SUMMARY:

• Over all 7 plus years of professional experience as a Business Analyst
• Extensive experience in analyzing and requirements gathering and writing system functional specifications including use cases.
• Extensive experience in the health care industry
• Excellent in Developing and evaluating business process Models.
• Proven success as a business analyst through the years, providing a well - balanced understanding of business relationships, business requirements, and technical solutions.
• Strong experience in RUP Business Modeling process.
• Expertise in UML (class diagrams, object diagrams, GAP Analysis, use case diagrams, state diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, and collaboration diagrams) as a business analysis methodology for application functionality designs using IBM’s Rational Rose.
• Solid understanding of Business Process definition, Risk Analysis and SDLC methodologies.
• Excellent in Developing and evaluating business process Models.
• Design and review of various documents including the Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Business requirements document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications (FSD), Systems Design Specification (SDS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and testing documents

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software/Hardware: OOAD (OOA/OOD), RUP, UML, SDLC, Waterfall, QA, WAP,CVS,TEAMMATE, MS Access, SQL Server, MySQL, PL/SQL, Oracle DBA,DB2. Windows, basic UNIX, HTML, basic DHTML, basic XML, MS Office Suite-Excel Macros, Project, Visio, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Rational- Rational Rose, Rational XDE, DOORS, Cobol, RequisitePro, CaliberRM, Crystal Reports, various NIKU products, C, C++, Sharepoint, Docushare, BASIC, Intermediate level-Visual Basic

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, Gainesville, FL

Sr. Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements by driving user-group meetings and working with various global, cross-functional and virtual teams
• Prepare the document for Claims Editing & Resubmission and verify the backend process to resubmit the insurance claim by transferring correct X12 files.
• Responsible for business system analysis of customizing the BPS Risk Management product with involvement through the whole SDLC
• Worked on system integration systems on the from the HER/EMR records- Healthcare Information Systems.
• Worked on data mapping from source to target systems in SQL.
• Product Owner on projects and manage and ensure that all required meetings are running under the Scrum/ Agile process.
• Reviewed Product backlogs and prioritize Agile stories accordingly in every sprint of Scrum.
• Translated customer feedback into workable Acceptance Criteria for Agile/Scrum user stories
• Used the agile methodology guidelines to carry out every step of the business modeling process.
• Teamed up with both internal and external software development groups to provide functional requirements specifications in form of use cases, business process flows, and prototypes and management reporting requirements
• Worked on analytics with the insurance system and its modules for business users.
• Create technical design document and specifications for web application
• Worked on Application Integration in a phased manner for project roll out.
• Converted various SQL statements into stored procedures thereby reducing the Number of database accesses.
• Maintained data quality by Data Analysis, Data Profiling (row/column level, statistics, pattern, etc.), Data Validation, reviewing logs and repository tables and making sure there are no duplicates, bad data, rejections, empty data in null columns, etc.
• Prepared UAT Materials UAT Test Cases to include various steps involved for UAT and to have proper coverage of requirements.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the account managers, managements, and report requestors to gather requirements, get report requests.
• Wrote Business Requirements, analyzed them and tested them.
• Owned the entire reporting process. Interacted with the ETL team, developer(s), management, and account holders to get the requirements, document them, design templates, and write specifications.
• Designed report templates based on the requests by account managers.
• Designed Functional Specification Documents for the reports.
• Worked in RUP environment using Rational Requisite Pro
• Analyzed trading partner specifications and created EDI mapping guidelines.
• Extensive use of Excel to create Functional Specification Documents & Templates.
• Designed the process flow diagrams for flow of information and report creation process.
• Conducted JAD sessions for the report users, requestors, and the developers.
• Prepared Need Analysis Documents of the requirements gathered through JAD sessions.
• Documented all the changes in the initial templates and was responsible for Release Management.
• Reviewed Requirements & deliverables for delivery timeline.
• Identified data elements and performed source to target data mapping
• Used MS Visio to create Flow diagrams and Use Case Diagrams.
• Created presentations explaining the entire report development process, while drawing a comparison between the legacy & the new report.
• Coordinated with the developer, on day-to-day basis, during the development process.
• Tested the report for its content.
• Created Test Scripts & Test Scenarios to check report content, layout, and parameters.
• Worked on Report Re-engineering Project and made enhancements to the system flow.
• Modified System flow diagrams using Visio.
• Worked extensively with SQL queries
• Reviewed Stored Procedures for reports and wrote test queries against the source system (SQL Server) to match the results with the actual report against the Data mart (Oracle).
• Worked with ETL team during the upload process.
• Helped with Data Mapping between the data mart and the Source Systems.
• Worked as a liaison between the Business and Technology Department.
• Enhanced communication lines between executives, managers, and peers

