SUMMARY

• 8+ years of overall IT and ERP experience with 5+ years of experience in Workday
• Proficient in functional and technical areas of Workday HCM, Finance, Integrations, Reports, Security, Business Process Configurations and Testing
• Command on complete Workday HCM module that includes Absence Management, Benefits, Compensation, Learning, Recruiting, Staffing, Talent, Time Tracking and Payroll
• Worked on Full Life Cycle (end - to-end) Implementations, Upgrades, Testing, Maintenance and Production Support in HCM projects
• Maintained awareness of workday system capabilities, new releases and upgrades and their impact on current and future state functionality
• Pioneered in several full life cycle HR systems implementations
• Strong experience in performing Fit and Gap analysis on every business process to keep HR executives and Business Owners updated with the notifications on the business process and resolve queries from them
• Possess skills in designing and developing Inbound/Outbound Integrations using Workday Studio, EIB's, Core Connectors, Document Transformations, Cloud Connect and web services
• Good at Data Extraction/Migration process to export the data from Legacy systems to Workday
• Expertise in Reporting: Report Writer, Custom Reports: Simple, Advanced, Matrix reports and concepts of reporting like Calculated Fields, Data Sources, Business Objects and Related Business Objects
• Skillful in Web Technologies like XML, XSLT, XPath, Web Services
• Mastery on Business Process steps, rules, configurations and testing
• Good at handling offshore teams and make sure they perform their tasks as per the deadlines
• Extensively worked on Creating Security groups and merging them with Domain Security Policies
• Core knowledge in creating Segmented, Constrained and Un-Constrained Security Groups and rule-based Business Process definitions in Workday
• In depth understanding of Organizational structures and hierarchies: Supervisory Organizations, Companies, Cost Centers, Locations, Regions
• Worked on all development life cycle documentations right from design document till implementation checklist
• Created and executed test cases with end-to-end scenarios in various functional areas
• Profound knowledge in testing methodologies
• Experience in QA Testing methodologies, requirements gathering, generating Test Plans, Test Cases and Change management/Defect Management and Bug reporting
• Involved in Agile and Scrum software development methodologies
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (Pivot Tables, Formulas, VLOOKUP functions etc.)
• Deep business and systems knowledge to drive system strategy for streamlined processes and enhanced system functionality
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in functional and technical areas of workday
• Highly self-motivated individual with strong professional and communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Development Tools: Workday Report Writer, Workday Studio, Oxygen XML Editor, Eclipse

Workday HCM: Absence Management, Benefits, Compensation, Learning, Recruiting, Staffing, Talent, Time Tracking, Workday Payroll

Workday Cross Application Services: Reporting and Analytics, Business Process, Security

Workday Integration: Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder, Document Transformations, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect (Workday Extend)

Web Technologies: Web Services(SOAP, REST), XML, XSLT, XPath

Languages: Java, Python, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Workday Techno Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implement, support and maintain complete suite of Workday HCM and also supported Finance modules like Budgets, Assets, Customer and Supplier Accounts, Expenses, Procurement, Projects, Cash and Revenue Management and Transaction Tax
• Involved in all phases of Workday Implementation including requirement gathering, analysis, functional and technical design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance
• Actively worked with the business owners to perform analysis on existing functionalities, requirements in HCM and discuss requests on system modifications
• Assisted cross functional teams in understanding the security and system impacts of configuration decisions, process decisions and reporting requirements
• Maintained data integrity in HR systems by conducting routine audits and analyzing data and following with appropriate teams
• Researched and analyzed the underlying cause of an issues and solved appropriately
• Built several Inbound and Outbound integrations using Studio,EIB’s, Connectors, Cloud Connect and Document Transformations
• Worked on Benefits and Payroll (PICOF, PECI) connectors for intergrations
• Developed custom transformations using XSLT to convert the data into user desired formats
• Worked on Data Mapping, Data Cleansing, Data Conversions to export data from Workday
• Daily reporting and analysis of Workday datausingWorkday Report Writer
• Extracted data using Simple, Advanced and Matrix reports in different functional areas such as HR, Benefits, Payroll, Compensation
• Created and used Calculated fields in reporting, business processes and integrations
• Designed, developed and delivered timely and accurate dashboards, reports, worklets and visuals to help HR clients and business leaders to take decisions
• Extensively worked on setting up Security: Integration Security User (ISU), Integration System Security Group (ISSG), Domain Security policies, and Functional area security configuration
• Configured Domain and Business Process Security Policy changes in various functional areas
• Configured enhancements for Business Processes like for Hire, Transfer, Promote, Data Change, Termination, OTP etc.
• Coordinated with HR, Payroll, IT, other internal departments and third-party vendors to develop test plans and test scenarios for testing
• Developed test plans and test scenarios for Functional, End to End, System Integration and User Acceptance testing
• Provided day-to-day production support for workday including, but not limited to analyzing and resolving errors, configurations and integrations issues, recommendations and alternate methods to meet requirements
• Used Service Now to resolve production support tickets

