Gaayathri T A
Dallas,TX
Summary
An incisive professional with around 10+ years of experience in Information Technology in analyzing, Planning, configuring, implementing, customizing, maintaining and administering Solutions. Over 5+ years of Extensive experience as a Workday Security consultant, Workday Techno Functional consultant, Security SME and provided the critical solutions in Workday.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Workday Security Admin
Vizio
04.2023 - Current
- Working as the Workday admin for the projects, enhancements, configurations and responsible for handling issues received from HRSC related to Core HCM, Recruitment, Time Tracking and Performance Management.
- Utilized Admin Console to manage and configure security access, enhancing system usability and data protection.
- Worked on functional enhancements especially in core HCM areas (Hire & Onboarding) and addressed complex requirements.
- Reviewed the Security Configuration (Domain and Business Processes) and modified the changes, if necessary.
- Addressed different types of configurations and process flows both in Business processes as well security areas.
- Have experience in changing the existing configurations and provided solutions.
- Provided temporary workarounds instantly and having expertise on break fixes.
- Modified the business process definitions bases on client requirements.
- Maintain configurable security configurations and edited business process notifications.
- Worked on different business process like Change Job, Job application, hire, request time off, manage goals.
- Configuring security, process flows, staffing models, and notifications for Business Processes within Workday system.
- Implemented security configurations following established designs, maintaining consistency and minimizing risks.
- Worked on modifying/troubleshooting/enhancing existing custom reports using Calculated Fields.
- Experience in creating Job Profiles, Job Families and Job Family Groups, also worked with the creation and maintenance of position and job staffing models.
- Worked in maintenance and creation of Workday Supervisory Organizations, Locations, Positions, Cost centers, Cost Center hierarchies and worked on the Role Based Security, User Based Security and Job Based Security groups.
- Reviewed the Security Configuration (Domain and Business Processes) and modified the changes, if necessary.
- Created new custom reports and modified the existing reports based on client requirements
- Configured the Performance Review templates and launched to huge population.
- Performance review closure using Mass operation management and Mass archive goals.
- Supported Production issues related to performance.
- Configured the Questionnaires, notifications and help text for the business processes.
- Global Translations.
- Worked on Period schedules and Work schedule Calendars.
- Worked on Time Tracking Business Process such as Enter time, Assign work schedule and request overtime.
- Worked on Time entry code, Time code groups, Time entry Templates.
- Worked on various time calculations to calculate different set of overtimes, holiday pay, shift differential pays, weekend pay.
- Frequently handled data loads using EIB’s.
- Co-ordinate with clients for any ongoing issues.
Workday HCM Functional Analyst
Hitachi Consulting
10.2019 - 11.2022
- Worked as the Support analyst for the project and responsible for handling issues received from customers related to Core HCM, Time Tracking and Performance Management.
- Configured security, process flows, staffing models, and notifications for Business Processes within Workday system.
- Reviewed the Security Configuration (Domain and Business Processes) and modified the changes, if necessary.
- Identified issues which are missing the functionality and provided solutions.
- Have experience on changing the existing configurations and provided solutions for hard stops. Provided permanent solutions to the highly impacted issues.
- Editing Business Processes, optimizing and their maintenance.
- Created Supervisory Organizations, Cost Centers, Cost Center Hierarchies, and location hierarchies and modification of Workday Business Processes and definitions.
- Good experience in Configuring Business Processes and Security group’s assignments.
- Configured new Dashboards by using custom reports which are enabled as a worklets and providing security groups to restrict from specific users.
- Utilized Admin Console to manage and configure security access, enhancing system usability and data protection.
- Documentation of initial analysis, testing, defect fixing.
- Conducted KT sessions for clients on topics ranging from basic configuration to concepts to upcoming features of Workday.
- Besides configuration, have been part of regular calls with onshore and client to come up with best practices and solutions for their Workday Recruitment setup, testing of decided features, troubleshoot issues, also suggest designing of features and workflows.
