Aarthi A

Senior Informatica Developer - AAA

Jersey City, NJ
SeniorInformaticadeveloper33@gmail.com
(614) 340-9609

Aarthi 
Senior Informatica Consultant 
Employer: 
Solstice Systems & Technologies 
Arvind, (703) 278-2499 
arvind@solsticelimited.com 
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY 
• IT professional with 7+years of experience in Data Warehousing using Informatica Power Center
9.x/8.x/7.x (Source Analyzer, Target Designer, Mapping Designer, Mapplet Designer, Transformation
Developer), Informatica PowerMart 7.x/6.x, Power Connect, Power Exchange. 
• Strong working experience with various clients which includes Finance, Insurance, Telecom and
Banking related industries. 
• Excellent analytical skills in understanding the client systems and organizational structure. 
• Heavily involved in complete life cycle of enterprise data warehouse. 
• Experienced in OLTP/OLAP system study, analysis and ER modeling, developing Database schemas
like Star schema and Snowflake schema used in relational and multidimensional modeling by using
Erwin/MS Visio. 
• Strong Knowledge in Relational Database Concepts, Entity Relation Diagrams, Normalization and De-
normalization Concepts. 
• Ability to write complex SQL needed for ETL jobs and analyzing data, proficient with databases like
Oracle 12i/11g/10g/9i, SQL Server 2012/2008/2005,Teradata, Netezza, DB2, Flat Files, Sybase, COBOL
files and XML files. 
• Experienced in Installation, Configuration, and Administration of Informatica Power Center. 
• Developed complex mappings by using various transformations like Unconnected/ Connected
lookups, Router, Filter, Expression, Sorter, Aggregator, Joiner, Union, Update Strategy and rarely used
transformations like Java, Stored procedure, etc. 
• Provided high level optimization ideas to other ETL team members to improve code performance. 
• Experience in Performance Tuning of sources, targets, mappings, transformations and sessions,
by implementing various techniques like partitioning techniques, pushdown optimization and also
identifying performance bottlenecks. 
• Good exposure to Development, Testing, Debugging, Implementation, Documentation, End-user
training and Production support. 
• Expertise in Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and Data Validation for developed
Informatica Mappings. 
• Research oriented, raise issues upfront and address them as soon as they have been identified. 
• Experienced in doing Error Handling and Troubleshooting using various log files. 
• Experienced in using Batch, Perl and UNIX shell scripts. 
• An excellent team member with an ability to perform individually, good interpersonal relations,
strong communication skills, hardworking and high level of motivation. A quick learner with an aptitude
for taking responsibilities.  
 
TECHNICAL SKILLS 
 
Data warehousing Tools : Informatica Power Center 9.5/9.1/8.x/7.x,Informatica Developer/Data  
Quality 9.5/9.1,Informatica power exchange 
Scheduler : Cisco Tidal and Control-M 
Databases : SQL Server 2012/2008/2005, Oracle 12i/11g/10g/9i, Teradata v2r6,  
Netezza, Sybase and DB2 
Languages : SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, Java and HTML 
ERP Tool : SAP 
Database Utilities : TOAD 8.0/7.1, Aginity, Oracle SQL Developer, SQL Server Management  
Studio, Teradata Studio 
Operating System : Red Hat Linux and Windows XP/Vista/7.  
Data Modeling : Ralph-Kimball Methodology, Bill-Inmon Methodology, Star Schema,  
Snow Flake Schema, Physical and Logical Modeling, Dimension Data  
Modeling, Fact Tables, Dimension Tables, Normalization and De- 
Normalization  
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS  
• Sun Certified Web Component Developer for JAVA J2EE Platform 1.4. 
• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 
AAA, Wilmington, DE July 2013 – Current 
Senior Informatica Developer 
 
Master Data Operational Data Source – MDODS 
 
AAA is one of the nation's leading insurance companies. CSAA.COM is the place where all AAA
customers can view their customer details and product details of their insurance. MDODS is the project
which handles all the customers’ product data and CPL is the project which handles all the customer
related data. The purpose of the MDODS is to sort out the customers product data as per the business
rules.  
 
