SUMMARY

• Senior Workday consultant with over 10+ years of consulting experience of which 6 years in Workday Core HCM, Payroll, benefits, Recruit, compensation business process configuration, Report Writer (Custom Reports), BIRT reports, configurable security, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB’s), Core Connectors
• Worked on Workday implementation and support projects with multiple implementation partners from client side.
• Worked with HRBP’s and business SMEs to conduct discovery sessions to understand business requirements and created blueprint for new configurations using functional and technical design specification documents.
• Conducted meetings with business users to discuss benefits eligibility criteria for client’s new workforce to be included into existing integrations.
• Experience working with Workday Report Writer for building basic, advanced reports using calc fields based on business requirements relating to different functional areas.
• Hands - on experience in creating organizations (Supervisory Organizations, Cost centres, Locations, Company), job profiles, and configuring security groups and policies
• Configured workday dynamic documents in Hire Business process during recruit module implementation for generating hire letters to candidates based on the country they are being hired and the compensation offered.
• Configured Workday alert notifications to rewards team of upcoming employee birthdays and anniversaries.
• Experience in configuring and optimizing business process for Core HCM (Hire, Termination, Change Job, request one-time payment), and defining security roles
• Architected and successfully implemented Workday Security roles for newly implemented Advanced Compensation project and provided hyper care support.
• Implemented and rolled out new security groups for in-house people connect team.
• Created new Integration system users (ISU’s) for different territories and provided necessary accesses to domains to enable users to access data spokes via RaaS web service calls.
• Conducted research about upcoming Workday features in community, configured, tested, and deployed the changes to production that need to be manually updated.
• Configured and edited custom dashboards to add new reports to hiring manager’s and recruiters in the organization and updated necessary domain security policies for their visibility.
• Updated Onboarding training video links in the “My Actions” dashboard for all employees through Employee Self Service (ESS) security group in the organization
• Configured Domain and Business Process security policies for security roles and assigned it to users.
• Configured Role based security(constrained) groups, user-based security groups and implemented complex intersection security groups to route BP approval flows for clients across multiple company hierarchies in a location hierarchy
• Worked on building Workday Inbound/Outbound integrations using EIBs, Core Connectors and used SOAP based webservice calls and used PGP encryption for output files.
• Deep expertise in analysing Workday XML trees, XSLT, XSD and Workday Document Transformations (DT).
• Hands-on expertise in building HCM and Payroll Core/Cloud Connectors, PICOF in Workday system.
• Developed bonus and merit cycle reports for all eligible employees using Workday BIRT tool
• Developed Studio integrations from Workday to AON for employee benefits related data
• Worked on Workday Studio integration enhancement requests for ETRADE ESPP and EMEA payroll integrations.
• Exposure to Workday implementation life cycle from Requirement gathering, Designing, Testing, Deployment, and post-production support.
• Experience working with SOAPUI tool to test published web services from Workday to test and manage workday new release enhancements.
• Configured custom reports into worklets and related actions of workday objects for Core HCM and payroll.
• Deployed enhancement changes to production from Sandbox using Workday Object Transporter (OX) for changes that involved custom objects
• Highly knowledgeable in SaaS architecture, data integrations and web services framework.
• Strong skills and expertise in business process implementation and transformation of end-to-end HR processes
• Knowledge in ABAP-HR and hands on exposure in ABAP to debug SAP application programs
• Highly customer focused and motivated self-starter with excellent team building, interpersonal skills, project management skills and exceptional capability to adapt and learn new concepts
• Ensured high customer service and resolved service requests and incidents based on priority using BMC Remedy and Service Now ITSM suites

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Workday, SAP: Workday HCM, Recruit, Benefits, payroll, compensation, Adv Compensation, Report Writer, Workday Security, SAP ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, R/3, BI/BW, NetWeaver 7, CRM 5.0 & 7.0

Reports: Simple, Advanced, Matrix and Trended reports

Interfaces: EIB, PAYROLL, Core Connectors, RaaS, WD Studio, RFC, EDI

Transformations: Document Transformation (DT), XSLT transformation, XML, XPATH

Layout: Shell Scripts, SAP Scripts, Smart Forms, Business Forms

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Workday Senior Consultant

Confidential - Columbus, OH

Environment: 2020R2, Core HCM, ADP Smart Connect, Benefits, Configurable Security, Integrations, XML, XSLT, REST, SOAP, RaaS Reports, PGP, SAML, MS Office, Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Oxygen Editor

Responsibilities:

