1. Curriculum Vitae
Jenish Varkey John
314-971-3714
JENISHVARKEYJOHN
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
A technically experienced professional with more than 8.5 years of Information technology
experience in Data Warehousing Testing projects with strong leadership skills and proven
track record of implementing end to end testing activities from test initiation until closure
Experience in end-to-end DW testing including creation of test plan & test strategy,
preparation of test estimates, test approach, defect tracking, test cases review and
Metrics collections
Strong at testing ETL process & BI Reports and ensuring data correctness & data quality as per
the Business requirements
Proven experience in setting up test environment and implementing end to end QA processes
Strong experience in following and monitoring best practices at every stage of QA lifecycle
Hands on experience in designing complex SQL queries which includes joins and advance
functions in Teradata, Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2008/2012 and DB2
Sound knowledge and experience in Test Design, Test Execution and Test Results Analysis
Has technical skills in testing across multiple development platforms, test automation,
test management and test reporting
Experience in test automation ETL testing by using Platinum (Cognizant in house
proprietary Platform for Information Value Management)
Lead team of testers of team size 5 and managed small to medium size projects.
Develop test Scripts that address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios,
regression testing, performance testing, negative testing, error or bug retests or usability
Strong exposure in SQL involving activities such as business rules validation, referential
integrity validation and ETL Audit process validation.
Strong understanding of the various software development lifecycles including Agile
(SCRUM) and waterfall
Supports business with thorough data validation and verification, help business users identify
gap with current business model that allows them to take right decisions.
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Good exposure to HP Quality Center and ALM, which includes uploading test cases, execution
of test cases and logging Defects
Excellent oral and written communication skills combined with good business acumen
Performed Data quality validation of data from different types of source extracts by following
various measures like row counts validations, records comparisons on field level,
business/transformation rules verification , slowly changing dimensions, soft deletes, etc.
Expertise in end-to-end system testing of active enterprise wide data warehouse
Strong exposure to SDLC activities such as requirements gathering, analysis, system test plan
documentation, system test strategy documentation
Extensive practical experience in productivity tools such as MS Office including importing data
for use in report software, spreadsheets, graphs, and flow charts
Worked closely with client management to identify and specify complex business
requirements and processes
QA Execution of ETL Applications, Database and different DW/BI tools like Tableau
Business Objects XI R2, Informatica 9.1 and Abnitio and Unix
Experience in implementing and working in Onsite and offshore model
Active representation in quality audits, process compliance
Good experience in planning, prioritization and allocation of testing tasks to team members
and test estimation
TECHNICAL SKILLS
DB Tools : TOAD 9.1, Oracle SQL Developer and Teradata SQL Assistant
Database : Oracle 11g, Teradata, DB2 & SQL Server 2008, 2012
ETL/Reporting Tool : Informatica 9.0.1, Abnitio , Business Objects
Programming : SQL, PL/SQL and UNIX
Test Management Tool : HP Quality Center 10.0 and ALM
Domain : Healthcare, Retail & Manufacturing
Automation Tools : Platinum (Cognizant in house proprietary ‘Platform for
Information Value Management’)
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CERTIFICATIONS & RECOGNITIONS
• Awarded ‘Act of Awesomeness’ by datawarehouse testing group within Cognizant in Dec
2013
• Award for exemplary contribution to Express Scripts in April 2016
• Completed Teradata SQL certification
RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE
ORGANIZATION: COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION
Project #1
Project Title Express Scripts Inc
Duration July 2014 to April 2016
Client Express Scripts Inc
Location St.Louis, Missouri
Operating Systems Windows
Team Size Onsite – 1; Offshore – 5
Role ETL & Reporting Onshore Test Lead
Databases Teradata 14.0, SQL Server 2012 and Oracle 11g
Tools Informatica 9.0.1, ALM, Unix , Platinium
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The objective of the 'ESI' projects was to develop a detailed approach to source the data from different
sources directly to the EIW (Enterprise Integration Warehouse) base model. EIW was envisioned to
provide a robust single source of truth data warehouse as the foundation for reporting and analytics
throughout the enterprise.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Understanding logical flow of the application/project and analysis of the specifications provided
by the clients.
• Participate in the reviews of Requirements, Design Documents, Data Models
• Approve requirements and design specifications, technical documents, source to target mapping
documents and other related documentation from testing perspective.
• Took leadership and responsibility for setting up test environment for entire testing team
including offshore and suggested methodologies to improve existing testing processes
• Create and maintain the test strategy document for ETL tasks and also other related applications
which communicate with ETL tools and technologies.
