SUMMARY:

• A result oriented individual with over 7 years of diversified experience in Business System Analysis, Quality Assurance and Software testing in Insurance and Finance industry.
• Performed planning and development of Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenarios to meet product’s business requirements.
• UtilizedVantageIPG in effectively handling project budgets, estimates, summary reports, invoices and other finances.
• Expertise in Project Planning, Project Design, creating functional specifications and data flow diagrams.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in Market Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Portfolio Diversification, Fixed Income Products and Services amongst others.
• Working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Ability to identify and document Functional Requirements through analysis.
• Extensively knowledge of Vantage one to support Life products and Annuity Products (Variable and fixed annuities... Expertise in translating user requirements into technical specifications and mapping the process design.
• Developed and executed Validation Test Plan
• Extensive knowledge with Vantage one (All the transactions, DB2 tables)
• Conducted functional, regression, positive and negative testing( in both cert and model office)
• Developed and presented alternative solutions to solve business needs by performing Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.
• Provided Post implementation support for all deliverables.
• Particularly skilled in process re - engineering projects, providing both positive bottom line results and long-term IT solutions to persistent business problems.
• Conducted cost benefit analysis and workflow analysis
• Experience in creating Requirements Tractability Matrix (RTM) to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements.
• Experience in working with third party processors FDR/TSYS
• Good understandings of project management methodology and workflow designs like AS-IS and SHOULD-BE workflows.
• Performed scoping of project and helped develop short and long-term vision
• Conducted different types of testing like Regression, System Integration Testing (SIT), Validation, Functional and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Expertise in Oracle SQL using SQL*PLUS
• Highly motivated worthy team player capable enough to work and lead within a team environment besides being capable to work independently.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NYC, NY

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed operating procedures and policies on an ongoing basis and recommended and implemented improvement plans where appropriate.
• Maintained and enhanced the Vantage One Annuity system (NBU, ADMIN, DSS)
• Implemented Use Case Modeling (UML) technique to capture functional requirements for multi-system integrated enhancement that improved timeliness and efficiency for client service platform.
• Responsible for creating test cases to validate Oracle reports using SQL and comparing to benchmark reports from legacy systems such asVantage-One
• Coded, revised, tested, documented, and walked through batch and online programs.
• Implemented, monitored, and supported programs and jobs in test and production.
• Utilized IBM mainframe, MVS, Vantage One, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS DB, FILEAID, INTERTEST, ENDEVOR, TSO/ISPF.
• Responsible for creating test cases to validate Oracle reports using SQL and comparing to benchmark reports from legacy systems such asVantage-One
• Understood core processes of the departments to provide input on re-engineering or streamlining opportunities.
• Responsible for the development, documentation and execution of system integration/ test plans and test scripts for multiple annuity transactions
• Met with client groups to determine user requirements and goals. Utilized RUP to configure and develop process, standards, and procedures.
• Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, activity diagrams / State Chart Diagrams and Robustness Diagram using Rational Rose according to UML methodology, thus defining the Data Process Models.
• Developed standard documentation package (Requirements, Specification, Architecture, Design, Operations, and Quality Testing Plans).
• Pro-actively worked with programmers/developers in identifying, analyzing and resolving issues and defects identified during the integration test phase
• Provide production and support.
• Interviewed Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and carefully recorded the requirements in a format that could be reviewed and understood by both business people and technical people.
• Set up definitions and process for test phases including product test, integration test, and system test. Work to fully implement test phase entry and exit quality criteria, standard test reporting metrics and standard test artifacts.
• Created different Traceability views to maintain the Traceability of the requirements.

