PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 16 years of IT experience from various Domains with an exposure to multiple technologies;
• 11 years of Business Analysis experience with concentration on Project Management and Testing in the areas of Web based (Java, .NET, ERP, ALM and Workflow driven Systems) applications, Intranet sites, Infrastructure and Desktop applications,
• Domain exposure of Banking, Finance, Healthcare, Insurance and Wealth Management,
• Extensive skills in Project Execution, Tracking, Requirements Gathering, and performing End to End Testing of the Applications to derive at 'Go / No Go' decisions, and Performance Testing of Legacy systems,
• Well versed with Risk Identification/Mitigation, Forecast, Financial Analysis, Reports compilation and sharing with Stakeholders to deriving at action plan,
• Transforming the Users requirements of proposed Systems into Business Requirements,
• Experience in developing Use Cases, Process flows, Work Flows, modifying existing flows,
• Attention to the Detail, Out of box thinking and experience in entire SDLC/STLC,
• Experience in Test Management, Bug Tracking and Reporting Systems,
• 8 years of Application Development / Testing (QA) experience on different Technologies,
• Global exposure: 6 years from the USA and 4+ months from the Europe.
• Worked on the Projects that follows the Software Development Methodology of Waterfall and Agile:
• Possess strong Client interfacing skills with some of Fortune listed from the USA and Europe. Familiarity with Vendor Management (both internal and external),
• Roles emphasize on Business Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Due diligence, Project Execution, Team Management; Audit & Control as part of PMO processes, Coordination with Onsite & Offshore,
• Experience of SDLC; Analysis and Design of the Objectives, Coding, Testing and reviews of the Deliverables. Good at Defect prevention, Risk management, assigning the Tasks and directing the Activities to Team and tracking them to Milestones, per Scrum methodology; incorporated capacity planning into the Sprint planning, Release Planning, Backlog grooming, removed team impediments and embed feedback from Retrospective meetings,
• Managed the Deliverables and Artifacts using the Project Management (PM) tools: PlanView (v. 9.1 and 7.4.1) HP - PPM (v. 10) Microsoft Confidential, Project Microsoft SharePoint
• Independently configured the SNA Server for the Mainframe to establish the DB2 Connect from OS/390 Host of the KBC.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

.NET & ALM: ASP.NET, C#, Framework 4.0 and SQL Server 2008 & Confidential '13

DWH / BI: Business Objects 6.1b, SAP BO-XI, WEBI and Informatica 8.1.

Mainframe: COBOL II, DB2, VSAM, IMS DB, IMS DC, CICS, VisualAge Generator.

Packages: Balsamiq, Visual Basic, ClearCase, Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft Office Suite.

Project Management: PlanView 9.1, HP-PPM, Microsoft Project, SharePoint and Visio.

Web related: Open-CMS, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress.

QA / Testing: MTM, QTP/UFT, ClearQuest, JIRA, Quality Center.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Environment: .NET, Java, MTM, Confidential, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Visio.

Responsibilities:

• SDLC documentation, preparing the Use Cases for Loan Origination modules when received the CC’s,
• Analyzing the Change Control, Feasibility study, Project charter, Estimation/Sizing, Defect resolutions,
• Create and maintain a Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for the applications under test,
• Perform Path analysis and create flow diagrams to design test cases,
• Validate the Test Data for Functional, Integration Testing in the MTM and verifying the results,
• Review Test Plans with the project team and manage QA Schedules,
• Coordinate with DEV Team on the Defects reported and schedule the Meetings as necessary,
• Track ALM tool ( Confidential ) to ensure it contains all the relevant info pertaining to the Projects and issues are linked to Client's Bug system (JIRA),
• Status / Weekly calls w.r. Confidential the Releases and reporting.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Environment: .NET, Android, PhoneGap, Open-CMS, JIRA, YouTRACK, Balsamiq and Visio.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare / respond with the Proposals towards new challenges, suggesting the Technology per Business needs,
• Approve the layouts using Balsamiq, and freeze upon the Content Management System for Web projects,
• Preparing the Workflows using Visio diagrams for the UseCases, Menu Navigation and designing the Technical flow,
• Track & execute the Migration of desktop applications and perform necessary Business Analysis to migrate them onto the Web using the technologies .NET & Java, Oracle & MySQL,
• Prepare the System Test Plans, Usability test plan and Test Cases for all the releases of Projects involved,
• Work with business users to coordinate UAT testing, Create and track issues in JIRA. Conduct CCB meetings across all the Project,
• End-to-End testing of all the Projects developed for internal/external and recording the Results using JIRA,
• Track the backlog of Pharma Inventory (.NET) and Sales application (PhoneGap) that are developed using Agile (Scrum) methodology and ensure the Product released per the Sprints planned,
• Updating the Confidential & YouTRACK all the time with the Sprints planned, and the reports distributed to the Stakeholders.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Environment: SAP-BO XI 3.1, HP-PPM, Microsoft SharePoint, Office and Visio.