- Providing Daily status reports to onshore/off-shore managers and handling other project management activities such as Daily Status discussion, reporting, work assignments.
SuccessFactors Consultant
Ericsson
06.2015 - 01.2018
- Designed a globally scalable SAP SuccessFactors LMS solution in accordance with the business processes. Conduct iteration workshops to gather requirements.
- Data – Responsible for data gathering by conducting Data workshop. Upload learning data Integration – Integration of third-party Content providers.
- Item Creation/ Schedule Offering Creation/References for Based on Business.
- Domain/Domain Restriction Creation for Entity Restriction and Functional.
- Assignment Profile: Mass Allocating the Items/ Schedule offering / Assignment Profile creation, which involves Manage Rules to be configured for target group.
- Catalog Set ups: Adding Items to the Catalog and assigning the Catalogues to the users via the Assignment Profiles.
- Role Managements: Creating different Roles for Admin, and User and attaching the respective Privileges role for them.
- Conducted Unit Testing, QA testing, Integration Testing and coordinated UAT with the SMEs.
Technology Analyst
Cognizant
01.2012 - 05.2015
- · Served as the analyst for various PeopleSoft FSCM initiatives on 9.1.
- · Actively participated in requirement/design gap analysis.
- · Interface with Business Analysts, Application architects and Developers to understand all business
- workflows, applications, interfaces / sub systems.
- · Prepared test scenarios, test conditions, test cases and test scripts based on business and technical
- requirements.
- Reviewed/analyzed customization requirements, technical and functional specification documents to develop test cases.
- Developed and executed complex test cases for Onbase and PeopleSoft applications, workflows and reports that encompass full spectrum of testing: system, end-to-end, regression and user acceptance testing.
- Utilized HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to manage testing lifecycle.
- Provided reports to managers and business users and effectively communicated severity defects impact to the application.
Education
B.E - Computer Science And Engineering
Anna University
Chennai, India2011
Skills
- Workday HCM & Security
- Workday Integrations
- Workday Time Tracking & Absence
- Workday Talent & Performance
- Workday Studio
- Data Transformations
Professional Experience
- Experience in planning, designing and recommending business processes to improve and support HR business.
- Proficient in configuring Security solutions in various modules in Workday like Security, HCM, Time & Absence, Payroll, Benefits and Compensation, IT Projects, Learning, Integration, Finance, Recruiting & Staffing, Talent, Reporting and Performance Management.
- Expert in designing the Security solutions for development of Security Configuration By creating various levels of Security groups and granted the permissions at BP and Domain level.
- Implemented the Learning Module and created several security groups, like created the Learning topics, Learning topics Security Segments, User Based, Organizational Based, Job Based, Segment Based and Intersection based security groups and updated the Domains and BPs and activate the Pending Security Policy changes for this Massive Implementation across the corporate level.
- Experience in Core Workday Business Processes, HCM, Report Writer & Calculated fields Security, Workday Integration Validations.
- Expertise in Configuration and maintenance of Business processes as per the client requirements in Workday.
- Good understanding of Integrations including Web Services, SaaS, Workday Architecture, Business Process Framework to make decisions over data integrity issues.
- Good experience on creating Custom reports, Various Dashboards, score cards and templates for analytics.
- Proficient in developing test strategy by creating test plans and executing them through different phases of testing. Good understanding on Role Based Security, User Based Security & Segmented Security Groups.
- Resolving issues related to Data Errors, Validations, Condition Rules, Calculated Fields, and Notifications, Business Process routings, Workflow and Transaction events that resulted in keeping aggressive project delivery on track.
- Partnered with cross-functional teams in the development, testing and implementation of Workday Security Solutions and Dashboards.
Timeline
Workday Security Admin
Vizio
04.2023 - Current
Workday HCM Functional Analyst
Hitachi Consulting
10.2019 - 11.2022
SuccessFactors Consultant
Ericsson
06.2015 - 01.2018
Technology Analyst
Cognizant
01.2012 - 05.2015
B.E - Computer Science And Engineering
Anna University
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