SUMMARY:

• 13+ years of extensive experience in Scoping, Requirements Analysis, Design, Development and Maintenance of PeopleSoft HRMS 8.0/8.8/8.9/9.0/9.1 , for full life cycle projects.
• Strong experience in performing multiple roles like PeopleSoft functional Consultant, business analyst and Techno functional consultant.
• Excellent exposure to Implementation/support experience on Projects in PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, Time and Labor, Performance Management, Benefits, e - modules, Recruitment, Payroll
• Strong PeopleSoft Upgrade experience and hands-on experience on PeopleSoft 8.8 to PS 9.0 Upgrade.
• Extensive experience in handling projects individually and along with big teams.
• Exposure to working in projects in Onsite-Offshore Model.
• Experience in leading teams with a team size of 4-5 working on PeopleSoft implementation, Upgrade or any support projects.
• Strong PeopleSoft Upgrade experience and hands-on experience on PeopleSoft 8.8 to PS 9.0 Upgrade.
• Extremely motivated team player with solid organizational and time management skills
• Functional experience in PeopleSoft HRMS modules including Core HR, Position management, Profile management, Performance management, Benefits, Payroll, International assignments, multiple jobs
• Drafted number of functional requirement documents, security matrix spread sheets and estimates for various business requirements.
• Expertise in System Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Regression testing, Automation testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experience in using PeopleSoft Application designer and PS Query.
• Expertise in using TOAD and SQL developer and writing PeopleSoft HCM related queries.
• Expertise in handling PeopleSoft security requests.
• Strong understanding of working of PeopleSoft Change management tool - STAT.
• Exposure to handling requests related to Integration broker messages for work-flow messaging and sending the HR data to PeopleSoft third party applications like CRM, EPM.
• Experience in UNIX /Linux commands
• Strong experience on multi-language feature to create PeopleSoft pages
• Experience in handling customizations and implementation of interfaces to third party vendors and tools like Taleo & SoftScape
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and maintains healthy relations with business and end users.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Environment: Custom GSA Federal HR Applications and Tools (CHRIS, PAR, ETAMS and ALOHA)

Responsibilities:

• Prepared functional and technical questionnaires for vendor evaluation and supported PMO with vendor evaluation process during vendor demonstrations.
• Supported and worked with PMO during business case drafting and analysis of risks with different vendors from a functional perspective.
• Developed an excel tool for vendor evaluation by reading all the ratings from different participants; providing weightages for each question and assessment areas and generating a final rating for each vendor that participated in the demos.
• Involved in high-level requirements gathering activity for HR, Payroll and Time and Attendance functional areas.
• Developed High-Level requirements Traceability Matrix using OPM’s listing of HRLOB requirements.
• Participated in detail requirements gathering sessions for HR, Payroll, Time and Attendance functional areas and Non-core applications.

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Environment: PeopleSoft 9.1

Responsibilities:

• Created project test plan that includes time lines, different areas that needs to be tested, resourcing, budgeting, defect tracking process, automated scripting etc.,
• Involved in business user meetings in deciding the functionality that needs to be tested.
• Created processes for defect tracking, Test tracking, reporting
• Involved in weekly meeting with project management team to report testing status.
• Installation of UPK (user productivity kit) for creating test scripts and training functional users for creating test scripts.
• Installation of Jira, training of Jira to users for logging defects and defect tracking.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Environment: PeopleSoft 8.0 to 9.1 (Core HR, Position management, ESS, MSS, Profile management, Recruitment, Dashboard, Global Payroll)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in business user meetings in deciding the functionality required for Profile management configuration.
• Developed design documentation for online custom screens for Self-service profile management using the delivered frame work of Profile management.
• Involved in configuring Position management and developing functional specs for custom position management screens.
• Created functional specifications for various self-service (MSS, ESS) HR transactions for various HR Actions.
• Acted as a Liaison between the business users and technical team providing guidance to the development activity during the implementation of Profile management, Position management, ESS, MSS modules.
• Developed UPK test scripts, automated PeopleSoft test scripts for testing the customizations.
• Did functional unit testing, system testing, Integration testing for all developments completed.

Confidential, Massachusetts, MA

Environment: PeopleSoft 8.0 to 9.1 (Core HR, Position management, Base Benefits, Performance Management, Profile management)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in fit gaps for retrofitting the V8 customizations to V9 application.
• Took decisions about which customizations need to be carried forward and the ones that are to be ignored.
• Did the whole HR (Core HR, Benefits and Position Management) data validation activity and got the sign off from executive committee (ITD & HRD directors).
• Involved in configuration of ePerformance module and integrating the profile management data with Performance management module for PeopleSoft V9.0.
• Created the setup for content types, content items, and profile types, rating models, document templates, document types, participant roles, section definition and workflow configuration etc., related to both Profile management and ePerformance modules.
• Created functional specifications for various customizations related to online and batch requirements.
• Acted as a Liaison between the business users and technical team providing guidance to the development activity during the upgrade.
• Did functional unit testing, integration testing and parallel testing for all batch and online developments.
• Coordinated the user integration testing activity with a user group of almost 100 users in various batches.
• Helped the business during the real time integration development, testing and deployment with the key business partners like State Comptrollers, GIC (Benefits providers) and Ware house for Confidential of Mass.
• Did the UPK training material recording and Job-Aids for various HR processes like Hire, Rehire, Transfer, Job Reclassification, Updating Titles, Departments on the Positions etc.,
• Coordinated the go-live and post go-live activities for data validation, online pages validation.
• Actively handling all the issues till date that users are experiencing either with data, online or batch programs.
• Involved in charting dos and don’ts for correction mode on Job and Position data since correction mode sends real time transactions to third party systems like Comptrollers are having adverse impacts.

