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ASHWIN SATHU

Sr Data Analyst
Charlotte,North Carolina

Summary

Your go-to person for all Data Analysis, Business Intelligence Reporting and Validation needs. Seasoned Data Analyst with 13 years of diverse experience across multitude of domains. Detail-oriented, multi-tasker, proactive, adaptive, always ready to embrace new challenges, and ability to lead a team or seamlessly integrate into teams, ensuring minimal need for supervision. Helped companies generate at least $500k in new income, also helped maintain a 97% retention rate of existing customers by providing timely support.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Data Quality Engineer

MasterControl, Inc.
02.2022 - Current
  • Implemented self-service reporting functionality in Sisense, empowering stakeholders to analyze and extract insights from data independently; reduced report generation time by 40% and enabled timely, data-driven decision-making for stakeholders.
  • Analyzed data trends, visualized key data quality metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), and engaged the Product team by providing insights for 3 new reporting features.
  • Spearheaded End-to-end testing, validating and final sign-off on all features going into the product, including creation of automation scripts, validation, security, functional, regression, and load test scripts, data dictionary, documentation and executing the scripts in AWS/Databricks/DBT.
  • Identified new data that needs to be implemented into the data warehouse and collaborated with the team to ensure that the data is migrated.
  • Authored data scoping on metadata, data deduplication, document/update mapping and transformations in AWS/Databricks and Sisense/Birst.
  • Identified issues, performed root-cause analysis of data irregularities, and have them resolved.
  • Led validation efforts for the Data Engineering team to migrate code from AWS to Databricks.
  • Created scripts for Regression testing of all Sisense dashboards, reports, attributes, and measures.
  • Acted as Subject Matter Expert and provided support to Customer Reps for servicenow tickets.

Environment: AWS, S3, Athena, Databricks, Dbt Cloud, Paradime, Birst, Sisense, SQL Server, Jira, IntelliJ, Confluence, Kafka, Airflow, Spark, Python, SQL, Slack, GitHub, Mastercontrol, Postman, Snowflake

Sr. Data Quality Engineer

Surescripts
10.2019 - 02.2022
  • Supported data needs for multiple product teams for their reporting/analysis.
  • Acted as Interim Data Modeler and created/updated Data models based on requirements using Erwin.
  • Validated job design and data flow, ran, and monitored jobs/ sequences using Datastage.
  • Ensured quality data flow from Hadoop(HDFS) into the target tables without any discrepancies.
  • Created DW Automation Regression suites and documented the process in Confluence.

Environment: Oracle 11g, SQL Developer, Datastage 11.7, JIRA, Agile, Confluence, Hadoop Impala (HDFS), Agile, BitBucket, UltraEdit, Kafka, DbVisualizer Pro, Hue, Control-M, Sourcetree.

Sr Data Quality Analyst

United Health Care
04.2016 - 09.2019
  • Onboarded 15 new vendors, set up their SFTP connections and validated the files sent via SFTP.
  • Established governance of data feeds from third party vendors to ensure traceability, ownership and compliance in partnership with business, vendor management and compliance/audit.
  • Implemented File Auditing, Data Profiling, Trend Analysis for multiple daily, weekly, and monthly production files to track and cleanup bad data from the database, increasing data efficiency by 60%.
  • Created several data extracts from Oracle Data warehouse weekly for internal reporting and analysis.
  • Evaluated, processed, analyzed, and created statistical profiling data for reporting using Tableau.
  • Conducted risk analysis and assessment to estimate campaign outcomes using data extracts.
  • Worked with Community & State, Medicare & Retirement, Employee & Individual data, HEDIS 2018/2019/2020 data related to Diabetes, Asthma, Child Imm, WellChild, Adult, Women etc.
  • Designed complex SQL scripts to perform Data Validation, Data Profiling and Auditing.

Environment: Oracle 11g, Maestro, Workfront, Sharepoint, Tableau, IpSwitch, Python, Kafka

BI QA Analyst

Ditech Financial
08.2015 - 04.2016
  • Led QA team on a large Data Migration project to move from Ditech’s custom mortgage system to MSP, achieving timely bug-free migration.
  • Managed a small team of 5 QA by coordinating and distributing tasks as per business needs, conducting daily status update sessions, represented the QA team for weekly status update with project team.
  • Scripted complex SQL queries based on design documents which included complex calculations for Mortgage PI, PTR, ARM, Servicer, Investor, Shortage/Surplus etc.
  • Designed test artifacts to validate multiple PowerBI reports that needed to be sent to FNMA.

Environment: Oracle 11g, SQL Developer, MS Test Manager, PowerBI, JIRA, Sharepoint, UltraEdit

ETL/BI Data Quality Analyst

Agrium
08.2014 - 07.2015
  • Performed data analysis and created analytics in Cognos which helped increase customers' (farmers) farming efficiency by 25%.
  • Worked with very little to no-documentation to come up with test cases and build SQL validation scripts.
  • Tested Windows and Mobile version of CPS Central and CPS Guest login using SOAPUI.

Environment: Netezza 6.0, Aginity Query Analyzer, IBM Datastage 8.7, HP ALM, Cognos 8.0, SOAPUI 4.0, SharePoint, UltraEdit, MTM/TFS 2012

Sr ETL/BI SQA Analyst

Pearson VUE
08.2013 - 06.2014
  • Responsible for QA efforts during each phase of the software development life cycle.
  • Compared and validated all reports that were migrated from Business objects to Microstrategy.
  • Created complex SQL queries to test and validate the backend DW data and front-end report data.
  • Created Automation Suite for all report related test cases using Microstrategy Integrity Manager reducing validation time by 40%.

