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@vikas_shirani
Senior data engineer specializing in data validation, quality engineering, and ETL/ELT pipelines.
What I'm looking for
I’m a Data Engineering & Quality Engineering Specialist with 6.5+ years of experience in Big Data, cloud migration, Mainframe modernization, and enterprise-scale data validation across banking, financial services, and insurance.
In my current role at Tata Consultancy Services, I validate complex ETL/ELT pipelines across 18+ source systems, ensuring data accuracy, integrity, reconciliation, and business-rule compliance. I support backend validation for 150+ tables and high-volume daily batches (100K–250K+ records), including downstream applications, Tableau reports, UI screens, and file-based outputs.
I’m hands-on with Hadoop, Hive, Impala, PySpark, Python, and SQL to verify transformation logic like referral matching, activation processing, reject handling, and incentive calculations. I also lead defect analysis, root cause investigation, and reconciliation testing to deliver reliable, production-ready solutions.
Across Snowflake and AWS engagements, I performed source-to-target reconciliation and migration validation using record count checks, duplicate/null/PK verification, and schema/table-level validations. I collaborate cross-functionally, maintain audit-ready test evidence, and support release validation within Agile/Scrum using tools like JIRA and PractiTest.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Led enterprise Sales Performance Management modernization, replacing legacy mainframe incentive processing with Hadoop-based ETL/ELT for 18+ source systems and ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and reconciliation. Performed backend validation for 150+ tables and 100K–250K+ daily batches, driving defect analysis, RCA, reconciliation testing, and business-rule compliance.
Software Engineer - Data QA
Tech Aimz India Private Limited
Aug 2019 - Jul 2022 (2 years 11 months)
Contributed to Mainframe-to-Hadoop modernization of incentive processing across 15+ source systems, validating Raw/CLN/INT layers and ensuring accurate product mapping, referral matching, activation workflows, and revenue-credit calculations. Supported high-volume batch validation for 100K–250K+ daily records across 150+ tables with 99%+ data validation accuracy, including defect analysis, root-ca
Education
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Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU)
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering
2015 - 2019
Completed a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering at VTU from 2015 to 2019.
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