Business Analyst Resume
Memphis, TN
SUMMARY
- Over 9 years of strong experience in IT industry in the fields of Qlikview, Business Intelligence, Business Analysis with full project lifecycle implementation.
- 4+ years of experience in Designing, developing and deploying of QlikView.
- Extensive experience in all aspects of Qlikview Development - Data Modeling, Scripting, UI Design, Development and Optimizing.
- Experience in all aspects of SDLC right from Requirement Gathering, BRD, Prototyping, Design, Development, Testing, and Deployment with effective communication.
- Good knowledge and understanding of QlikView server, QlikView publisher and QlikView enterprise version.
- DevelopedQlikViewDashboards using Chart Box (Drill Down, Drill up & Cyclic Grouping), List, Input Field, Table Box and Calendar & Data Island.
- Strong Skills in Data Modeling including Star Schema and Snow Flake Schema and also in loading data to QlikView from multiple data sources and data files.
- Implemented features such as incremental load, binary loads, alternate states and set analysis in Qlikview.
- Implemented the 3-tier architecture (Data-Extract, Data-Modeling and Application Development) as recommended in QlikView best practices guide.
- Extensive knowledge and experience in dealing with Relational Database Management Systems, including Normalization, Stored Procedures, Constraints, Querying, Joins, Keys, Indexes, Data Import/Export, Triggers.
- Well experienced in design, development & Administration of QlikView for OLTP and OLAP Systems
- Good communication, collaboration & team building skills with proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilize the same in a productive manner.
- Excellent Interpersonal and Customer Relational Skills. Proven Communication, Presentation Skills and Leadership Qualities.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
BI Tools: QlikView Desktop (9/10/11), QlikView Server (9/10/11), QlikView Publisher
Programming Languages: HTML, CSS, JQuery, JavaScript, Flash
Operating System: Windows 2K/XP/Vista/7/Server2003/2008, LINUX
Databases: SQL Server, MS-Access, My SQL, Oracle 10G/11G
MS Office: MS MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Jersey City, NJ
Sr.Qlikview Developer
Responsibilities:
- Involved in business requirement gathering and development of functional and technical specification documents.
- Involved in developing Dashboard standards such as Template designs, User Interface and Navigation Design patterns.
- Created QlikView dashboard user interfaces as per the business requirements.
- Developed different dashboard with a complex database system behind it, which includes extracting data from the database, storing into QVD files, write load scripts, and develop UI according to user requirements.
- Extracted information from different data sources like Teradata, SQL Server, MS Access and flat files, etc. by using different scripts like add, concatenate, resident, qualify, unqualified etc.
- Used Incremental loading to handle large volume delta loading to reduce reload time and have a cumulative data for the dashboard. Also periodically archived the data based on data retention standards.
- Coordinated with Database and ETL teams for Data and Structural follow-ups and Design.
- Implemented Section Access to filter data based on Document Level, Sheet Level and Data Level depending upon user privileges.
- Created publisher tasks for PDF Distribution, Loop and Reduce for Data Reduction.
- Written Qlikview Macros to achieve functions such as Copy Objects to Office documents, Screenshot of Dashboards to Email Body and PDFs etc.
- Build reusable macros to control Qlikview objects for ease of use by the users.
- Involved in multiple phases of project like Requirement gathering, Resources evaluation, designing, developing, application-testing, and bug-fixing, UAT and end-user training.
Environment: QlikView 10/11, Oracle 10G/11G, SQL Server 2008/2012, Windows 2008 Server, Hadoop and Netezza.
Confidential, Irvine, CA
Qlikview Developer
Responsibilities:
- Interacted with End Users and Documented the Requirements.
- Developed various internal prototypes for acceptance testing.
- Followed the agile pattern of working and work execution.
- Played a part a Business support solution provider and closely work under the environment of WAR room meeting, complete brain storming.
- Connected to multiple data sources such as Oracle, DB2, Flat files, Excel Spreadsheet’s and prepared close to business requirement like model. (Especially star model and snowflake).
- Established a Standard structure for Test and working files (QVW) and version controlling to maintain parity between production and Test environment.
- Implemented 3-Layer architecture, Binary loads and Incremental Loads for optimal performance of the Dashboard reloads, rescaling and to adhere to data retention standards.
- Incorporated necessary log files and failure mailing mechanisms for smooth day to day operations.
