Sara Ali Khan
A highly self-motivated, responsible, focused energetic individual, experienced in leading team and playing key member
role in team with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and fit into any cross-cultural group.
4 years of working experience in Information Technology.
Ph No: 804-665-5980 | sara.subhana@gmail.com
BO DEVELOPER & UNIVERSE
DESIGNER
SAP Business Objects Developer with 4 years of working experience designing, coding, testing and
supporting Business Reporting Environment across various Customers like Genworth Financial, Nortel
America and Citi Group. Proficient in BO Reports Development , Universe Design, Eagle Datamart &
Informatica. My skills include:
• BI solutions using Business Objects,
Informatica, EAGLE Datamart.
• SAP Business Objects 4.0
• EAGLE 13.1.2 Data Mart
• EAGLE System management center
• EAGLE Pace Reporting Center
• EAGLE Automation Center
• EAGLE Purge and Archive tool
• EAGLE Migration wizard
• Datamart Migration from Lower to Higher
environments
• Performance Tuning of Reports SQL by
reviewing Explain Plan, Creating Indexes,
Adding Hints to the Queries
• Detailed Data Analysis using Macros/SQL &
Regular Expressions
• Proficient in IDT, UDT, WEBI, CMC, BI
Launchpad
• Universe & Reports Migration
• Proficient in creating Sessions, creating
mappings, Scheduling Workflows in
Informatica Powercenter
• Troubleshooting Issues reported by User
Community
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Datamart fields addition, Datamart refresh,
Troubleshooting Datamart Failures
• OLAP fields creation
• Business Requirements Gathering from
Customers and Business Analysts
• Convert Business Understanding to Technical
Design
• Maintain source rules in Reporting Center.
• Conducting SCRUM, Review & Retrospective
Planning meetings
• Offshore Coordination on open issues
• Analyzing Report SQLs
• Training BAs, Customers and Users to use BO
Reports
• Presented Weekly Status Reports to Customer
• Maintained and Updated Project Documents on
time to time basis
• Functional and Technical Requirements Testing
• Establishing Best Practices
• Performing Production Maintenances on BO
Universe and Eagle Application
• Business Logic Documentation ,Test Plan
Documentation.
• Technical Design Documentation
• Prepared Trouble shooting Guides
• Jira Time and defect logging.
TOOLS USED
Hardware Software Tools
WINDOWS XP/2008/7, Linux SAP Business Objects 4.0,EAGLE
Data mart, Business Objects XIR2,
Business Objects 6.5, Oracle ,
Informatica Powercenter
BO Tools, IDT, UDT, Web
Intelligence , Eagle Data mart and
General Reporting, Informatica
Powercenter Tool, Informatica ETL
Source Analyzer ,Target Designer
,Mapping Designer ,Workflow
Manager ,Workflow Monitor ,BI
Launch pad ,SQL Developer ,MS
Office (Word ,Excel),PowerPoint
EXPERIENCE
Duration Organization Project Role
November 2015 Till Date Diverse Lynx/TCS/Genworth,
Richmond VA, USA
Grand Central BO Developer and Offshore
Coordinator
1 Year
5 Months
5 Months
1 Year 4 Months
2 Months
TCS Mumbai ,Nortel, NC, USA
TCS, Mumbai, India
TCS, Mumbai, India
TCS, Mumbai, India
TCS, Mumbai, India
MSCRM Reporting
Data Manager Revamp
Mas and Pulse Development
Principia
TCS Initial Learning Program
BO Developer
BO Developer
BO Module Leader
BO Developer ,Informatica
Initial Learning Program
The details of the various assignments that I have handled are listed here.
Project Grand Central
Customer Genworth Financial
Description Provide a Data Management Environment with Robust User
Interface Tools, Enhanced Data Governance, Improved
Reporting Tools with Drilling Capabilities, Cross Asset Type
Reporting and a single source of Truth.
Roles BO Developer/ Offshore Coordinator.
