PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Have over 12 years of experience as a Business Analyst in IT on PeopleSoft & Fusion Cloud Implementation, Support, Upgrade, Customization and Testing as Senior Business Analyst and providing extensive support in leading projects for different clients from US, UK, APAC and Europe .
• Have an extensive experience in Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Customization and Implementation of ERP PeopleSoft applications. Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical specifications. Experience as Functional Lead Consultant & Functional Test Lead as well.
• Experience in Agile methodology and complete gone through of Software Development and Testing Life Cycles. Familiar with Business Analysis tool - JIRA.
• Have extensively worked on PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9, 9.1 (People Tools 8.52) and 9.2 (People Tools 8.53) Core HR, Position Management, Performance Management, PS HRMS Security, North America Payroll and Time & Labor in technical and functional aspects.
• Have worked for Banking & Financial Services clients and effectively involved in Business Analysis & Testing the functionality of their products end to end.
• Good understanding of the Loans processing business process.
• Have worked on integration set up between NA Payroll - Time and Labor & Global Payroll, Absence Management & Time and Labor .
• Have worked on Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, OTL & Payroll. Familiar with Fast Formulas, Flex fields, HCM Data Loader, HCM Extracts, Payroll Extracts and Oracle Business Intelligence. Knowledge on Fusion Benefits & Absence Management.
• Have an experience on Cloud ERP - People Fluent system i.e. offerings and services of PeopleFluent. Worked on Compensation Management solution offered by People Fluent.
• Involved in Pre-sales activities - Preparation of RFP, Estimates for Proposals and Prototype Presentation or Proof of Concept of various modules.
• Have extensive knowledge and experience in Functional Design, ERD, Functional Configurations and Reporting requirements in the areas of online customizations and reports generation.
• Experience in PS Query and PeopleSoft HRMS Security and a good knowledge as well as understanding in People Tools - Application Designer, Application Engine, PeopleCode etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Functional Lead Consultant, PeopleFluent & PeopleSoft HCM 9.2

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Work on Annual Compensation process set up of the Client for various regions.
• Participates in gathering business requirements discussions and drafting the elicitations.
• Analyzes requirements and translating them into system specifications.
• Do a proper fit gap analysis to conclude on fitment of the delivered product and recommend for customizations as required.
• Understands client needs and matches them to relevant services or products; manages client expectations (Leverage)
• Understands and communicates goals and critical success factors for the project; sells ideas persuasively and paces the communications properly (Communication)
• Co-ordinating with PeopleFluent vendor team and getting the coding done. Liaise between PeopleFluent vendor team and client team on PeopleSoft.
• Working on system configurations and validating the functionality/workflow expected for Annual Compensation process.
• Leading the testing processes syncing up with SIT & UAT teams as a Functional Lead.
• Co-ordinate the deployment process and ensure smooth go-live of the Compensation tool.

Functional Lead Consultant, PeopleSoft HCM 9.2

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Participates in gathering business requirements through a variety of techniques (e.g., facilitated workshops, work sessions and interviews) and prototyping business solutions (Business)
• Analyzes requirements and develops high-level and detailed business process designs to the elementary business process (EBP) level and derived logical process (DLP) level (Business)
• Supports gap analysis highlighting current state, future state, client needs, best practices and competition (Business)
• Develops standards, templates, and procedures to aid in the development of the required work products (Methodology)
• Leads a team of 4-6 company resources, in area of expertise, to conclusion of a project phase (Management)
• Understands client needs and matches them to relevant services or products; manages client expectations (Leverage)
• Understands and communicates goals and critical success factors for the project; sells ideas persuasively and paces the communications properly (Communication)
• Propose customization in the delivered workflow of eComp Manager Tool as per the requirements of the Compensation Team of the client.
• Configuring Variable Compensation plans defining the Target payout, setting up Guarantee amounts, trees using Tree builder utility.
• Defining the Compensation cycles to be used in execution of Compensation process using eComp Manager Desktop tool.
• Working on design of the BI Publisher Reports as per Compensation Requirements - in terms of look and feel, defining the field logic, calculation of Compensation/Retirement elements to be shown up on the report.
• Design and Analysis of a bolt-on functionality required to be a place holder of certain fields - Bonus Type, Bonus Amounts, prorated value of Bonus as per hire etc., which is shared from Taleo system.
• Walkthrough of the requirement/custom design to the development team to let development kick start.
• Co-ordinating the SIT/UAT testing phases setting up test cycles in the Test environments.
• Drafting the BRD/FDD documents and working on sign off process from the business.
• Updating the business team and offshore Project Management about the status of development, highlighting the concerns, working towards resolution of the same on a weekly basis.

