SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of total experience in the Workday Consultant role involved in HCM/HRIS as well as Quality Assurance in a collaborative client focused environment wif strong analytical, communication, presentation and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in all phases of SDLC, including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting.
• Executed all project implementation tasks adhering to Workday's methodology to design business processes, gather functional and reporting requirements, and map current data to Workday.
• Supported Data Integration Testing work - streams and worked on User Acceptance Training (UAT)/Data Validation sessions.
• Played a major role in implementation of Workday platform by defining, documenting and testing functional business processes for Workday HCM including Core HR, Recruiting, Talent and Performance Management and Compensation.
• Detailed understanding of all aspects of HR processes, comprising the life cycle of an employee such as recruiting, hiring, employee record maintenance, payroll and other benefits.
• Experience in all phases of the Workday implementation life cycle, namely Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Configuration and Testing.
• Experience in conducting discovery sessions for Workday Integrations.
• Good understanding of Integrations including Web Services, SaaS, Workday Architecture and Business Process Framework.
• Hands on experience in inbound/outbound integrations Using Core Connector, managing business processes, working wif EIB, Report Writer, Creating Workday Calculated Fields and Custom Reports, XML, XPath and XSLT.
• Worked on HCM, Payroll and Benefits integrations between Workday and vendors.
• Actively involved in Data Migration activity from different ERP systems to Workday.
• Participated in the design and optimization of all global HR processes.
• Experience in Design, Development, Conversion, Customization, Interfacing and Implementation of business applications.
• Proficient in setting up/working on various fundamentals of Workday HCM such as Organizations, Staffing Models, Jobs and Positions, Compensation, Hiring Workers, Configurable Security, Business Processes and Report Writer.
• Worked on field mapping of legacy data wif the corresponding PeopleSoft benefits and payroll data.
• Experience wif data flow and object modeling, case analysis, workflow analysis and functional decomposition, customization and data migration, testing and training services.
• Ability to work cross-functionally wif various stakeholders and team members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile Development,Joint Application Development (JAD), Rapid Application Development (RAD)

Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, Solaris 8/9, AIX, Windows 9X, Windows NT (XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1, 10), IBMMainframe

Testing Tools: Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, IBM Rational Functional Tester, HP Quality Center, Telerik Test Studio, Selenium, TestComplete, Visual Studio Test Professional, QTP (UFT), SoapUI

RDBMS: Oracle 8i/9i/10i, MS SQL Server, MySQL

Business Modelling Tools: MS Visio, IBM Rational Rose, IBM Rational RequisitePro

Databases/Query Tools/Web: Perl, CGI, ANT, UNIX Shell, Java, J2EE, VB Script, PL/SQL, .Net, ASP, MS Access, JSP, Visual Basic, Dream Weaver, PL/SQL, TOAD, SQL*Plus, SQL*Loader, SQL Navigator, MSSharePoint

Additional Skills: Microsoft Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Word

Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, SQL, XML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Workday Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Primary duties include developing Integrations using EIB and Core Connectors to integrate wif third party systems and to create Custom Reports for various functional areas.
• Created test cases for integrations testing and performed various kinds of integration and functional testing.
• Created various EIB integrations using Workday templates and engaged in validating and customizing BP’s for Integrations.
• Experience in creating new integrations and supporting existing integrations.
• Used sequence generators, generating templates and validating inbound integration system results.
• Worked wif Simple and Advanced Reports, defining columns, business objects, fields, columns heading overriding, multiple sorting techniques, sorting by secondary objects.
• Expertise in developing advanced, matrix custom reports and thorough understanding of Workday data sources and business objects.
• In depth understanding of calculated fields and creating complex calculated fields to use in the report.
• Created reports in various functional areas such as New Hires, Benefits, Compensation, Payroll and Recruiting.
• Day to day support of Workday HCM, Integrations and Reporting issues.
• Managing and understanding the different data sources, business objects, primary business objects and secondary business objects.
• Experience in creating and reviewing Test Cases and Test Plans for User Acceptance Testing.
• Create various integrations and used XSLT code to transform XML data to various files formats and to safely deliver files using SFTP server.
• Converted XML to XSLT files using XSLT transformations and integrated wif third party applications for data exchange.
• Worked on oxygen XSLT Editor, to create, edit, test, and validate XSLT documents.
• Used functions such as ETV/XTT to do XSLT file transformations for integrations on Workday Cloud, proficiency in understanding SOAPUI, WSDL, XML, XSLT languages.
• Introduction to Workday Studio, transformations using XSLT.
• Integrated Workday HCM data and created XSLT scripts for integrations to transform XML data.
• Validated and loaded data into different Workday tenants such as implementation, Gold and Production tenants.
• Excellent in development activities such as coding, testing, documentation and support maintenance wifin implementation of customized solutions.
• Played a crucial role in quality assurance and UAT testing of Supervisory Organizations, Matrix Organizations, Cost Centers, Location and its hierarchies. Coordinated in performing Unit testing and Integration testing.
• Performed skilled work in system design, programming, debugging, conversion planning, and system implementation.