Solution Environment Business Objects Reports Implementation using Agile
Methodology
Tools Business Objects, WEBI, EAGLE Data mart, SQL Developer
Highlights Worked as Business Objects developer/Offshore Coordinator.
Understanding Clients and BAs requirements and their
implementation.
Conducting Meeting with Business Analysts and User
Community.
Conducting Scrum Meetings, Retrospective/Review Meetings
and Updating Team & Customer about Sprints.
Providing UAT Support and Training BAs and Users.
Fixing Functional and Technical Issues.
Resolving Access related issues.
Performing Data Analysis using Macros and Regular
Expressions in Excel and also with SQL.
Performance Tuning of Report SQLs.
Ensuring availability of Universe by scheduling backups and
maintaining.
Migrating reports from lower environment to higher.
Coordinating Issues with BO Admin Team.
Planning and Scheduling meetings with Customers on various
aspects of the Project.
Designed Universe and Reports from Scratch. Analyzed Data
and Reports with the help of SQL Queries.
Developed Project Documentation and Trained onshore &
offshore team with the help of these documents.
Developed Issue Logs, Walkthrough Documentation, Reports
Work plan, Data mapping documents, Nomenclature
Documents, Query Explain Plan documents, Report Logic
Documents.
Written Macros to speed up the data validation.
Performed Extensive testing of Reports, reverse engineering
root cause analysis and troubleshooting data related issues.
Created Objects, Derived Tables, Database Views, filters,
Prompts
Specified the Joins and checked the cardinalities.
Performed the Integrity Check. Resolved errors like Multi Value
etc.
Published Universe.
Created WEBI Reports from Scratch.
Created Fields in Reporting Center for addition to Eagle
Datamart. Maintained Source Rules.
Added OLAP Fields in Datamart Models, Refreshed Datamart
for the Latest Snapshot of Data.
Trouble Shooting Datamart Refresh Issues and maintaining
Issue Log.
Migrated DataMart from Lower Environment to Higher one
Project MSCRM Reporting
Customer Nortel Networks
Description MSCRM reporting is designed to help Nortel acquire and retain
customers and reduce the time spent on administrative tasks. It
provides a robust account reporting, sales reporting and
marketing system that automatically tracks sales-related
activities and revenues. Microsoft CRM reporting also provides
reports that help assess customer value in terms of the future
business they might generate.
Roles BO Developer/ Lead at Onsite.
Solution Environment Business Objects
Tools Business Objects, WEBI
Highlights Worked as Business Objects developer/Lead at Onsite.
Understanding Clients requirements and their implementation.
Enhancements in BO Universes.
Testing of Connections and Objects.
Modified Objects.
Modified filters.
Specified the Joins and checked the cardinalities.
Performed the Integrity Check.
Published Universe.
Enhancements in WEBI Reports
Developed and created classes and objects with the qualification
as Dimension, Detail(Attributes) & Measure Objects.
Applied Alerter ,Prompts
Creation of Test cases for UAT.
Testing of all WEBI Reports in UAT.
Testing of Universe in UAT.
Support to Users while testing in UAT.
Fixing of Report and Universe issues in UAT.
Weekly Status Report generation at Onsite.
Project Data Manager Revamp
Customer Equifax
Description Data Manager Revamp project was to introduce new service
levels with some new functionality for Master Account, like
Account based search and Account Transfer, more added
functionality for search and new option to generate Graphical
reports.
Enhancements were to make few front end application changes.
Development was to prepare WEBI Graphical BO Reports from
scratch. Reports were of 2D Chart type as per the business
requirements.
Roles BO Developer
Solution Environment Oracle, Business Objects
Tools Business Objects, WEBI
Highlights Worked as Business Objects developer in the team.
Developed BO Universes.
Specified the Joins and checked the cardinalities.
Performed the Integrity Check and finally exported to the
Repository.
Developed WEBI and DESKI Reports
Applied Alerter.
Created Prompts.
Applied filters.
Applied Breaks.