Functional Lead Consultant, Oracle Fusion Cloud - HCM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Implementation of Fusion Cloud for UK region.
• Gathering requirements via Group discussions, Workshops, interviews etc with business stake holders and documenting the same.
• Drafting User Stories and reviewing the understanding of the business processes with Business users.
• Working as a HCM Techno-Functional Consultant for Global HR, Payroll and OTL.
• Involved in Implementation and support of Global HR, Payroll and Performance Management.
• Involved in different Phases of Implementation and Participated in CRP’s with Business teams.
• Suggested best practices and feasible solutions to the business users to resolve functionality gaps.
• Working as liaison between business users and IT for identifying and resolving the issues.
• Created setup data and transactional data according to client requirement.
• Defined multiple data sets covering multiple business units for set enabled objects.
• Defined all the payroll setups and tested them.
• Created Consolidation Groups, Payroll Definitions for Weekly and Bi-Weekly Payrolls
• Created Organizational Payment Methods, Third Party Payment Methods, Personal Payment Methods, Payment Sources as per client requirement.
• Created Earnings elements for Regular, Supplemental and Imputed earnings to capture the earnings for Payroll processing and created eligibility criteria as per client requirements.
• Created various Deductions elements for Voluntary and Involuntary deductions and associated to the Calculation cards.
• Created setups and Plans for goal management module and Performance Management.
• Created and configured Performance Documents, Document sections as per requirement.
• Created Different Flex Fields and added value sets, Lookups according to Business requirement.
• Used OTBI for different analysis as per business user requirements.
• Used HCM Extracts and BIP reports for generating different business objects and transactional data reports.
• Loaded Core HR data, Payroll data using HDL and PBL from source system to target system.
• Created Different Configuration documents, Test cases and User manuals accordingly.

Functional Lead Consultant, PeopleSoft HCM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Full Roll out of People Soft Time and Labor module for Confidential Associates of Germany/Japan geographies.
• Lead TL Implementation with Fluid pages that is accessible on Smart devices as well.
• Implemented Fluid TL Dashboard & Work Center features that are useful to real time Managers/leads who have monitor the team’s work & availability.
• Rolled out TL for about 1000+ Associates based out of Germany region.
• Involved in end to end SDLC - Requirements Gathering from business teams, documenting the same, working on Functional Design, driving the technical team by providing requirement/design KT, walkthrough to the SIT team, coordinating UAT on behalf of business team and getting business sign off for deployment.
• Worked on customizations like Germany OT Comp Off - Rules and customizations meant for Overtime computation, Project Approver functionality - related to approval of Timesheets in TL. A complete design, work flow has been designed working with business team and the same is shared with all stakeholders.
• Worked on Functional Set Up required for TL roll out and also worked on setting up Security to different roles as required.
• Co-ordinated with technical team in writing the custom SQL (rules) as required for Germany & Japan business. Provided KT to the tech team on Design of pages and the behavior expected from the system for different roles.
• Presenting the status to the business team Onsite on a day to day basis bridging between technical team and program management leadership.
• Providing the weekly status to the Business Leadership regarding the usability of TL system and also discussion about open items/issues if any.
• Involved in preparation of the Guides role wise for Employees, Managers and HR Shared Services team (Operations).
• Have been part of User s provided by business team to assist them for any quick questions/clarifications on system use.
• Handled enhancements as per changes requested by business to the Germany OT Comp Off customization and ensured a smooth deployment of the same. Lead the post deployment process coordinating between tech team and business teams.
• Got Fluid view enabled through required configuration settings and working with HRMS Portal Administrators as required.
• Got the Production issues resolved bridging between tech team and system end users.
• Worked on Payroll Report as well as On Call rules as well.