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Workday Lead Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created custom reports includes matrix and advanced type of reports on Compensation, Benefits, Core HR, Talent Management, Recruiting, WFA modules.
• Built Headcount Analysis Reports which includes Composite and Trended type of Reports.
• Created number of calculated fields using different functions as per different business requirements.
• Lead enhancement projects like International Assignment change and Job Architecture change, performed impact Analysis on all the integrations, created global calculated fields and did integration changes.
• Created EIB Inbound integration to load the data in Acquisition Project (CFR and Vera-form).
• Part of Global Payroll Project team, performed enhancements to the Payroll integrations for all the 96 countries associated wif ABBOTT.
• Created test scenarios and provided test cases for all enhancement projects.
• Supported all the Ticketing services like enhancements and break fix on integration and reports
• Part of implementation in Talent Management and Recruiting modules, did data validations before loading into Workday Interface.
• Tested all reports and integrations for version updates.
• Created documents (FDD and TDD) for all the reports and conducted business training sessions.
• Used KAINOS for Testing Business process and Integrations.
• Created Visio for all the Business process in the Abbott System.
• Acted as the Security design manager for the implementation across 11 countries
• Designed and Configured security based on the User population and company roles
• Setup User Based, Role Based, Intersection, Segmented Security & Organization Membership security groups
• Defined and setup Roles
• Defined and setup Business Process Policy on BPs
• Report & Dashboard Security
• Supported security requirements and issues post implementation
• Supported Security Audits and developed ways to track automate security assignments and approvals
• Developed Complex reports for the internal and external audit teams
• Worked on Validations and condition rules, Notifications, etc.
• Supported & Worked on Benefits, Compensation, Merit, Hire, On-Boarding, Job Change, Time Off, Leave & Benefits, business processes
• Support for Business Process issues
• Worked wif Business Process template and Dynamic Business Processes
• Helped configure the Year End Compensation Review process
• Define and configure the grid
• Configure Compensation Matrix
• Updating Scorecards
• Created Warnings on the panel using calculated fields when increase/assignments were outside guidelines

Confidential, Reston, VA

Workday Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creating Supervisory organizations, Location hierarchies, Region and Region hierarchies, Cost Center and Cost Center hierarchies and Custom organization types, working wif staffing models like position management, headcount management, job management.
• Worked on the creation of job families, job profiles and positions. Configured the Organizational structure by setting up organizational units, jobs, positions, assigning tasks to jobs and positions, and Reporting Structure.
• Created Compensation Rule (Eligibility rules), Compensation Plans, Compensation Grade and Grade profiles and Compensation Packages.
• Setup Business Process steps, such as Action, Approval, Approval Chain and Checklist, and how they work and integrate wif security groups. Created various type of Validation and Condition rule for the efficient performance of Business Process framework. Designed and configured Workday BPs for HCM, including Hire, Change Job, Termination, Propose Compensation, Termination etc.
• Configured Security Group by creating and assigning Role-Based, User-Based and Job-Based groups wif security policies, which plays vital role in configuring Workday.
• Create Functional Design documents and maintain configuration documents for the end users and technical team.
• Understand complex business processes, requirements and rapidly find robust and innovative development solutions respecting systems architecture.
• Involved in gathering requirements and formulating the requirements for formatted reports.
• Partially involved in Go-Live process of Workday.

Confidential, Mooresville, NC

Test Engineer and Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed, edited and enhanced test data and scenarios.
• Ran data-masking jobs on a daily basis and created master data MS-Access files.
• Generated fictitious business data based on defined requirements for application development and testing.
• Received Bravo Award from Delivery Manager for contributions to the Test Data Management track.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Test Engineer and Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created test data and performed test automation for loan processing applications.
• Performed data driven and regression testing.
• Identified and consolidated test data needs based on scenarios and environment requirements.
• Supported the team during ETL testing process by creating source and target databases, importing data, performing DB checks and implementing the fixes provided; thus saving $210k and speeding up the testing process.

Confidential, New York, NY

Functional Tester

Responsibilities:

• Determined testing requirements, developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conducted baseline testing, and generated reports. Tested server and Web Portal.
• Analyzed application, system, and security errors. Escalated issues to developers and verified fixes.
• Designed test plans and defined cases for functional, integration system, and user acceptance testing.
• Attended weekly defect report meetings and presented progress updates.

Confidential, Boston, MA

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Made unit test cases for Payment Processing System
• Responsible for collating test data requirements, SQL script development and execution.
• Created data sheets for testing and maintained synthetic data based on MS SQL database using excel macros.
• Recognized wif the Spot Award (employee of the month) twice for the effort.