As per the users requirements, created the different types of
reports like Graphical Reports.
Developed and created classes and objects with the qualification
as Dimension, Detail(Attributes) & Measure Objects.
Technical Design Documentation.
BO Training to other members.
BO Test Cases generation and execution.
BO Reports testing.
Debugging of Reports in UAT.
Project MAS and Pulse Development
Customer City Group
Description It was an existing system with few modifications suggested by
City Group. It was to capture pulse operator's login time through
front-end application.
Red, Orange and Green Alerter were raised as per the priority.
BO reports were generated on the daily basis as per the
scheduled time.
These Reports were to give the information related to the BPO
calls based on quality, timeliness, data and volume.
Roles BO Module Lead
Solution Environment Oracle ,Business Objects
Tools BO Designer, BO Reporter WEBI, SQL developer
Highlights Gathered Requirements from the client
Involved in the building of universes, classes and objects
Created universe objects like Dimensions, Details(Attributes)
and Measures to meet the requirements.
Created various kinds of report as per user requirements
Created reports with using of Complex Queries like Prompts.
Organized the data in reports by using Filters, Highlighted data
with Alerter and Textual Alerter.
Involved in both development and test environment.
Technical Design Documentation
Mentored the BO team members.
Project Principia
Customer Genworth Financials
Description Principia project was to support ADW Data Warehouse which
was primarily build to cater to the needs of derivative Accounting
Group. Data in ADW was used for validating deals ,Risk
planning and for tax Reporting Purposes.
It helped -
Middle Office Users and ISVG Group in Risk Planning through
Reports.
Assisted Front Office users and Middle Office users in validating
the deals between Genworth and Counter Parties.
Assisted Tax Department and Accounting group in Quarter
closures.
Roles Team Member(Informatica ,BO Developer)
Solution Environment Informatica Powercenter Mapping Designer ,Workflow
Manager, Workflow Monitor ,Business Objects ,Oracle 10G
Tools Informatica Powercenter ,Business Objects Designer, Business
Objects Reporter, SQL,MS Office(Excel ,Word)
Highlights Enhanced Powercenter ETL Mappings to specifications
Used various transformations like filter transformation, router
transformation, expression transformation, rank transformation
etc
Modify Powercenter Mappings as per the change request.
Scheduled Workflows
Monitored workflows
Prepared Minutes of meeting.
Project KT including Informatica and BO to the team.
Monitored the daily Powercenter loads
Enhanced and Maintained Business Objects Reports as per the
specifications.
Provided the support for the existing ETL Mappings and
Business Objects
Project TCS Initial Learning Program.
Customer Tata Consultancy Services.
Description Meadows Pharmacy System was to track the sale of medicines
in a hospital on daily basis.
Records were maintained in the database and front end
application was created to display the transactions.
Roles Trainee
Tools SQL
Highlights Training Assignments completion.
Class Representative.
Meadow Pharmacy Requirement Specs preparation.
SQL formation.
Testing of the Meadows Pharmacy System.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Degree Institute Major and Specialization
B.E.(Electronics and Communication) Barkatullah University Institute of
Technology Bhopal(M.P)
Electronics and Communication
Program or Course Coverage
Business Objects BO Reporting Module, BO Universe Module
IPMS Training It gives an overview of Project Management System and
explains the different functions that are to be carried out
by different users at different levels.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Skill Proficiency (1 to 10)
Business Objects 9
ETL Informatica Powercenter 6
Eagle Data Mart 8
Oracle SQL Language 8
Tools SQL
Highlights Training Assignments completion.
Class Representative.
Meadow Pharmacy Requirement Specs preparation.
SQL formation.
Testing of the Meadows Pharmacy System.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Degree Institute Major and Specialization
B.E.(Electronics and Communication) Barkatullah University Institute of
Technology Bhopal(M.P)
Electronics and Communication
Program or Course Coverage
Business Objects BO Reporting Module, BO Universe Module
IPMS Training It gives an overview of Project Management System and
explains the different functions that are to be carried out
by different users at different levels.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Skill Proficiency (1 to 10)
Business Objects 9
ETL Informatica Powercenter 6
Eagle Data Mart 8
Oracle SQL Language 8

Sara_Khan_Resume

  • 1.