Functional Consultant, PeopleSoft

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing the requirements gathered by the Onsite counterpart and checking the feasibility as a product expert. Identifying the ‘Gaps’ and recommending the client with proper solutions to meet the requirement.
• Worked on Functional Design, ‘Walk through’ to the development team as well System Test team to facilitate the technical design and coding as well as SIT test cases drafting.
• Initiating the Time and Labor build by completing the Set up/Configurations as required.
• In addition to the entire basic set up required for Time and Labor, configured the Template built rules, ‘Compensatory Time Plans’, integration of Time Collection Devices, Absence Management and Global Payroll with Time and Labor system.
• Have done ‘Proof of Concept’ to the client regarding the delivered product functioning as well as the ‘customization’ approaches while providing the solution to the some requirements. Notable in this regard are TL Light version, Compensatory Time Off Admin TRCs, Comp Time accrual post ‘approval’ by the manager, Day Light Savings time delivered functionality ‘gaps’ addressed via some ‘reports’ and ‘work around’ etc.
• Developed the DST Audit Queries via Query Manager to help the country SME to audit the time impacted when reported over DST change windows for different time zones used.
• Holding discussions with the entire functional team while arriving at a solution for any requirement by considering the end-to-impact of the solution and arriving at the best one.
• Providing clarifications to the application development team regarding the custom rules to be written bridging between SME and development team.
• Provided functional specifications with respect to Time and Labor security as per FD Global policies and input the ‘FD Security’ team with the same for configuring Roles and User Profiles.
• Reviewing the SIT test cases written by System Test team and providing inputs to them regarding the coverage, corrections etc. and finally providing the ‘approval’ on behalf of functional team.
• Drafted ‘Time and Labor Configuration’ documents for each of the countries the Time and Labor application is rolled out.
• Drafted the ‘Rules Inventory’ for each of the countries. Rule inventory is a platform where the functional specifications with respect to each and every business rule is maintained. This is referred to by all stake holders.
• Prepared the ‘Migration Checklist’ to ensure the build items get migrated from development environments to test or Production environments without any gaps.
• Prepared the user manuals for various levels - ‘ESS’, ‘MSS’ and ‘HR Operations’ detailing the tasks related to HR, Time and Labor, Absence & Payroll.
• Involved in the end-users of various levels - employees, managers and HR Operations on tasks related to them with respect to Time and Labor.
• Monitored, facilitated and supported the UAT activities for couple of countries implemented.
• Done the Go-live preparation activities such as collecting the end user data (to be enrolled into the system) from the respective country SME, formatted them to mass upload tools, u-loading the data into the system. Validating the system readiness reviewing the build migration as well as uploaded data before go-live.
• Post go-live support offered by fixing the issues encountered participating in calls till warranty support time lines and equipping the users with skill of how to handle system.
• Helped the BAU team in fixing any issues reported by providing the functional inputs when they need anything.
• Worked on Change Requirements for the countries TL is rolled out. Part of such change requirement gathering, analysis and recommended solutions appropriately designing the ‘business process’ to be adopted to meet the requirement.

Business Analyst PeopleSoft

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Since this was a post implementation, was working with business and elicit the change requirements or enhancements if any out of functionalities or reports or analytics.
• Involved in end to end SDLC - Requirements Gathering from business teams, documenting the same, working on Functional Design, Driving the technical team regarding the code changes to be done, walkthrough to the SIT team, performing UAT on behalf of business and providing BA Sign Off.
• Worked on design for customizations like enabling the ‘Helpdesk’ hyperlink from Time Sheet page via ESS that would help the users to raise queries with ‘Help Desk’ for any time related queries.
• Co-ordinated with technical team in writing the custom SQL (rules) for special holiday scenarios, Compensation time accruals etc.
• Presenting the status to the business team onsite on a day to day basis bridging between technical team and program management.
• Providing the weekly status to the Program Management regarding the usability of Tl system by the BPO users in Philippines.
• Prepared the User Manuals role wise for Employees, Managers and HR Operations.
• Provided the user s to the roles mentioned via Tandberg.
• Provided checklist of items for management of TL system and ensuring the payroll process to go smooth.
• Set up Schedules and Shifts using a custom process for the business users in Production environment until the concerned HR people were trained to use the system efficiently.

