SUMMARY:

• Exceptional Analysis skills with an ability to transform the needs of the business users into functional/technical requirements.
• Experienced at preparing and maintaining technical documentation to include business requirement documents, use cases, business cases, software requirement specification document.
• Rationalizing and implementing Workday integrations for recent company acquisition. Experienced at creating UML diagrams such as use case diagrams, activity and sequence diagrams.
• Identifying and documenting all business, technical, product and process requirements. Highly organized, detail oriented, professional with strong business and technical skills.
• During Workday implementation, worked with business users to test and troubleshoot various integrations for global Workday HCM implementation.
• Experienced in defining Testing Methodologies, Designing Test Plans and Test Cases. Workday Reporting Requirements, Report Testing & Validation
• Creative and aggressive self - starter with integrative thinking skills, capable of forming and maintaining positive working relationships in internal, independent, and team environments.
• Extensive experience about the Workday eco-system and all aspects of Workday implementations. Experienced in conducting JAD sessions with superior organization and presentation skills.
• Excellent Knowledge of SQL and Relational database design. Excellent communication, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Participated as Associate Product Owner and managed product backlog of a team of 5 people including creating, prioritizing, reviewing and revising user-stories.
• Actively participated in all stages of the Workday project lifecycle, from planning and design phases through testing and deployment in a day to day production support role.
• Adept in creating class diagrams, Use Cases, Use Case diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Flow Diagrams and other related UML diagrams using MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Created data flow diagrams for HCM Workday Business Processes like Request compensation change, Job change - Transfers, Promote, Termination, etc.
• Experienced in writing Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), Non-Functional Requirement Documents (NFRD) and System Requirement Specifications (SRS).
• Thorough understanding of all SDLC models like RAD, Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM), RUP, FDD etc. and specialized in deploying different SDLC models.
• Worked very closely with Payroll SMEs in the gathering requirements of Payroll integrations. Responsible for documenting requirements for Workday connector to send payroll data to third party vendor.
• Have established SPC charts and measuring devices to audit and measure processes for accurate measurements and auditing.
• Experience in configuration and post production support of Workday modules including HCM, Benefits, Compensation, Recruiting, Absence Management, and Payroll.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in GAP Analysis, Financial Statement Analysis, Valuation of companies, analyzing industry and market trends and Statistical analysis using SPSS.
• Sent weekly dashboard reports to management with updates of the development process of the Content Management System (CMS).
• Project Management experience such as planning, developing, implementing and maintaining HR systems. Worked with Unix team to setting up cluster and common mount point for the applications.
• Workday Reporting Requirements, Report Testing & Validation. Ensure data integrity of the HRIS systems through audit, review, updates and maintenance.
• Requirements gathering, Impact Analysis, and Functional Design Specs Writing. Prepared SIPOC (Suppliers, Inputs, Process, Outputs, Customers) for all the releases.
• Document process/system changes to assist in gap analysis on "As-Is" state versus "To-Be" state of various functionality in Workday HCM system.
• Performed Data analysis mainly using Regression and ANOVA (Proc REG, Proc GLM, and Proc ANOVA). Utilize SAS and SQL to extract, manipulate, analyze and mine data from multiple data sources.
• Created/ modified Project Plans/Cutover Plans/Project Status decks for: Workday Recruiting, Workday Metrics, GEC Workday Comp, Workday Merit • Aided in the facilitation of the Workday Merit Project, provide training & support for the use of JIRA & Confluence, utilizing Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Extensive experience with Data Warehousing, Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) and Business Intelligence (BI) tools such as TIBCO Spotfire, Microsoft BI Suite and IBM Cognos. xperience in Database Development and management (RDBMS technologies) and SOA design principles using SQL/PL-SQL in MYSQL, Oracle and SQL Server to create Database Tables, Constraints and Stored Procedures.
• Hands on experience in Inbound/Outbound integrations using Core Connectors, Workday Studio, managing business processes, working with EIB, Report Writer, Creating Workday Calculated Fields and Custom Reports.
• Analyzing quality Management and Six Sigma concepts like DMAIC, PDCA Statistical Process Control, quality function deployment and waste reduction by Lean Concepts.
• Serve as the point of contact for all workday recruitment related issues. Provide weekly recruitment team training on current and new feature functionality.
• Utilized SIPOC analysis, process maps, Kaizen events, and RACI charts for project analysis. Developed, managed and tracked iterative resource patterns.
• Onboarding and Tracking Center: a custom solution for the Commercial Field organization to automate and centralize the field sales onboarding and team transfer process. Replaced an all manual paper-based process by integrating HR and CRM systems (Workday, Salesforce/Veeva, Data Warehouse).
• Developed and maintained quality databases, collected, analyzed related data, and presented reports to the Quality Management (QM) Committee.
• Involved in Developing and maintaining complex reports using BIRT and Composite Reporting tool. Defined Test Strategy and Test Approach, Managed the overall test project plan, time tracking, defect management, issue resolution and risk management.
• Knowledge of Workday Financial Management modules including Financial Accounting, Revenue Management, Expense, Customers, Suppliers, Worktags etc.
• Managing people data on Oracle EBS - Oracle HRMS. Created the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to project the life cycle activities and work products to the project requirements.
• Participated in agile scrum meetings like planning poker sessions for consensus of LOE. Managed the Learning Management System (LMS) for the Commercial Learning and Development team.
• Helped with cleanup activities associated with the first wave of entitlement reviews done using the EERS platform.
• Maintained HRIS / HRIM system via data audits and analysis managed the Workday functional team activities and Workday integrations technical team activities.
• Created multiple test cases and performed enormous Regression Testing in SQL ServerManagement Studio.
• Prepared business process flows, Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA), Supplier Input Process Output Customer (SIPOC) and Requirement Tractability Matrix documents.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Workday Analyst