    Sara Ali Khan Ahighly self-motivated, responsible, focused energetic individual, experienced in leading team and playing key member role in team with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and fit into any cross-cultural group. 4 years of working experience in Information Technology. Ph No: 804-665-5980 | sara.subhana@gmail.com BO DEVELOPER & UNIVERSE DESIGNER SAP Business Objects Developer with 4 years of working experience designing, coding, testing and supporting Business Reporting Environment across various Customers like Genworth Financial, Nortel America and Citi Group. Proficient in BO Reports Development , Universe Design, Eagle Datamart & Informatica. My skills include: • BI solutions using Business Objects, Informatica, EAGLE Datamart. • SAP Business Objects 4.0 • EAGLE 13.1.2 Data Mart • EAGLE System management center • EAGLE Pace Reporting Center • EAGLE Automation Center • EAGLE Purge and Archive tool • EAGLE Migration wizard • Datamart Migration from Lower to Higher environments • Performance Tuning of Reports SQL by reviewing Explain Plan, Creating Indexes, Adding Hints to the Queries • Detailed Data Analysis using Macros/SQL & Regular Expressions • Proficient in IDT, UDT, WEBI, CMC, BI Launchpad • Universe & Reports Migration • Proficient in creating Sessions, creating mappings, Scheduling Workflows in Informatica Powercenter • Troubleshooting Issues reported by User Community • Unix Shell Scripting • Datamart fields addition, Datamart refresh, Troubleshooting Datamart Failures • OLAP fields creation • Business Requirements Gathering from Customers and Business Analysts • Convert Business Understanding to Technical Design • Maintain source rules in Reporting Center. • Conducting SCRUM, Review & Retrospective Planning meetings • Offshore Coordination on open issues • Analyzing Report SQLs • Training BAs, Customers and Users to use BO Reports • Presented Weekly Status Reports to Customer • Maintained and Updated Project Documents on time to time basis • Functional and Technical Requirements Testing • Establishing Best Practices • Performing Production Maintenances on BO Universe and Eagle Application • Business Logic Documentation ,Test Plan Documentation. • Technical Design Documentation • Prepared Trouble shooting Guides • Jira Time and defect logging. TOOLS USED
  • 2.
    Hardware Software Tools WINDOWSXP/2008/7, Linux SAP Business Objects 4.0,EAGLE Data mart, Business Objects XIR2, Business Objects 6.5, Oracle , Informatica Powercenter BO Tools, IDT, UDT, Web Intelligence , Eagle Data mart and General Reporting, Informatica Powercenter Tool, Informatica ETL Source Analyzer ,Target Designer ,Mapping Designer ,Workflow Manager ,Workflow Monitor ,BI Launch pad ,SQL Developer ,MS Office (Word ,Excel),PowerPoint EXPERIENCE Duration Organization Project Role November 2015 Till Date Diverse Lynx/TCS/Genworth, Richmond VA, USA Grand Central BO Developer and Offshore Coordinator 1 Year 5 Months 5 Months 1 Year 4 Months 2 Months TCS Mumbai ,Nortel, NC, USA TCS, Mumbai, India TCS, Mumbai, India TCS, Mumbai, India TCS, Mumbai, India MSCRM Reporting Data Manager Revamp Mas and Pulse Development Principia TCS Initial Learning Program BO Developer BO Developer BO Module Leader BO Developer ,Informatica Initial Learning Program The details of the various assignments that I have handled are listed here. Project Grand Central Customer Genworth Financial Description Provide a Data Management Environment with Robust User Interface Tools, Enhanced Data Governance, Improved Reporting Tools with Drilling Capabilities, Cross Asset Type Reporting and a single source of Truth. Roles BO Developer/ Offshore Coordinator. Solution Environment Business Objects Reports Implementation using Agile Methodology Tools Business Objects, WEBI, EAGLE Data mart, SQL Developer Highlights Worked as Business Objects developer/Offshore Coordinator. Understanding Clients and BAs requirements and their implementation. Conducting Meeting with Business Analysts and User Community. Conducting Scrum Meetings, Retrospective/Review Meetings and Updating Team & Customer about Sprints. Providing UAT Support and Training BAs and Users. Fixing Functional and Technical Issues. Resolving Access related issues. Performing Data Analysis using Macros and Regular Expressions in Excel and also with SQL. Performance Tuning of Report SQLs. Ensuring availability of Universe by scheduling backups and maintaining. Migrating reports from lower environment to higher. Coordinating Issues with BO Admin Team.
