Informatica Designer/developer Resume
MelvillE
SUMMARY:
- 5 plus Years of IT experience in development, Implementation and Testing of various projects using Data Warehousing tools.
- Extensively worked in Extraction/Transformation/Loading of the legacy data to Data warehouse using Informatica (Power Center 9.1.5.6/8.5.6 ),Informatica Power Exchange 9.6.5, including Designer, Repository Manager, Server Manager, Workflow Manager and Workflow Monitor
- Knowledge in architecture design of Extract, Transform, Load environment using Informatica Power Center
- Strong experience in designing and developing Business Intelligence solutions in Data warehouse/Decision support systems using ETL tools.
- Experience in designing/developing complex mappings, from varied transformation logic like Unconnected and Connected lookups, Router, Filter, Expression, Aggregator, Joiner, Update Strategy and Normalizer.
- Sources worked on include Flat Files, Excel files and Databases
- Extensive experience developing complex mappings with Custom Transformations, XML Sources, Web Services Consumer.
- Extensively worked on performance tuning of Informatica Mappings and Sessions by implementing parallelism, partitioning and caching
- Involved in design calls with source systems and clients.
- Experience in extracting data from Oracle, XML, Flat Files and DB2.
- Writing technical specifications, test plans and test data to support ETL processes.
- Improved performance by using Explain Plan, Creating appropriate indexes, queries optimization, utilizing table spaces and partitioning schemes.
- Hands on Experience in SQL, UNIX, Data Relationships, Data extraction & Validation.
- Resolving data issues, complete unit testing and complete system documentation for ETL processes
- Hands on Experience in Data warehouse Testing.
- Involved in development of Test cases and executing the Test cases.
- Involved extensively in GUI, System Testing and Regression Testing.
- Competent in writing and executing Test Plans, Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM), Test Cases and Test Scripts from Requirements, Use Cases and various project documentation
- Proven skills in research, analysis, solution validation, and implementation throughout Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with excellent problem - solving skills
- Experience on Test management and Defect tracking tools like HP Quality Center and Bugzilla
- Ability to quickly analyze and -up with an efficient industry standard solution for a given problem come
- Expert working with windows workstation setting, and have excellent knowledge of the Microsoft office suite - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Outlook, OneNote
- Proven team player with strong interpersonal skills and handling multiple projects with varying priorities
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills & possess to communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of technical and non-technical personnel
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Operating System/Browsers: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Unix, Internet Explorer (IE), Firefox, Safari, Chrome.
Database/RDBMS: Oracle 10g/11g, SQL* Navigator, SYBASE, Teradata, DB2, TOAD, SQL, SQL Plus, Developer, SQL, MSSQL 2000
Microsoft and Other Tools: Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePointDrop box, MS SharePointETL Tools Informatica Power Centre 9.6.5.1/8.6 , Informatica Power Exchange 9.5.6.
OLAP: Business Objects
Data/Object Modeling Tools: Oracle Designer
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Melville
Informatica Designer/Developer
Responsibilities:
- Designed the ETL processes using Informatica to load data from Flat Files, XML Files and Excel files to Oracle Staging area.
- Designed and developed Mappings with various transformations such as Connected and Unconnected Lookup, XML Source Qualifier, Filter, Joiner, Router, Stored Procedure, Sorter, Expression, Aggregator, and Union transformations.
- Interacting with Users and participating in gathering the requirements.
- Designing the Technical Design Specifications for all interfaces.
- Worked extensively with designer tool to develop Mappings, Mapplets, and Reusable transformations to extract, transform and load the data.
- Developed and scheduled Workflows, Worklets using Workflow Manager.
- Implemented Performance Tuning Logics wherever possible to provide maximum efficiency and performance.
- Involved in creating shared and re-usable objects in the shared folder and update the objects with the new requirements and changes.
- Designed and developed efficient Error Handling methods and implemented throughout the mappings.
- Session performance was improved with pipeline partitioning and increasing block size, data cache size, sequence buffer length and target based commit interval.
- Performed Unit testing and System testing of Informatica mappings. Efficient documentation was done for all mappings and sessions.
Environment: Informatica Power Center 9.5.6, Informtica Power Exchange 9.5.6, Oracle 11g, Toad, Teradata, UNIX, Flat files, ODBC, XML, MQ Series, MS Excel.
Confidential, SFO, CA
Data Analysis/ Informatica Developer
Responsibilities:
- Interacted with the management and user community to understand and gather requirements.
- Created physical and logical structures of the database and tables using Oracle
- Developed mappings using Source qualifier, Aggregators, Connected & unconnected Lookups, Stored Procedures, Filters, Sorter & Update strategy Transformations using Power Center7.0/6.2.
- Worked with various transformations like Aggregator, Expression, Filter Source Qualifier, Joiner, Sorter, Router and Look Up and Stored Procedure etc to in corporate the business rules into the mappings.
- Performed various Aggregate Function like AVG, MIN, MAX, COUNT, FIRST, LAST, STD DEVIATION, MEAN AND MEDIAN
- Used XML Transformation to move data from XML files from staging to Targets of Claimant Data.
- Involved in migrating the Repository from Development, testing and Production after testing
- Involved in Creating tasks, work lets, workflows to load various dimensions that include Products, Product Categories, Coverage Type, Coverage Level, Risk Level Dimensions.
- Scheduled, Run and Monitored sessions using workflow manager and workflow monitor to update data on claims, drug, physician and customer data.
- Involved in dealing with performance issues at various levels such as target, sessions, mappings and sources.
- Developed and Optimized Mappings, Mapplets and Sessions from source to target database using Informatica Power Center, and Tuned Mappings for improving performance.
- Tested all mappings developed in Power Center repository and checked data transformation.
Environment: /Tools: Informatica Power Center 9.1/ 8.6, UNIX, Oracle 10g, MS Access, Excel, Oracle E-Business Sute, SQL * Loader, Erwin 4.0,UNIX, Linux.
Confidential, IA
Informatica Developer
Responsibilities:
- Involved in creation of Logical Data Model for ETL mapping and the process flow diagrams.
- Worked with SQL developer to write the SQL code for data manipulation.
- Worked on Informatica versioned repository with check in and checkout objects feature.
- Used Debugger extensively to validate the mappings and gain troubleshooting information about data and error conditions.
- Provided guidance to less experienced personnel. Conducted quality assurance activities such as per reviews.
- Participate in the business analysis process and the development of ETL requirements specifications.
- Worked with production support systems that required immediate support
- Develop, execute and maintain appropriate ETL development best practices and procedures.
- Assisted in the development of test plans for assigned projects.
- Monitor and tune ETL processes for performance improvements, identify, research, and resolve data warehouse load issues.
- Involved in unit testing of the mapping and SQL code.
- Developed mappings to load data in slowly changing dimensions.
- Involved in performance tuning of source &target, mappings, sessions and workflows.
- Worked with connected, unconnected lookups and reusable transformations and Mapplets.
- Involved in designing the star schema and populating the fact table and associated dimension tables.
Environment: Oracle 10g, SQL, PL/SQL, Informatica Power Center 8.5, Sybase, Windows XP, Visio 2000, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, UNIX.