SUMMARY

• A Business Analyst wif over 7 years of extensive, practical experience in Health care, Mortgage, and Finance Domain.
• Extensive noledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, and having through understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Expertise in EDI and HIPAA Testing Privacy wif multiple transactions exposure such as Inbound Claims 837 - Institutional, 837-Professional, 837-Dental, 835-Claim Payment/Remittance Advise, 270/271-Eligibility Benefit Inquiry/Response, 276/277-Claim Status Inquiry/Response Transactions
• Excellent Business writing skills in authoring Business requirements document (BRD), USE Case Specifications, and Functional Specifications Design (FSD).
• Experienced in facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and conducting walkthroughs, surveys, and questionnaires, interviews, brainstorming sessions wif end-users, clients, stakeholders and development team.
• Familiarity wif current industry standards such as Six Sigma Methodology.
• Proficient in designing business models using UML diagrams- Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Data Flow Diagram in MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Thorough understanding of Rational Unified Process (RUP) using Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Unified Modeling Language (UML), and Object Oriented Analysis (OOA)
• Better experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of test cases. Familiar in designing and developing manual and automation test cases and test scripts using Test Director and Win runner.
• Well experienced in different management scenarios like change control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System integration and scheduling.
• Experience in writing Test Plans, executing Test Cases and handling Change Management
• Excellent Team Player, self-starter wif excellent Problem Solving and Sound Decision Making capabilities along wif ability to provide attention to details and prioritize tasks.
• Good noledge of MS Office especially MS Project, Visio, Excel, Power Point, Word etc.
• Used data center to store data from multiple sources to Perform teh analyses of health care data, including medical and pharmacy claims, membership files and health advisory/coaching interaction, to better understand teh quality and level of care delivered and measure teh TEMPeffectiveness of teh organization's services as it relates to both clinical quality and financial returns.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Methodologies: Rational Unified Process (RUP)s, Agile, Waterfall

Design Tools & Languages: Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Toad

Business Modeling Tools: Rational Rose, MS Visio

Requirement analysis tools: Rational Requisite Pro

Defect Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Test Director

Testing tools: Mercury Test Director, QTP

Operating Systems: Windows 9.x/NT/2000/XP/7,UNIX, Mac OS

Databases: Facet, SQL server, MS Access

Programming Languages: C, C++, HTML

Microsoft office tools: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Front Page, Microsoft SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Basic Responsibilities involved teh analyzing end user requirements and communicating and modeling them to teh development team.
• Took critical part in formulation of teh Project Plan and Scope to lay out teh Project Definition, Budget and various factors affecting teh project and teh actors.
• Initiated JAD sessions wif End Users through one on one and group interviews to better understand teh user requirements.
• Created extensive use case, activity, sequence diagrams of teh required system to enable clear project idea and goals.
• Created System Specification Document using RUP Methodology, Requirement Specification Documents, Use Case Models, and Work Flows.
• Involved in creating 837(me, D, P), 835, 277-U, 270/271, 276/277, 278, 820 and 834 transactions processing flow.
• Detail noledge and experience working on HIPAA.
• Change and Traceability Matrix was maintained throughout teh project to keep track of changing user requirements and alterations made by teh team.
• Met wif technical/development team on weekly basis to determine teh project strictures such as Privacy protection, communication, and security.

Environment: Facet, MS Project, SQL, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Clear Quest, Visio, Agile, Jira, Edinet.

Confidential, NYC, NY

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Development of Vendor Contract strategic document - Identified new business rules, statement of work, and service level of agreement.
• Conducted JAD sessions, walkthrough meetings, review meeting etc.
• Created Vendor Management Project Plan, Negotiations, Migration Plan, Communication plan, Vision Document using RUP as Continuum moved to teh new platform from existing LMS Universe.
• Identified user requirements, business rules, business processes and translated them into functional requirement (BRD using RUP)
• Conducted sessions wif developers to explain teh user requirements and understand teh system changes required to facilitate these changes
• Conducted walk through meetings wif testing team to explain them teh various changes made to teh system dat needs to be tested before implementation
• Helped teh testing team in making up teh test strategies and test plans to be used in teh testing process
• Created Use Case scenarios and interfaces using UML methodology.
• Used data center to manipulate and store data from multiple sources

Environment: Rational Unified Process (RUP), MS Project, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, Quality Center, Toad 7.x, SQL Server 2005, Clear Quest, Clear Pro, MS Office. data center

Confidential, Columbia, MO

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated meetings wif Subject Matter Experts for Requirements Gathering and transforming them to functional specification.
• Acted as a primary liaison between business lines, operations, and technical areas throughout teh project cycle.
• Conducted JAD sessions and meetings wif developers, QA team, and users for communicating primary requirements, also discuss different versions of requirements, queries, and clarify teh issues.
• Participated in writing data mapping documents and performing gap analysis to verify teh compatibility of existing system wif new business requirements.
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Created requirements document for Data Extraction, Data Analysis and Loading process.
• Applied SDLC as a software development methodology.
• Reviewed Business Requirements Documents and teh Technical Specification.
• Design UML diagrams like Use Case Diagram, Class Diagram, Sequence Diagram, and State - Diagram for project documentation using MS Visio.
• Coordinated UAT and executed environment build plans.
• Wrote SQL Queries to perform Data Validation.
• Organized and Performed GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Regression, and support for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Involved in publishing and content management.
• Involved in defect tracking and bug management using Rational Clear Quest.
• Planned, scheduled, and controlled projects based on plans and requirements outlined by teh business.
• Interacted wif developers to report data related bugs and re-tested teh fixed issues.
• Involved in providing input for Modification and Enhancement Requests.
• Involved in meetings, walkthroughs and creating minutes of teh meeting.
• Created and submitted weekly status report to teh project manager.

Environment: J2EE, Java Script, HTML, Oracle, MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Office

Confidential, Washington, DC 

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between teh developers and management staff.
• Conducted meetings/interviews and JAD sessions wif stakeholders to collect business requirements. dis information along wif teh vision document was used to transform business requirements into System Requirement Specifications.
• Prepared business workflow models dat cover "How" business processes are accomplished.
• Identified teh business requirements from teh end users keeping in mind their need for teh application and documenting it in MS Excel and MS Visio for teh developers.
• Created and managed project templates, use case project templates, requirement types and traceability relationships in Rational Requisite Pro.
• Created Analysis Model and Data Model and used these artifacts to develop teh Design Model: Class Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams.
• Created Use Case Model and detailed use cases in conjunction wif teh project team to define teh features of teh application and to be used by teh development team.
• Attended change request meetings to document corresponding changes and implemented procedures for enforcing changes through defect tracking using Rational Clear Quest.

Environment: RUP,UML, MS Visio, Rational Requisite pro, Enterprise Architect, MS Office, Quick Test Pro, MS SharePoint, Mercury Test Director.