Confidential - Miami, FL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading Business System Analysis and QA activities for HCM-Human Capital Management Workday, Benefits Administration Outsourcing and Talent Management implementations projects.
• Worked and Coordinated with Technical Lead and Project Manager on large HR, Payroll, and HCM Workday implementations.
• Involved with implementation of Workday Core HCM, Benefits, Payroll and Compensation. Setup Compensation Eligibility Rules based on compensation grades and job profiles.
• Observe the standards and procedures established by the project office and Track business needs during development phases in Business Life cycle. Worked in Agile/Scrum environment.
• Help team in maintain functional configuration workbooks of the Workday application. Worked and detail knowledge on Workday HCM data conversion process.
• Worked on Compensation Components and created compensation eligibility rules based on management levels, job profile, and job family.
• Handled requirement changes and conducting the knowledge sharing sessions with client stake holders about Workday HCM designs.
• Assist with data clean up, extraction and load, and data validation for the Workday implementation.
• Worked on creating Salary plans, Hourly plans and Allowance plans. Partially involved in creating benefit plans, benefit groups, benefit eligibility rules as per the client requirement and add them into enrolment plans and manage the enrolment rules.
• Responsible for performing Gap Analysis (investigation) of HCM Workday functionality and provide recommendations for implementation and enhancement
• Analyzed and Developed Use Case Scenarios for HR, Payroll, time and compensation management and benefits
• Created QA documentation including test plans and test cases. Executed test scripts and test plans. Developed test procedures, test scenarios, and test cases. Documented and communicated the results.
• Extensively involved in testing of Workday HR Personal Administration, Time Management and Payroll. Performed different type of testing including Functional testing, Regression, Accessibility/Security testing.
• Conducted Workday Merit Roll up testing in a tenant which helped to launch annual merit roll up in production environment.
• Worked on supervisory misalignment research for supervisory organizations. This involved looking up each teammates and their respective managers' work history to find the date on which the misalignment occurred and the reason for the same.
• Defined business terms for HR directory, created an advanced report in Workday and created an alert based on it.
• Edited Business Process for job change to remove check list for transfer and tested if the task is working properly.
• Leveraged robust Workday Web Service API framework to load payroll inputs into Workday via Workday Studio development.
• Edited Business Process for termination to remove check list for termination and tested the task. Implemented the task in the production environment after there were successfully tested in the sandbox.
• Worked on the project related to pay group and pay rate misalignment. Managed UAT/User Acceptance Testing process for HR business partners.
• Responsible for regular status report sharing the progress on test execution and defect management and chaired meetings showing progress and future testing efforts.
• Also, developed integrations using SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT on the Workday cloud platform such as Payroll integration, ADP inbound/outbound and Taleo integration. Worked to fix integration related issues.
• Created complex, dynamically generated database schema based on iLoad templates. Continuing work to integrate with Workday Studio's Database Loader Tool Involved.
• Organized defect review meetings to explain and prioritize the issues to business and development teams and work with the development team to resolve issues using SharePoint.
• Solved helpdesk cases and provided answers/ solutions for the implemented HR functions of personnel administration, organization management, compensation management, benefits and manager self-service.
• Participated in other cross-functional process improvements as necessary.

