Cognos Analytics Developer/Agile Scrum Master
Resume:
Rupalekha Dayal
Technical Business Analyst, Certified Data Analyst,
Cognos Analytics Professional
Certified SAFE Agile Scrum Master
*********@*****.***
Massachusetts - 01730
Profile
● Extensive years of progressive IT experience in Cognos Analytics- Agile Framework and worked as a Cognos Analytics Consultant in many Engagements and delivered Business Intelligence-Cognos Analytics Business Solutions to several US Financial Systems Technical Projects.
● I have worked on assignments with Merrill Lynch and been part of the Agile Adoption Journey and provided technical business solutions .
● Technical Business Data Analysis: I have engaged in Requirements Discussion, Data Analysis, User story definition using tools like Jira, Gap Analysis, UAT Testing and Implementation.
● I have led several Client Engagements and worked with Client team and provided BI Technical Solutions for Panasonic North America in Cognos Analytics and was the early cloud Adoption solution provider from IBM.
Agile Expertise: Successfully been part of Agile Adoption Framework for multiple Organizations and adopted the Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean Methodologies ) as a Scrum Master, Project Lead and Development team and fostered collaboration and delivered business value.
● Proven Track Record: Proven track record of delivering high-quality SAFE Agile Product Solutions for clients like Merrill Lynch, IBM Engagements.
Strategic Vision: As part of IBM Organizational initiatives, I have served as Certification Review Board Member for IT Specialist group and have reviewed and mentored several candidates/Packages. I was selected to present a paper at the Regional Technical Exchange conference. I have conducted technical interviews to be part of Organization and part of team. I have been part of several technical Business initiatives and been part of several women leadership programs. Strong Communication: I have been part of several Business Teams initiatives and was selected to present technical paper at the Regional Technical Exchange. I have coached several teams on business and technical knowledge as part of several initiatives within the Organization.
● Senior Leadership: Managed and coached the Graduate Hires and had a week of mentoring the new hires and had conducted case studies and provided knowledge shares. As a Scrum Master, I worked with IBM Global Finance team and provided technical solutions and business value to the management.
● Technical Proficiency: I have proven and demonstrated my technical abilities in Report Migrations, Cognos Analytics, Data Modeling, Report Development, UAT, Data Migration and Production support and added Business value to several clients. I have done several technical paper submissions to the knowledge portal within the Organization.
Professional Expertise:
Technical Platforms:
● BI Tools: Cognos Analytics Reporting Tool, Cognos 11.1.7 Report Studio, Tableau,
● Modeling Tool: Cognos Framework Manager, Data Modules
● Data Analysis: Python, PowerBI, SQL, Tableau, NOSQL
● DATABASE: ORACLE, DB2 (SQL Queries), Scylla DB(NOSQL DB), Netezza, JSON
● ETL: Informatica, DataStage
● Testing Tools: Motio for Cognos Testing, Configuration Management
● Scripting Tools: HTML, JavaScript, Python Script
● Tools: Rational, MS-Visio, JIRA, Azure DevOps (ADO), MS Office 365, SharePoint, Confluence
● Scrum Master: Facilitating Scrum Ceremonies, Mentoring and Team Coaching, Agile Framework
● Release Management: JIRA, ITSM Tool for Release Management and Coordination
● Project Domain/Industries: Bank, Financial Systems, Electronics
● Reviews: ITSM-Release Coordination
Core Skills:
● Product Management: As part of Team Agility, I have done successful Product Implementations for several EPICS. I have done multiple Release and Delivery Management using the CI/CD Pipeline.
● Project Management: Proven track record in delivering projects on time and within budget
● Agile & Scrum Méthodologies : Scrum, Kanban, Lean Principles
● Business Analysis: Requirements elicitation, Gap Analysis, Requirements Documentation, ASCA Process Reviews and Implementation.
Documentation Expertise:
● Functional requirements, user stories, SRS, FRS/FRD, BRD,EDD, user manuals, SOW Academic Background & Credentials
● Masters in Computer Applications, Madras University,
● Bachelors in computer science, Madras University
● Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master
● ScyllaDB Essentials Scylla University
● Cybersecurity for Everyone - University of Maryland
● Salesforce Certified Associate
Training & Credentials
● Data Analyst Boot Camp(Python, PowerBI, SQL, Excel)
● Microsoft PowerBI Data Analyst Training
● R for Data Science
● IBM Cognos Analytics Training
● Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
● IBM TM1 Training
● Snowflake Training and Hands-on-Lab Session
● Data Analysis with Python
● Tableau 10 Hands-On Training for Data Science
● IBM Certified Designer - Cognos 10 BI Reports
● IBM Cognos 10 BI Metadata Model Developer
Professional Experiences
Payment Systems Report Migration
Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, NYC [09/2020 – 06/30/2021] Tools used: Cognos Analytics 11, Cognos Framework Manager 11, Oracle, Motio for Testing, Cognos Administration, JIRA for Product Increment and Release Management, Reporting Plant tool for Report Distribution, Onboarding Toolkit, Agile Ceremonies, ITSM – Release Management and CRQ Process and Gitbash-GitHub, Python, JIRA.
Key Contributions:
Discussed Business Requirements with stakeholders/clients and drafted External Design Document, Business Requirements documents using tools like Atlassian JIRA.
Designed and developed Several PDF and List Reports using Cognos Analytics tool for Payment Systems. It was a migration Project, and all the Accruals and Forecasting Reports were migrated from Payment system to Prime Brokerage systems. I contributed to the design and development of Accrual and Forecasting Framework data Model and several Reports.
Created, Developed and Validated Test Cases using Cognos Motio which was Instrumental in Dashboard migration to Cognos 11.1.7.