Confidential, HARTFORD, CT

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Followed the SDLC methodology.
• Prepared Test Plan, Functional Analysis, Validation Testing.
• Initiated in making conference call’s to Computer Science Corporation (CSC)
• Coordinated with Project Manager on Weekly Status Meeting and initiated in preparing Meeting minutes.
• Developed skills towards finding information on the Vantage system; client segment inquiry, data collect inquiry, revolving error inquiry, suspense inquiry, transaction history inquiry
• Updated DB2 tables in Vantage one according to the business requirement and send the updated information to the Computer Science Corporation (CSC).
• Arranged meeting’s with Actuarial Team regarding Hypo Cal Sheets
• Updated DB2 tables: D201, TCCB TGMWB, TGRIP (for different products such as Vision, Venture, Venture Vision, (variable and fixed products)
• Participated in post project reviews.
• Organized and performed User acceptance testing.
• Accomplish all the required tasks and submitted validation status on weekly and monthly basis.
• Coordinated with surround systems (Web Team, VTGODS, QA Model Office, ACE, Brokerage department, PPFL statements, Cognos Reporting) on business issues and defects.
• Coordinated with Cycle dates handling team for testing efforts.
• Prepared Validation Test Summary Report and discussed about it in Weekly status meeting
• Conducted JAD Session to understand the Technical requirement flow.
• Worked on functional requirements to analyze business specifications.
• Conducted Data validation process. Created a Test Plan for Table Verification.
• Created and executed Test Cases and submitted the defects
• Conducted functional analysis and test the functionality through Test Plan manually.
• Exceedingly committed to work as a team and ability to learn quickly.
• Created and then verified functional analysis with the help of screen shots and report to Project Manager on daily basis.
• Ability to retrieve information from SQL Wizard, SQL by using appropriate queries
• Also conducted regression and functional testing (Vantage one) according to business requirements.
• Developed and executed Production Validation test plan
• Initiated in Conducting meeting for surround systems on behalf of Project Manager for knowing the status of Deliverables
• Organized and involved in Pre-Deployment readiness meetings.

Confidential, Lansing, MI

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Followed all the phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Performed Gap Analysis and assessed risks of the project
• Responsible for vendor relationship management
• Worked closely with the development team to ensure that the requirements documented are properly understood as well as participated in status meetings to ensure that the system developed met those requirements in timely manner
• Maintained an issue log in order to manage issue tracking, prioritization and resolution
• Developed and implemented detailed test plans and test cases
• Intensively interact with the business analyst and design team to clarify the client requirements and explain those businesses rules to the test team and monitor the team to test those rules correctly.
• Identify existing project information and the software components that should be tested
• Performed back-end testing using SQL queries on the Oracle database
• Performed Positive and Negative Testing
• Assigned and tracked all defects of test cases through Quality Center.
• Discussed technical issues with the project management team.
• Executed test cases manually to verify the expected results.
• Perform System, Functional, Regression, End to End, User Acceptance test.
• Inspect the database, to ensure the data has been populated as intended, and that all database events have occurred properly, and visually review the returned data to ensure that the correct data was retrieved for the proper action.
• Perform the role of Test analyst for the entire Project.
• Responsible for overall quality of the application and was involved in coordinating with development team, design team, operational team to complete the project on time.
• Attend weekly test meeting with the test team, involved in daily status review, determined progress of testing.
• List the deliverable elements of the test project and define areas that will not Tested

Confidential, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the functional study and analysis of the business requirements, UML state chart diagrams, flow charts, business process and designing data elements.
• Presented to large groups to review all analysis, ad-hoc reports and made suggestions for new processes that would benefit the organization.
• Responsible for streamlining business processes through analysis, design, and documentation of new processes and applications including risk assessments and mitigations, and creation of process flows (VISIO flow design) and change enabling quality controls.
• Manually testing the Internet Information Server Services to see if it is plugged in and is it turned on.
• Manually tested modules for compliance with functionality requirements.
• Analyzed, designed, and implemented web applications for Risk Managers to assess insurance applications.
• Manually tested the basic services of an application are working in a default installation.
• Perform integration-testing, acceptance testing manually.
• Perform back-end testing manually on the Oracle database by writing complex SQL queries.
• Collaborate with developers as needed to isolate the root cause of defects.
• Manually Performed Positive and Negative Testing
• Manually performed Security Testing of the application
• Executed Manual Testing to perform functional testing on the User interface.
• Created and reported defects using in house bug reporting tool.
• Conducted Functionality, Security, and Regression testing during the various phases of the development of the application doing Manual Testing
• Conducted Positive and Negative testing manually from the sample data.
• Performed manual testing for Usability testing.