Workday Integration Analyst

Confidential - New York City, NY

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in HCM, Custom Reports and Calculated Fields, Integrations, Benefits, Compensations and Business Process Configurations.
• Proficient in Workday modules like Core HCM, Benefits, Compensation, Recruiting, Absence management, Time tracking etc.
• Experience with building custom reports, using calculated fields, data migration (inbound and outbound). Experienced in creating Advanced and complex integrations using Workday Studio, Document Transformation, PECI, PICOF, Cloud connectors and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).
• Experience in Business Process Flows, Case Tools, and Business Analysis of Workday Techno Functionality Workday HCM.
• Proficient in designing Workday integration implementation plan, conducting blueprinting sessions. Data entry and ownership of the HRIS system.
• Configured PICOFs to integrate with payroll vendors. Configured various notifications to integrations. Designed regression-testing scenarios for the integrations during upgrades.
• Driven by creative ideas and strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Excellent experience with Workday, Compensation, Hiring, Core connectors, Inbound/Outbound EIB, Workday Report Writer, Workday System Integration, Workday Security Role Setup, Document Transformation, XML, XSLT, end to end business process, User acceptance testing (UAT), Workday Cloud Connect and Web Services.
• Propose Compensation for New Hire, Edit Government Ids, Edit Workday Account, Assigning Organization Roles, and Assigning User based Security Groups.
• Worked extensively on Payroll Interfaces and have designed and developed integrations in both Workday Studio and EIB.
• Performed Data conversion through iLoad and spreadsheets. Experience in applying transformation of XML data using XSLT.
• Worked on various integration enhancements based on the new requirements (Such as adding prorated salary in integration file, Adding time off date after Workday upgrade)
• Maintained HRIS / HRIM system via data audits and analysis managed the Workday functional team activities and Workday integrations technical team activities.
• Created and maintained various types of Organizations like Supervisory Organizations, Matrix Organizations, Location and their Hierarchies, Cost Centers, Job Profiles, Job Family and their groups.
• Testing the new features in Workday for all the existing integrations in each upgrade and letting the users know about new features.
• Good knowledge and clear understanding on staffing models with hiring restrictions in Job Management, Position Management and Head Count Management.
• Designing and building the integrations both inbound and outbound. Created outbound EIBs to send benefits data to external vendors like Wage Works and Your Cause.

