuation.
• Worked on the Payroll Reconciliation Report and Wage Type Reporter for the YTD and MTD reports for Year End processing.
• Extensively worked on Tax Reporter 2006 for the W2 and W2C forms generation and printing.
• Worked with the BSI Tax factory and responsible for keeping the TUB level up to date for the Year End 2006 and also the BSI Testing of the same.
• Defined and maintained processing classes, evaluation classes and their specifications for maintaining wage type through logical values.
• Checked wage type assignment to symbolic accounts to ensure correct posting to FI/CO.
• Provided end-user training and detailed documentation on overview of SAPR/3 Navigation, and the business process.

Confidential is a public agency that provides high-quality drinking water to 190,000 people in a 147-squaremile area of Confidential .

Role: SAP HR Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP ECC 5.0

Responsibilities: Involved in Full Life Cycle Implementation in HR Module Personnel Administration and Payroll

Personnel Administration:

• Involved in conducting requirements gathering workshops and interviewed the end-users to understand the existing As-is process of the present legacy system and to model the To-be process.
• Configured Personnel Administration and Payroll modules for the enterprise.
• Performed unit testing and was involved in the integration testing, user acceptance testing and cutout during pre-go live.
• Involved in providing end-user training and was responsible for providing production support during the post-go live period.

Payroll:

• Defined pay scale types and areas for each personnel area. Maintained feature TARIF for defaulting pay scale type and area. Determined the absence valuation grouping for employees by setting modifier MODIF feature.
• Modified ABKRS and LGMST features for default basic pay in IT0008, also maintained the custom schema and sub schemas.
• Created Wage types for 8, 14, 15, 57, 2010 infotypes using PU30 and modified the characteristics using the table V T511 to suit the client needs.
• Worked with the ADP for the Quarter and Year to Date balancing.
• Evaluated wage type characteristics validity period, units, etc. to ensure that proper pay scale data was taken from pay scale groups and levels corresponding to valid wage type for indirect valuation.
• Involved in creating the Schemas and sub schemas for implementing the client defined customized standard US Payroll schema U000 and other standard functions.
• Expertise in understanding the payroll control record PA03 , Payroll Driver and Standard Payroll driver RPCALCU0 with different variants.
• Customization of settings for US Payroll simulation, check completeness, retroactive accounting issues. Generation of remuneration statements and remuneration journals.
• Created period work schedules by specifying the sequence of daily work schedules for a work schedule for one or more weeks.

Confidential is an energy delivery company which has diverse business lines including Gas Marketing, Electric Operations, Gas Transmission, electric generation.

Role: SAP HR Functional Consultant

Environment: SAP R/3 4.7

Responsibilities: My primary responsibilities included supporting the Time management, ESS and MSS components of the system.

Time Management:

• Divided areas of responsibilities and delegated the functional ownership to team members.
• Provided SAP configuration guidance to the client's team members.
• Handled different tickets related to Time management.
• Created Time management rules and changed schema based on requirements.
• Used the CATS tool for configuring ESS in Recording Working Time.
• Maintained and created the time quotas and their generation rules.
• Created time types, Attendance and absence types. Maintained existing time types.

ESS and MSS

• Customized ESS front-end for user-friendliness. Worked extensively on EHP 4 and EHP 5.
• Created Users in ESS, MSS and assigned them to SAP users and maintained the ESS Settings for Time Management, Training, Payment and Personal Information.
• Created new Roles, Groups with new Worksets and the new IViews. Assigned the new roles to users.
• Configured ESS for Training and Events Management, for Qualifications and Appraisals.
• Customized the General settings for ESS-Define catalog, CATS and E-benefits. Maintained IViews for time entry, org details etc.
• Rectified workflow issues, created workflow template and assigned it to change request.