• Worked with HRBP’s and business SMEs to conduct discovery sessions to understand business requirements from client side, reviewed and signed-off the requirements documents prepared by implementation partner
• Worked with business SMEs from benefits, HCM, payroll, recruiting functional areas to understand the business and prepared integrations End- to End (System Integration Testing) testing scenarios.
• Worked with business team and implementation partner to review the test scenarios and to create dashboard in Jira to upload the test scenarios for multiple integrations.
• Co-ordinated with multiple functional teams during End-to-End testing cycle and validated integration’s test files.
• Communicated and co-ordinated with multiple vendors related to HCM, Benefits, Recruiting, Payroll integrations of upcoming implementation (E2E and Parallel) testing cycles and followed up on the test file structural issues.
• Worked with implementation partner to fix the reported issues by logging defects in Jira.
• Worked with Workday Architect and Implementation partner team to conduct code review sessions for the newly built core connectors and STUDIO integrations.
• Worked on Parallel testing of integrations in Staging tenant and worked with business to identify legitimate data discrepancies in the test files sent to vendor’s.
• Reviewed tenant restrictions with implementation partner in GOLD tenant two days before go-live.
• Worked with functional Workstream leads to gather data on the legacy integration files that are being sent to vendor’s and worked with DES team to stop the schedules prior to Workday Go-Live date.
• Worked on post Go-Live hyper care support and PROD stabilization issues and enhancements.
• Built RaaS report to HealthStream’s system and created ISU and ISSG for Webservice calls.
• Worked on Employee demographics outbound integration from Workday to HCHB and created ISU and ISSG.
• Scheduled all integrations in Production per the frequency as requested by the business and vendors.
• Created Change Requests (CR) in Kanban board and presented to CAB committee for approval.

Sr. Workday Consultant

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Environment: 2020R1, Core HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Adv Compensation, Configurable Security Integrations, XML, XSLT, XPATH, REST, SOAP, HTTP, SSL, PGP, SAML, Webservices, MS Office, Workday Studio, BIRT, SOAPUI, EIB, Core/Cloud Connector, Oxygen Editor

Responsibilities:

• Worked with HRBP’s and business SMEs to conduct discovery sessions to understand business requirements and created blueprint for new configurations using functional and technical design specification documents.
• Conducted meetings with business users to discuss benefits eligibility criteria for client’s new workforce to be included into existing integrations
• Architected and successfully implemented Workday Security roles for newly implemented Advanced Compensation project and provided hyper care support.
• Configured New Supervisory Organizations in HCM and moved employees between Sup orgs.
• Loaded location data and corrected existing location codes using Inbound EIB templet.
• Created payroll companies, new pay groups and assigned run category and period schedule to each pay group and assigned employees to pay group to include full records in payroll interface.
• Worked on payroll input by adding one-time bonus for a subset of workers in Malaysia region.
• Worked on US and Canada ADP Payroll and Mercer Benefits Integration enhancements.
• Configured workday dynamic documents in Hire Business process during recruit module implementation for generating hire letters to candidates based on the country they are being hired and the compensation offered.
• Implemented intersection and aggregation security architecture based on the business requirement.
• Created Service Center Representative accounts and implemented Service Center Representative security groups as per business requirement to facilitate contractors in several teams to access workday.
• Configured Workday alert notifications to rewards team about upcoming employee birthdays and anniversaries.
• Conducted research about upcoming Workday features in community, configured, tested, and deployed the changes to production that need to be manually updated.
• Configured and edited custom dashboards to add new reports to hiring manager’s and recruiters in the organization and updated necessary domain security policies for their visibility.
• Updated Onboarding training video links in the “My Actions” dashboard for all employees through Employee Self Service (ESS) security group in the organization.
• Deployed enhancement changes to production from Sandbox using Workday Object Transporter (OX) for changes that involved custom objects.
• Worked on Business process (BP) configuration and enhancement projects for Global business processes
• Configured custom notifications on business process steps to business groups to enable business users to get notified of occurred/pending events.
• Created security audit reports to pull login and user activity related data for management.
• Built multiple custom reports and audit reports using calculated fields in HCM, payroll, benefits, recruit, and compensation functional areas and maintained them.
• Implemented and rolled out new security groups for in-house people connect team.
• Created new Integration system users (ISU’s) for different territories and provided necessary accesses to domains to enable users to access data spokes via RaaS webservice calls.
• Worked as a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for all Security related configuration and access issues for the business team.
• Configured Role based security(constrained) groups, user-based security groups and implemented complex intersection security groups to route BP approval flows for client’s multiple company hierarchies in a location hierarchy
• Worked on Workday Studio integration enhancement requests for ETRADE ESPP and EMEA payroll integrations.
• Worked on analyzing payroll process and gathering requirements for Canada and US payroll.
• Worked with payroll administrators to resolve any end user tickets related to payroll data update and changes
• Used XSLT transformation logic to transform data from Workday to vendor systems.
• Experienced in creating Inbound and Outbound integrations using EIB’s. Also, used REST and SOAP web service calls for getting or changing the data.
• Worked on MS Word, Excel, and MS Visio to build workflow and business process documents
• Ability to operate effectively in dynamic and start-up environment with minimal supervision

