SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of experience as a Workday HCM Consultant involved in HCM/HRIS and full lifecycle implementation cycle including requirements, analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, quality assurance (QA/UAT), management, reporting and documentation and implementation of business application systems.
• Execute all project implementation tasks adhering to Workday's methodology to design business processes, gather functional and reporting requirements, and map current data to Workday.
• Proficient in Workday modules like Core HCM, Benefits, Compensation, Staffing, Payroll interface, Security Groups, Business Processes, Absence Management.
• Supported Data Conversion and Integration Testing work - streams and worked on User Acceptance Training(UAT)/ Data Validation sessions.
• Analyzed data conversion requirements and developed mapping and transformation rules. Delivered efficient and accurate data migration from Legacy systems to Workday.
• Experience in Implementing Workday Core HR, Payroll integration, Benefit Integration, Payroll Simulation Testing (PST); Testing Scripts/ Scenario creation; Payroll Integration Defect tracking.
• Expertise in Requirement gathering, Documentation, Writing Use Cases, Functional specification, Business Case analysis, Quality Assurance and Testing including Cloud Connects, Core Connectors, EIBs and Workday Studio.
• Strong document transformation skills using XSLT and XTT.
• Proficient in SOAP, REST and Workday web services.
• Efficient working cross functionally with several teams.
• Experienced in application development using Java, database applications.
• Extensive knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and UML Design using Rational Rose, Caliber RDM, MS Visio and have created Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Swim Lane Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Process Flow Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Wireframe Diagrams, and Entity Relationship Diagrams.
• Experience of Automated Testing with Mercury Suite of products including Quick Test Professional (QTP), Load Runner, Quality Center.
• Strong Analytical Skills and knowledge in End to End HR Processes.
• Diversified experience in System Analysis, Design, Development and Quality Assurance testing for various applications like Data Warehousing, Client Server, Web applications on Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP and UNIX environments.
• Expertise in reviewing & analyzing FRS (Functional requirement specifications), SRS (System Requirements Specifications), created detailed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Strategies and Test Scripts.
• Experience with Manual Testing, Quality Analysis process: Smoke/Sanity testing, Unit Testing (JUnit), Expertise in Functional, GUI, Database, Regression, Browser compatibility testing, Load and Performance Testing, Functional testing & Regression testing for applications using Load Runner/QTP.
• Adept at using both manual and automated testing tools to troubleshoot systems, integration, user acceptance, positive and negative, functionality, object, and regression.
• Involved in business analysis activities for the Global Business Solutions Technology Human Resources team for the implementation of Workday.
• Excellent defect tracking and problem determination skills.
• Extensively worked on Workday data conversion, iLoads and Workday integrations.
• Experience as a project mediator, effective communicator with senior and mid-level management, business and IT staff and in organizing productive training sessions, cross-functional and international team meetings.
• Profound knowledge in QA Testing methodologies, requirements gathering, generating Test Plans, Test Cases and Change management/Defect Management and Bug reporting using HP ALM /Quality Center.
• Highly experienced serving as liaison between both onshore and offshore and managing and coordinating during all phases of testing cycle.
• Experienced in Workday Integrations, iLoad, Data Migration and Reporting.
• Workday training includes Fundamentals, Simple Inbound/Outbound Integrations, Business Processes, Calculated Fields, Report Writer, and Security Fundamentals.
• Involved in Workday Functional HCM with responsibilities including Staffing Models, Job and Positions, Compensation, Defining Business Processes and Security Groups, Customized Report Generation and iLoads.
• Experience with data flow and object modeling, case analysis, workflow analysis and functional decomposition, customization, data migration, testing and training services
• Well versed in the Workday implementation methodology which includes multiple data conversion, tenant management, cutover project plan and go live support.
• Experienced in using applications like MS Word, MS Excel and making Power Point presentations for preparing Test Strategy document and Test Plans.
• Proficient in creating BRD (Business Requirement Document), TRD (Technical Requirement Document), FSD (Functional Specification Document) and UAT Documents, Use Case Narrative & Use Case Diagrams.
• Has very strong background in a disciplined software development life cycle (SDLC) process and has excellent analytical, programming and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Rational Unified Processing (RUP), AGILE Methodology, Joint Application Development (JAD), Rapid Application Development (RAD), Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and Unified Modelling Language (UML)

Operating System: Linux, Unix, Sun Solaris 8, 9/AIX, Windows XP/NT/2000/2003 Server, Windows 95/98/00/XP, NT, IBM MAINFRAMES MS-DOS, UNIX (Solaris 2.8),Lotus Notes

Test/Defect Tools: HP Quality Center, Manual Testing, IBM Rational Clear Case/ClearQuest, JIRA.

Automation Test Tools: Quick Test Professional, Load Runner and Win runner.

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

Business Modelling Tools: MS Visio, MS Project, UML Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro.