Responsibilities: 
 
• Understanding of business requirements and enhancing the existing data warehouse architecture. 
• Used Informatica Designer to create, Load, Update mappings using different transformations to move
data to different data marts in Data Warehouse. 
• Successfully Loaded Data into different targets from various source systems like Oracle Database,
Flat files, ODS, SQL Server...etc into the Staging area and then into Netezza target  
• Developed and documented data mappings, transformations and Informatica sessions 
• Developed PL/SQL stored procedures and triggers in T-SQL for various data cleansing activities. 
• SQL*Loader was used to load the data from files. 
• Created source, target, transformations, sessions, batches and defined schedules for the sessions 
• Worked on Teradata Insert, Update, Insert and Dynamic SQL to transform and Load Summary tables
built on Core Data Warehouse 
• Worked on Cisco Tidal for scheduling and Automating the Informatica workflows 
• Used Shell Scripting to automate the loading process. 
• Used incremental loading technique to load incremental data into enterprise data warehouse. 
• Identified and tracked the slowly changing dimensions, heterogeneous Sources and determined the
hierarchies in dimensions. 
• Worked on powerful data profiling using Informatica Developer, to empower data analysts to
investigate and document data quality issues. 
• Involved in version control of code from development to test and Production environments. 
• Made substantial contributions in simplifying the development and maintenance of ETL by creating
re-usable Source, Target, Mapplet, and Transformation objects. 
• Involved in Unit & Integration Testing of Mappings & Sessions. 
• Implemented performance tuning of Sources, Targets, Mappings and Sessions by identifying
bottlenecks and used Debugger to debug the complex mappings and fix them. 
• Involved in migrating Mappings, Sessions and Workflows between development, test and production
environments. 
• Scheduled Sessions and Batch Processes based on demand, run on time, run only once using
Informatica Scheduler 
• Troubleshoot various reports using Cross Tab, Master Detail and different charts including Line and
Pie Charts for analysis. 
• Modified Universes and generated reports using SAP Business Objects. 
• Designed & developed reports, Drilldown reports using SAP Business Objects. 
• Designed reports with Slice and Dice & Drill down operations.  
 
Environment: ETL/Informatica PowerCenter 9.5/9.1, Informatica Power Exchange 9.1, Oracle 12i,
Teradata, Netezza, PL/SQL, XML, Flat files, UNIX, Toad, SQL Developer, Cisco Tidal, DB2, Perl, Batch,
Windows Server 2008 
 
Frontier Communications, Dallas, TX Feb., 2012 – June 2013 
Senior Informatica Developer  
 
Frontier Communications is one of the nation's largest independent telecommunications providers
offering local, long distance, and Internet access services and supporting more than 2 million access
lines.  
 
Responsibilities: 
 
• Responsible for gathering Business requirements and translate into technical requirements 
• Developed Mapping by using various transformations to suit the business user requirements and
business rules to load and eliminate unrequired data from SQL server 2008, Sybase, Oracle and other
data sources into Netezza target 
• Extensively used Teradata SQL Assistant to extract data from Data warehouse 
• Expertise in debugging and production support. 
• Created Workflows and used various tasks like Email, Event-wait and Event-raise, Timer, Control,
Command, Decision, Session in the workflow manager 
• Made use of Post-Session success and Post-Session failure commands in the Session task to execute
scripts needed for cleanup and update purposes 
• Extensively worked with Source Analyzer, Warehouse Designer, Transformation Designer, Mapping
Designer and Mapplet Designer. 
• Developed mappings/sessions using Informatica Power Center 9.1/8.6.1 / Power exchange 8.5.1 for
data loading.  
• Responsible for managing Informatica Services like Repository Service, Integration Services,
Reference Table Manager Services etc. 
• Designed and developed error handling  
• Involved in data quality profiling, standardization and testing 
• Monitored daily loads and provided on call production support (L2) during data Loads. 
• Migrated repository objects, and scripts from development environment to QA/production
environment. Extensive experience in troubleshooting and solving migration issues and production
issues. 
• Troubleshooting in multi-dimensional universe and reports in SAP Business Objects Environment 
• Creating Change Control Requests as required by assigned projects and ensuring end to end
extensive support as Data Analyst and address overall data quality 
• Installation & configuration of Informatica services  
• Created repository & assigned grants to users to access the repository. 
• Used transformations like Joiner, Expression, Connected, Unconnected lookups, Filter, Aggregator,
Stored Procedure, Rank, Update Strategy, Router, Sorter, Sequence generator etc 
 
