SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with Nine years of experience in the Healthcare domain. Identifying business needs and determining solutions to business problems for complex software projects
• Experience in Business Requirements Gathering, Application Design Specifications, Development and Testing.
• Excellent analytical skills to understand the business processes and functionality, requirements and to translate them to system requirement specifications (SRS).
• Experience in Data Analysis, Gap analysis, Business Requirements, Traceability Matrix, UML diagrams.
• Proficient in relational databases, SQL queries, reporting tool and data analysis.
• Excellent team player to work in conjunction with team of business, developers and QA members in testing complex scenarios and projects and in the maintenance of Quality Standards in Projects.
• Expertise in analyzing Business Requirements and develop System Specifications,Test Plans, Test CasesandTest Scriptsand execute them.
• Extensive experiencein Unit, Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance Testing.
• Experience in different phases ofSoftware development Life cycle (SDLC)including Strategic Systems Planning Designing, Programming, Testing, Documentation, andPresentation to clients and preparing customer specifications as part of software technical requirements and Customer support.
• Good expertise in the review and documentation of systemtest plans, creating and executingtest scripts, test casesand data sets on the basis of product release features requirements and technical documents.
• Experience as JAD (Joint Application Development) Facilitator and Meetings Coordinator ensuring that change and New Process is organized, managed, documented, controlled and risk weighted.
• Excellent logical and analytical abilities for understanding and developing system workflows, computing and verifying Software Metrics and well suited for communicating with both technical and non - technical professionals.
• Expert in Manual Testing applications developed on windows Environment.
• Good knowledge of identifying various test scenarios. Holds strong ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize it.
• Assisted QA Team in defining the Test Plans, Test Cases and test execution.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing(UAT) to ensure all the User Requirements were met by the application.
• Experience in working with test team in resolving defects, presenting the defect status reports, resolving requirement.
• Execution of Manual Test Scripts and responsible to track and log the defects usingQuality Center.
• Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts, very co-operative team player, fluent communicational skills, and interpersonal skills, innovative and self-motivated.
• Experience in Estimation of Work Effort and coordinate Test Schedule with overall Project Schedule.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: C, C++, Java, SAP ECC (Vistex MDM & Vistex Contracts), Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, MS Visio, Clarity PPM, Sharepoint 2010, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL, HP ALM, Windows, Linux/Unix

Test Strategies/Test cases: Integration, Unit, System, Black Box, White Box, UAT, HP Quality Center

Methodologies: Scrum, Agile Framework, SDLC, Waterfall, CMMI, ITIL, UML, ER Diagrams

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA.

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Business Systems Analyst working directly with IT service delivery teams to elicit, elaborate, analyze, and document requirements for enhancements and integrations to existing and new service delivery systems in support of outsourced IT services. Systems include IT Service Management (ITSM), ITIL, Workforce Management, Knowledge Management and Multi-System Integrations.
• Establish documentation for Agile methodology for implementation with a very water-fall-centric development team.
• Expertise in Project Management i.e. Project Scoping, Planning, Estimating, Scheduling, Organizing, Directing, Controlling, Budgeting and Drafting Remedy Procedures.
• Lead multiple projects of technical professionals through all phases of the SDLC using technologies including SAP ECC, Vistex MDM, Data Stage and SAP BI.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships of professional respect with business colleagues and be recognized as the go-to subject matter expert (SME) on assigned systems.
• Gather requirements for the listed options risk management system, specifically for index options risk management spreadsheet.
• Effectively facilitate multi-disciplinary meetings to gain consensus for the project business requirements.
• Sound understanding of Gap Analysis, requirement management, risk analysis and project plans.
• Authored Business Requirements Document BRD with project teams. Extracted, discussed, and refined business requirements from business users and SME’s.
• Effectively coordinate diverse and sometimes conflicting inputs/priorities resulting in business agreement on system requirements and deliverable priorities.
• Extensively Involved in project management using MS Project
• Captured, communicated, managed system requirements and Maintained requirement tractability to keep team members up to date with the latest requirements and changes if any.
• Manage requirements traceability across multiple integrated service systems.
• Strong documentation skills to deliver documents understood by business teams and technically detailed for development teams with concise process flows, thorough tables/matrices, use cases, data mapping, effective architecture/context diagrams and quality screen mock-ups using Word, Visio, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Conducting JAD Sessions to resolve open issues, change requests so that the application meets the business requirements and dead lines
• Working highly independently with responsibility for maintaining and executing to a self-created requirements management plan. Use cases, context diagrams, Architecture diagramming, and mock-up/prototyping.
• Work under the guidance of a project manager in a multi-discipline project team, using an agreed software development lifecycle structure (SDLC), while applying creative skills to design challenges.
• Extensively applying experience with industry practices and standards such as RUP, Agile, and JAD.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ.

