Senior Business Analyst Resume
Schaumburg, IL
OBJECTIVE:
Highly skilled and energetic individual, grown over 6.5 years experience in the Insurance Domain as a Business Analyst/Business System Analyst. Self motivated team facilitator with excellent inter personal skills. To be a part of a progressive corporate group having growth potential where I can contribute to the development of the group as well as can develop my domain of competence using my knowledge, skills and attributes.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- Experience in requirements gathering, estimation, system implementation and pre - post implementation support.
- Rich experience and exposure to Confidential.
- Experience in Business Analysis across diverse assignments involving Project Planning/Coordination, Requirements Gathering, Documentation, Test planning, UAT, Implementation and Post-implementation support.
- Expertise in executing/implementing projects for Personal and Commercial Policy Admin Systems.
- Specialize in Rates & Forms Management for Commercial lines.
- Experience in writing requirements of ETL processes for application migration.
- Exposure to frequent client interactions.
- Experience in analyzing large Databases.
- Expertise in formulating SQL queries for data analysis.
- First class all along the academic career.
- Excellent analytical thinking ability and communication skills.
SKILLS:
Technical: Office 2007, Visio 2007, SQL, SnagIt, TopTeam, Salesforce, VSS, SharePoint, HP Quality Center.
Non Technical: Water Fall & Agile Methodology for Product Implementation, Use Cases.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Schaumburg, IL
Senior Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Reviewing Model Specs provided by the Actuaries.
- Preparation of high level estimation based on preliminary analysis.
- Analyze and update data warehouse to get all the data points required for the models.
- Reviewing Predictive Modeling Filters with Actuaries.
- Identifying the potential target loss calc fields used in experience variable calculations.
- Preparation of High level Requirements for the Business Team, Actuaries and Low Level Requirements for the Development team.
- Implementation testing - Validating implanted model against data for the Actuaries.
- Provide support for functional testing and UAT execution.
Confidential, New York City, NY
Business AnalystResponsibilities:
- Analysis of source system to identify scope and prepare high level system understanding document.
- Prepare high level estimates and timelines for each system.
- Create field level mapping document from source system to EDW.
- Identify any gaps in existing EDW system and suggest possible solutions.
- Coordinate between offshore team and tower SME.
- Preparation of System Requirements based on discussion with project architects and application team.
- Preparation of high level estimation based on preliminary analysis.
- Preparation of Data Mapping document based on understanding of source data (Mainframe files) and mapping to the destination database (Oracle database).
- Impact analysis of Change Requests.
- Provide support for functional testing and UAT execution.
- Analysis and documentation of all production issues and queries.
- Formulate SQL queries to fetch production data for all production issues, queries and data validation.
- Coordinating with cross commit teams.
- Risk management, facilitating issue resolution and ensuring timely delivery.
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Business System AnalystResponsibilities:
- Executed projects across all lines of business (Auto, Homeowners, Renters/Condo, Earthquake and Umbrella) for various clients.
- Requirements Elicitation and Documentation.
- Conducted User Interviews to establish and document Business Rules.
- Preparation of high level estimation based on preliminary analysis.
- Impact analysis of Change Requests and preparation of Functional /Business Specification Document.
- Requirement Walkthrough with clients (Business Owners & QA teams).
- Extensively perform Gap analysis.
- Worked with various functional groups to understand the underlying Business concepts.
- Assisted the PM in developing high-level project plan.
- Worked with the PM in managing changes to the scope of the project.
- Involved in preparing Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Procedures.
- Actively involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Obtained Sign-off on project requirements and scope.
- Triaged all production tickets/issues and queries.
Confidential
Senior Business AnalystResponsibilities:
- Designed workflows for end to end implementation process.
- Designed Templates for Requirement Documents, Functional Log and Estimation Sheet etc.
- Conceptualized Tools and Accelerators for rates/forms implementation and manual/circulars analysis.
- Provided LOB Specific information for home grown tools, for rates and forms testing.
- Formulated Plan and documents for Business Analyst.
Confidential
Senior Business AnalystResponsibilities:
- Documentation of all data elements in the source system (Legacy system, Mainframe) for all lines of business.
- Provided inputs to technical team for creation of scripts to port data from legacy system to the new product.
- Analyzed source policy data in case of failure of scripts, to identify gap in new and existing system or to identify bad data.
- Prepared RCA (Root Cause Analysis) document for all failures.
- Prepared Test plan to validate data correctness in the new system.
- Provided support for UAT execution.
- Executed projects in Personal Auto, Commercial Auto and Commercial Property Line of business involving changes across Rates, Forms, Rules, System and UI.
- Impact analysis of Change Notice received from the client and preparation of Business Requirement document.
- Preparation of project plan and estimation based on preliminary analysis.
- Provided first level draft for functional testing.
- Provided support for UAT execution.
- Participated in Pre-UAT activities-conference calls, overview sessions and any other forums with Business, and other teams concerned with the project.
- Ensured proper documentation of activities for subsequent review by the quality group.
- Signed off projects adhering to quality processes followed in the project.
- Prepared Knowledge Capture Document and updated every month for future .
- Production support: Handled user queries.