SUMMARY:

• I have around 8 years of experience in the IT Industry as a Business Analyst .
• Self - motivated & experienced professional in Information Technology with background in various analytical roles, decision making roles including personnel development and team coordination
• Expertise in requirement analysis and translating into functional and system specific requirements.
• Expertise in conducting defect triage meetings, and providing functional clarifications to development and testing teams.
• Experienced in conducting workshops, brainstorming sessions with customer teams to collect business requirements
• Experienced in conducting s to diverse groups
• Skilled problem solver; ability to multi-task; efficient in managing time; able to flourish in high pressure and fast paced environments
• Expertise in creating UI mockups and process flow diagrams to help development and testing teams understand the requirements better.
• Experienced in analyzing production defects and providing quick work arounds.
• Expertise in reviewing, preparing and executing functional test cases.
• A complete team player having experience of working in the onsite-offshore model
• Played role of Quality Assurance Executive and performed release audits and conducted CMMi/QMS s
• Excellent Oral & written communication, analytical, problem solving, presentation and interpersonal skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparing requirement strategy document and requirement questionnaire
• Collaborating with customer teams, conducting workshops, brainstorming sessions to collect business requirements
• Developing use cases, workflows, screen mock-ups and Functional Specification documents
• Interfacing with SMEs to prepare the Functional Specification documents

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicitation of requirements and Functional analysis of requirements
• Conducting workshops and brainstorming sessions to collect business requirements
• Preparing functional requirement specification documents and requirement traceability matrix
• Conducting FRD walkthrough sessions for the product team and responsible for sign-off
• Conducting Functional walkthrough sessions for the development and testing teams
• Responding to the functional queries raised by development team and testing team on a daily basis
• Analyzing defects and providing work arounds
• Assisting development team in preparing design documents
• Post implementation support

Confidential, Ohio

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicitation of requirements and functional analysis of requirements
• Preparation of Functional Use cases & requirement traceability matrix and materials
• Preparation & Execution of Functional Test Specs
• Conducting functional walkthroughs to the technical team on Functional Modules
• Interacting with Business Process Owners
• Responding to functional queries raised by development team and testing team on a daily basis and maintaining the issue and query tracker
• Participation in Table Reviews
• Responsible for reviewing the unit and integration Test Cases effectively and ensuring Functional coverage
• Responsible for executing UAT
• Analyzing defects raised during testing phases
• Post implementation support

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering for change requests
• Preparation of Business Requirement documents
• Responsible for streamlining the clarification handling process
• Handling clarifications raised by development team and testing team on a daily basis
• Preparing and executing functional test cases
• Preparing case study for the project

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively involved in Pre KAP, KAP, Passive & Active Phases
• Interfacing with SMEs to understand various applications in transition, the respective interfaces and documenting the functional understanding
• Responsible for giving playback sessions
• Preparing Functional SMTD for the client applications, understanding documents and material
• Conducting functional walkthroughs for the development team and testing team

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Mapping client Business/Process Flow to Confidential process flow
• Implementation of Rating for Insurance Products
• Testing Confidential product set up
• Preparation and execution of Functional Test Specs

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Providing product support to the client by resolving issues related to Product Configuration, Product Accessibility and setup
• Preparing user manuals and product scope documents for various modifications
• Preparing and executing Functional Test Specs
• As a QC representative, ensuring project release follows processes as defined under Quality Norms

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Testing customizations of the project
• Coordinated all support activities between the development center in Bangalore and the client office in Japan
• Providing support for completion of Gap Analysis
• Mapping of client Business/Process Flow to Confidential process flow for personal lines of business
• Implementation of Rating for Insurance Products related to personal lines of business

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Functional Analysis & preparation of Functional Requirement Specifications
• Responsible for configuration of the Product at customer site followed by UAT and signoff
• Responsible for Go live of Critical Modifications
• Post Implementation Support