SUMMARY:

• .17+ years of consulting experience with 5+ years in Workday Integration and 12+ years in software development and QA.
• Hands - on experience in configuration of workday modules such as Recruiting, Benefits, Compensation and different types of reports. Integration experience using EIB, Studio, Packaged Integration, Core Connectors and Document Transformation.
• Specialization in testing and vendor management for major releases while managing on-shore and off-shore teams using agile methodology.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Workday Integration Consultant

• Worked directly with key business and IT stakeholders to confirm requirements, consider design alternatives, facilitate discussions and ultimately drive requirements sign-off, developing, testing and deployment of integration solution for client specific requirements
• Analyzed client’s HR business needs through client working sessions and day to day support of Workday HCM, security, compensation and reporting issues
• Understanding the process flow and defining the scope, analyzing the dependencies and creating the functional design
• Good understanding of integration including Web Services, SaaS, Workday Architecture, and Business Process Framework
• Experience in creating new inbound and outbound integrations (EIB/Workday Studio/Core Connectors) in Workday for HR, Benefits, Payroll and Time Tracking
• Hands on experience in configuration of workday modules like Recruiting, Benefits, Compensation and different types of simple reports, advanced custom reports, and matrix reports in Workday
• Involved in testing and ongoing support of business reports
• Responsible for the generation of client requested reports and dashboards
• Ongoing support and enhancements of current integrations to ensure they are built properly to support other third-party systems

Confidential,LA

Workday Integration Consultant

• Experience in business processes mapping and providing ongoing production support for various clients including requirements gathering, process analysis, system configuration, development, testing, deployment and documentation for a fixed width output format
• Facilitated knowledge transfer and educated clients on developing and operating interfaces to and from a SaaS platform
• Proficient in Workday Connectors, EIBs, Studio, Reporting, Workday HCM, Business Processes, iLoad, and Security
• Participated in the testing lifecycle and led unit, system and integrated testing activities for integrations
• Created advanced Workday reports with calculated fields and modified existing custom reports
• Involved in full life cycle of the implementation and mapped legacy reports to Workday integrations to support inbound and outbound interfaces
• Acted as subject matter expert on integrations, reports, data loads (EIB) and security
• Testing new system releases and evaluating the impact to integrations and reports
• Worked closely with HR, Benefits, Payroll to identify new opportunities to enhance functionality and improve processing efficiency

Confidential

Lead QA Engineer

• Introduced and implemented processes and procedures for leveraging enterprise, test & defect management, UAT testing, dashboard reporting and internal audit
• Partnered with the development and project management to establish an agile and flexible yet structured process for releasing developed and tested business solutions into production
• Key contributor to implementation of release, change, Incident, and service level management components
• Ownership of test delivery, status reporting, test artifacts and execution results throughout the SDLC phase for Waterfall as well as Agile project engagements
• Lead QA resources/offshore team and provide mentoring and training on different tasks
• Facilitate and drive the implementation and management of strategic initiatives to support global QA& Testing activities including standards, strategies and roadmaps
• Work closely with off-shore third party vendors to deliver projects to time, cost and quality requirements
• Led the program level weekly separation activity calls and provide management with overall metrics and dash-boards for the accomplished activities
• Led efforts for end-to-end process and data migration to retain critical client and conduct the pre-and post-migration server testing
• Coordinating with off-shore Workday Functional analysts and performed effective reviews on design and also coordinating with technical team for developments to ensure bug free deliverables
• Lead the testing phase of HCM and conducted Unit testing in Workday

Confidential

Lead QA Analyst

• Developed and implemented tactical and strategic plans for global IT quality engineering group meeting well defined business objectives that were achievable, challenging, and deliverable
• Reviewed functional and technical requirement documents to find inconsistencies and identified the contradictions Ensured accuracy, completeness, clarity and simplification of BRD
• Coordinated with program management for the scheduling, execution of User Acceptance Test
• Conducted Tier 2 level issue verification and research against proprietary billing system
• Acted as the subject matter expert of BORG for all activities and tasks for project management
• Guided and assisted QA teams in understanding fundamental SOA and systems integration concepts Working under matrix management and leading multiple QA teams and projects
• Manage overall daily release execution milestones to ensure target deadlines are met as well as coordinate, distribute, and ensure validation of Emergency Production Hotfix requests when applicable
• Training of Test Analysts (Onshore and Offshore) in multiple geographic locations within the US and India on testing procedures and guidelines including writing of functional and regression test plans, execution, documenting regression and integration test script results using Mercury Quality Center
• Ensure all project release level testing has completed full functional and regression lifecycle testing and that all releases achieve 100% functional and regression execution prior to release certification with zero defects prior to production implementation
• Developed Load Runner scripts for clients, which were used for testing performance of reports Designing hybrid framework for automation (using QTP) which has good usability