- Worked on data model according to the user requirement and successfully created an optimized QlikView application.
- Developed Dashboard and What-If predictive analysis based on complex price calculation.
- Developed reports / KPI’s for Supply Chain mechanism, including supply demand GAP and self-life stock monitoring reports.
- Developed dashboards and KPI’s using set analysis, variable creation etc. for individual payroll details, comparison with peer and comparison with the market.
- Performed testing of dashboards for functionality, data, performance, and UI design.
- Created weekly PDF report distribution for a set of users using Loop and Reduce functionality through QV Publisher.
Environment: QlikView 10/11, Oracle 10G/11G, SQL Server 2008, Access, CSV Files, Windows 2008 Server, SharePoint.
Confidential, Memphis, TN
Qlikview Developer
Responsibilities:
- Involved in gathering requirement from Business Users and Developed Technical Documentation for the Business and Team.
- Created dashboards style of reports using QlikView components like Slider, Buttons, Charts and Bookmarks.
- Imported data from multiple data sources including Web files, MS SQL Server and MS Excel through OLEDB and ODBC connections and modeling data as per user requirements.
- Customized Qlikview Connection with appropriate reports and security measures.
- Developed QlikView (dashboards, reports etc), analyzed the Data and involved in gathering requirement.
- Designing the Logical model that conforms to star schema concepts, different views (Import, Business and External) as per Business requirement.
- Designed and developed dashboards with various levels of complexity including different kinds of charts and extensions.
- Maintained Row, Column and Sheet level Securities for all Major Dashboards using Section Access.
- Implemented incremental load by creating QVDs and some cases of Incremental Load such as Insert, Insert & Update and Insert, Update & Delete.
- Modifying the existing reports based upon the change requested by the user. Involved in resolving Performance issues with various reports.
- Interacted with the End users on a regular basis for resolving issues pertaining to the reports.
- Writing the test cases for SIT (System Integration testing) and UAT (User Acceptance testing).
- Resolved issues resulting from User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Environment: QlikView 9/10, Oracle 10G, SQL Server 2008, Access, MS Excel, XML Files, Windows 2003 Server, SharePoint
Confidential
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Gathered, Detailed and Documented requirements related to online sales and Distribution of different products in order to develop Marketing Websites
- Designed different types of triggers at the sheet level and document level of dashboard.
- Performed backend testing using SQL queries and analyzed the server performance on UNIX.
- Developed test scenarios and implemented test plan. Assisted in testing the application and
- Setup Mercury Quick Test Pro to Regression test functionalities of the ecommerce portal
- Configured Mercury LoadRunner, developed scripts and executed these scripts to load test the ecommerce portal
- Performance tuned SQL queries to improve build process on large amounts of data. Also helped business to improve the adhoc sql process retrieval time.
- Configured UI, transaction flow and business rules on JDA Win/DSS as per specifications provided by business users
Environment: Microsoft Suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio) HTML, CSS, MySQL, Web Forms, JavaScript, PHP, Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe Photoshop, JDA, Windss, Magic (CRM application), LoadRunner
Confidential
Business Analysts/Project Coordinator
Responsibilities:
- Facilitated business requirements gathering sessions with the client, and overlooked the creation of Use Cases/Activity Diagrams, Functional Specifications using UML/Visio.
- Utilized Agile methodology to configure and develop process, standards, and procedures
- Generated MIS for M-Xtasy World (Customer Loyalty Program) of Planet M & Data Analytics for the same including RFM
- Assisted to develop the Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scenarios to be used in testing based Business Requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.
- Used MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, Visio, Power Point, Outlook, and Project) for project tracking, documentation, and presentation to senior management.
- Extensive Business Process Modeling. Authored detailed business process documents to document existing business process and developed efficient to-be business process models.
- Customized UI and workflow on Retail Pro software as per specifications provided by business users
- Created career application web form using HTML, JavaScript
- Involved in integration of the Retail Pro software with payment gateway
- Key achievements: Successfully configured Retail Pro third party software without prior knowledge or training of the tool.
- Was given additional responsibilities of managing the portal team and MIS reporting within one year.
Environment: MS Visio, DreamWeaver, SQL, PLSQL, XML, VB, ASP, Adobe Photoshop, Mercury TestDirector, WinRunner, LoadRunner HTML, CSS, Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe Photoshop, RetailPro, Magic.