Nidhi

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Over 7 years of extensive experience in the complete Software Development Life Cycle
(SDLC) covering Requirements Management, Data Analysis, Data Modeling, System
Analysis, Architecture and Design, Development, Testing and Deployment of business
applications.
Experience in providing reporting analytical thinking, process improvements, problem solving,
time management, decision making and issue resolution.
Strong Data Modeling experience using ER diagram, Dimensional/Hierarchical data modeling,
Star Schema modeling, Snow-flake modeling using tools like Erwin, ERStudio.
Proficient in ER diagram, Dimensional/Hierarchical data modeling, Star Schema modeling,
Snow-flake modeling using tools like Erwin, ERStudio.
Extensive experience in gathering business requirements, implementing business processes,
identifying risks, impact analysis, UML modeling, sequence and activity diagrams and using
Rational Rose.
Good experience with RUP (Rational Unified Process) to configure and develop processes,
standards, and procedures.
Extensive knowledge of Data Warehousing, Project Planning and Requirements and Data
Warehouse Deployment.
Full understanding of the ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) solution concepts and functional
knowledge of Informatica.
Well versed with various software development methodologies (SDLC, Agile Methodology,
Extreme Programming, and MSF).
Experience in Business Objects, a Business Intelligence reporting tool to generate ad hoc
reports for non IT users.
Good working knowledge of Web Intelligence and Desktop Intelligence and able to
access reports from InfoView to create ad hoc reports, specify filters, modify and publish
reports in different formats.
Strong understanding of SQL Servers and able to perform basic functions, generated
queries, usage of different SQL Operators and data manipulations.
Experienced in using SQL queries to validate data in Oracle and SQL Server.
Proficient in Data Modeling concepts and usage of ERWIN tool.
Proficient in MS Excel Functionalities. (Pivoting and other BI).
Strong Documentation skills in conducted data modeling review sessions for different user
groups, participated in requirement sessions to identify requirement feasibility.
Goal and team oriented work independently and good peer mentor.
Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationships, able to comfortably converse
with all facets in the clients organization for gathering requirements and validation.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Operating Systems
Databases
Statistical
Business
Intelligence
Tools
Data Modeling Tool
Computer Skills

Windows 7/ Vista/ XP/2000, UNIX

Oracle, SQL Server and Microsoft Access
Microsoft Excel, SAS
InfoView, Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, Informatica,
DataStage
ERWIN.
Microsoft Excel (Data Functions, Pivot Tables etc.) Microsoft
Access and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Macromedia
Dream Weaver, Adobe Photoshop, Smart Draw, Microsoft Visio,
PowerPoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Bank of the West, Los Angeles, CA

Feb 14 Till Date
Role: Data Architect
Analyzed campaign performance by reporting on key business metrics and develop insights
through customer analysis. Maintained reports that measure trends and key business metrics
such as household growth, cross-sell and profitability.
Utilized campaign management application to develop and report on complex campaigns for
multi-channel marketing.
Developed Business Intelligence report transition from Micro Strategy platform to Tableau
utilizing custom SQL.
Write custom SQL that takes marketing campaign definitions, rules, and selection criteria and
enabled execution through Teradata.
Created ad-hoc reports and migrate existing Excel reports to Business Objects Micro Strategy
environment.
Write custom SQL that takes marketing campaign definitions, rules and selection criteria and
enables execution through Teradata.
Environment: SQL, Teradata, Micro Strategy, Microsoft Access, Teradata SQL Assistant, SQL
Server 2008, Microsoft Office
Client: Barclays Bank, New York
Jan
13