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• Design test cases as per test plan and user specs and estimate the efforts required to design the
test cases and execute the project
• Traceability of requirements to test cases
• Define entrance and exit criteria for code and data migration into the test and production
environment
• Create Test Plan, Test Scenario, Test Cases and Test Scripts to validate source and Target data
• Played a key role in the development/automation of complex SQL queries while preparing the
test case scripts
• Test data creation in case of the onsite/offshore model and if the data is sensitive
• Test data creation for volumetric testing and any performance testing. This also includes the test
cases for capacity planning
• Implementing and monitoring that best practices are followed at every stage of QA lifecycle by
all testing team members
• Utilized Platinium tool to execute applicable ETL test cases as one of initiatives of QA best
practices to reduce test execution time and thereby achieving cost savings
• Creating, maintaining and executing Re-usable scripts
• Execute test scripts including pre-requisites, detailed instructions and anticipated results
• Execute back end data-driven test cases
• Performing RCA (Root Cause Analysis) of the failed test cases and provides the related data
samples to client
• Responsible for reviewing of test plans for team members to ensure high quality deliverables
• Incorporate UAT test cases into testing and provide support to business during the UAT phase
• Identify the bugs/issues/problem and provide solutions for potential issues based on the
knowledge acquired on the application
• Provide observations of the overall system, which are not expected and could potentially be
bugs
• Help with the analysis of issues and Data Reconciliation
• Create, compile and provide test reports and Metrics
Execute any data migration related tasks and provide feedback on the automated migration
steps and queries.
Project #2
Project Title Department of Defense
Duration Nov 2012 to June 2014
Client Express Scripts Inc
Location St.Louis,Missouri
Operating Systems Windows
Team Size Onsite – 1; Offshore – 1
Databases Oracle 11G & Teradata 12.0
Role ETL & Reporting Onshore Test Lead / Tester (Dual role)
Tools Informatica, Abnitio , Business Objects, Oracle, UNIX, ALM , Clear Quest,
Platinium
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The the primary objective was to construct an aggregated data warehouse for analytics and reports used
by pharmacy benefit management for DOD stakeholders.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Involved in implementing end to end testing process and setting up test environment for all
team members
• Interaction with multiple stakeholders and business teams for timely updates on each project
status
• Works closely with client management to identify and specify complex business requirements
and processes. Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and makes recommendation
• Prepared Test Approach, Test Strategy documents and provided estimates for testing efforts
and supports business with thorough data validation & verification to help business users
identify gap with current business model that allows them to take right decisions
• Have played dual role of tester at onshore for government (DOD) sub-projects which involves
PHI/PII data and ETL test lead for parts that can be tested at offshore.
• Developed complex test Scripts that address areas such as database impacts, software
scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests or usability.
• Interaction with offshore team (QA leads & QA testers) and offshore team (Developers and
Business analyst) for understanding project requirements
• Cloning of production data on test environments and cleaning up and reverting of test data
upon completion of validations
• Also involved in managing data requested by conflicting teams, which required controlled
management of test data without compromising on data security and privacy
• Generated additional data for test scenarios provided for specific data related testing upon
request by various testing teams.
• Entirely responsible for Planning, prioritization and allocation of testing tasks to team members
• Represented the weekly status calls, testing progress update calls, test script development
progress update calls. Involved in process improvement to deliver the code effectively. Also,
involved into other projects to supports QA team at the time of hot fix
• Prepare ETL and reporting test estimations.
• Implementing QA best practices at every stage of QA lifecycle and monitoring that all team
members follows it diligently
• Utilized Platinium tool to execute applicable ETL test cases to reduce test execution time
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Project #3
Project Title Wellpoint Third party sourcing
Duration May 2011 to Oct 2012
Client Anthem / Wellpoint
Location Kochi,India
Operating Systems Windows
Team Size 5
Role ETL Test Lead
Databases Teradata 14.0, SQL Server 2012 and Oracle 11g
Tools UNIX, ALM , Clear Quest, Informatica
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The scope of the design was to capture the history and ongoing data extract. The extracts will be
obtained from the external files, which will be loaded into LZ tables first and after applying business
transformation will be moved to CSA. Data will be first loaded into the Pre Landing Zone table and
businesses transformations (MBR_KEY Look Up) will be applied to the data before it gets loaded into
CSA. CSA will be a transient staging area and no history will be maintained. Data from CSA will be moved
into EDW.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Involved in analysis, requirement, validation, debugging and documentation of applications to
satisfy the requirements of one or more user areas
• Performed Integration Testing, System Testing, end-to-end and Regression Testing to validate
the system
• Proficient experience in Test Case Design, Test execution and Defect Management using Defect
Management tools like Quality Center and Test director.
• Developed test Scripts that address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios,
regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests or usability. Works closely with client
management to identify and specify complex business requirements and processes. Researches
and evaluates alternative solutions and makes recommendation.
• Participated in the building test strategy documents and provided estimates for testing efforts
and supports business with thorough data validation & verification to help business users
identify gap with current business model that allows them to take right decisions
• Represented the weekly status calls, testing progress update calls, test script development
progress update calls. Involved in process improvement to deliver the code effectively. Also,
involved into other projects to supports QA team at the time of hot fix
• Raised defects in Quality Center and also find the respective solutions for the defects.