Databases/Query Tools/Web: Perl/CGI, ANT, UNIX Shell, Java, J2EE, HTML, DHTML, XML, Java Script, VB Script, PL/SQL, .Net, ASP, MS Access, JSP, Visual Basic, Dream Weaver, C,C++,C #,My SQL, PL SQL, TOAD, SQL*PLUS, SQL*Loader, SQL Navigator, MS Sharepoint

Additional Skills: Microsoft Office, MS ACCESS

Languages: JAVA,J2EE, C, C++, XML, HTML, VB Script, .NET technologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,NY

Lead Workday Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Uses knowledge of HR business functions and involves the key players to identify and assessing operating needs and issues, and suggest IT solutions (possibly cross-functional or global) for one or more business function.
• Clarified QA team issues and Reviewed test plans to make sure that all requirements will be covered in scripts and tested properly.
• Coordinated in performing unit testing and integration testing.
• Created supervisory organizations, cost centers, cost center hierarchies, and location hierarchies’ maintenance and modification of Workday business processes and definitions.
• R-Setup business process steps, such as action, approval, approval chain and checklist and how they work and integrate with security groups.
• Worked on the creation of benefit plans, job profiles, and job families.
• Configuration of Workday’s business process framework configured conditional rules to guide workflow or validate data as required to accommodate desired outcomes.
• Configured Workday compensation packages including salary, bonus, allowance, commission, and merit plans for multiple countries including merit and bonus plan processing.
• Configured Workday benefits including groups, plans, coverage types, event types, and eligibility rules for multiple countries.
• Implemented Workday performance management including goal setting, midyear, and year end processes.
• Configured absence management including vacation, parental leave and other LOA types.
• Configured Workday security roles and groups to the required level of confidentially and segregation of duties.
• Perform system, UAT, and regression testing, throughout the life of the implementation.
• Created functional document for script development, testing execution, defect tracking and resolution.
• Perform regression testing efforts to support release management and phased rollouts in different geographic regions.
• 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.
• 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.
• Created Compensation Grades to create a standard compensation range for a given job level or a job profile.
• Generated Compensation Grade profiles to divide the grades into functional tasks, geographic regions and the required sub-categories for the business.
• Worked on creating Compensation Packages to group together the compensation guidelines and compensation plans that could be assigned to an employee all at once.
• Worked on Compensation Eligibility rules to set the required criteria so that there is automatic association of a group of employees with the selected compensation elements.
• Draft job aids and FAQs for system integration and workflow for Performance Management and Compensation module.
• Managed job description and workflow of employee data for compensation module including job families, pay ranges, bonus scales, grading and supervisor setup.
• Responsible for gathering and documenting customer requirements, designing, tracking, reporting and analyzing key organizational and operational reports.
• Generate different kinds of reports - Simple, Advanced and Matrix reports to meet client requirements within the workday tenant.
• Create calculated fields for Custom Reports to ensure required report delivery.
• Write reports that extract Workday data and manipulate the data in other formats for various needs.
• Reviewing design and build of the team members and mentor them.
• Conducted knowledge transfer sessions to customer business users to run and support integrations.
• Responsible for developing Uses Cases for Workday Integration testing of inbound and outbound interfaces to and from Workday and other third party system.
• Created matrix reports and attached to the dashboards in the workday.
• Participated in kick-off meetings, Workday Business Process walkthroughs, plan agenda and logistics.
• Worked on HCM Fundamentals and Business Process Fundamentals in Workday.
• Create test scenarios and test data for end to end testing from Business process to Integration to Payroll.
• Created and maintained library of Test Plans and Test Scenarios in HP Quality Center & SharePoint.
• Performed testing on version upgrades of Workday on critical Business Processes and identified upstream and downstream integrations
• Perform delta testing to ensure that full Payroll data has been extracted, cleansed, calculated and uploaded.
• Involved in Production support.
• Perform end to end work flow testing of all in-scope Business processes.
• Facilitated requirement walkthrough sessions with business users and key stakeholders to identify key business needs.
• Design, Build, Test and Deploy integration solutions for Workday customers.
• Adopted a reverse reengineering approach to supplement requirements gathered from stakeholders.
• Functional Consultant with advanced skills in all facets of Implementation, combined with superior knowledge working with cross functional teams to implement SaaS Human Capital solutions for all types of organizations.
• Designed and executed data conversion processes from multiple legacy systems to Workday production environment; systems included Oracle HRMS, ADP, and PeopleSoft.
• Designed business flow diagrams and processes, which included processes in Staffing, job benefits, compensation grades and packages.
• Translated business needs of stakeholders into a formal BRD and coordinated signoffs.
• Responsible for developing Uses Cases for Workday Integration testing of inbound and outbound interfaces to and from Workday and other third party system.
• Created matrix reports and attached to the dashboards in the workday.
• Participated in kick-off meetings, Workday Business Process walkthroughs, plan agenda and logistics.
• Worked on HCM Fundamentals and Business Process Fundamentals in Workday.
• Create test scenarios and test data for end to end testing from Business process to Integration to Payroll.
• Created and maintained library of Test Plans and Test Scenarios in HP Quality Center & SharePoint.
• Performed testing on version upgrades of Workday on critical Business Processes and identified upstream and downstream integrations
• Perform delta testing to ensure that full Payroll data has been extracted, cleansed, calculated and uploaded.