Environment: ETL/Informatica PowerCenter 9.1, Informatica Power Exchange 8.6, Oracle 11g, Sybase,
Teradata, Netezza, PL/SQL, XML,Flat files, UNIX, Toad, SQL Server 2008, XML files, DB2, Perl, Shell
Scripting, HPQC, Red hat Linux  
 
Putnam Financials, Boston, MA July 2009 to Jan., 2012 
ETL/Informatica Developer 
 
This project is aimed at developing a single, structured and integrated Data Warehouse for Putnam
Financials, giving robust and standardized reports. Data is extracted from various OLTP systems
like billing, order and provisioning etc. The data from the OLTP systems is extracted and loaded into
staging tables first and after processing of these raw data, they are inserted into the target database
tables.  
 
Responsibilities: 
 
• Interpreted logical and physical data models for Business users to determine common data
definitions and establish referential integrity of the system. 
• Analyzed the sources, transformed the data, mapped the data and loaded the data into targets using
Power Center Designer. 
• Designed and developed Oracle PL/SQL Procedures. 
• Designed and Developed Oracle PL/SQL and Shell Scripts, Data Import/Export, Data Conversions and
Data Cleansing. 
• Participated in the design of Star & Snowflake schema data model. 
• Designed and developed end-to-end ETL process from various source systems to Staging area, from
staging to Data Marts. 
• Worked on Informatica Utilities – Source Analyzer, Warehouse Designer, Mapping Designer, Mapplet
Designer and Transformation Developer. 
• Worked with various transformations like Source Qualifier, Expression, Filter, Aggregator, Lookup,
Update Strategy, Stored Procedure, Sequence generator, Joiner transformations 
• Responsible for creating business solutions for Incremental and full loads 
• Involved in creating Shell Scripts to automate Pre-Session and Post-Session Processes 
• Developed workflows, sessions and job groups to schedule the loads at required frequency using
cisco tidal scheduler 
• Involved in data quality profiling, standardization and testing 
 
Environment: Informatica Power Center 8.6.1, Oracle 10g, SQL, PL/SQL, Quest TOAD and Windows
Server 2003 
 
CVS Pharmacy, Woonsocket, RI May 2008 - June 2009 
ETL/ Informatica Developer 
 
The project relates to the Data Warehouse that can be broadly classified into Pharmacy and Retail.
Pharmacy Data Warehouse consists of DW CAP (Data Warehouse Compliance Adherence Persistency)
system and Pharmacy Batch. Successfully developed and maintained number of ETL maps to Extract,
Transform and Load data from various sources like Flat files and Relational data into the Enterprise
Data warehouse called Pharmacy Data Warehouse Management system. This includes creating and
running scripts, loading data into Dimension tables and Fact tables. 
 
Responsibilities: 
 
• Worked with Business Analyst to gather business requirements and involved in weekly team
meetings. 
• Worked on different data sources such as Oracle, XML, Teradata, Sybase and Flat files. 
• Involved in Creating the Dimensions, Facts, Mappings &Transformations, Validating the Mappings,
Generating & Loading the Data. 
• Worked extensively on different types of transformations like Source qualifier, Expression, Filter,
Aggregator, Rank, Lookup, XML, Stored procedure, Sequence generator and Joiner. 
• Implemented complex mappings such as Slowly Changing Dimensions (Type II) using Flag. 
• Developed stored procedures and complex packages extensively using PL/SQL.  
• Created shell scripts for utilizing UNIX utilities in users applications, file conversions & migrations 
• Involved in Optimizing and Performance tuning logic on targets, sources, mappings, and sessions to
increase the efficiency of session and Scheduled Workflows using Control –M application 
• Used SQL Override and reduced the number of transformations used in the mappings and improved
the performance of the sessions. 
• Involved in Unit Testing of code which I developed and supported System Integration Testing and
UAT Testing. 
 