Environment: SQL Server 2000, Windows, Crystal Reports, Oracle, Mantis Defect Tracking, UML, MS Office, MS Visio

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Business Analyst/ QA tester

Responsibilities:

• Used Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodologies and Unified Modeling Language (UML).
• Used Rational Rose for creating the Use Cases Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams etc.
• Used MS Office for creating Vision, Use Cases, and Supplementary Specification Documents.
• Facilitated and managed Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with committee of SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) from various business areas.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect requirement and business process information.
• Documented Functional Requirements for business level components, user interface, and system security.
• Defined Core Business Rules and Core Business Validations for the entire application.
• Analyzed the technical specifications and business requirements.
• Developed business requirement specification documents, business process models in RUP to document existing and future business processes.
• Wrote Use Cases, Business Flows and Work Flows Diagrams for effective plans.
• Documented and delivered Functional Specification Document to the project team.
• Involved in benchmarking activities to identify best practices.

Environment: Basic, MS Excel, Microsoft Visio, PL SQL, SQL, Oracle 9i, Unix, WinNT, WinRunner & Test Director

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business Requirements, interacted with the Users, Designers and Developers, Project Manager and SMEs to get a better understanding of the Business Processes.
• Used Rational Unified Process (RUP) as the Software Methodology.
• Analyzed and optimized the process, Prepared Business Requirement Document (BRD) and then converted the business requirements into Functional Requirements Specification and Technical Specification using Rational Requisite pro.
• Assisted in technology selection for the application, based on Cost-Effectiveness and Quality with an eye towards the future.
• Performed Feasibility, Adaptability and Risk Analysis to identify the business critical and high-risk areas of the application.
• Communicated with design, development and test team using MS exchange Messaging and Defect Tracking System.
• Involved in data mapping
• Participated in various testing related review meetings.
• Used the Unified Change Management (UCM) tool, Rational ClearQuest, to maintain and track the Stakeholders requested enhancements and changes.
• Used SQL to query the database
• Used Rational ClearCase, a Configuration Management tool to maintain different builds of the application with description about all changes and Versions.
• Used MS Project to manage schedules, deadlines and resources and collaborate on the project.
• Developed and implemented automated test scripts using Rational Robot.
• Conducted regression testing and interacted with developers to resolve the issues.

Environment: Rational Rose, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Visio, MS Project, Visual Studio .NETSQL Server 2000.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Business Owners and Stakeholders to outline Business Requirements.
• Work with System analyst and IS teams to understand the flow of data.
• Reviewed and analyzed data from various sources.
• Identified gaps and performed gap analysis
• Created Mapping Documents, Report Mockups and modified existing report mockups and finalized for development
• Worked extensively with SQL and performed data mapping
• Provide technical expertise as an early engagement to different modules and enhancements to access impacts and define scope.
• Formulated logical statements of business requirements researched and evaluated alternative solutions and recommend the most efficient solution for system design.
• Review requirements and understand technical recommendations and constraints, and develop comprehensive and accurate functional specifications; Data Mapping, and process flows.
• Work with Compliance and Regulatory operations to follow and monitor different IT process bound by CMS Regulations.

Environment: Windows XP, Business Objects, MS Excel, Word, Visio, power point, SQL, DB2, SAS database