Workday Analyst

Confidential - Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering and documenting requirements, designing, tracking, reporting and analyzing key organizational and operational reports. Served, as HR Workday Report Developer for new implementation to ensure Workday Report and interface testing was complete.
• Initial responsibilities were to convert and load data from PeopleSoft's HCM to Workday's HCM system as part of the implementation.
• Created Inbound Studio integrations to update external payroll deductions data coming from external vendors Wage Works.
• Created custom reports and calculated fields to fetch the required data from the tenant. Configured Custom Reports into Work lets and Related Actions of Workday Objects
• Deployed workday objects using Solutions from implementation to UAT, production tenants by following the change management process.
• Worked on Document Transformations and applied XSLT transformations. Transformed fixed-width files into XML using XSD.
• Experience in creating several Constrained and Unconstrained Security Groups like User Based, Role Based and Job Based, also maintaining the assignment related to these groups to various domain security policies.
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Phases such as Requirement analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Deployment with working knowledge in software development methodologies like Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Waterfall across the span of various projects.
• Configured business process and created notifications. Monitoring the integration jobs configured in Workday on daily basis.
• Data entry and ownership of the HRIS system.
• Streamlined the recruiting process by enabling transparency and collaboration across the entire hiring team with Workday Recruiting and managed the entire recruiting lifecycle in legacy system, including workforce planning, sourcing, and advanced talent analytics using Workday Recruiting module.
• Driven by creative ideas and strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills. Expertise in co-coordinating between Senior Management, Program Managers, Project Managers, Systems developers, and Business Sponsors for project implementation.
• Configuring new EIBs based on the requirements. Creating validation rules for different business processes and moving them to production after testing them in sandbox. (Creating validation rule for required identifiers at the time of hire, Validation rules for Time off plans)
• Created reports with Workday Report Writer and creating custom integrations with third party applications using Workday Cloud Connect and Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB).

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Have established SPC charts and measuring devices to audit and measure processes for accurate measurements and auditing.
• Researched and identified with business and IT the root cause of missing and inaccurate claims financial data in Loss Run (LR) Reports critical to underwriter policy assessments. Created temporary workarounds to ensure accurate financial data from the LR reports. Developed business/system requirements and validated Agile solutions to accurate claim financial data for LR reports.
• Utilized SIPOC analysis, process maps, Kaizen events, and RACI charts for project analysis. Developed, managed and tracked iterative resource patterns.
• Tested SAP and MES interface functionality, BOM revisions, data changes, supply chain management modules for MES and SAP systems, data downloads. Addressed all 21 CFR Part and Quality Management (QM & QA) issues.
• Utilize SAS and SQL to extract, manipulate, analyze and mine data from multiple data sources.
• Conducted Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for requirement elicitation and linkup to deliverables and created Process flow and data flow diagrams in MS Visio.
• Conducting Smoke Testing, UAT testing, User Interface testing, functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Back- end testing, UI testing, Parallel testing, Rules testing.
• Worked with business partners to develop extensive SQL querying for Data Analysis and wrote, executed, performance tuned SQL Queries for Data Analysis and Profiling.
• Identified initial Business Case requirements & other pre-project activities (e.g., high-level requirements, project scope, objectives).
• FAI, FCS, SPC, MES reporting, Flexflow, Customizations, Interfaces with SAP, Baan, Red Prairie systems, etc.
• Documented Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) using gathered requirement using SDLC policies and Guidelines.
• Requirement gathering for TIBCO infrastructure for the application. Organized JAD sessions with various projects stakeholders to elicit requirements identify and resolve open issues.
• Created SIPOC diagrams and documentation and used SIPOC to help find the root causes of defects. Maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) between requirements and test cases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile (Scrum), RAD, RUP, FDD.

Business Modeling Tools: Microsoft Visio.

Documentation Tools MS Office: - MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Business Analysis Diagrams: Data flow diagram, activity diagram, UML diagram, Case diagram, Sequence diagram.

Project Management: MS Project

Operating System: Microsoft Windows

HR System Tools: Workday and integration related to workday.

Programming Language: SQL, MY SQL

Database interaction: Oracle, PostgreSQL

Modeling Language: Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Business Analysis: JAD Sessions, SPSS, SPC

Website development: XML

Business Intelligence tools: TIBCO Spotfire, Microsoft BI Suite and IBM Cognos.