Feb
14
Role: Data Architect
Involved in streamlining and automating procedures and data quality control
Analyzing data requirements, and automating, through Excel and Access database, as
required and this involves reconciliation and analysis of large volumes of inventory data
relating to positions in front and back office systems
Applying experience and knowledge of VBA / SQL to automate projects and ensuring that
database output is delivered on a timely and accurate basis
Communicating progress of automation and testing through regular status updates
Constructing detailed procedures and system schema for each database, and ensuring they
are communicated to the team
Assisting with ad hoc projects including controls assessment projects ad hoc reporting
utilizing SSRS and publishing reports to SharePoint site
Environment: SQL Server 2012, Oracle, MS Access, Excel
Client: MobiTV, Emeryville, CA.
Apr 11 - Jan 13
Role: Data Architect
Responsibilities:
Responsible to play a key role in day-to-day support of Business Intelligence tools, Decisional
and Reporting solutions, Business Objects, and underlying ETL framework.
Responsible to gather detailed business and technical requirements and participate in the
definitions of business rules and data standards.
Responsible to create Data Stage jobs to extract, transform and load data into data
warehouses from various sources like relational databases, application systems, temp tables,
flat files etc.
Provide application support to ensure availability and reliability of the shared Business Objects
XI reporting environment, including administration and maintenance of user groups, users,
folders, events, schedules and security.
Designed and developed use cases, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams using UML.
Used the DataStage Designer to develop processes for extracting, cleansing, transforms,
integrating and loading data into data warehouse database.

Developed and maintained reports using in MS Excel queries, SQL in Teradata, and MS Access.
Prepared Logical Data Models using ERWIN that contains set of diagrams and supporting
documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions
of the relationships between the data elements to analyze and document business data
requirements.
Converted various SQL statements into stored procedures thereby reducing the Number of
database accesses.
Participated in monitoring of Enterprise server performance and stability, and perform
required support and maintenance to improve where necessary.
Provided technical support (including upgrades and patching) of existing Production
environment.
Responsible to Test and deploy new Business Object universes to meet business needs.
Conducted analysis of alternatives and provide recommendations for support issue resolution.
Worked with project team to plan a support strategy for solutions and/or enhancements to
existing systems to meet current and future needs.
Performed peer reviews on all BO universes, reports and dashboards.
Engaged in user facing and communication tasks while interacting with support teams,
Business users and Super Users, vendors, and quality assurance team.
Work with IT quality assurance and software delivery teams regarding code tuning efforts,
project phase, post-implementation phase, and performance analysis, as matters are
observed in the production environment.
Documented monthly status reports for enhancement and modification requests for the
development team to assist them in efficient tracking and monitoring of open issues of the
project.

Environment: RUP, UML, Datastage, SQL Server, Informatica, Business Objects-Web

Intelligence and Desktop Intelligence, MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint).
Client: Berlex Pharmaceuticals, Montville, NJ.
Mar 10 - Apr 11
Role: Data Analyst
Responsibilities:
Acted as liaison among business units primarily between the stake holders, Project Manager,
IT Specialist (Developers), Administrators and Testers.
Understood the project scope, objectives, and timelines with MS Project and help explain
them to various teams and prepared the As is and Will be document to help identify the
benefits and project requirements.
Converted User Requirement into Technical Requirement so it is easy for technical team to
understand.
Worked in accordance to the methodology laid down by the RUP for various phases of the
business and created business vision, business architecture documents and mock reports.
Facilitated JAD in order to identify business rules and requirements and then documented
them in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical
people.
Organized requirements into groupings of essential business processes, business rules, and
information needs, and insured that critical requirements are not missed.
Implemented business modeling, data modeling using MS Visio, UML and Rational Rose.
Documented system specifications in Rational RequisitePro in order to track and analyze the
requirements matrix as linked to code.
Use data warehousing tools like ETL (Extraction, Transform and Load), to collect the data from
different department and make it available for management department to quick response.
Also use Online Transaction Process (OLTP) and Online Analytical Process (OLAP) for day to
day basis operation and analysis.

Identify data elements from the source systems, performed data analysis to come up with
data cleansing and integration rules for the ETL process.
Performed ETL (Informatica) tool evaluations. Involved in normalized and multi-dimensional
modeling and building of metadata repository
Used Client/Server, Multi-Tier and Web-Based Architectures by applying Top-Down, Bottom-Up
and both approaches in data modeling.
Created the ad hoc reports using SAS reporting tool Interacted with business managers, ETL
Developers, and Technical development teams to analyze and document user requirements.
Performed risk analysis with technical team to identify the key business risks areas for the
project and prioritized the application development and testing.
Coordinated project scheduling with the software development manager.

