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Yamini Govindaraj

Chennai

Summary

Over 11 years of programming expertise as an Oracle PL/SQL Developer, including 5 years as a Workday Financials consultant focused on the analysis, design, and implementation of business applications. Demonstrated strong communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills, complemented by effective leadership qualities. Proven ability to deliver high-quality solutions that meet business needs, and drive operational efficiency.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions,
Chennai
10.2020 - Current
  • Successfully led migration of Oracle EBS to Workday Financials with a team of five.

Workday roles:

  • Developed and modified Workday custom reports and calculated fields for diverse business requirements.
  • Enabled workday reports as RAAS for access by downstream and third-party applications.
  • Created and modified inbound and outbound EIBs, using custom reports, Workday web service, and XSLT transformations.
  • Designed Workday Studio integration for complex file processing requirements within Workday applications.
  • Conducted security analysis, creating ISU and ISSG, assigning domain policies accordingly.
  • Modified integrations involving document transformation and core connector concepts to optimize data fields.
  • Involved in BIRT report modification and customized the report needed for the client.
  • Worked in XML, complex XSLT transformations, fixed integration failure issues, and data issues.
  • Proposed innovative solutions using Workday integrations to improve the client's application experience.

Oracle PL/SQL Roles:

  • Developed tables, constraints, functions, procedures, packages, SQL Loader scripts, and Unix shell scripts.
  • Provided technical design and analysis for replicating functional requirements in new integration.
  • Proposed solutions for critical requirements while guiding team members on existing workflows.
  • Facilitated daily status calls with clients to update on development progress.
  • Coordinated cross-team meetings to ensure effective integration testing and issue resolution.
  • Executed phased production deployment for 250 DB and UNIX components without omissions.

Oracle PL/SQL Developer and Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
09.2016 - 09.2019
  • Served as sole Oracle SQL & PL/SQL Developer, managing all technical development tasks.
  • Ramped up quickly on functional aspects of applications and guided team members effectively.
  • Took ownership of application management, coding, testing, and implementing changes rapidly.
  • Conducted thorough root cause analysis for issues reported by warehouse users.
  • Configured Big Brother monitoring tool to set alerts for production-related issues.
  • Established new Cron jobs using crontab for production task automation.
  • Implemented enhancements through development of Oracle Stored Procedures, Functions, and Packages.
  • Created new reports in Oracle Apex for business accessibility.
  • Worked in Oracle HTTP Server – mod_plsql module and analyzed the existing authentication mechanism of the PL/SQL web application.
  • Worked as the only database resource, and completely took responsibility for all server migration tasks of both application and database servers.
  • Independently researched the Oracle HTTP Server installation, successfully installed it on the application server, updated the configurations, connected to the database 12c, and configured the PL/SQL web application.
  • Experience in installing the Oracle client in application servers.
  • Worked extensively on fixing many database defects, such as setting the logs path in utl_file_dir, identifying nls_date_format, increasing SGA space, compiling all DB objects, and identifying deprecated DB packages in 12C during database migration.
  • Identified application schemas and provided a migration plan to the DBA team, checking for invalid objects after creating application schemas, and comparing object counts between databases.
  • Identified all the DB users and their roles, grants, and validated them in new databases, ensuring that existing and new database data are identical.
  • Effectively used data dictionary views to compare DB objects, object privileges, SYS privileges granted to users, objects, and roles.
  • Involved in the application server migration task by setting up environment variables, analyzing the list of software installed, modifying the configuration file for Apache, OHS, and Oracle Apex, and testing Cron jobs.
  • Successfully completed the server migration for DEV, UAT, and PROD environments, and received a lot of appreciation from management.
  • Handled the transition for 18 new applications from the client, shared knowledge with offshore teams, and became the application SME for most of the apps.

Oracle PL/SQL Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
02.2014 - 08.2016
  • Developed and tested Oracle stored procedures, functions, and packages for Case Management application.
  • Executed code changes by modifying reference data, disabling menu options in Oracle Forms, and debugging.
  • Conducted requirement gathering, analysis, technical documentation preparation, development, and testing processes.
  • Created procedures using REF cursors to enable front-end applications to retrieve database data.
  • Coordinated with team members across multiple interfaces to ensure quality deliverables throughout project phases.
  • Developed and modified Perl and SQL scripts to enhance functionality.
  • Generated numerous reports using SQL queries, significantly reducing effort for business users.
  • Facilitated effective collaboration during interface testing to ensure smooth progress and continuous support.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication

Shri Andal Alagar college of Engineering
Chennai, India
01.2013

Skills

Technical skills

  • Workday Financials
  • Workday report writer
  • Workday EIB and Studio
  • Workday calculated fields
  • Workday integrations and business processes
  • Workday security
  • XML/XSLT transformations
  • Oracle SQL
  • Oracle PL/SQL
  • Oracle Apex
  • Oracle Forms
  • Unix shell scripting

Databases

  • Oracle 11g, Oracle 12c, Oracle 19c

Operating system:

Windows 7, Windows 10, UNIX Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux

Tools

WS-File Transfer Protocol, Serena Version Manager, TOAD, PUTTY, MobaXterm, Big Brother monitoring tool, Beyond Compare, Nagios Monitoring, ServiceNow, WinMerge, Oracle SQL Developer, XL Release code migration tool, JIRA, Exceed Turbo X, GIT, SourceTree

Certification

  • Oracle Database 11g SQL Certified Expert (OCE)
  • Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Specialist

Custom

I hereby declare that the particulars furnished above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Onshore Experience

  • Worked as a team lead from Guadalajara, Mexico, during August 2019 to February 2020
  • Worked as a technical lead from Mississauga, Canada, during Jan 2023 to Dec 2023

Work History

Senior Associate, Dec 2013 – till date

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai, India

Timeline

Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions,
10.2020 - Current

Oracle PL/SQL Developer and Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
09.2016 - 09.2019

Oracle PL/SQL Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2014 - 08.2016

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication

Shri Andal Alagar college of Engineering
Yamini Govindaraj