PeopleSoft QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Business Documents and deriving the effective possible QA Scenarios out of them.
• Drafting detailed QA Scripts for the scenarios derived.
• Organizing s on business processes flow of various customizations and logics.
• Being part of BRD walkthroughs accompanying my team members and discussing the functionality with concerned Business Analysts.
• Reviewing the QA Scenarios and QA Scripts of my team members and advising them for changes to be made if any.
• Giving the QA drafts of scenarios as well as scripts to concerned Business Analysts for sign off.
• Helping my team members to overcome any issues during QA Execution like hinting them of process flows and data set up.
• Tracking the QA team status on tools like HPQC/Maestro and pulling out reports as and when required.
• Reporting the status of QA Execution to the client via Conference call on a daily basis and discussing regarding gaps in QA Execution if any.
• Updating the Project Delivery Team regarding the QA status on a weekly basis.

Functional Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performing the Admin Tasks of Core HR.
• Checking up the Security accesses given to the employees when they are unable to access certain pages of WFA and resolving the issues.
• Set up different Organizations. Locations, Jobs, Hierarchies (Org and Supervisor), Holiday Schedules etc.
• Set up the Name, Address Formats on the Personal Data pages for various locations of Confidential across the Globe.
• Set Up additional Absence Elements as per the changed requirements of the organization.
• Issue resolutions in the Absences and PTO Accruals.
• Generating the PS Query reports pulling up the employee information across various centers of Confidential for the purpose of Top level Management.
• Worked on Base Benefits support activities for the employees.
• Worked on Request for Proposals supporting Oracle EBS Delivery team.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked through all the phases of SDLC for the Upgrade.
• Worked on upgrade of Core HR, NA payroll & Time and Labor modules.
• Preparing fit gap analysis and functional design documents.
• Discussing with Technical Consultants in drawing out the Technical Specifications as per Fit-Gap.
• Worked on ad hoc report generation as per the specific Customer requirements.
• Made some Customizations in the 9.1 related to HR such as Address validation, Appearance of the Position title on Select employee page of the MSS, Some field label changes etc.
• Setting up Overtime Earning Codes for CA employees to ensure them pay at a double rate than the normal.
• Setting up Additional Earnings code and a corresponding Payback code in NA payroll.
• Reviewed the Test Cases on NA Payroll, Time and Labor & Core HR modules.
• Monitored the UA Testing for HR, NA payroll & Time and Labor modules.
• Analysis, preparing the estimate, Functional Testing, supporting the UAT testing and final sign off of the Production migration of the upgrade development from the client.
• Provide functional support, guidance and advice for identified system problem reports and change requests as per guidelines and processes.
• Responsible for ensuring all reported production issues are resolved in a timely manner and the applications in production are available to the users.
• And also monitored System Integration Testing as well as Regression Testing for the same.
• Discussing the issues with QA team and accordingly coordinating with Development team to resolve the issues encountered during SIT.
• Analyzing the requirements of the Clients, mapping them to delivered functionalities of PeopleSoft and also deriving brief solutions which involved customizations.
• Prepared various Proof of Concepts required for Client Presentations.
• Prepared the UA Test Cases on various HRMS modules for using it in projects.

PeopleSoft HRIS Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a part of the team involved in PeopleSoft Support project.
• Worked extensively on Job data issues like effective dates, wrong hiring process and change compensations.
• Worked on Self Service Implementation and UA Testing.
• Create and/or Use Functional design documents to carry out technical design and Development.
• Supporting the Self-service module resolving the issues like approval notification related, direct reports set up and workflow configuration issues.
• Supporting the Performance module resolving the issues like Transfer, Resetting, canceling and deleting the documents based on the requests from the Managers.
• Setup New country business implementation.
• Setup Tables like Salary Plans, Salary Grades, Job Codes, Department, Absences, Vendors, and Holiday Schedules.
• Worked on Tree Manager Re-Organization structure.
• Creating New Departments and assign to Tree Manager.
• Worked on Base Benefits and Benefits Administration support functions for NA region of employees.
• Setup User Security. Worked on Row Level Security.
• Design/modify reports in PS QUERY via Query Manager.
• Global Assignment issues like International Transfers, Assignments.
• Worked as NA Payroll Process Admin.
• HR Functionality testing of customizations & Upgrades.
• Involved in detailed UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Worked on the issues of Position Data Management and Job data Issues.
• Participated in Conference calls as a member of the team to improve and understanding of PeopleSoft issues, Processes, queries and capabilities.
• Involved in setting up the core tables for HR, Base benefits, Like Job code creation, Department Creation, Location Creation.
• Worked on Testing Projects, write Test Scripts, execute test cases.