Workday Consultant

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Environment: Workday 30, Core HCM, Payroll, Adv Compensation, Configurable Security Integrations, XML, XSLT, XPATH, REST, SOAP, SAML, SSL, PGP, EIB, Webservices, MS Office, SOAPUI, EIB, Core/Cloud Connector, Oxygen Editor

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business SMEs to analyse and finalize new layout plans and fields to be included in the existing integrations
• Worked on the convergence project to bring client’s newly acquired firm’s Workday platform into existing Lenovo’s Workday system.
• Documented functional requirements and created Standard operating procedures documents once the changes were migrated to production
• Conducted meetings with business users to discuss benefits eligibility criteria for client’s new workforce to be included into existing integrations
• Worked on production support to fix day today issues and tickets
• Worked on HCM and payroll application integrations to load data into workday.
• Built inbound EIB’s for mass uploads of data in Workday.
• Worked on custom reports and built Outbound EIB’s to pull requested data from workday and send it to downstream applications.
• Worked on XSLT code to make changes to existing functionality or to add new functionality to the integration for enhancement projects.
• Worked on HCM related integrations and RaaS reports.
• Worked on configurable security to troubleshoot and fix issues.
• Granted workday access to new users and created new security roles and role based constrained and unconstrained security groups to restrict access to users to certain domains.
• Worked on new Business process configuration and enhancement requests related to Hire, termination, change job, onetime payment business processes.
• Performed Unit testing and functional testing activities for the change requests worked on.
• Worked on day today HCM transactions to create new organizations and re-organization requests.

Workday Administrator

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

Environment: Workday 24, XML, XSLT, Oxygen Editor, SOAPUI, Web services, Studio, BIRT, MS Office

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Workday system Integrations by building custom integrations with EIB’s, workday studio, and core connectors
• Built new custom reports and integrations for open enrolments and new benefit plans
• Worked on simple, advanced reports, business objects, column heading overrides, sorting by secondary objects to validate the integration files.
• Configured custom reports into worklets and related actions of workday objects.
• Developed bonus cycle reports for all eligible employees using Workday BIRT tool prospective in Studio.
• Implemented core connector integration to pull new hire information
• Actively engaged in customizing and validating Business Process (BP’s) and creating notifications
• Worked on translating customer requirements into detailed design documents
• Responsible for studio integrations, Inbound and Outbound EIBs with downstream systems
• Coordinated with clients, vendors, and downstream system owners for testing integrations and getting test data as per test scenarios
• Worked with Inbound and Outbound integrations to and from third party systems like Fidelity, Cigna, BCBS, Sun life, and ADP.
• Created Inbound EIB in workday for bi-weekly loads of contingent worker and timesheet data from SAP Field glass and kronos
• Expertise in creating XSLT files and using namespaces and XML files
• Tested new features in workday for all existing integrations when upgrades are deployed by Workday and appraised users about new feature availability
• Worked on functional configurations as well as technical integrations of Workday application and updates
• Monitored daily Integration jobs that are configured to run daily in Workday.
• Responsible in deploying developed objects to production tenant and troubleshooting any production issues.
• Coordinated in performing unit testing and parallel testing teams
• Good understanding of release management process

Associate Consultant

Confidential - Piscataway, NJ

Environment: SAP HR, Workday HCM, Report Writer, Calc Fields, EIB, XML MS Excel, MS Word

Responsibilities:

• Worked with business SMEs in translating business requirements into FRD’s and prepared design documents
• Worked on mapping fields from SAP HR to Workday HCM to migrate data from SAP to Workday
• Designed and built new outbound and Inbound integrations for fidelity (Benefits), ADP payroll, Kronos (time tracking) from Workday to SAP for data loads
• Initialized Supervisory organizations, job profiles, security policies and security groups, compensation plans and cost centers
• Built global and country specific testing scenarios and executed in Workday
• Created calculated fields when required by business and developed standard and complex custom reports
• Built and maintained supervisory orgs, companies, locations, cost centers and business units
• Hands-on Workday system integration experience building custom integrations using Workday studio, Core connector, Document transformation and EIB Inbound and Outbound.
• Utilized sequence generator tool to generate output file name template and to validate system results.
• Configured custom reports into worklets and related actions of workday objects
• Created new integration to pull performance cycle and new hire information using Worker core connector and document transformation which utilizes connector generated Output XML file as its data source input.
• Launched one time and schedule-based integration programs and monitored for testing