Created several Test Cases and validated several test cases for Report Validation.
Ensured a successful Test Case Run between Development and UAT Environment.
Payment Systems Performance Testing and managed the heavy load of data.
Key Contributor in Production and post Deployment Support of the Payment Systems and instrumental in resolving the data discrepancies between Payment Source System(Proprietary Tool) and the Reports in the PB Payment System.
Overlooked the MRA Process in my team which is a Technology Change Management Process, worked as a Release Coordinator and coordinated the Deployment using the ITSM (IT Services Management Tool). I handled 4 Deployment Coordination.
Engaged in the backlog refinement and refined the Product backlog and estimated several user stories using Poker technique. I created the user stories during the Iterations and ensured that the products were completed and set ready for Deployment.
During the Planning and Innovation Sprint worked on the PoC for API Development using Python- GitHub
Brexit Proprietary Tools Report Migration
Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, NYC [07/2018 – 08/2019] Tools used: Cognos Analytics 11, Cognos Framework Manager 10.2.2, Cognos Report Studio 10.2.2, Oracle, Motio for UAT Testing, JIRA for AGILE Product Increment and Release Management, Reporting Plant for Report Distribution, Onboarding Toolkit, Agile Ceremonies, ITSM – Release Management and CRQ Process
Key Contributions:
Discussed Business Requirements with stakeholders/clients and drafted External Design Document, Business Requirements documents using tools like Atlassian JIRA.
Collaborated with several teams and was part of Training in SAFE Agile and was involved in the Project Agile Adoption .
Instrumental and key contributor in the Report Design and Report Migration of Brexit and several confidential Proprietary reports. I created a dashboard with KPI for the Project and ensured that the Dashboard added value to the business.
Used the Agile Methodology of design and development to Iteratively deliver business value to Clients.
Participated in Daily Scrum and several Sprint ceremonies and provided value to Agile.
Created Report Plant Templates and OBT Templates for Account Hierarchies and created Subscription in Hub Tool for Report Distribution and subscriptions for end users.
Used Motio for Configuration Management and Testing the several Reports.
Key Contributor in resolving Production Support issues and supported the Level 2 Support team in resolving user queries.
IBMI [Nov 2017- June 2018]
SAP Report Migration - Cognos Analytics Cloud
Panasonic North America, Newark
Role: Cognos Analytics Consultant (Business Analyst – Analytics) Panasonic North America had redesigned its Analytics solution from SAP BI (on-premises) to IBM Cloud- based analytics. All these Reports from SAP BI were redesigned and developed in Cognos Analytics and source data from DataMart and Datawarehouse.
Tools Used: Cognos Analytics on Cloud 11.0.7, IBM Dash DB on the cloud, Informatica Power Center, Rational Tools for Requirements Gathering.
Key Contributions:
Discussed Business Requirements with stakeholders/clients and drafted External Design Document, Business Requirements documents using tools like Atlassian JIRA.
Designed and Created Cognos Analytics Data Models, Report Migration Design and Development, UAT Testing Unit Testing, Production Implementation, End-user Testing and Production Support. Created a document procedure to create and publish a package in Cognos Analytics on the Cloud.
Created Informatica cloud mapping Standardization and creating Mapping Configuration tasks such as Delta Mapping, Mapping Standardization, Running Schedules, Knowledge Transition. IBM Global Finance Corporate Headquarters (USA) [Jan 2015 - Feb 2017] Project: IGF IW - Analytics
Role: Scrum Master
Tools: Cognos 10.2.2 BI, IBM Cognos Framework Manager, Cognos 10.2.2 Report Studio, DB2 Query Management, Cognos Analysis Studio
Sales Management and Senior Management/Executives in the IBM Global Financing Team were the prime users of the Report from the IBM Global Finance Reporting team. Contributed as a Scrum Master/Developer and worked on several Iterations of the Watson Sales Connect Reports. This involved requirements discussion, Report Design, Development and Implementation to Production. This Analytics solution included multiple dashboards like Workbench, Territory Sellers, Territory Managers, Asset Dashboard, Contract and Credit Dashboard, Customer Search Dashboard, and Deal Tracker Dashboard. Additional dashboards such as OMIW (Opportunity Management Information Warehouse) and SPIDER (Sales Pipeline dashboard for Enterprise Reporting) dashboards were added subsequently to manage the IBM Global Financing Opportunity pipeline. Key Contributions:
Discussed Business Requirements with stakeholders/clients and drafted External Design Document, Business Requirements documents using tools like Atlassian JIRA.
Mentored the Development team as a Scrum Master and was instrumental in Iteration Planning and lead several Agile Scrum Ceremonies and worked on the successful implementation of several Management Reports/Watson Initiatives from the Management. IBM US Financial Systems/IBM Global Account Projects [May 2005- Dec 2014] Role: Project Lead/Technical Team Lead/Business Analyst Tools: Cognos 10.2.2 BI, IBM Cognos Framework Manager, Cognos 10.2.2 Report Studio, DB2 Query Management, Cognos Analysis Studio, Business Requirements Documentations, Rational Tools for Business Requirements, GAP Analysis, Production Migration
As a Project Lead engaged in Client Business Requirements Discussion and successfully supported the Account wise Project Deliverables
Leaded several Products/Project Frameworks from Waterfall to Agile Adoptions.
Key Contributor in organization initiatives which benefited the leadership teams like IT-Specialist Mentoring, Business Analyst Group Initiatives, Technical Interviews for recruitment within the team and Organization, Quality Initiatives across the leadership team.
Worked with manager in Project Planning using Project Management Tools used within the Organization.
Self-started in several technical initiatives and Project deliverables and was able to justify my leadership within the team and the account in many Projects.
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