Apurva Awate
+919028253808 [email protected]
Objective
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively
unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Career Summary
Driven business intelligence professional managing areas such as data mining, database management and report development. Meticulous and hardworking with a
disciplined and methodical approach. Exceptional skills in project management, problem-solving and verbal and written communication.Knowledge of Financial Services
and Life sciences domain.
Technical Proficiency
RDBMS : Oracle 10 i ,SQL Server2000
Data-ware house Technologies : ETL Technologies: Informatica
BI Technologies : IBM Cognos Analytics, Tibco Spotfire, Qlikview, Power BI, SAP Business Objects
Scripting Languages : Python
Programming Languages : C,C++,Core Java
Data Analytics
Data Management
Certifications
ITIL Foundation
IBM Cognos BI Author
IBM Cognos Metadata Model
Life Sciences (level 0)
Professional Summary
Cognizant Technologies Pvt Ltd Senior Associate May 2021-June2022
Wipro Technologies Specialist Oct 2017-May 2021
Cognizant Technologies Pvt Ltd Associate Mar 2013-Oct 2017
Professional Experience
Cognizant Technologies Pvt Ltd Location : Pune Designation:Senior Associate May2021-June 2022
Project Summary
Project: QA Reports/Dashboard Developer Role:Power BI Developer June2021-June2022
Description:
Quality Assurance Reports and Dashboard developed with the goal to track QA activities handled various teams. This helps management to get idea of QA elements like
bugs, defects along with the streams and ageing factors .
Responsibilities:
OData Rest API calls were used to get data into the Power Bi system.
Power Query used for filtering and cleansing and modification of the source data.
various visualizations are used to show multiple aspects of the QA activities.
Environment :Azure Devops,Power BI
Wipro Technologies Location : Pune Designation:Specialist Oct 2017-May 2021
Project Summary
Project: Application Maintenance & Developer Role:BO Support/Maintenance June 2020-May 2021
Description:
Developed reports are based on variety of insurance policies across the region. There are more than 200+ reports in Cognos and Business Objects. Which needs to be
maintained and handled by AMS Team for all queries and enchantments requests. These reports are used by the end users and technical peers for the analysis and
business. These reports have daily data refresh activity for which we have jobs in data stage . Service now tool used for all process related activities like, incident
management, change management, Problem tickets etc.
Responsibilities:
Cognos Activities:
Package based reports
Report Related Issues.
Bug Fixes. - Minor/Major Enhancement.
Cognos Development:
Creating reports for various SOW as per different requirement.
Business Object Activities-
Data issues
Report Performance issues
Universe maintenance activities
Supervisor activities.
Process Management :
Implementing changes requested in the existing reports.
Implementing the creation of new reports as a part of enhancement.
New applications on-boarding for support. Project process documentation.
Providing KT to new joiners in the project
Description:
Change request: Implementing CR for different applications
To apply change in current application.
Problem ticket: Creation of PBI for non-familiar issue or some cases with long timeline requirement
Incident: Raise an issue for non -working application or application with some sort of errors.
Environment :Cognos 10,SAP Business Objects 5.1 and 6.5
Project: AMS Project Support and Maintenance Role:Cognos Support and Developer June 2019-May 2020
Description:
There are various reports which are used by the clients for daily analysis and reporting purpose.We had responsibility for development and maintenance of these reports
and dashboards. .
Responsibilities:
Data Monitoring/scheduling
Access management
Report Related Issues.
Minor/Major Enhancement.
Report studio report
Dashboard support
Deployments.
Bug Fixes.
Change request: Implementing CR for different applications
To apply change in current application.
Problem ticket: Creation of PBI for non-familiar issue or some cases with long timeline requirement
Incident: Raise an issue for non -working application or application with some sort of errors
Process Management :
Implementing changes requested in the existing reports.
Implementing the creation of new reports as a part of enhancement.
New applications on-boarding for support.
Project process documentation.
Environment: Cognos Analytics,SQL Server
Project: Migration and development of BO 3.1 Reports to BO4.1 Role:BO Reports Developer Nov 2017-May 2018
Description:
We are responsible for development and implementation of complex project module. This required standard software development principles. Project includes
development of all Non-Core Recon reports to be migrated and developed in BO 4.1 version. There were three region reports need to be redeveloped and deliver within
timeline.
Responsibilities:
Being developer was involved in all development activities including execution and handover process as well. We have developed reports in BO 4.1 version which need
to be migrated from BO3.1.reports belong to three regions (EMEA,APAC,AMER) for Non-Core reports.
Environment:Business Objects 4.1
Cognizant Technologies Pvt Ltd Location : Pune Designation:Associate Mar2013-Oct2017
Project: Fusion Ops Application Support Role:Fusion ops Reports Developer and Support June2016-Oct2017
Description:
Cloud-Based Analytics Application for the supply chain Management.