Environment: Informatica Power Center 8.1, Oracle 10g, Sybase, SQL*Plus, DB2, Teradata, Control-M,
UNIX Shell Scripting, Windows Vista, Red hat Linux. 
 
Bank of Baroda, INDIA July 2007- March 2008 
ETL/Informatica Developer 
 
The bank offers a full state of retail and commercial banking services from checking, savings and loans
for retail customers, to private banking client services and treasury, corporate and trade finance for
the wholesale customers.  
 
Responsibilities: 
 
• Studied the project requirement and designed the project. 
• Created tables, views, synonyms and sequences. 
• Creating mappings for transforming the data. 
• Creating Mapplet for transforming the data. 
• Created Database Triggers, Stored Procedure, Functions and Packages  
• Optimized queries using rule based & cost based approach. 
• Used SQL Loader for data loading. 
• Various Performance and Tuning techniques used to improve the load. 
• Involved in Testing the Informatica mappings and creating QA Test Plans. 
• Modified existing forms, reports, and graphs as per the enhancement.  
• Tested all the new and modified program units. 
 
Environment: Informatica Power Center 7.x/6.2, Informatica Scheduler, Windows Windows 2003 Server,
SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL and Batch Scripting

Work Experience

Senior Informatica Developer

AAA - Wilmington, DE
July 2013 to Present
Master Data Operational Data Source - MDODS 
AAA is one of the nation's leading insurance companies. CSAA.COM is the place where all AAA
customers can view their customer details and product details of their insurance. MDODS is the project
which handles all the customers' product data and CPL is the project which handles all the customer
related data. The purpose of the MDODS is to sort out the customers product data as per the business
rules. 
 
Responsibilities: 
❑ Understanding of business requirements and enhancing the existing data warehouse architecture 
❑ Used Informatica Designer to create, Load, Update mappings using different transformations to
move data to different data marts in Data Warehouse. 
❑ Successfully Loaded Data into different targets from various source systems like Oracle Database,
Flat files, ODS, SQL Server etc into the Staging area and then into Netezza target 
❑ Developed and documented data mappings, transformations and Informatica sessions 
❑ Developed PL/SQL stored procedures and triggers in T-SQL for various data cleansing activities. 
❑ SQL*Loader was used to load the data from files. 
❑ Created source, target, transformations, sessions, batches and defined schedules for the sessions 
❑ Worked on Teradata Insert, Update, Insert and Dynamic SQL to transform and Load Summary tables
built on Core Data Warehouse 
❑ Worked on Cisco Tidal for scheduling and Automating the Informatica workflows 
❑ Used Shell Scripting to automate the loading process. 
❑ Used incremental loading technique to load incremental data into enterprise data warehouse. 
❑ Identified and tracked the slowly changing dimensions, heterogeneous Sources and determined the
hierarchies in dimensions. 
❑ Worked on powerful data profiling using Informatica Developer, to empower data analysts to
investigate and document data quality issues. 
❑ Involved in version control of code from development to test and Production environments. 
❑ Made substantial contributions in simplifying the development and maintenance of ETL by creating
re-usable Source, Target, Mapplet, and Transformation objects. 
❑ Involved in Unit & Integration Testing of Mappings & Sessions. 
❑ Implemented performance tuning of Sources, Targets, Mappings and Sessions by identifying
bottlenecks and used Debugger to debug the complex mappings and fix them. 
❑ Involved in migrating Mappings, Sessions and Workflows between development, test and production
environments. 
❑ Scheduled Sessions and Batch Processes based on demand, run on time, run only once using
Informatica Scheduler 
❑ Troubleshoot various reports using Cross Tab, Master Detail and different charts including Line and
Pie Charts for analysis. 
❑ Modified Universes and generated reports using SAP Business Objects. 
❑ Designed & developed reports, Drilldown reports using SAP Business Objects. 
❑ Designed reports with Slice and Dice & Drill down operations. 
 
