Business Analyst Consultant Senior Resume
SUMMARY
- Business Analysis leader with accomplishments of translating key business goals into innovative technology/product solutions, using best practices of agile/lean, prototyping, roadmap. Technology products built on the cloud technologies are the forte.
- 10+ years of progressive experience as a Business Analyst in various domains (Retail, Academic and Healthcare).
- Practical End to end project/product implementation experience using methodologies of Waterfall, Agile and Iterative.
- Facilitated the Product Roadmap sessions with Business/Product and technology leaders.
- Coached and mentored leadership in their roles within the agile delivery model/environment.
- Conducted the product Solutioning sessions with business, architecture and development leaders.
- Facilitated the program level ceremonies of Product Management Council meetings, PI Readiness, PI Planning, PI Inspect and Adapt and Open Space.
- Led the feature and story definitions/ refinement sessions
- Strong analytical aptitude and solid project management capabilities.
- Strong organizational, prioritization and leadership skills with multi - tasking capability, good problem-solving and efficient time management skills.
- Used team-oriented interpersonal skills effectively and possess excellent verbal/written communication and presentation skills with ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, SMEs, managers/executives.
- A strategic thinker, results-driven, detail-oriented and comfortable with taking ownership of all responsibilities.
- Strong knowledge and experience in Healthcare industry Payer, Provider, Claims, ICD 9/ICD 10, FDA, Healthcare Reform, HIPAA standards and Clinical applications .
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Infrastructure: Docker, AWS, CICD implementation (Jenkins and saucelab)
Agile tools: Rally, Version One, JIRA
Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Netezza
Web Technologies: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), RESTful, XML, HTML
Productivity: Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Visio, Power Point, MS Project, Share Point
Programming / Modelling Languages: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, SQL, UML
Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Linux
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, MN
Business Analyst Consultant Senior
Responsibilities:
- Product visioning working with the Advocates and Member advocates.
- Establish the product roadmap for medium and long term.
- Facilitated the Capability and Feature refinement with the PMC
- Transition the refined features to the teams for their decomposition for PI/Sprint readiness
- Present the product vision and objectives at the PI Planning session
- Review the plans and vision realization by walking the walls during the PI Planning
- Worked with the team in decomposition of features into user story to meet business value
- Written user stories providing the Acceptance Criteria
- Prioritize the user stories to ensure critical values deliver early
- Improved user story quality through collaborative refinement and measurable acceptance criteria resulting in reduced cost of development and reduced defects
- Reviewed the product increment with the business for every story for meeting the business objective
- Review the design doc suitable for cloud implementation
- Be available to the team to address any product questions
- Helped in User Acceptance Testing
- Present the developed product to the Business and Operations teams in readiness for the Launch/release.
Business Analyst Consultant Senior
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Facilitated the Charter workshops and Product Roadmap sessions with Business and Product leaders.
- Held Feature Refinement / Solutioning sessions with the Business / data product team
- Participated in the backlog refinement sessions with scrum teams to address any questions, as team decomposed the Features into User Stories
- Written user stories providing positive and negative acceptance criteria
- Conducted regular demos with the business to delivery incremental business value
- Performed data analysis/ trend analysis and reviewed the impact/ trend with the client
- Ensured Feature Acceptance, by participating in the Daily Scrum and collaboration sessions with the scrum teams.
- Participated in the Sprint planning, Retro and Review sessions.
- Conducted the Feature demos to the product / business for acceptance.
Business Analyst Consultant Senior
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Led the Agile Charter sessions with Business and Product leaders, resulting in Product Vision and roadmap.
- Liaised with Product Manager and Product Owners to translate Vision and Business requirements into EPICs.
- Held Feature Refinement / Solutioning sessions with the Business / Architecture/ team leads.
- Presented the Product roadmap (walkthrough of the features) to the scrum teams
- Led the feature refinement sessions to decompose to user stories
- During backlog refinement sessions with scrum teams, addressed any questions
- Written user stories with appropriate acceptance criteria to meet business need
- Prioritized and scheduled the user stories to meet business value as desired
- Participated in UX workshops and wire framing.