Environment: Workday, SQL Server, Android, Mountain Lion, Windows, Quality Center, MS Sharepoint.

Confidential,IL

Lead Workday Functional Consultant

• Involved in converting Simple reports to Advanced Reports by using Calculated Fields, Sorting, Filtering Report Fields, providing Advanced Filtering Option, Creating Sub Filters and by using related Business Objects.
• Built industry standard reports like List Reports, Matrix Reports, Calculated Fields, Conditions and Eligibility Rules that apply to the parameters of the report.
• Performed data conversion from PeopleSoft HCM (HR, Payroll, Base Benefits, Benefits Administration and Time & Labor) to Workday HCM modules
• Designed and configured Workday BPs for HCM including Hire, Change Job, Termination, Propose Compensation, Termination etc.
• Configured Workday benefits including groups, plans, coverage types, event types, and eligibility rules for multiple countries.
• Configured Workday security roles and groups to the required level of confidentially and segregation of duties
• Designed and configured other Workday HCM & Security configuration objects including Management Hierarchies, Regions, Locations, edited Domain and Business Process Security Policies, Tenant setup and created reports to meet customer requirements
• Configured and tested Workday Compensation including Packages, Salary & Hourly Plans, Bonus, merit planned Commission Plans
• Reviewed integrations design document developed using web service SOAP, WSDL, XML, XSLT on the Workday cloud platform such as Payroll integration, ADP inbound/outbound, Taleo inbound/outbound, Active Directory inbound, and UDW inbound/outbound.
• Created test scenarios for testing all in scope Business Processes like Hire, Job Change, Promote, Transfer, Terminate, Compensation changes, Employee Self Service process, Manager Self-service processes, etc.
• Liaise with HR, Payroll, other internal departments and third party vendors and developed test plans and test scenarios for Functional, End to End, System integration, User Acceptance and Parallel Acceptance testing.
• Reviewed EIB document (Enterprise Interface Builder) for integrating location of employees, Performance ratings, Assigning organizations and updating payroll IDs.
• Created Security Segment Groups for Benefits Integrations and Payroll Integrations.
• Involved in integrating Workday payroll with other third party payroll vendor.
• Tested the Integrations on all the Workday tenant prototypes P1, P2 and P3 tenants. Performed System Integration testing of the all in scope inbound and outbound 57+ integrations
• Planned and performed regression testing on version upgrades for Workday on critical Business Processes and identified upstream/downstream integrations based on release notes shared from WD community /3rd party implementation vendor
• Provided post rollout production support for Phase 1. Served as point of contact for Workday Support tickets. Monitored incoming tickets, and resolved Workday functional issues.
• Good Experience Time Tracking, process Knowledge and Absence Management
• Configured Workday benefits including groups, plans, coverage types, event types, and eligibility rules for multiple countries.
• Perform system, UAT, stress/performance, parallel efforts throughout the life of the implementation.
• Perform regression-testing efforts to support release management and phased rollouts in different geographic regions.
• Involved in preparing detailed Test Plan document in accordance to SDLC deliverables.
• Facilitated JAD sessions to understand the user requirements and also their system’s implementation.
• Involved in in developing all types of technical diagrams including Behavior Diagrams (Use Case Diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Collaboration diagrams, State chart diagrams and Activity diagrams), and Structure Diagrams (Class Diagrams) based on UML methodology using Rational Rose and MS Visio.
• Ability to gather business and Technical Requirements from both formal and informal sessions utilizing a variety of software methodologies including, Use Cases and the Rational Unified Process.
• Working knowledge of implementing software development projects using methodologies such as Waterfall, Rational Unified Process, Agile /Scrum.
• Created Testing strategy, test plans, documentation for Business Process testing, Integration testing and Payroll testing in Workday.
• Develop test scenarios and test cases for all in scope 50+ Business processes to and from Workday and other third party systems. (hire, job change, terminate, etc.) along with testing of security role mapping for each of the Business processes.
• Tested job scheduling and validate end results.
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing on Business-to-Business Transaction testing.
• Manually executed the test cases for positive and negative scenarios.
• Involved in Planning and execution of System Integration Testing (SIT)
• Used Sharepoint to track and maintain information shared with senior management and vendors.
• Wrote Test Cases referring System Requirements and Functional Design documents.
• Managed Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace and map Business requirements, Functional requirements.
• Performed delta testing to ensure that full Payroll data has been extracted, cleansed, calculated and uploaded to the relative system.
• Lead and manage Business Process testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Unit testing, Black Box Testing, User Acceptance testing, GUI, Sanity, System testing, Regression testing.
• Lead the Defect Management process and maintain the test scenarios, requirement traceability matrix in HP Quality Center and logged and tracked defects in HP Quality Center.
• Streamlined development and QA processes.
• Implemented, gathered, and reported team dashboard and project metrics from HP Quality Center which demonstrates business value and showing continuous improvement. Coordinated Development and QA efforts that resulted in consistent on-time delivery of regularly scheduled maintenance releases.

Environment: Workday, SQL Server, Android, Mountain Lion, Windows, Quality Center, MS Sharepoint. Workday Functional Consultant Workday EIB