Neha Kumari

End to end product consultant with implementation experience across the globe. Neha has been credited for multiple massive end to end HR implementation across global clients across industries (insurance, life science, retail). Neha has hands-on experience on testing the SaaS product (Workday, NetSuite) for the entire HR landscape from recruitment, benefits, time & absence, advance compensation, payroll to performance and talent. Apart from working on the HR landscape she has also been the implementation QA lead for advanced analytics reporting and integrations. She has also mentored the team and has built the team on Workday testing. 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Cognizant Worldwide Limited                                                                                      London, United Kingdom 

Senior Product Test Consultant                                                                                                          2021 – Present

Project Name- Prudential Financial                                                                                                                  2022-Present

Test Lead for Compensation Implementation from Workday to Beqom

• Delivered the estimation planning for proposal for compensation implementation of SaaS product Beqom for separate business function of Prudential and presented to the clients.
• Support bid process for Full Life Cycle SOW Programs. 
• Coordinated with the sales team and account teams during the bid activities and following up on pending action items.
• Designed the Statement of Work (SOW) 
• Requirement Analysis
  • Translated the solution approach document for the application Beqom for test plan documents.
  • Analysed the integration data requirements for 14 inbound integrations from workday to Beqom and guided 3-member team on test data identification in workday.
• Test Delivery
  • Overhauled the translation of test scenarios for compensation based on solution approach document.
  • Staged the test data for first phase of project (inbound integration validation) in workday with HR business lead.

Workday Test Manager for LMS Implementation 

• Responsible for building Workday Test Strategies, Test Plans & bespoke Test Cases/Suites during the following phases: 
  • Configuration/Prototype Testing - targeting security groups, business processes, configuration verification, data validation & reporting
  • Data migration- testing data loaded in target with source data and performing reconciliation in C&P, end to end, sandbox 
  • System Integration Testing- testing inbound and outbound integrations from the LMS system
  • End to End Testing – targeting End to End WD module flow 'chaining', integrations & user experience testing
• Test Tooling Configuration -Test Management Repository, Defect Tool, and associated plug-JIRA
• Responsible for defect management including hosting daily defect Triage with publishing the daily status report to various stakeholders both internal and external.
• Building test analysis and reporting for all stakeholders for risk-based approach.
• Direct communication with the development team, third party suppliers and business leads during integration testing to ensure that defects were resolved quickly, design decisions approved, and team working efficiently.
• Contributing to the Go Live cutover plan for both Workday and Integrations implementations
• Led the team for pre-sales on estimation planning, SOW for over four proposals in 2022 that translated to high revenue successful engagements.
• Coached the offshore team on Workday Learning Management System that helped in gaining the business confidence and building the rapport within multiple teams.
• Trained and mentored new joiners in a team on testing for similar greenfield projects.
• Implemented and enforced and best practices within the team for entire project lifecycle that is used in internal projects.
• Managed day-to-day Testing development life cycle tasks and support operations for an eight-person team.

Project Name- IRIS Financial                                                                                                                                                   London 2021

NetSuite Finance QA Analyst                            

• As part of my engagement, Neha worked on monthly regression testing for testing from Salesforce to NetSuite for the sales orders processed for the new and existing Products. 
• Test design for Sales order processing from Salesforce to NetSuite for Monthly releases.
• Designed tests and executed tests for the finance processing that involved workflow in salesforce:
  • Opportunity creation and processing the sales order lifecycle from Salesforce to NetSuite.
• Designed tests and executed tests for the finance processing that involved below modules in NetSuite
  • sales order processing
  • invoice validation
  • revenue arrangement
  • revenue recognition 
  • GL processing 
• UAT support to finance business users   

Project Name- John Lewis Plc                                                                                                                              London, 2018 –2021 

