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Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
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Ramya Natarajan

Chennai

Summary

Detail-oriented, efficient, and organized professional with over 9.5 years of experience in business analysis and ETL testing. Skilled in designing strategies, assessing risks, and tracking project progress. Demonstrated expertise in data-driven decision-making and process optimization, prioritizing team collaboration and delivering impactful results. Adaptable to changing needs, leveraging skills in stakeholder management, requirement gathering, and strategic planning. Recognized throughout career for analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and effective communication.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

Fragma Data Systems
Banglore
02.2021 - Current
  • Client: Mashreq Bank
  • Domain: Banking and Financial Services
  • Project Details: Risk Data Mart
  • Worked as a Technical Business Analyst with various stakeholders, gathering business requirements, project documentation and project management
  • Hands on experience in data engineering in terms of Query development, Testing, implementation over 40 semantic tables
  • Managed stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
  • Created detailed user stories for system enhancements, leading to improved functionality and user satisfaction.
  • Mentored junior analysts on best practices for business analysis techniques, fostering professional growth within the team.
  • Client: Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
  • Domain: Banking and Financial Services
  • Project Details: Key Performance Indicator Dashboard
  • Quantify KPI -Volume, TAT, team Productivity etc., in Power BI dashboard which helped the higher management take informed decisions about their processes and thus improving the overall customer experience with the Bank
  • Improved project efficiency by analyzing business processes and identifying areas for improvement.
  • Facilitated requirement gathering workshops, resulting in clear project objectives and deliverables.
  • Project Details: Control Analytics
  • To automate control report and report the discrepancy as daily emails alerts from data lake to Trade finance Operations team and Wholesale Finance Operations Team
  • Responsible for Requirement Elicitation, identify source systems, Query Development, Data Setup, Test data setup, UAT and Sign off from Stakeholder
  • Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis, and business presentations to inform divisional strategies.

Senior Test Analyst

Barclays Shared Services
01.2017 - 10.2018

Project Details: Net Promoter Score

  • Worked as a Business Analyst with various stakeholders, gathering business requirements and project documentation
  • Responsible for requirement management and the production of use cases and business rules for the projects
  • Performed BI support by extracting and analyzing the data through data visualization, data insights and trend to top management by using QlikView
  • Supported successful product launches with thorough end-to-end testing of all features and components.
  • Collaborated with data modelers and ETL developers to develop and implement over 200 database attributes in Enterprise Data warehouse

Test Engineer

Infosys Limited
01.2013 - 12.2016
  • Client: WESTPAC, designated as Senior Test Analyst
  • Domain: Banking and Financial Services
  • Worked on various Enterprise Data warehouse projects of Westpac
  • Played a pivot role in consecutive releases of the project (FATCA, 3D Secure that involved gathering requirements, collaborating with multiple stakeholders, drafting and executing test scripts, thus ensuring successful roll out of the project as per the defined timelines
  • Proficient in Database Testing specifically in developing and executing SQL queries to interact with databases (Teradata and Oracle) to validate the flow of data from source to target tables as per the business requirements
  • Expertise in testing various scenarios such as Data Model checks, ER checks, Counts validation, Checksum, Transformation check, Hard coded value checks, Domain value checks, Default values checks, Integrity checks etc
  • Identified the reasons for failure of jobs in Control-M while loading data from source to target system using ‘Informatica Workflow Monitor’
  • Expertise in the use of ‘Quality Center’ for creating requirement traceability, tracking test execution, defect management, defect tracking and Bug Reporting
  • Client: CITIBANK, designated as Test Engineer
  • Domain: Banking and Financial Services
  • Maintained up-to-date documentation of all test plans, procedures, results, and defect tracking databases for future reference or audits.
  • Experience in creating Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements
  • Optimized regression testing efforts through continuous improvement of test cases and methodologies.
  • Tested the ETL jobs (in Control-M) that are scheduled to transfer data from different sources to EDW and within different layers of EDW (Enterprise data Warehouse) and also the reusable ETL transformations which facilitate Daily, Weekly & Monthly loading of data
  • Project Management- Acted proactively as a SPOC from Offshore by absorbing additional responsibilities that include co-ordination of end to end activities like hosting defect triage calls, sending daily status reports to the business teams, get clarifications from Business analysts and tech leads and coordinate with other teams (applications) involved to ensure adherence to the project delivery plan
  • Stakeholder Engagement- Demonstrated exemplary collaborative skills by constantly engaging with key stakeholders and Business Analysts to understand the business requirements and ensure successful execution of deliverables that involved multiple applications
  • Knowledge Management- Developed and published Knowledge management documents detailing overall project flow, key requirements, significant project milestones, delivery time frame

Education

M.Sc. - Data Analytics

Bharathiyar University
Coimbatore
04.2021

B.Sc. - Mathematics

Bharathiyar University
Coimbatore
04.2012

12th Standard -

Govt. Higher Secondary School
Coimbatore
03.2009

10th Standard -

Bishop Francis Matriculation School
Coimbatore
03.2007

Skills

  • Strategic Planning & Execution
  • Business Analysis Planning
  • Gap analysis
  • Stakeholder management
  • Project Management
  • Data mapping
  • ETL Testing & Development
  • Data visualization
  • SQL proficiency
  • Hive
  • Impala
  • Teradata
  • Oracle 11g
  • SQL Server 2005

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: SQL Server 2008, Database Development Professional
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Applications
  • ISTQB: Certified Tester Foundation Level
  • Understanding and Visualizing Data with Python, University of Michigan, https://www.coursera.org/learn/understanding-visualization-data

Accomplishments

  • Bharathiyar University Rank holder (Rank 1) in PG- M.Sc. Data Analytics
  • Received the Raising Star award for Q2, 2015
  • Received many appreciations from senior management for the timely and most effective deliverables which gave me good ratings in the Year End Reviews.
  • Appreciated for handling additional responsibilities in different projects.
  • Actively participated in Hackathon events.

Timeline

Senior Business Analyst

Fragma Data Systems
02.2021 - Current

Senior Test Analyst

Barclays Shared Services
01.2017 - 10.2018

Test Engineer

Infosys Limited
01.2013 - 12.2016

M.Sc. - Data Analytics

Bharathiyar University

B.Sc. - Mathematics

Bharathiyar University

12th Standard -

Govt. Higher Secondary School

10th Standard -

Bishop Francis Matriculation School
Ramya Natarajan