• Provide solutions for UAT issues
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• Supported Business users for UAT once the SIT is completed
• Validated different source files (ex: Flat files) and load into Oracle External table
• Changed Informatica parameter files based on the testing database
Project #4
Project Title Wellpoint Third party sourcing
Duration Jan 2010 to April 2011
Client Anthem / Wellpoint
Location Kochi,India
Operating Systems Windows
Team Size 6
Role ETL Tester
Databases Teradata 14.0, SQL Server 2012 and Oracle 11g
Tools Informatica 9.0.1, Tableau, ALM, Unix , Platinium
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The scope of this project had several Edward work request and DWH small projects related to
Healthcare domain. WellPoint Claims Third Party Sourcing, ESI Rx Networks and Membership, Anthem
Health Reward Fully Insured, WellPoint Enhancements, D950 MCID, FEP Membership. The end
application accepts different claims like Medical claims, Dental claims, Pharmacy claims and vision
claims from different vendors and route the claims into Batch Adjudication System and Online
Adjudication. The Batch Adjudication System automatically adjudicates the claims and sends the files to
Payment department. In the Online Adjudication system examiners will check the files and move the
claims to Payment department.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Involved in analysis, requirement, validation, debugging and documentation of applications to
satisfy the requirements of one or more user areas
• Participated in the building test strategy documents and provided estimates for testing efforts
and supports business with thorough data validation & verification to help business users
identify gap with current business model that allows them to take right decisions.
• Represented the weekly status calls, testing progress update calls, development progress
update calls. Involved in process improvement to deliver the code effectively. Also, involved into
other projects to supports QA team at the time of hot fix
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Jenish Varkey John
314-971-3714
• Developed test Scripts that address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios,
regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests or usability. Works closely with client
management to identify and specify complex business requirements and processes. Researches
and evaluates alternative solutions and makes recommendation.
• Handled 3 team members and actively involved in all the meeting.
• Preparation of Test Strategy based on the functional and Technical requirements.
• Execution of Test cases, Test Scripts and Test Scenarios.
• Worked with data analysts to implement Informatica mappings and workflow, shell scripts and
stored procedures to meet business requirements
• Performing backend testing of the DB by writing PL/SQL queries to test the integrity of the
application and Oracle databases
• Wrote and modified SQL validation scripts, and writing scripts in SQL to validate the outputs.
• Extensively worked on Mapping Variables, Mapping Parameters, Workflow Variables and
Session Parameters to extract only the additional data added during that period
• Preparation of SQL / Teradata queries
• Defect Reporting and Defect Management
• Preparation of Exit report for the projects handled
• Daily, Weekly and Bi-Weekly status reports
• Driving Defect Call/Meeting with the client and Developer
ORGANIZATION: INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Project #5
Project Title CVS Caremark Data Analytics
Duration Jun 2008 to Dec 2009
Client CVS Caremark
Location Trivandrum,India
Operating Systems Windows
Team Size 6
Role ETL Developer
Databases SQL Server 2008
Tools Informatica 8.6.1, Unix
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
CVS Caremark Data Analytics - The project was done for CVS Caremark, a leading pharmaceutical
company in USA. Project was to design, develop, implement and maintain ETL components for the sales
data mart to provide analytical information.
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9. Curriculum Vitae
Jenish Varkey John
314-971-3714
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Interaction with business users for collecting, analyzing and documenting requirements.
• Understanding the Business Requirement of the project.
• Interactions with onsite lead for collecting, analyzing and documenting requirements.
• Worked with Source Analyzer, Transformation Designer and Mapping Designer
• Developed transformation logic and designed various mappings using the designer.
• Designed various mappings using transformations like Router, Filter, Joiner, Aggregator, and
Expression Transformation.
• Performing Independent Unit and Integrated Testing on the database.
• Monitoring Informatica jobs.
Project #6
Project Title Boeing Bear
Duration Jan 2008 to May 2008
Client Boeing
Location Chennai,India
Operating Systems Windows
Team Size 2
Role ETL Tester
Databases SQL Server 2008
Tools Informatica, TOAD 9.1
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
BEAR is used by Commercial Aviation Services, Technical Customer, Support Organization. The
application's main purpose was to author and publish Boeing Service Bulletins to inform Airline
Customers of modifications to their fleet for all aircraft model.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Understanding the business requirements of the project and perform System Integration
Testing
• Understanding the Business Requirement of the project.
• Involved in Requirement Analysis
• Involvement in System Integration Testing
• Testing of code changes had on the application after each deployment.
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Jenish Varkey John
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• Involved in analysis, requirement, validation, debugging and documentation of applications
to satisfy the requirements of one or more user areas
• Developed test Scripts that address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios,
regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests or usability.
• Works closely with onshore to identify and specify complex business requirements and
processes. Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and makes recommendation.
• Participated in the building test strategy documents and provided estimates for testing
efforts and supports business with thorough data validation & verification to help business
users identify gap with current business model that allows them to take right decisions.
• Represented the weekly status calls, testing progress update calls, test script development
progress update calls. Involved in process improvement to deliver the code effectively. Also,
involved into other projects to supports QA team at the time of hot fix
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