Workday QA Implementation Lead  

• Neha was the test lead for a massive HR transformation that span across 3 phases. She led the test for the below phases
  • Phase 1: HCM, Benefits, Compensation, Time Tracking, Integrations & Reporting
  • Phase 2: Recruitment, Talent and Performance, Learning,
  • Phase 3: Legislative Data Store for legacy migration
• Requirement gathering
  • Responsible for requirement analysis in prototype phase and translated in test scenarios
  • Created and managed the RTM for the original requirements with business process workbooks
• Test Design & Execution
  • Creating of test strategy, plan, and resourcing for all phases of the Workday implementation programme.
  • Designed and reviewed the complex test scenarios for key business processes
  • Conducted workshops with business owners for review and approvals on the test cases
  • Trained the entire offshore team on Workday and managed the test delivery by reviewing the test results 
  • Defect management by logging defects in JIRA, updating the status throughout the project test lifecycle.
• Vendor management
  • Performed integration testing during SIT and shared files to multiple vendors over several iterations.
• Team mentoring
  • Mentored and trained the entire offshore team on workday functional areas, integration, and reporting.
  • Provided constant feedback on performance 
• Stakeholder management
  • Performed risk-based testing and kept the stakeholder team involved and informed on the test progress via daily statues 
  • Conducted daily triage calls and 
  • Contributing to the Go Live cutover plan for both Workday and Integrations implementations.

Project Name: Pharmacyclics (PCYC)                                                                                                                 India 2016 – 2018

• Under this engagement, Neha was the integration QA test lead for integrations for PCYC monthly releases.
• Test Design & Execution
  • Creating of test strategy, plan for monthly releases.
  • Designed and reviewed the complex test scenarios for key business processes
  • Conducted workshops with business owners for review and approvals on the test cases.
  • Defect management by logging defects in ALM.
  • Conduct defect triage meetings with stakeholders and project delivery teams.

Project Name: Gilead Sciences

Workday Integrations Test Lead  

American biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops therapeutics employing 11,000 people across 36 countries

• Worked on Workday implementation for NA region.
• Test management
  • Designing Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
  •  Attended test status meetings to discuss status of applications and relevant documentation.
  • Supported User Acceptance Testing and System Integration Testing Team.
• Worked exhaustively on payroll integration testing for global roll-out (36 countries).
• Collaborated with payroll vendors like SafeGuard and ADP alongside provided extended support for remediation and UAT.
• Worked on Enhancement for business (USA, APAC regions and Mexico)
• Defect management
  • Mapping requirements with test cases and logging defects in HP QC.
  • Worked with the team to close the defect based on business priority.
  • Performing QC administrator in overall project.
• Worked closely with business to explain them functionality how it works
• Conducting Product Owner Demo with business
• Conducting peer reviews within the team to ensure the better-quality deliverables
• Hyper-care support for Workday post go-live.

Hexaware Technologies                                                                                                Chennai, India (2012-2016)

Software Engineer                                                                                                                            2013 –2016

Project Name- American International Group Inc. (AIG)                                                                                             2014–2016

Payroll Test Lead 

• Worked on complex modules project that incorporated more than 3 systems such as PeopleSoft EPM and HCM, Workday and Data Stage.
• Successfully accomplished the implementation of Workday in US and CANADA and smooth rollout of PeopleSoft HRMS for employee strength of 40,000.
• Successful with EPM Upgrade 9.1 and worked on Test lead for Workday Releases
• Working on complex PeopleSoft modules like Payroll and Benefit changes and Shares calculation.
• Test Requirement Analysis, Test Planning & Scheduling.
• Provided Fit Gap analysis to sort out the severity of the issue.
• Involved the major critical processes and delivered to Project Name on or before deadlines.
• Coordinating the team to be on the dot or well ahead of timelines on the planned activities.

Project Name- Aon Hewitt                                                                                                                                                   2013–2014

PeopleSoft Payroll Test Analyst 

Neha worked as functional consultant for ERP applications for project names from multiple business domains, where she was trained in PeopleSoft and delivered test for BMO, Alcoa, and AMEX. Key responsibilities were:

• Preparing test scenarios and automation scripts
• Providing fit-gap analysis to sort out the severity
• Provided knowledge transitions on workforce administration and payroll for the North American payroll module to the new members of the team
• Worked on US Tax update process and enhancement testing.
• Exhaustive manual and automation testing on employee data population, integrations, core HR.
• Working on complex PeopleSoft modules like Payroll and Benefit changes and Shares calculation.
• Test Requirement Analysis, Test Planning & Scheduling.
• Provided Fit Gap analysis to sort out the severity of the issue.

Software Trainee                                                                                                                                                         2012-2013 

• Part of IT trainee batch of October 2022 joiners by Global Talent Track (GTT) for Hexaware technologies.

DIGITAL SKILLS 

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Technical Skill and products

Workday|Peoplesoft|JIRA|HP-ALM|SQL|Salesforce|Tricentis|Dynamics365

Functional Areas

Payroll|Core-HR|Benefits|Advance-compensation|Time tracking|Recruiting|Absence management|LMS|Workday Reporting|Integrations