  • 3.
    Planning and Schedulingmeetings with Customers on various aspects of the Project. Designed Universe and Reports from Scratch. Analyzed Data and Reports with the help of SQL Queries. Developed Project Documentation and Trained onshore & offshore team with the help of these documents. Developed Issue Logs, Walkthrough Documentation, Reports Work plan, Data mapping documents, Nomenclature Documents, Query Explain Plan documents, Report Logic Documents. Written Macros to speed up the data validation. Performed Extensive testing of Reports, reverse engineering root cause analysis and troubleshooting data related issues. Created Objects, Derived Tables, Database Views, filters, Prompts Specified the Joins and checked the cardinalities. Performed the Integrity Check. Resolved errors like Multi Value etc. Published Universe. Created WEBI Reports from Scratch. Created Fields in Reporting Center for addition to Eagle Datamart. Maintained Source Rules. Added OLAP Fields in Datamart Models, Refreshed Datamart for the Latest Snapshot of Data. Trouble Shooting Datamart Refresh Issues and maintaining Issue Log. Migrated DataMart from Lower Environment to Higher one Project MSCRM Reporting Customer Nortel Networks Description MSCRM reporting is designed to help Nortel acquire and retain customers and reduce the time spent on administrative tasks. It provides a robust account reporting, sales reporting and marketing system that automatically tracks sales-related activities and revenues. Microsoft CRM reporting also provides reports that help assess customer value in terms of the future business they might generate. Roles BO Developer/ Lead at Onsite. Solution Environment Business Objects Tools Business Objects, WEBI Highlights Worked as Business Objects developer/Lead at Onsite. Understanding Clients requirements and their implementation. Enhancements in BO Universes. Testing of Connections and Objects. Modified Objects. Modified filters. Specified the Joins and checked the cardinalities. Performed the Integrity Check. Published Universe. Enhancements in WEBI Reports Developed and created classes and objects with the qualification as Dimension, Detail(Attributes) & Measure Objects. Applied Alerter ,Prompts Creation of Test cases for UAT.
  • 4.
    Testing of allWEBI Reports in UAT. Testing of Universe in UAT. Support to Users while testing in UAT. Fixing of Report and Universe issues in UAT. Weekly Status Report generation at Onsite. Project Data Manager Revamp Customer Equifax Description Data Manager Revamp project was to introduce new service levels with some new functionality for Master Account, like Account based search and Account Transfer, more added functionality for search and new option to generate Graphical reports. Enhancements were to make few front end application changes. Development was to prepare WEBI Graphical BO Reports from scratch. Reports were of 2D Chart type as per the business requirements. Roles BO Developer Solution Environment Oracle, Business Objects Tools Business Objects, WEBI Highlights Worked as Business Objects developer in the team. Developed BO Universes. Specified the Joins and checked the cardinalities. Performed the Integrity Check and finally exported to the Repository. Developed WEBI and DESKI Reports Applied Alerter. Created Prompts. Applied filters. Applied Breaks. As per the users requirements, created the different types of reports like Graphical Reports. Developed and created classes and objects with the qualification as Dimension, Detail(Attributes) & Measure Objects. Technical Design Documentation. BO Training to other members. BO Test Cases generation and execution. BO Reports testing. Debugging of Reports in UAT. Project MAS and Pulse Development Customer City Group Description It was an existing system with few modifications suggested by City Group. It was to capture pulse operator's login time through front-end application. Red, Orange and Green Alerter were raised as per the priority. BO reports were generated on the daily basis as per the scheduled time. These Reports were to give the information related to the BPO calls based on quality, timeliness, data and volume. Roles BO Module Lead Solution Environment Oracle ,Business Objects Tools BO Designer, BO Reporter WEBI, SQL developer Highlights Gathered Requirements from the client
  • 5.
