SUMMARY:

• A Business Analyst with over 7 years of extensive, practical experience in Health care, Mortgage, and Finance Domain.
• Extensive knowledge 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 with 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 with end-users, clients, stakeholders and development team.
• Familiarity with 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 with excellent Problem Solving and Sound Decision Making capabilities along with ability to provide attention to details and prioritize tasks.
• Good knowledge of MS Office especially MS Project, Visio, Excel, Power Point, Word etc.
• Used data center to store data from multiple sources to Perform the analyses of health care data, including medical and pharmacy claims, files and health advisory/coaching interaction, to better understand the quality and level of care delivered and measure the effectiveness of the 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 the analyzing end user requirements and communicating and modeling them to the development team.
• Took critical part in formulation of the Project Plan and Scope to lay out the Project Definition, Budget and various factors affecting the project and the actors.
• Initiated JAD sessions with End Users through one on one and group interviews to better understand the user requirements.
• Created extensive use case, activity, sequence diagrams of the 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(I, D, P), 835, 277-U, 270/271, 276/277, 278, 820 and 834 transactions processing flow.
• Detail knowledge and experience working on HIPAA.
• Change and Traceability Matrix was maintained throughout the project to keep track of changing user requirements and alterations made by the team.
• Met with technical/development team on weekly basis to determine the 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 the new platform from existing LMS Universe.
• Identified user requirements, business rules, business processes and translated them into functional requirement (BRD using RUP)
• Conducted sessions with developers to explain the user requirements and understand the system changes required to facilitate these changes
• Conducted walk through meetings with testing team to explain them the various changes made to the system that needs to be tested before implementation
• Helped the testing team in making up the test strategies and test plans to be used in the 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 with 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 the project cycle.
• Conducted JAD sessions and meetings with developers, QA team, and users for communicating primary requirements, also discuss different versions of requirements, queries, and clarify the issues.
• Participated in writing data mapping documents and performing gap analysis to verify the compatibility of existing system with 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 the 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 the business.
• Interacted with developers to report data related bugs and re-tested the fixed issues.
• Involved in providing input for Modification and Enhancement Requests.
• Involved in meetings, walkthroughs and creating minutes of the meeting.
• Created and submitted weekly status report to the 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 the developers and management staff.
• Conducted meetings/interviews and JAD sessions with stakeholders to collect business requirements. This information along with the vision document was used to transform business requirements into System Requirement Specifications.
• Prepared business workflow models that cover "How" business processes are accomplished.
• Identified the business requirements from the end users keeping in mind their need for the application and documenting it in MS Excel and MS Visio for the 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 the Design Model: Class Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams.
• Created Use Case Model and detailed use cases in conjunction with the project team to define the features of the application and to be used by the 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.