Confidential, NC

Workday Techno Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented, supported, maintained and integrated Workday HCM technology solutions into the business environments
• Analyzed Business Processes and made recommendations of new solutions, improvements, and/or enhancements using Workday technology
• Partnered with stakeholders (internal/external to HR) to understand new report/data requirements and provided results that met the business needs
• Reviewed the specifications, development and implementation of new or redesigned systems, reports, and procedures for the Company HRIS system
• Worked with various business partners to determine requirements and translated requirements into workflows/Stories and project plans
• Performed data audits and ensured compliance with Corporate Audit standards
• Produced internal and external data audit regularly and as needed
• Created and maintained various integration systems for functional areas like Benefits, Payroll, Finance using EIB, Various Core connectors and workday Studio according to the functional document by the end user
• PerformedData Conversions and mass data loads to extract data from legacy systems and external end points to Workday
• Created XSLT style sheets and enterprise interface builders(EIB’s) to transform workday XML data into various formats to meet the specifications of clients
• Load mass data changes provided by HR/Compensation/Payroll/Talent management teams using inbound EIB’s
• Designed custom dashboards for HR, Recruiters, Managers, Compensation and Benefits partners
• Created various reports with calculated fields that extract Workday data and convert them to other formats as requested by user
• Configured various validation and condition rules over multiple business process to achieve data integrity and consistency
• Extensively worked on setting up Security, creating security groups,editing Domain and Business Process Security Policies
• Diagnosed functional issues, report bugs and take ownership of issue resolution
• Written test cases referring system requirements and Functional Design
• Prepared Test Scenarios and Test Cases for various modules in Workday HCM
• Experience in testing all integrations from End-to-End for Payroll, Benefits, Absence Management, Time tracking and other downstream applications
• Provided subsequent day-to-day support and system maintenance

Confidential, TN

Peoplesoft/Workday Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented, supported and maintained Workday HCM
• Involved in design, development, fit gap analysis and requirement gathering of enhancements
• Created and managed requirements, design, configuration, testing, and support activities for HCM systems in Workday
• Involved in Conversion of entire PeopleSoft Core HR, Payroll, Compensations, Benefits, Talent and Absent Data into Workday system
• Compared Workday and PeopleSoft HRMS functionalities
• Tested data in Workday Tenantthat was migrated from PeopleSoft
• Created custom reports for Data Validation in both PeopleSoft and Workday Tenants
• Created various inbound and outbound integrations using Workday EIB’s and Core Connectors
• Used Workday Report Writer to create various simple, advanced and matrix reports for Validation
• Designed and reviewed of Business Solution document, High level design and detailed designed documents
• Estimated, planned, assigned, assisted and tracked development specific to business requirements
• Prepared job aids Business Process Flows and Procedures like Hire, Change job, Transfer, Promote, Terminate

Confidential, PA

PeopleSoft Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded PeopleSoft HR, Benefits and payroll modules
• Worked with functional analysts to identify customizations are needed for the new release
• Identified and analyzed existing customizations and documented the fits and gaps for new release
• Retrofitted customizations included - modifying pages, menus, components, People Code, SQRs.
• Involved in customization of creating fields, record definitions, views, creating search records.
• Designed, customized and tested the People Code according to the business requirements of the client.
• Worked on customizations and testing of Self-Service modules ePay, eBenefits and eProfile in upgrade process.
• Helped the implementation team in resolving issues in HR, Payroll and Benefits.
• Developed Technical specifications to the various functional requirements. HR, Payroll, Benefits, Benefits Administration, Component interfaces and batch processes.
• Created and executed various new Application Engine programs, People Code, Component Interfaces, SQR programs and SQL scripts.
• Developed Various Interfaces using SQR for Transmitting Employee Data to Benefits Vendor, transmitting Employee BI-Weekly Payroll Information, Tax related reports.
• Troubleshooting issues pertaining to payroll process.
• Involved in integration Testing of Payroll Process i.e., Pay Sheet creation, Payroll calculation and Pay Confirmation Process.
• Converted Import Scripts to Application Engine programs during the Upgrade process

Confidential

PeopleSoft Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Design, Development, Testing, and Enhancement of Core HR, Payroll, and Base Benefits modules
• Created and modified Components, File Layouts, Pages, Records, Fields, Process Definitions and registering Components in Portal, Menu, and Permission Lists
• Developed a number of interface reports using SQR to read the data from a file and load it into PeopleSoft tables and send data from PeopleSoft to other external applications
• Created SQR reports for Core HR like Job Employee Management, Employee work track, etc.
• Modified, designed, configured and built fields, records, sub-records, setting up keys to records, assign table edits like the prompt table
• Developed and modified PeopleCode to implement specific business rules and validations to enable the system to perform the business process.
• Developed an application engine program to load new positions each day into the PeopleSoft tables using File Layouts to load New Hire, Re-Hire, Salary Upload, RBS Position Load interface file with all employees’ information.
• Worked on Data Archive Manager for Peoplesoft
• Added new feature on MSS/ESS on Core HR System.
• Extensively used process scheduler for scheduling recurring process for conditional scheduling of successive process for setting up the reports to run at a specific time and implementation of batch processing.
• Conducted meetings with the business users to gather requirements
• Test Case Preparation and Execution and supported SIT and UAT testing
• Document and manage defects and issues related to the testing of designed solutions.