    Involved in thebuilding of universes, classes and objects Created universe objects like Dimensions, Details(Attributes) and Measures to meet the requirements. Created various kinds of report as per user requirements Created reports with using of Complex Queries like Prompts. Organized the data in reports by using Filters, Highlighted data with Alerter and Textual Alerter. Involved in both development and test environment. Technical Design Documentation Mentored the BO team members. Project Principia Customer Genworth Financials Description Principia project was to support ADW Data Warehouse which was primarily build to cater to the needs of derivative Accounting Group. Data in ADW was used for validating deals ,Risk planning and for tax Reporting Purposes. It helped - Middle Office Users and ISVG Group in Risk Planning through Reports. Assisted Front Office users and Middle Office users in validating the deals between Genworth and Counter Parties. Assisted Tax Department and Accounting group in Quarter closures. Roles Team Member(Informatica ,BO Developer) Solution Environment Informatica Powercenter Mapping Designer ,Workflow Manager, Workflow Monitor ,Business Objects ,Oracle 10G Tools Informatica Powercenter ,Business Objects Designer, Business Objects Reporter, SQL,MS Office(Excel ,Word) Highlights Enhanced Powercenter ETL Mappings to specifications Used various transformations like filter transformation, router transformation, expression transformation, rank transformation etc Modify Powercenter Mappings as per the change request. Scheduled Workflows Monitored workflows Prepared Minutes of meeting. Project KT including Informatica and BO to the team. Monitored the daily Powercenter loads Enhanced and Maintained Business Objects Reports as per the specifications. Provided the support for the existing ETL Mappings and Business Objects Project TCS Initial Learning Program. Customer Tata Consultancy Services. Description Meadows Pharmacy System was to track the sale of medicines in a hospital on daily basis. Records were maintained in the database and front end application was created to display the transactions. Roles Trainee
  • 6.
    Tools SQL Highlights TrainingAssignments completion. Class Representative. Meadow Pharmacy Requirement Specs preparation. SQL formation. Testing of the Meadows Pharmacy System. EDUCATION & TRAINING Degree Institute Major and Specialization B.E.(Electronics and Communication) Barkatullah University Institute of Technology Bhopal(M.P) Electronics and Communication Program or Course Coverage Business Objects BO Reporting Module, BO Universe Module IPMS Training It gives an overview of Project Management System and explains the different functions that are to be carried out by different users at different levels. TECHNICAL SKILLS Skill Proficiency (1 to 10) Business Objects 9 ETL Informatica Powercenter 6 Eagle Data Mart 8 Oracle SQL Language 8
  • 7.
    Tools SQL Highlights TrainingAssignments completion. Class Representative. Meadow Pharmacy Requirement Specs preparation. SQL formation. Testing of the Meadows Pharmacy System. EDUCATION & TRAINING Degree Institute Major and Specialization B.E.(Electronics and Communication) Barkatullah University Institute of Technology Bhopal(M.P) Electronics and Communication Program or Course Coverage Business Objects BO Reporting Module, BO Universe Module IPMS Training It gives an overview of Project Management System and explains the different functions that are to be carried out by different users at different levels. TECHNICAL SKILLS Skill Proficiency (1 to 10) Business Objects 9 ETL Informatica Powercenter 6 Eagle Data Mart 8 Oracle SQL Language 8