Fusion-ops application extracts Salesforce.com data and combines it with data from SAP to provide a single, integrated view of bookings, revenue, inventory, demand,
and more.
Responsibilities:
Access Management
User management
Technical Issue resolution
Handling Service disruption
Co-ordination between Users and Vendors during critical issues
Process Management :
New applications on-boarding for support.
Project process documentation.
Providing KT to new joiners in the project
Change request:
Implementing CR for different applications
To apply change in current application.
Problem ticket:
Creation of PBI for non-familiar issue or some cases with long timeline requirement
Incident: Raise an issue for non -working application or application with some sort of errors
CMDB Activity
As a part of Process Management, I was involved in the creation of Configuration Items (CI).
It involves creation of whole application and architecture of Fusion Ops in Remedy.
Environment :Fusion Ops(SCM Reporting Tool)
Project: NN EU Release & Enhancements Role: Qlikview Reports Developer and Support Oct 2015-Mar 2016
Description:
Weekly reports for Tresiba Launch. Reports will be delivered directly to users by email in the form of PDF/PowerPoint reports. In addition to Call KPI based reports,
separate data will be loaded by the affiliates with weekly sales figures to be configured into custom reports.
The weekly reports will be configured in Qlikview and released to relevant stakeholders every as per affiliate preferences (also subject to data file availability) via e-mail
(PDF format).affiliate specific considerations will be taken into account to limit access to these reports only for the target affiliates.
Responsibilities:
As a Team member I used to directly interact with client tech team, understood the issue and resolve it on the same business day. Actively involved in project activities to
make sure the delivery is on time.
Creation of Design documents.
E2E Development and testing
Always delivered code and project documents in existing timeline.
Incorporated the CR within existing timelines
Optimize Qlikview application for best performance
Provide support for upcoming enhancements and for the existing application as well.
Preparing the necessary documents like Detailed Design Documents.
Tracking SIT & UAT defects to closure
Environment :Qlikview11.2
Project: EIM DW M&O Role: BI Reports Developer and Support Nov 2014-July 2015
Description:
Life science is spread globally across NA, EMEA & APAC regions. There are more than 360 applications in the Merck Environment. This Project is basically to provide
application support for all Cognos and Spotfire Applications in Merck Environment.
Application support involves Report Data issues, Changes in existing reports, User Management, Deployment of code to Prod/Test, Data Source Creation,
Implementation of Cube Refresh
Process Management involves Problem management, Change Management, Incident Management and CMDB using Remedy etc.
Responsibilities
Cognos/Spotfire Support:
Access to Cognos connection.
Report studio report
Analysis studio report
Dashboard support
Project Setup on Cognos Portal.
Deployments.
Report Related Issues.
Bug Fixes.
Minor/Major Enhancement.
Cognos/Spotfire Development:
Creating reports for various SOW as per different requirement.
Report studio reports.
Cognos framework manager
Process Management :
Implementing changes requested in the existing reports.
Implementing the creation of new reports as a part of enhancement.
New applications on-boarding for support.
Project process documentation.
Providing KT to new joiners in the project
Change request:
Implementing CR for different applications
To apply change in current application.
Problem ticket:
Creation of PBI for non-familiar issue or some cases with long timeline requirement
Incident: Raise an issue for non -working application or application with some sort of errors
CMDB Activity
As a part of Process Management, I was involved in the creation of Configuration Items (CI).
It involves creation of whole application and architecture of Cognos / Spotfire /Business Objects /Micro strategy in Remedy.
Architecture involves the creation of 100+ Application CI’s with their relations to Servers /Databases /Applications.
Application System involves creation of 350+ Application Service CI’s with their relation to Servers /Databases
Environment :Cognos8,Cognos10.Spotfire
Project: GHH-IDW Role: BI Reports Developer and Support Aug 2013-Mar 2014
Description:
To provide an analytical tool for power users and managers to query Sales and Activity data for the Sales Force
To build various KPIs with Adhoc Dimensions and Adhoc expressions capability
To analyze business requirements and build various Metrics for Power Users
To provide additional functionality to power users to develop complex reports / graphs and analyze it
It is integrated data ware house which shares across multiple countries in APAC region. It’s Single platform reporting solution for all the APAC Countries. This consists
of sales data with respect to client account.
Sales made by the medical representatives, this can be analyzed by across organization, whether the sales target met or not, on monthly, Quartly, yearly basis.
Adhoc package which creates own analysis reports
The primary objectives:
Test inbound layer data to check whether full data loaded from file to table.
Test inbounds to transform layer transmission.
Test Transform to Business and Business to mart layer data transfer.
Responsibilities:
Generate SQL queries for ETL and BI testing.
Interface Validation of report.
Documentation and writing test script for reports.
Environment:
Cognos10,Oracle
Education
Course& Degree: University & Year of Passing:
Master of Computer Applications Pune University,2012
Personal Profile
Date of birth : 12th April 1989
Marital status : Married
Language known : English, Hindi ,Marathi ,Kannada