Environment: ETL, OLAP, OLTP, RUP, UML, Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Clear Quest, Oracle,
SAS, MS Visio, MS Office, Test Direct.
Client: State Street Corp, Boston, MA.
Mar 09 - Feb 10
Role: Data Analyst
Responsibilities
Participated in gathering Business Requirements and designed the project according to the
Business requirement specifications.
Built the Forms for application using various form modules and windows.
Designed the data flow diagrams using VISIO.
Involved in preparing Business test cases, test design, test Cases, and Strategies.
Reviewed the test cases and bug reports.

Developed user interface screens using VB, ADO to connect to backend and stored
procedures to manipulate data.
Created stored procedures, triggers using PL/SQL.
Wrote SQL queries to perform database Validations.
Used SQL*Plus for updating the database and for data retrieval.
Did unit testing, manual testing of the processes to check the integrity.
Involved in the implementation, testing and maintenance of the system.
Design and develop a custom database (Tables, Views, Functions, Procedures and Packages).
Run batch jobs for loading database tables from flat files using SQL*Loader.
Developed UNIX Shell scripts to automate repetitive database processes.
Executed System and data quality testing to ensure all development deliverables are
production ready.
Worked with java developers to repair and enhance current base of PL/SQL packages to fix
production issues and build new functionality and improve processing time through code
optimizations and indexes.
Environment: VB, SQL, Test Director, SQL Server 2005, PL/SQL, XML, XSLT, Java and UNIX.
Client: Wipro Technologies Bangalore, India
Sep 07 - Mar 09
Role: Data Analyst
Responsibilities:
Designed & Created Test Cases based on the Business requirements (Also referred Source to
Target Detailed mapping document & Transformation rules document).
Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing
Used SQL for Querying the database in UNIX environment
Developed separate test cases for ETL process (Inbound & Outbound) and reporting
Involved with Design and Development team to implement the requirements.

Developed and Performed execution of Test Scripts manually to verify the expected results
Design and development of ETL processes using Informatica ETL tool for dimension and fact
file creation
Involved in Manual and Automated testing using QTP and Quality Center.
Conducted Black Box Functional, Regression and Data Driven. White box Unit and
Integration Testing (positive and negative scenarios).
Defects tracking, review, analyzes and compares results using Quality Center.
Participating in the MR/CR review meetings to resolve the issues.
Defined the Scope for System and Integration Testing
Prepares and submit the summarized audit reports and taking corrective actions
Involved in Uploading Master and Transactional data from flat files and preparation of Test
cases, Sub System Testing.
Document and publish test results, troubleshoot and escalate issues
Preparation of various test documents for ETL process in Quality Center.
Involved in Test Scheduling and milestones with the dependencies
Functionality testing of email notification in ETL job failures, abort or data issue problems.
Identify, assess and intimate potential risks associated to testing scope, quality of the product
and schedule
Created and executed test cases for ETL jobs to upload master data to repository.
Responsible to understand and train others on the enhancements or new features developed
Conduct load testing and provide input into capacity planning efforts.
Provide support to client with assessing how many virtual user licenses would be needed for
performance testing, specifically load testing using Load Runner
Create and execute test scripts, cases, and scenarios that will determine optimal system
performance according to specifications.
Modified the automated scripts from time to time to accommodate the changes/upgrades in
the application interface.
Tested the database to check field size validation, check constraints, stored procedures and
cross verifying the field size defined within the application with metadata.

Environment: Windows XP, Informatica Power Center 6.1/7.1, QTP 9.2, Test Director 7.x, Load
Runner 7.0, Oracle 10g, UNIX AIX 5.2, PERL, Shell Scripting

References will provide up on Request.