
Dynamic Senior Data Analyst and Data Quality Leader with over 18 years of experience delivering enterprise-scale data solutions across telecom, banking, consulting, and technology sectors. Specialization in data validation, governance, ETL pipelines, KPI frameworks, and cloud analytics platforms. Proven track record in enhancing data accuracy, optimizing reporting systems, and empowering executive decision-making through actionable insights. Recognized for effectively bridging business and technical teams, spearheading cross-functional initiatives, and implementing scalable data quality frameworks that drive organizational success.
• Owned the responsibility of entire QA delivery with comprehensive QA strategies and processes.
• Planned and coordinated end-to-end validation with Cross-Functional teams by finalizing batch calendars, test data strategies and responsibilities, testing cycles and timelines, integrated testing across the teams in parallel within the timelines.
• Effectively communicated the delivery plan, highlighted risks and shared mitigation plans with leaderships and stakeholders.
• Clearly communicated the timeline, strategy, test coverage, test data and execution plans to QA teams.
• Involved in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Requirement analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment, Delivery and Support. Performing requirements elicitation to analyze potential gaps or issues in requirements and designs of complex ETL (Extract–Transform–Load) solutions using Informatica Power Center to meet the enterprise needs and standards along with its integration with MDM hub (Reltio Cloud) while creating, managing, securing and analyzing Azure APIs' to communicate with various upstream and downstream applications.
• Designed manual and automated test cases that cover data ingestion from AWS S3 to EMR to Master Data Management (MDM), to Elasticsearch along with UI applications for data stewards.
• Validated highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to establish golden copy of address data using MDM fundamentals.
• Developed and shared detailed metrics for completion tracking, defect prevention, and reporting, project efficiency, and quality; utilized Continuous Integration tools to merge development with testing pipelines. Helped team with reports showing daily updates about the progress and mitigation plans along with multi-layer verifications and validations.
• Executed test cases covering functionalities of all Azure APIs /SOA services that communicate with upstream and downstream applications.
• Actively participated in data analysis, defect /root cause analysis, code review and business solutions to help the system to be robust and trustworthy.
• Developed test plan, test scenarios, test cases and test results, managing the work progress in project management tools like JIRA, Rally and Planview LeanKit, owning the responsibility of a successful quality assurance cycle and henceforth a successful production release.
• Performing various data loads across all environments using Informatica PowerCenter, gatekeeping the code merges across all platforms with CI/CD Pipelines through integration tool JENKINS, codes and configurations through GITLAB.
• Lead and mentored QA teams, identified technical and functional knowledge gaps, planned and provided trainings accordingly to make sure continuous improvements.
• Planned for internal reviews and audits to ensure the quality and adherence to the process.