SuccessFactors Consultant
Keysight Technologies
Total years of experience :17 years, 3 Months
Participated in HR workshops and plan SuccessFactors Kick Off meetings.
•Provided project leadership and solution expertise during life-cycle implementations of SuccessFactors solution resulting in on time and on budget delivery
•Conduct meetings with business stake holders and take signoff’s for Go Live.
•Coordinate between implementation partner and client for SuccessFactors implementation
•Conduct meetings with SAP for Incident and defect tracking after Go-Live
•Attend guided beta program with SAP for upcoming quarterly releases every 3 months
•Create teams for universal and admin opt-in’s testing for releases every quarter by SuccessFactors
•Involved in acquisitions and discussions related to employee data and compensation data upload of acquired companies and created new legal entities for acquisitions.
•Arrange HRIT status meetings for pending issues and change requests for SuccessFactors
•Effectively communicating with Stake holders and key business players to lay the implementation and support road map
•Managing work stream leads during test cycles
•Managing the roles based permissions and providing audit trail reports
•Adhering and implementing practices according to SOX compliance
•Providing Security, Data Integrity plans and redesigning the processes
•Providing reports and tracking the progress of the project
•Coordinated between Onshore and offshore teams and provided solutions.
•Providing SAP best practices in implementing SuccessFactors
•Reporting and monitoring high risk roles every month
Role and Responsibilities as Consultant:
•Providing solutions to support tickets arose in remedy software related to Employee Central and Performance & Goals Management module in SuccessFactors
•Attending HR Transformation, PRODUCTION CUTOVER Status updates, SuccessFactors knowledge transfer, SAP Defects and Handover meetings
•Restructuring role based permissions RBP’s, creating new permission groups and permission roles
•Analyzing new software releases and educating HR about new Opt-In updates
•Initial load of employees data templates for new acquisitions and creating new number sequences, foundational data to accommodate employees from acquired company
•Configuring business rules for new enhancements required in Employee Central module
•Changing workflows, creating dynamic roles and dynamic groups for workflows
•Creating and changing Alert messages and Email notifications in Admin center
•Solving tickets related to Position Management, Time Off and Benefits
•Writing business rules and applying SAP solutions to solve system defects related to system
•Enabling fields and making changes to portlets in Employee Central module using manage business configuration in Admin center
•Creating tickets in Launchpad support website related to application errors and coordinating with SAP to close defects
•Supporting interfaces to flow data downstream to ED, AD and other application systems
•Creating reports using online report designer ORD for EC
•Changing data model XML’s for HRIS mapping and propagation of fields in EC
•Configuring notifications to remind managers regarding their reports contract end dates
•Downloading and uploading XML’s for SDM, CDM, CSF’s, Workflow rule and HRIS propagation and making changes according to business requirement
•Creating HRIS sync jobs and Email notification alerts jobs in provisioning
•Configuring position management, creating business rules for validating employee class and workflows for new position types
•Creating Mass changes for transactions involving job information portlet
•Making changes to JRDM, Candidate Profile CDT, Career Sites and administration
•Configuring Data models in EC, RCM - SDM, CDM, CSF CDM, HRIS Propagation, Workflow XML’s in EC and JDRM Requisition template, CDT Candidate Profile and Integration between RCM and EC
•Providing administration for all modules EC, RCM, ONB, LMS, Reports and Analytics
•ONB - Changing panels, notifications, creating reports
Attending meetings with business users and product manager.
Attending HR workshops with business users
Creating SAP Incidents in Launchpad SAP Support
Testing universal and admin opt-in’s released every quarter by SuccessFactors
Supporting Employee Central module
Configuring the XML’s for Succession Data model and Corporate Data model
Solving issues related to HRIS propagation
Configuring MDF’s based on company’s requirement
Configuring Associations and HRIS propagation.
Create EC workflows configuration
Develop user manuals, documentation, configuration workbooks for Success Factors Employee Central
Create RBP for target groups based on HR requirements
Design custom MDF objects to accommodate customer specific requirements for EC
Create target groups and handling administration related issues in SuccessFactors
Testing the interfaces with team and reporting status to product manager
Providing support to SuccessFactors issues
Solving integration issues and helping interface team to design and solve issues related to interfaces
Creating workflows, message definitions and alerts
Upload picklist for CSV picklist
Meet SLA and check remedy software for available tickets
Support HRIS team to upload data using employee import and MDF import’s using import and export data
Create Ad-Hoc reports and MDF reports using online report designer
Adding custom fields to job information portlet
Adding Employee ID to employee details portlet and writing business rules to populate employee id from biographical information portlet
Created business rule for work order end date, to report an error for end date in the past
Including new business units in dynamic roles along with persons
Solving login issues and providing user administration
Creating new permission groups and permission roles for view my pending request
Creating alert messages for contract end date of contingent workers
Solving issues related to contingent workers
SuccessFactors Project Plan Preparation.