Environment: Oracle RDBMS 10g/11g, SQL Server 2012, SSMS 11.0, SAP BO, Microstrategy 9.0, HP ALM 11.0, TFS 2010, Test Manager, Jira, Citrix, Mingle, IBM Clearquest 8.0, NEO, SSIS, Informatica.

Sr QA Analyst (Lead)

Prime Therapeutics
02.2013 - 06.2013
  • Represented the QA team in scrum meetings and coordinating all QA efforts.
  • Created complex SQL scripts from scratch for testing ETL jobs/tables and Business Objects Reports.
  • Worked in an ERP system environment, used SAS EG to query the tables and store the datasets.

Environment: DB2 9.7, AQT 9.0, HP Quality Center, PL SQL, SSIS, Business Objects, SAS EG 4.3, Agile.

ETL/BI QA Lead

Patterson Companies
08.2012 - 02.2013
  • Spearheaded QA efforts for the ETL and BI teams for Data Migration project, established working templates for Test plan, Test cases and Test scripts for ETL and BI related projects.
  • Validated several Scorecards, Drilldown and Pivot reports published in Microstrategy and Tandem.
  • Successfully migrated all reports from a legacy reporting system (Tandem) to Microstrategy.
  • Validated the DTS and SSIS batch processes and stored procedures, ensuring bug-free code.

Environment: SQL Server 2008, T-SQL, DTS/SSIS, Microstrategy, SSMS, Test Track Pro, MTM/TFS 2010

Sr ETL QA Analyst

Medica
11.2011 - 07.2012
  • Actively involved in multiple projects (Data Migration and Data Integration projects) in an Agile environment, each running parallel with the other and with tight deadlines.
  • Defined and implemented quality initiatives to reduce risk when using sensitive Claims data.
  • Verified the mappings and the data flow, ran the workflows, and monitored status in Informatica.
  • Managed and delivered scheduled, recurring reports in SAP Business Objects to stakeholders.

Environment: Oracle 10g/11g, TOAD 9.0, AQT, VersionOne, SAS, FTP Pro, Putty, Informatica 9

QA Analyst (ETL)

Digital River Inc
02.2011 - 10.2011
  • Responsible for converting and validating xml files generated using EDI standards
  • Performed extensive data testing for Data Migration from SAP BI to Oracle 11g environment
  • Tested and executed Informatica Batch processes prior to data validation
  • Environment: Oracle 11g, TOAD, HP ALM, JIRA, SQL, SAP BI, Informatica, Filezilla, VI Editor, XML

Education

Masters in Science (MS) in Computer Science Engineering -

ITU
San Jose, CA
07.2011

Bachelors of Technology (B.Tech) in Electronics & Communication Engineering -

JNTU
Hyderabad, TS, India
04.2007

Skills

  • Data Analysis – I analyze data to understand data flow from various sources into the database system and all processes/tools involved
  • Data Profiling – Extensive experience conducting data profiling in database systems such as Oracle, SQL Server, Apache Hive, AWS Athena by creating complex SQL scripts
  • Data Analytics – Experienced with implementing predictive, diagnostic, and descriptive data analytics in relational, non-relational and cloud database systems
  • Business Intelligence and Data Visualization – Extensively worked with BI tools such as Tableau, MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Sisense, Birst, PowerBI and pioneered ad-hoc, customer-facing and internal reports, dashboards, visualizations, KPIs etc with the ability to tell stories using data
  • Data Modeling – Experienced with creating data models in the Datawarehouse for ETL development as well as within the BI tools for report creation, self-service authoring etc
  • Data Cleansing/Data Preparation – Leveraged tools such as Alteryx to clean/prepare data
  • Data Validation – Extensive experience leading efforts for end-to-end data validation which could involve White-box testing, Black-box testing, Load testing, Mobile Application testing, Web Services testing, API testing, Performance testing, Security testing, Regression testing and Report Data validation to ensure best quality data, by making use of my strong SQL skills Also proficient in development of Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Cases and Scripts, Test Execution and Defects management
  • Automation – Designed automation suites to validate data in reports/dashboards using Python
  • Data Governance – Understand a company’s Data Governance and Data Management policies and procedures and adhere to it and/or improve it based on analysis
  • ETL/ELT tools – Experience working with tools such as Informatica, DataStage, SSIS, Kafka, Airflow
  • Leadership – Experience leading small teams, representing the team during standups, team meetings and planning meetings, coordinating, organizing, and aligning work efforts of team members, and ensuring timely and efficient product/feature releases Proficient in mentoring/coaching new and existing DAs/QAs and working in an Offshore/Onshore model

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Quote

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Chinese proverb

Timeline

Data Quality Engineer

MasterControl, Inc.
02.2022 - Current

Sr. Data Quality Engineer

Surescripts
10.2019 - 02.2022

Sr Data Quality Analyst

United Health Care
04.2016 - 09.2019

BI QA Analyst

Ditech Financial
08.2015 - 04.2016

ETL/BI Data Quality Analyst

Agrium
08.2014 - 07.2015

Sr ETL/BI SQA Analyst

Pearson VUE
08.2013 - 06.2014

Sr QA Analyst (Lead)

Prime Therapeutics
02.2013 - 06.2013

ETL/BI QA Lead

Patterson Companies
08.2012 - 02.2013

Sr ETL QA Analyst

Medica
11.2011 - 07.2012

QA Analyst (ETL)

Digital River Inc
02.2011 - 10.2011

Masters in Science (MS) in Computer Science Engineering -

ITU

Bachelors of Technology (B.Tech) in Electronics & Communication Engineering -

JNTU
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