Associate Consultant

Confidential

Environment: SAP HR 8.9, SAP ECC 6.0, SAP CRM 5.0, SAP BASIS, SAP XI/PI 7.1, RFC, IDOC, HP-Unix, Oracle 11g

Responsibilities:

• Performed end-to-end SAP System Refresh of Staging, QA, DEV & SANDBOX systems from production (PRD) to ensure reliable results in production systems.
• Extensively worked on SAP User management engine, RFC connections between SAP systems across landscape, Background Jobs, Locks and Updates in the SAP System and related troubleshooting
• Extensively worked on weekly capacity planning and monthly IDOC reports by pulling data from SAP systems and analyzing and forecasting the hardware demand
• Experience working with Advanced MS excel to visualize the analysed historical data and presenting it to the business team
• Actively worked on Configuring LDAP connector on SAP ECC and CRM systems.
• Worked on Installing supplemental languages on SAP ECC system
• Actively participated in the major efforts spent by Basis team to migrate/consolidate rapidly growing small file systems into easily manageable large size file systems
• Worked with SAP Console Server installation on DEV & QA environments.
• Worked on Single Sign On (SSO) Implementation for SAP ECC, HR & CRM systems to facilitate end user’s hassle-free login attempts into SAP
• Installed Add-on’s on SAP modules periodically as and when required by the project.
• Worked on daily monitoring of the SAP systems in the landscape from DEV to PRD to identify and solve any bottlenecks/performance issues by analyzing the response times data pulled from SAP servers on SAP BI, HR, CRM, ECC systems.
• Performed Oracle DBA activities to support any fix any security/access issues on which the SAP systems landscape is running.
• Queried Oracle business objects related to server’s performance metrics and built weekly capacity planning and SAP server performance reports and visualizations for management using SAS and tableau BI Tools
• Periodically performed Support pack and kernel upgrades as and when available on ABAP & JAVA stack SAP systems in the landscape.
• Performed SAP Printer administration to troubleshoot and fix any printer related issues on the network.
• Ensured high customer service and resolved service requests and incidents using BMC Remedy and Service Now ITSM suites

Project Engineer

Confidential

Environment: SAP BASIS, SAP ECC 6.0, SAP HR, XI/PI, SAP NetWeaver, MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint

Responsibilities:

• Worked on applying Support Packages to ECC, CRM and PLM systems
• Worked on implementing Kernel upgrade on all ABAP Systems in the landscape
• Installed supplemental languages on SAP ECC system as per the business requirement
• Worked on applying SPAM/SAINT updates across all landscapes
• Worked with Add-on components installation
• Worked on starting/stopping of SAP systems, User management, troubleshooting RFC connections, tuning background Jobs, and administering Locks and Updates
• Worked on moving changes through transports across QA, STG and production for deployment
• Worked on Database backup issues with backup team and monitored all production backups on constant basis for successful completion
• Worked on implementing TREX on SAP BI ABAP systems across the landscape
• Worked on SAP system refresh activities with pre and post refresh tasks and coordinated with database team to have smooth refresh of databases
• Worked on TMS Configuration and transporting changes across landscape and troubleshooting transport issues
• Moved transports using tp command, and copied data file and co-file of transport from onen System to another system
• Worked on daily health checks of all SAP systems in the landscape and performed dump analysis

Software Engineer

Confidential

Environment: XML, XSLT, SOAP, Tomcat, XML Editor, SQL, SAP Administration, SAP Upgrade, ECC 4.7, 6.0 EHP6, Oracle 10g

Responsibilities:

• Worked on XML files to analyse the data that is being transmitted to the websites
• Developed HTML and style sheets to display the content of the XML files as required by the user specifications
• Worked on SOAP protocol in implementing information exchange on web services
• Worked on JavaScript and jQuery to develop service protocols
• Worked on developing SQL scripts for pulling data from Oracle database and storing in a flat file
• Involved in code changes and UAT and regression testing for the application modules
• Trained on SAP Technical architecture and worked on installation of SAP systems at client locations
• Implemented SAP upgrade of ERP 4.7 to ECC 6.0 EHP6 and performed post upgrade checks
• Co-ordinate with ABAP team members to check the SPAU and SPDD errors are taken care off for the upgrade process to move across landscape smoothly and consistently