SuccessFactors EC Project Kick-Off.
EC project Team Orientation.
Engaged in 5 days requirement gathering sessions with client.
Business Requirement report preparation & requirement traceability matrix preparation.
Solution document designing.
Experience in Bizxpert Methodology - Implementation Methodology and Administrator tools.
Enabling setting in provisioning related to Employee Central, Time-off benefits.
Worked on all four data models: Corporate data model, country specific corporate data model, Succession data model, Country specific succession data model in Provisioning
Worked on association & propagation data model, picklist creation.
Worked on Generic objects\Meta data framework for clock in- clock out data.
Worked on RBP (EC, benefits), workflow & event reasons.
Enabling global benefit in provisioning which includes Succession data model changes, enablement of generic objects, employee central & benefits.
Provide support related to Employee central user management
Worked on association & propagation data model
Support related to user permissions and employee management
Managing workflows and templates
Creation of new template, route maps, rating scales, notifications, competencies and Performance forms.
Modifying goal library and importing goals. Working with Role based permissions.
Worked on Goal Execution, custom fields on Goal Plan Template
User’s issues on notifications, competencies, managing launching/ deletion of performance forms, modifying route maps and creating new routing scales and picking lists.
Experience in Performance Management Configuration, Performance Management Section, Performance Section Permissions & Performance and Goal Management Integration.
Onboarding
Enhanced the existing functionality by including new fields in integration between Onboarding and EC
Provided support to Onboarding module and solved the tickets associated with it.
Created new reports in onboarding module
Created conditions on panels to differentiate between onboarding and cross boarding
Initiated NES step to new candidates
Added new fields to panels for change requests
Created and uploaded custom forms specific to client and attached to panels
Provided onboarding administration by including users both in EC and ONB admin
Changed the Notifications templates according to new requirement
RCM
Created integration between position management and job requisition
Added new fields for RCM to ONB integration
Merged the candidate profile
Changed the CDT candidate profile template and JDRM requisition template
Provided administration to recruitment by creating recruitment groups
Set the password policy and reset candidate passwords
Added new locations to RMK positing location picklist
Enabled new agencies to login to portal
EC Payroll:
Administration of SuccessFactors Employee Central payroll
Running payroll activities - Run production payroll, one click monitoring pre payroll process, managing payroll processes and policies
Managing payroll alerts and applying solution to correct payroll issues
Payroll testing - complete payroll hiring of employees
Testing:
Involved in E2E testing of all the objects developed
System integration testing for interfaces related to SuccessFactors and SAP ECC via Boomi.
Designing functional specifications and test cases for SF interfaces
Superior functionality from risk-based test planning, functional and regression testing to integration validation
Writing test strategy and test plan documents for SF/ ECC interfaces
Providing mapping documents to IT implementers and coordinating between users and functional consultants
Providing test data and tracking the defects related to interfaces
Develop Mobile App’s for various business processes in SAP modules
Design mobile app’s using SKY mobile integrated software which comes as Add-in inside backend SAP
Develop front end UI for mobile app’s using KONY platform
Get trained in SKY integrated development environment and KONY integrated development environment
Interact with the product owner in understanding the mobile app requirement
Develop the platform SKY mobile Add-in with new functionalities
Report the status of development to the project manager and product owner
Attend the software release review meetings
Attend training sessions involving new business processes and App’s
Complete mandatory company trainings related to quality and defects prevention
Build mobile applications on SKY mobile integrated development Environment which is an add-in inside SAP, SKY Mobile is a product of Sky technologies Australia which is subsidy of Kony. Got trained/certified in KONY IDE and SKY Mobile IDE
Build mobile app’s backend processes
Designed leave app’s for HCM module
Preparing the deliverable documents.
Coordinating with team members for reaching the targets.
Nissan, Johannesburg, South Africa ~ Aug 2011 to Jan 2013
SAP HCM Technical Consultant
Project Description: Implementation of SAP HCM module with PA, OM, TM and Payroll sub modules. Handling issues related to SAP HR, ESS/MSS portal, interfaces building, designing and enhancing SAP HCM module.
