Varun Aggarwal

Varun Aggarwal

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Digital Transformation Leader | Bigdata & Cloud Migration | Program Management | Delivery Management | Strategic Thinker

  • Education

    • APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University

      2005 - 2009
      Engineer’s Degree Computer Science I DIV
    • Central Board of Secondary Education

      1991 - 2005
      Computer Science

      Activities and Societies: Prefectorial Board Member,2004-2005

    • Apeejay School

      1991 - 2005
      Science

      Activities and Societies: Member of Prefectorial Board, Basket Ball Team Member

  • Experience

    • Aon

      Oct 2011 - Mar 2014

      Projects Worked: American Express HW Data Conversion(Health & Welfare), Air Canada DB Data Conversion(Defined Benefits)Technologies Acquainted: Informatica 9x (Designer, Monitor and Workflow designer), MS Access, DB2, Unix File Handling tool Secure CRT & Secure Fx Roles & Responsibilities• Interacting with the onsite coordinators and understand requirement specifications• Developing and testing Informatica maps based on the specifications and provide elaborative test plans including unit testing, aggregate testing and special test scenarios.• Debugging the working of the informatica maps, Troubleshooting, Testing, and Documentation of Data Warehouse and maintaining root cause analysis (RCA) document.• Ensuring Data transformations, validation rules, best practices applied are processed successfully.• Querying the data loaded to test for the integrity as per the requirement and cross checking the expected load using MS access.• Defect Raising and verifying the solution with the designated teams.• Delegating work to the offshore team and reviewing to ensure proper coding standards are followed and quality is maintained. Show less

      • Functional System Analyst Experienced

        Apr 2010 - Mar 2014
      • Senior Setup Configuration Specialist

        Oct 2011 - Oct 2012
    • Cognizant

      Apr 2014 - Sept 2017
      Associate Projects, Analytics & Information Management
    • Apple

      Jun 2014 - May 2016
      Functional QA Lead Consultant

      Projects Worked: Product Launch Dashboard, Quote Ladder, GBI iTunes Financials, ACCAR 2, Global Resource Locator, LDW SearchTechnologies Acquainted: Teradata, Oracle, SAP HANA, Apple Internal Web Applications, Apple RADAR, Dashboard ValidationsRoles & Responsibilities• Coordinate with Development teams on a multi-vendor environment, understand the requirements & design and organize the QA walkthroughs with partner vendors and stakeholders.• Provide Test Strategy, Project Estimation, Resource Plan and Test Schedule.• Provide Entry/Exit criteria and raise important risks and dependencies to all partners.• Create and Execute test scenarios and test scripts/cases • Validate the varied GBI Dashboards/ User interfaces at the front end against the backend semantic databases by framing complex queries on Oracle, Teradata and SAP HANA. • Defect Analysis, Defect re-testing, reporting issues in RADAR and provide RCA• Worked with the Automation teams to automate the QA test process using Selenium.• Provide Test Closure reports and summary documents.• Hold regular status calls with the onshore partners and discuss the project, adhering to milestone dates and ensuring the deliverables are made accordingly.• Worked in as Teradata developer for one of the tracks(GRL), analysed data changes & dependencies and worked on TD procedures, DML, DDL and deployed changes using the global deployment tool Show less

    • Jabil

      Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
      Big Data QA Lead Consultant

      Projects Worked: Jabil Enterprise Information PlatformTechnologies Acquainted: Big Data- Data Ingestion, HIVE, Sqoop, UNIX, APS, MSTRRoles & Responsibilities:• Coordinate with Development team, understand the requirements & design and organize the QA walkthroughs with partners and stakeholders.• Provide Test Strategy, Project Estimation, Resource Plan and Test Schedule.• Provide Entry/Exit criteria and raise important risks and dependencies to all stakeholders.• Create and Execute test scenarios and test scripts/cases for data validation across Hadoop layers.• Defect Analysis, Defect re-testing and provide RCA• Provide Test Closure reports and summary documents.• Hold regular status calls with the onshore partners and discuss the project, adhering to milestone dates and ensuring the deliverables are made accordingly.• Managed team of 8 in an Onsite –Offshore model. Show less

    • Huawei Technologies India

      Nov 2016 - Sept 2017
      Big Data QA lead consultant

      Worked on CarbonData(Apache open source file format developed by Huawei) for executing Non Functional use cases for CarbonData using HiveQL and SparkSQL queries• Worked as Big Data QA Lead consultant and provided Big Data QA solutions. • Worked on QA Automation utilities and organized Process and solution walkthroughs.• Provided a roadmap for building a Test Center Of Excellence for Huawei. • Project Estimations.• Test Strategy and Test Design.• Test Execution along with Automation.• Test Summary and closure. Show less

    • HARMAN India

      Sept 2017 - Aug 2018
      Lead Product Engineer
    • Carelon Global Solutions India

      Aug 2018 - now
      • Manager Architecture

        Apr 2023 - now
      • Associate Delivery Manager

        May 2021 - Apr 2023
      • Associate Technical Architect

        Apr 2020 - May 2021
      • Technical Lead

        Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • SAFe Agilist Certification

      Scaled Agile, Inc.
      Apr 2019
    • Professional, Academy of Healthcare Management

      AHIP
      Jun 2023
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Varun Aggarwal
      Spot Award Legato Health Technologies Dec 2018 Received Spot award for project deliverables in Rewards & Recognition program.
    • Awarded to Varun Aggarwal
      Customer Appreciation Apple Inc. Apr 2016 Received from Apple Managers for efficient work deliverables and quality.
    • Awarded to Varun Aggarwal
      King Maker - Sep 2015 Received 'King Maker' Award at the EIM - Bangalore R&R for Q3, 2015 for demonstrating great leadership qualities.
    • Awarded to Varun Aggarwal
      Appreciation Award - Internal Spot Cognizant Mar 2015 Awarded two Appreciation Award- Internal Spot for providing exhaustive test solutions and presented in EIM Moments monthly from Apple for March 2015.
    • Awarded to Varun Aggarwal
      ISG Wizkid Aon Corporation Nov 2013 Recognized as the ‘ISG Wizkid’ for great work ethics and flexibility and contribution to the ongoing projects with in-depth analysis of the tasks at hand and debugging and solving the errors at the same time
    • Awarded to Varun Aggarwal
      Ingenious Heads Aon Corporation Jul 2013
    • Awarded to Varun Aggarwal
      Innovative minds of the month Aon Corporation Jun 2012