Confidential, Oakland, CA

PeopleSoft Analyst

Environment: PeopleSoft 9.0 (Core HR and Benefits & Time and Labor)

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing business requirements and creating documents for fit/gap Analysis for Core HR, Benefits modules.
• Assisting with daily data management updates & all testing activities.
• Participated closely in designing Mass upload tools for Job data, Position data, Add Position, Job code, Department, Variable Compensation, Test results Etc
• Supporting standards and procedures for the management of data records (such as job codes, job families, position, department, employee, global organizational hierarchy), and the maintenance of HR tables
• Configured relationships between organizational structure, jobs and positions
• Comprehensive end user & functional user training.
• Integrated a third party application called time link with PeopleSoft 9.0 for capturing reported time via time clocks to PeopleSoft time and Labor.
• Developed Functional requirements for database update/insert scripts to modify the existing data of employees according to the business needs. Existing data is uploaded from excel and other sources.
• Troubleshooting issues with Leave Accrual Process
• Designed SIT and UAT for customized drill down functionality for Self Service Managers to enable them drill down in the reporting relationship for Reporting and Approval of Time
• Maintenance and enhancement of customized reports and interfaces for PeopleSoft Time and Labor 8.8

Confidential, Seattle, WA

PeopleSoft Functional Consultant

Environment: PeopleSoft 8.8 and PeopleSoft 9.0 (ePay/eProfile, ePerformance, Benefits, Payroll)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in upgrade from PeopleSoft 8.0 to PeopleSoft 9.0 for Core HR, Base Benefits and Ben Admin, Recruitment.
• Got involved in application upgrade customization analysis.
• Worked closely with technical users during retrofit phase of PeopleSoft objects like Fields, Translates, Records, Pages, Components, Menus, Component Interfaces, Application Engines and People Code.
• Helped technical users during retrofit of standalone objects like SQRs, Crystal reports. Approximately 300 SQRs/SQCs, both delivered and custom were retrofitted as part of this upgrade exercise.
• Discussed with end users to assess the impact of reapply of customizations to the new version of PeopleSoft 9.0
• Involved in conversion activity of upgrade during executing delivered application engines. Also involved in customizations to these delivered application engines according to the client’s fields and record changes.
• Functional analysis of re apply of PeopleSoft delivered patches MP4 and MP5 to all demo and development environments.
• Worked with DBAs, STAT administrator and Security Administrator to accomplish the required tasks.
• Worked with Subject matter experts, functional users while applying customization back to the changed functionality of PeopleSoft 9.0.
• Involved in daily/weekly project status meetings to discuss issues and track the overall progress of project.

Confidential, Wilmington, Delaware

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 8.9 MP 1

PeopleSoft HR Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on PeopleSoft functional modules like Recruitment, Global Assignments, Transfers, Hire Rehire and Terminations in home and host countries and Position management.
• Drafted requirements for various PeopleSoft messages using PeopleSoft Integration Broker Messaging technology using SMTP servers.
• Participated in feasibility analysis, design, development, offshore delivery Coordination, functional testing of the developments done by development teams.
• Worked with business users in User Acceptance testing and migration of projects to UAT and production environments.
• Supported the system until it got stabilized and involved in meetings with end users in knowledge transfer to help the end users to get comfortable with the developed application.
• Involved in various enhancements related to development done and made it 100% satisfied system to the end users.
• Worked with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance teams to ensure the development and delivery done is completely compliant with the quality procedures.

Confidential, Wilmington, Delaware

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 8.8 MP 1 (HR ESS/MSS/Performance Management)

PeopleSoft Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Delivered developments on e-modules like Manager self-service and Employee Service modules of PeopleSoft, PeopleSoft translation procedures for Sweden.
• Worked on lots of bug fix requests and enhancements raised by business.
• Worked on Sweden implementation that had lot of Swedish language specific requirements in reports, PeopleSoft portals. This is a big challenge since the implementation was global and there were lots of Sweden specific requirements.
• Involved in lots of PeopleSoft portal, report changes to incorporate Swedish language texts and retaining English language texts for the rest of countries.
• Involved in weekly and monthly meetings with business users about the status on various requests raised, challenges in completion of requests, delivery of requests in time.
• Implemented a custom Manager Self Service transaction called overtime. It involves analysis of the present business workflow, functional and technical feasibility of the request and development.
• Coordinated with the SQA Team to ensure that the project complies with the requirements as lay down in SEI-CMMI level 5.
• Designed and coordinated and tested various online setup and transaction pages, components, batch programs, PS Queries and SQR Reports for the AZ Bolt-On module, for year 2007 bonus processing cycle called Annual Rewards Processing (ARP) module
• Designed eligibility rule PS Queries for the 2007 ARP cycle
• Designed complex Employee Eligibility Processing Application Engine batch program for 2007 ARP cycle

Confidential, Teaneck, New Jersey

Environment: PeopleSoft HCM 8.0, 8.9

PeopleSoft Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on design and implementation, customization and enhancements related to ePerformance.
• Involved in feasibility analysis meetings of implementation of EPerformance module.
• Worked with business users to gather requirements. Assisted in creating a mass approval facility for VPs for the appraisal documents submitted by the staff.
• Involved in analysis, design, testing and delivery of EPerformance module.
• Migrated history appraisal data from legacy PeopleSoft 8.0 system to PeopleSoft 8.9 system.
• Delivered custom reports and online pages for appraisal process throughout the organization.
• Worked with users post implementation on any issues raised and enhancements required.
• Assisted the business during the Prototyping phase of the project by solving technical issues with the help of PeopleSoft Global Support Center (GSC).
• Worked with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance teams to ensure the quality of delivered application.