Organizational management related issues including workflows
ESS/ MSS related issues
Time Management
Personnel Administration
Payroll
HR reports and Queries
Recruitment
Personnel Development
Job Responsibilities at Mahindra Satyam
Work as SAP HCM Consultant for clients in Middle east and Africa
Travel onsite to client locations to perform various duties
Perform a role of onsite coordinator and coordinate between onsite and offshore
Work in waterfall and ASAP methodology of software development
Attend meeting with client development and support manager
Access production support ticket tool and assign ticket to ABAP hot seat and offshore team
Provide production support to the developments after the Go-Live
Attend Go-Live and cutover meetings representing implementation partner
Complete plant specific trainings to work from manufacturing plants of clients
Interact with key sap users to resolve the production support issues
Explain the new requirements to the offshore team and take status of the developments at regular intervals
Develop proof of concepts for interfaces and other developments
Participate in due diligence meetings held for potential future clients
Prepare presentation and proposals for pre-sales team for upcoming clients
Involved from Final Preparation stage of the project in the Implementation.
Trained the Business Process Owners and core users with the SAP HCM functionalities and day-to-day activities too.
Responsible for HR Workshops and HR-key user training & User Acceptance Testing.
Responsible for Testing the Business scenarios and writing the test cases/test scripts.
Uploading the legacy date into the SAP system.
Involved in Go-live activities.
Successfully handled & supported the first month Parallel Payroll run with Legacy System.
Supported the postproduction issues with utmost care and closed all the issues on time.
Actively involved in designing and documenting the ESS MSS requirements through discussions with the process owners.
Blue printing the ESS MSS modules which is for the 2nd Phase of Implementation
Mezzan Holdings Co, Kuwait ~ Dec 2010 to July 2011
SAP HCM Technical consultant
Roles and Responsibilities:
Analysis of development requests received and preparation of technical designs.
Develop code and prepare unit test plans.
Ensuring a high-quality solution for all the delivered objects to the client with in the
Schedule.
Perform internal code reviews to adhere to given standards.
Following the Programming standards and Quality procedures.
Ability to work independently and perform reviews.
Post Go-Live support for SAP HCM module
This is an implementation project. I worked as a SAP ABAP Consultant for this project in Kuwait. My contribution involves in the development of smart forms and scripts in Arabic Developed critical objects in HR ABAP Payroll.
Post Go-Live HR support
Solving defects, developing interfaces for Hand held terminal, monitoring dumps ST22 analysis and applying OSS notes.
Bank report smart form in Arabic, interface programs for hand held device.
Implementing function for international payroll, solved defects related to SD and MM functional modules also other than HR module, monitoring dumps and giving solution to ABAP related issues. Applying OSS notes from service market place
Job Responsibilities at IBM ~ May 2006 to Nov 2010
Complete technical, functional and advance ABAP trainings held as part of entry level trainee program
Complete 15 case studies and work as a shadow resource in various projects
Work as SAP ABAP Application developer for projects in Europe and North America regions
Develop ABAP objects involving workflows, reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements and forms
Interact with functional consultants in understanding the functional design document
Write technical design specification document for the technical ABAP objects developed
Write positive and negative unit test cases for the ABAP objects developed
Review the points proposed by quality check analyst and implement that in the programs
Write code per ABAP naming standards documents and test using extended code check and code inspector
Attend integration test meeting with functional owner and key sap user
Contribute to organization by submitting documents to intellectual capital management
Consulting with Functional owner (Onsite) for Issue resolution and understanding functionality.
Analyzing the functional requirements and preparing Technical specification documents to develop the objects.
Developing Code as per the functional specifications and preparing unit test plans for objects.
Technical Specification review, Code review.
Good hands on various SAP/ABAP tools (EPC, Code Inspector and Runtime Analysis).
Mentoring and guiding the Team members.
Interaction with Onsite coordinator/Client.
Following the Programming standards and Quality procedures.
Good hands on Performance code optimization.
Developed reusable components to be used by other team members.
Mentor the new entry level trainee programmer’s batch and share case studies
Solve production support issues for the objects developed
Attend meetings with the people’s manager to discuss yearly performance rating
Actively participate in company events like SAP Fiesta and IBM Imprint
Attend quality and defects prevention trainings
IBM-Training
Trainee Application Developer - Attended SAP ABAP training at IBM from May 2006 - May 2007
Worked for following clients at IBM
IBM Southbury Connecticut, USA Sep 2009 to Nov 2010
SAP Application Developer
ECCO Quickstep, Denmark Jun 2008 to Aug 2009
ABAP programmer
Fiat Turin, Italy Jun 2007 to May 2008
SAP ABAP Developer
Bachelors of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering, passed in First class with distinction