Environment: ETL/Informatica PowerCenter 9.5/9.1, Informatica Power Exchange 9.1, Oracle 
12i, Teradata, Netezza, PL/SQL, XML, Flat files, UNIX, Toad, SQL Developer, Cisco Tidal, DB2, Perl,
Batch, Windows Server 2008

Senior Informatica Developer

Frontier Communications - Dallas, TX
February 2012 to June 2013
Frontier Communications is one of the nation's largest independent telecommunications providers
offering local, long distance, and Internet access services and supporting more than 2 million access
lines. 
 
Responsibilities: 
❑ Responsible for gathering Business requirements and translate into technical requirements 
❑ Developed Mapping by using various transformations to suit the business user requirements and
business rules to load and eliminate unrequired data from SQL server 2008, Sybase, Oracle and other
data sources into Netezza target 
❑ Extensively used Teradata SQL Assistant to extract data from Data warehouse 
❑ Expertise in debugging and production support. 
❑ Created Workflows and used various tasks like Email, Event-wait and Event-raise, Timer, Control,
Command, Decision, Session in the workflow manager 
❑ Made use of Post-Session success and Post-Session failure commands in the Session task to execute
scripts needed for cleanup and update purposes 
❑ Extensively worked with Source Analyzer, Warehouse Designer, Transformation Designer, Mapping
Designer and Mapplet Designer. 
❑ Developed mappings/sessions using Informatica Power Center 9.1/8.6.1 / Power exchange 8.5.1 for
data loading. 
❑ Responsible for managing Informatica Services like Repository Service, Integration Services,
Reference Table Manager Services etc. 
❑ Designed and developed error handling 
❑ Involved in data quality profiling, standardization and testing 
❑ Monitored daily loads and provided on call production support (L2) during data Loads. 
❑ Migrated repository objects, and scripts from development environment to QA/production
environment. Extensive experience in troubleshooting and solving migration issues and production
issues. 
❑ Troubleshooting in multi-dimensional universe and reports in SAP Business Objects Environment 
❑ Creating Change Control Requests as required by assigned projects and ensuring end to end
extensive support as Data Analyst and address overall data quality 
❑ Installation & configuration of Informatica services 
❑ Created repository & assigned grants to users to access the repository. 
❑ Used transformations like Joiner, Expression, Connected, Unconnected lookups, Filter, Aggregator,
Stored Procedure, Rank, Update Strategy, Router, Sorter, Sequence generator etc 
 
Environment: ETL/Informatica PowerCenter 9.1, Informatica Power Exchange 8.6, 
Oracle 11g, Sybase, Teradata, Netezza, PL/SQL, XML, Flat files, UNIX, Toad, SQL 
Server 2008, XML files, DB2, Perl, Shell Scripting, HPQC, Red hat Linux

ETL/Informatica Developer
Putnam Financials - Boston, MA
July 2009 to January 2012
This project is aimed at developing a single, structured and integrated Data Warehouse for Putnam
Financials, giving robust and standardized reports. Data is extracted from various OLTP systems
like billing, order and provisioning etc. The data from the OLTP systems is extracted and loaded into
staging tables first and after processing of these raw data, they are inserted into the target database
tables. 
 