- Ensured Feature Acceptance, by participating in the Daily Scrum and collaboration sessions with the scrum teams.
- Participated in the Sprint planning, Retro and Review sessions.
- Conducted the Feature demos to the product / business for acceptance.
Confidential
Business Analyst Consultant Senior
Responsibilities:
- Participated in the Agile Charter sessions to prepare the Product roadmap / Initial Backlog.
- Worked with the Business team in reviewing the BRD and converting them into EPICs.
- Held JAD sessions with the Business / Architecture/Tech Leads / QA Lead to groom the EPICS into Features and document the solutions.
- Held Feature Review sessions with the Scrum teams and Product Owners to get alignment and visibility
- Worked with the scrum masters to decompose the Features into User Stories with participation of the Product Owner / Proxy to define the Acceptance Criteria (in form of Acceptance Tests)
- Reviewed the Stories to be standard and Scrum team ready and are meeting the INVEST criteria.
- Tracked Feature progress to Acceptance, by participating in Daily Scrum and other sessions with the scrum teams.
- Participated in the Sprint planning to support the team in answering any questions related to the Stories.
- Conducted the Feature demos to the product team for acceptance.
- Facilitated all scrum ceremonies Grooming / Planning / Daily Scrum and Retrospective .
Confidential
Business Analyst Consultant Senior
Responsibilities:
- Participated in Solutioning sessions with cross functional team members to arrive at a solution to meet the business objectives
- Conducted JAD sessions with business, SMEs / Tech team members for service design and interactions with enterprise applications.
- Drafted the Business process model to demonstrate the proposed end state of the Customer Onboarding process for those signed up with products by service agreement.
- Designed Intuitive / user friendly wireframes/prototypes for Customer Setup / Product and Service agreement lookups, resulting in increased productivity.
- Performed Data mapping for the services / data model for customer/product/service agreement entities.
- Reviewed Data models to ensure the correct relationships and business validation (using constraints) for Customer and product entities.
- Performed Client-set-up data analysis, using system data, client / end user interview for data accuracy.
- Extensively used Use Cases to document the system functionality.
- Supported the Development / Test phases through reviews / feedback and defect triage.
- Mentored team members in best practices and Organizational standards.
Confidential, MN
Business Analyst Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed the business requirements for Essential health benefits for each plan level as required by the state per the new requirements under the PPACA.
- Performed requirements gathering using interviews with SMEs and Group Brainstorming.
- Conducted Backlog grooming sessions to elaborate Epics and document user stories in the product backlog.
- Used Version One for documenting, managing and reporting on the backlogs (Release, Iterations).
- Coordinated JAD sessions for system design.
- Participated in Agile - Scrum Ceremonies Backlog Grooming, S\print Planning, Daily Scrums, Review/Retrospectives)
- Participated in Project Management Resource Estimation/allocation, WBS Definition, Tracking progress and Status reporting .
Confidential, MN
Business Analyst Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Developed Scope definition, Strategy development during initiation phase of the ICD-10/5010 compliance project.
- Analyzed business requirements of migration / upgrade to 5010 from 4010 for 837 Transactions.
- Participated in backlog grooming to elaborate EPICS resulting in user stories in the product backlog.
- Conducted Research (CMS/Industry) - HIPAA compliance / X12 EDI Transactions (837 P/I), 5010, FDA regulations.
- Conducted JAD Sessions with Business & Technology teams (resulting in enriched stories with scenarios and acceptance tests) for 837 claims processing.
- Documented SOA Service specs for Claims 837 P /I and reviewed their implementation
- Performed Data Mapping between XML Schemas and the service requests for Claims data.
- Documented and presented Business Process Workflows that support 5010 compliance.
- Participated in the Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint retrospectives).
- Used Rally for documenting, managing and reporting on the backlogs (Release, Iterations)
- Interacted with off shore teams for stories implementation and acceptance.
- Generated Scrum metrics Iteration / Release Burn down charts for team/management review.
- Documented Technical debt / Retrospective action items identified during Sprint Retrospective.