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements by conducting meetings and brainstorming sessions with end users and SME and document them.
• Solid understanding of Business Process definition, Risk Analysis and SDLC methodologies.
• Developed the systems implementation project management plan with milestones and steps from procurement of vendors to project implementation and maintenance.
• Helped design scope documents and the Request for Proposal (RFP) after extensive ROI.
• Extensively worked with multiple divisions within scope, and budget, status reports, risk management, communication plans, resource plans, project plans, task assignments, and budget tracking for project implementation success.
• Was extensively involved in Business proposal Risk Assessment. Highly effective management and organizational skills with ability to prioritize.
• The analysis is presented to the executive team for recommendation. In this situation, custom utilities and applications based on business policies and procedures are required.
• Designed and developed Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams using UML.
• Created Process Flow diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Interaction Diagrams using Microsoft Visio and Rational Rose.
• Established a business Analysis methodology.
• Coordinated and supported the development and implementation of special research initiatives related to specificresearch goals.
• Provided consultative and technical support, as appropriate, to standing decision-making committees.

Confidential, San Diego, CA.

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirements document with the business and development team to understand the architecture and functionality of the application (OTC & PTP).
• Involved in understanding of functionality and design of different applications based upon the Requirement Specification document.
• Acted as liaison b/w end users/business owners and technology team.
• Involved in developing Performance QAstrategy and in writing and implementation of the test plan and various test cases.
• Involved in testing of the application manually and tested the design and functionality of the application.
• Created Test Scenarios based on business requirements.
• Wrote System Integration test cases and functional test cases using Quality Center.
• Developed detailed UAT test cases from technical system requirements documents to meet deadlines and verify system functionality as per the requirements.
• Loading the Test Cases into Quality Center and executed Test cases using Quality Center in the Test lab.
• Communicating with offshore team for QA related activities, Planning Integration, system testing activities, and version controlling.
• Involved in designing test scripts, generic and business functions using Test Complete.
• Designed the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace the relationship between business and functional requirements to test cases and metrics on an ongoing basis for keeping the project team informed on the progress report of the project.
• Involved in preparation of document and test Strategy before User Acceptance testing is done.
• Logged the errors and coordinated efforts with the development team to solve the problems using Quality Center.
• Prepared the Test Strategy and Test plan documents.
• Participated in weekly status meetings, walkthroughs and documented the proceedings.

Confidential, San Fransisco, CA.

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Creating test model for the change components of the Release
• Conducting daily status meetings with onsite coordinator and offshore team
• Capturing actual hrs. and assigning the change requests for the changes to the resources
• Creating test artifacts, test procedures based on the requirements
• Configuring for the change components which requires customization
• Status updates

Confidential

Vistex Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing project documentation (Blue Print, Test Strategy, Test guidelines).
• Study of Functional & Technical specifications to understand the changes implemented.
• Responsible for development of Test Requirements as per the Test Basis.
• Responsible for development of Test Cases using various test case development techniques