SUMMARY:

• Currently performing the mixed role of business analyst and application specialist for Confidential and I am having over 9 years of experience in the life, annuity, wealth, reinsurance, retro insurance and retirement services.
• Leading a team of 8 members consisting of BA and Developers and making sure team is using business analysis principles and practices to deliver higher quality of results with consistent and greater efficiency and adapting latest business techniques.
• Helping testing team in defect detection, ensuring all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, test execution, quality assurance and issue/defect tracking.
• Successfully managed various projects on different products and in different functional area in Insurance domain in India, USA and Canada in an onshore offshore models.
• Responsible for management and creation of AFD’s of business requirements include release planning, strategy, resource planning and tools.
• Working with the Project Manager and other technical leaders to establish time tables and agree on the plan for the implementation.
• Planned and executed conversion and migration of policies from one insurance product to another based upon plans and migration of data from mainframe to linux.
• Ensure that QA process is documented and communicated and adequate to ensure agreed quality levels for the application.
• Making sure testing team is working as specified, including use of test cases or on an ad - hoc basis, reports defects and other issues found during testing in the defect tracking system.
• Impact Analysis & Preparation of Approach Note based upon coverage analysis and traceability matrix.
• Fulfilled the role/responsibility of agile scrum master multiple projects.
• Product - Vantage, Performance Plus, HP Ingenium, Life70, LIDP, Capsil.
• Agency side of - Vantage 12.4, 15.4, Admin server, IPAS, Garwin, Mccamish, DSS, LIDP.
• Good problem solving skills and below information showcase the capabilities
• 99 percentile in CAT (National level aptitude test for admission into IIM) 740 in GMAT (International level test for admission in business school)
• Successfully managed onsite-offshore model for multiple projects
• Extensive experience in developing, executing, and maintaining on clear quest for resource planning.
• Participated to accomplish critical and complex project in policy admin system, commission, client ODS, policy issue, CSR and reinsurance.
• Deep understanding of production support 24x7, application maintenance and SDLC model for development.

SKILLS:

• Cobol
• Windows
• PL1
• Z/OS
• SAS
• Low level/PDWAP
• Ezietrieve
• HTML
• File Aid
• MQ
• TWS
• SAR
• SAVRS
• PUTTY
• HP ALM (Quality Center)
• DB2
• Insurance
• VSAM
• IMS DB
• Excel
• Access

TECHNOLOGY:

Database skills: DB2 Z/OS, MS Access, MS Excel.

Product: VANTAGE, DSS, LIDP

Application Programming: COBOL, JCL,SAS, PL1, Easytrieve and Rexx.

Operating environments: IBM Z/OS, Linux, Putty and Windows.

Access Methods: VSAM, I-O Operation, DHF transactions on CICS, IMS DB, NOMAD.

Mainframe Tools: File-Aid, Expeditor, SPUFI, TWS, ZEKE, $AVRS

IBM Utilities: TSO, ISPF, SORT, VCSVSAM, Icetool, IKJFET1, IEB14.

Other Utilities: Catalogued Procedures, GDG, Versioned dataset, MSSCAN.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Business analyst consultant

Responsibilities:

• Aligning and guiding team for test strategy and plans.
• Meeting with product owner and business team to understand the requirements.
• Meeting with SME and functional leads to validate all the test cases are captured for robust testing.

Confidential, Sioux Falls, SD

Business Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Leading the agency’s Confidential BA team.
• Acting as a business specialist for the conversion project.
• Upgradation of the performance plus (Vantage) from version 2.04 to 16.01
• Conversion of data and Merging of 3 different agency systems to make performance plus source of system for agent commission activities.
• Release planning, requirement gathering, test planning and execution, and defect tracking.
• Gathering Impact Analysis details based upon requirement and preparation of approach note based upon coverage analysis and traceability matrix.
• Functional Documents for solving SPR's (System Problem Reports)
• Conversion and migration of data from Vantage One/ Life Comm / L70 to cyberlife and performance plus.

Technology: Clear quest, Vantage screens, web services, VANTAGE, LIFE COMM, LFE 70, Performance Plus, HP ALM, Ms excel and word, mainframe CICS screens, files, vantage web browsers, SQL, Edify.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Business specialist

Responsibilities:

• Design, Code, Test, debug, document enhancement project and SPR.
• Migration of 3rd party tool from in-house build tool.
• Direct interaction with Business folks/Client for SSR/Project implementation.
• Co-ordination with Onsite Team.
• Impact Analysis & Preparation of Approach Note
• Development & Modification/Bug Fixing of Programs and creating Unit Test Plans & Unit Testing of Programs
• Technical/Functional Documents for solving SPR's (System Problem Reports)
• Monitoring the Daily Batch Cycle for Production Support and Fixing & Resolving Abends.

Confidential

Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Direct interaction with Business folks/Client for SSR/Project implementation.
• Co-ordination with Onsite Team.
• Impact Analysis & Preparation of Approach Note
• Development & Modification/Bug Fixing of Programs
• Creating Unit Test Plans & Unit Testing of Programs
• Creating Adhoc Reports & Extracts
• Technical/Functional Documents for solving SPR's (System Problem Reports)
• Preparing Weekly & Monthly Quality Reports
• Monitoring the daily batch cycle, fixing & resolving Abends faced during Production Support

Confidential

Senior software engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, Code, Test, debug, document enhancement project and SPR.
• Migration of 3rd party tool from in-house build tool.
• Direct interaction with Business folks/Client for SSR/Project implementation.
• Co-ordination with Onsite Team.
• Impact Analysis & Preparation of Approach Note
• Development & Modification/Bug Fixing of Programs and creating Unit Test Plans & Unit Testing of Programs
• Technical/Functional Documents for solving SPR's (System Problem Reports)
• Monitoring the Daily Batch Cycle for Production Support and Fixing & Resolving Abends.