Responsibilities:

• Developing the BO reports from multiple BO Universes and mapping the Transaction codes using the ABAP, validate & reviewing the BO reports to comply end-to-end Testing,
• Content Management of PMO related Documents on the SharePoint (Artifacts in DOCMAP and DOCHUB),
• Tracking the Projects in PPM to verify the Staffing Profiles, estimates, Headcount, Budgeting and correct the Projects to be Quality compliant,
• Prepare the test cases based on the Business Process flows,
• Maintain and executed test cases in Test Manager Tool,
• Perform Path analysis and create flow diagrams to design test cases,
• Coordinate and perform testing activities during all phases of BO Reports testing,
• Responsible for System testing, Integration testing & Interface testing with PlanView and Regression testing,
• Responsible for Audit drills (Project Execution, Audit & Control), ensuring the Disaster Recovery plans are in place, Business Continuity plans (DRP & BCP) are updated by PM's on respective systems.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Environment: PlanView 7.4.1, BO XI, .NET, QA, IBM Mainframe, Microsoft SharePoint and Visio.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the ICD9 to ICD10 Conversion (Mainframe to .Net) projects, Migration of Claims processing from Mainframe to FOCUS,
• Analyzing the Project needs and Delivery requirements, define the Workflows with concurrence from Onsite/Clients,
• Transform the Requirements into Technical design / deliverables,
• Defining the Test scenarios and reviewing the Test results of HR Application, Timesheet and SQA,
• Document the QA Process and prepare the Release readiness review documents,
• Test Planning, Test data setup, designing the test scenarios and execute in multiple environments,
• Actively participated in deployment review meetings, Track and follow-up on the issues,
• Interacting with Onsite Managers to track the Project execution, and responding to the Proposals,
• Provide Test Results and weekly status to the management along with posting onto the Dashboard,
• Interact closely with product management, business and development teams to assure most effective project execution.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Environment: PlanView 9.1 & 7.4.1, BO XI, 6.1b, WEBI, Quality Center 9.0, Microsoft SharePoint and Oracle 9i.

Responsibilities:

• Generating the Reports such as Time Reporting, Financials (L0, L1, L2, L3), Forecast, Year to Date spent, and Month to Date; to validate them in Business Objects higher version (part of Upgradation),
• Creating the ad-hoc Reports from different Universes of Business Objects and validating them to ensure the System integrity is intact,
• Extracting the Reports of Cost and Effort from PlanView to validate against the System upgradation,
• Reviewing the Test plans, Test scenarios, Status calls, Defect reporting of PV 9.1 and Status updating to PMO,
• User Acceptance Testing of PlanView 9.1 by evaluating various scenarios to conform the expected / existing functionality,
• Test efforts starting with test planning and estimating, through test execution including day-to-day management and through final summary reporting,
• Coordinate and support the deployment and validation team during deployments, providing PRODUCTION validation support for the releases.

Confidential

PMO - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Estimating, Budgeting, Risk Identification and Management, Tracking, Status updating to the Members of PMO,
• Overseeing the Program Delivery; being a liaison between the TPA, Business Analysts and the Delivery teams,
• Creating the Confidential, defining the Phases, Tasks and Activities as by the Waterfall model, and Resource Allocation in the PlanView,
• Extracting the Project oriented Reports from PlanView and sharing with the Stake Holders of the Project,
• Coordinating with TPA and Confidential Architects for the Program Delivery to setup the Group and Member enrollment process.
• Analyzing the existing CMBS System and defining the extract for Confidential - Subrogation using the Use Cases diagram,
• Data Modeling, Extraction, Migration and Data Warehousing and report generation using the Informatica 7x,
• Validating the extract which contains Employer and Employee eligibility information to validate against the Claims files that are to be sent to the Confidential for Subrogation,
• Test results recording in internal system and sharing with Stakeholders.

Confidential

Onsite Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Gathering, Designing, Project scheduling and tracking,
• Reviewing the Test strategies, Test cases and Test results,
• Interacting with Business Analysts and Users to conform the Functionality,
• Coordination with Offshore team for the Deliverables.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the Statement of Work, Preparing estimates and Project Plan,
• Interacting with SMEs and Business Analysts for the clarifications,
• Preparing design documents - High level design Flow,
• Work allocation to the team members and Project Monitoring,

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance and Production Support of the Application,
• Fix the Abends that may occur from STD/LTD/FMLA Jobs, so the Groups will fed with the real-time Data for Online Systems.
• Interacting with the Business Team and handling of the Change Requests,
• Coordination with Offshore and inspection of Deliverables,
• Analyzing the existing Confidential system on Mainframe, Mainframe host connectivity
• Preparation of the reverse engineering document at Code level, which includes functionality of the Program and Databases used,
• Coordinating with the Java Development team to have them understand the existing functionality of Confidential,
• Responded to several RFPs, as requested by the Management.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and Coding as per the given Specifications,
• Reviews, Test cases preparation, Unit Testing and User Support,
• Compliance with Quality procedures, Production Support of the System.