Responsibilities: 
❑ Involved in Data transfer from OLTP systems forming the extracted sources. 
❑ Interpreted logical and physical data models for Business users to determine common data
definitions and establish referential integrity of the system. 
❑ Analyzed the sources, transformed the data, mapped the data and loaded the data into targets
using Power Center Designer. 
❑ Designed and developed Oracle PL/SQL Procedures. 
❑ Designed and Developed Oracle PL/SQL and Shell Scripts, Data Import/Export, Data Conversions and
Data Cleansing. 
❑ Participated in the design of Star & Snowflake schema data model. 
❑ Designed and developed end-to-end ETL process from various source systems to Staging area, from
staging to Data Marts. 
❑ Worked on Informatica Utilities - Source Analyzer, Warehouse Designer, Mapping Designer, Mapplet
Designer and Transformation Developer. 
❑ Worked with various transformations like Source Qualifier, Expression, Filter, Aggregator, Lookup,
Update Strategy, Stored Procedure, Sequence generator, Joiner transformations 
❑ Responsible for creating business solutions for Incremental and full loads 
❑ Involved in creating Shell Scripts to automate Pre-Session and Post-Session Processes 
❑ Developed workflows, sessions and job groups to schedule the loads at required frequency using
cisco tidal scheduler 
❑ Involved in data quality profiling, standardization and testing 
 
Environment: Informatica Power Center 8.6.1, Oracle 10g, SQL, PL/SQL, Quest TOAD and 
Windows Server 2003
ETL/ Informatica Developer
CVS Pharmacy - Woonsocket, RI
May 2008 to June 2009
The project relates to the Data Warehouse that can be broadly classified into Pharmacy and Retail.
Pharmacy Data Warehouse consists of DW CAP (Data Warehouse Compliance Adherence Persistency)
system and Pharmacy Batch. Successfully developed and maintained number of ETL maps to Extract,
Transform and Load data from various sources like Flat files and Relational data into the Enterprise
Data warehouse called Pharmacy Data Warehouse Management system. This includes creating and
running scripts, loading data into Dimension tables and Fact tables. 
 
Responsibilities: 
❑ Worked with Business Analyst to gather business requirements and involved in weekly team
meetings. 
❑ Worked on different data sources such as Oracle, XML, Teradata, Sybase and Flat files. 
❑ Involved in Creating the Dimensions, Facts, Mappings &Transformations, Validating the Mappings,
Generating & Loading the Data. 
❑ Worked extensively on different types of transformations like Source qualifier, Expression, Filter,
Aggregator, Rank, Lookup, XML, Stored procedure, Sequence generator and Joiner. 
❑ Implemented complex mappings such as Slowly Changing Dimensions (Type II) using Flag. 
❑ Developed stored procedures and complex packages extensively using PL/SQL. 
❑ Created shell scripts for utilizing UNIX utilities in users applications, file conversions & migrations 
❑ Involved in Optimizing and Performance tuning logic on targets, sources, mappings, and sessions to
increase the efficiency of session and Scheduled Workflows using Control -M application 
❑ Used SQL Override and reduced the number of transformations used in the mappings and improved
the performance of the sessions. 
❑ Involved in Unit Testing of code which I developed and supported System Integration Testing and
UAT Testing. 
 
Environment: Informatica Power Center 8.1, Oracle 10g, Sybase, SQL*Plus, DB2, Teradata, Control-M, 
UNIX Shell Scripting, Windows Vista, Red hat Linux.

ETL/Informatica Developer
Bank of Baroda - Vadodara, Gujarat
July 2007 to March 2008
The bank offers a full state of retail and commercial banking services from checking, savings and loans
for retail customers, to private banking client services and treasury, corporate and trade finance for
the wholesale customers. 
 
Responsibilities: 
❑ Studied the project requirement and designed the project. 
❑ Created tables, views, synonyms and sequences. 
❑ Creating mappings for transforming the data. 
❑ Creating Mapplet for transforming the data. 
❑ Created Database Triggers, Stored Procedure, Functions and Packages 
❑ Optimized queries using rule based & cost based approach. 
❑ Used SQL Loader for data loading. 
❑ Various Performance and Tuning techniques used to improve the load. 
❑ Involved in Testing the Informatica mappings and creating QA Test Plans. 
❑ Modified existing forms, reports, and graphs as per the enhancement. 
❑ Tested all the new and modified program units. 
 
Environment: Informatica Power Center 7.x/6.2, Informatica Scheduler, Windows XP, 
Windows 2003 Server, SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL and Batch Scripting