Gaayathri Talapala Amarendran

Qualified professional with over 10+ years of experience in all stages of systems development life cycle including business requirements gathering, design, system / integration / user acceptance testing, documentation and 5 years of exclusive experience in Workday HCM and Security.

• Having around 5 years of experience as Workday Functional Analyst.
• Experienced in planning, designing and recommending business processes to improve and support HR business.
• Exposed to Core HCM, Security, Time Tracking, Absence, Recruitment and Talent & Performance modules.
• Configured business process frameworks and security framework to customize the process flow.
• 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.
• Grabbed expertise in Support Project methodology at Core HCM processes including Staffing, Compensation, Absence & Recruiting modules.
• Experience in maintenance and creation of Workday Supervisory Organizations, Locations, Positions, Cost centers, Cost Center hierarchies and worked on the Object Management Systems like Role Based Security, User Based Security, Job Based Security groups, different staffing models, defining Hire restrictions to Job Management, Position
• Created new and modified the existing Reports based on Client Requirement, Configured Alerts based on scheduled future processes.
• Have played a key role in delivering and testing system integrations and have experience in preparing, delivering, and scheduling Workday reports for stakeholders across the organization.
• Provided temporary workarounds instantly and having expertise on handling break-fixes.
• Experienced to work with Workday Report Writer and creating custom integrations with third party applications using Workday Cloud Connect and EIB.
• Involved in Future Release testing as part of Workday Release management.
• As a Workday Functional Consultant and Tester, involved in creation of Test Scenarios for E2E, UAT and SAT phases.
• Having Good Hands on experience on all type of Tenanted configurations.
• Having hands on experience on ticketing tools like HP Service Manager, Jira, ALM, Service Now.
• Hands on experience in Software Development Life Cycle process (Analysis, Design, Development, Testing) for Implementation and Support in different application domain.
• Have excellent problem solving, time management skills, ability to work independently or as part of a team.