SUMMARY

• 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst with the ability to understand and analyze complex business requirements. Have a detailed and thorough understanding of various domains like Finance/Banking, Credit Card and Healthcare.
• Hands on Expertise on Requirement Gathering, systematic analysis of the requirements, Joint Application Development JAD sessions and use of Rational Requisite pro for requirement Management.
• Analysis of Business requirements with Use Case Diagrams, Class Diagrams, State Diagrams, Sequence and Collaboration diagrams for Intranet Based Applications Development using backend Oracle, MS Access and MS SQL Server.
• Writing Test Scripts to make sure the end product is actually according to the requirement of the Clients for Web Based Applications as well as Intranet based applications.
• Defined business requirements and successfully re-engineered business processes for various industries/sectors like, Healthcare and Finance.
• Delivered business process models and derived Process Improvement initiates that met IT application requirement process.
• Experience in implementations involving client side Technologies such as Java
• Experienced with EDI Transactions and HIPAA, ICD9/ICD10 and complete Heal Insurance Policy Administration modules including Underwriting and Claims transactions in healthcare.
• Experienced in Federal State Government reporting regulations related to Medicare and Medicaid
• Extensively involved in all the phases of SDLC, requirement analysis and Graphical user interface GUI business specification, development, enhancement, quality assurance, testing methodologies and implementation.
• Authored business and system requirements analyses and functional specifications with supporting business process flows data modeling , Traceability matrices, risk analyses and concept of operations for systems utilizing company standards, processes, and procedures.
• Conducted Joint application development JAD sessions with relevant Subject Matter Experts to assess and document current configuration.
• Strong experience of creating Use case documentation from business requirements and/or existing application.
• Excellent knowledge in creating test cases for various stages of software testing.
• Functioned as a liaison between client and project team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SDLC Methodologies : Waterfall, Agile, RUP
• Modeling Tools Languages : Rational Rose, MS Visio, UML
• Project Management Tools : MS Project.
• Requirement Traceability Matrix : Rational Requisite pro, MS Excel
• Change Management Tools : Rational Clear Quest, MS Office, Snag-It
• Web Technologies : HTML, XML, LAMP,
• Operating Systems : Windows 2000, 2003, MS-DOS, LINUX.
• Languages : C, C , SQL, JAVA
• Databases : Oracle, SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business processes, products and operations to create detailed business requirements and communicated them to the development team for the design and implementation of business solutions.
• Streamlined business processes through analysis, design, documentation of new processes and applications including risk assessments and mitigations, creations of process flows, change management, quality controls.
• Gathered business requirements and created functional specifications and use cases.
• Gathered requirements through a series of one-on-one and group meetings with the identified users and developers.
• Worked in an environment led analysis and development of enhancements for a mission critical Java/J2EE application performing requirements gathering, analysis, and enhancements Etc.
• Designed sequence diagrams for all the use cases identified.
• Assisted in documenting BPM Business Process Model and process overview.
• Used Rational Unified Process RUP methodology and Rational Rose and Rational Requisite Pro for developing the use case diagrams.
• Involved in development specifications and schematics for forms using HTML and Java script to gather information from analysts to maintain and refresh the knowledge base.
• Facilitated meetings with clients and users across all departments to deliver business requirements.
• Managed and coordinated phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Interacted with different SME's to get a clear workflow analysis.
• Created AS-IS and TO-BE business process flow diagrams, integrated process flow diagrams to show one end-to-end business model.
• Identified issues involved in the integration.
• Coordinated UAT User Acceptance Test testing by writing test cases, training end users and giving demonstrations along with documenting and resolving the issues.
• Provided testing assistance and guidance in order to ensure accurate requirements fulfillment.
• Assisted technical team in understanding and developing the appropriate functionality.
• Performed strategic planning activities and built test case scenarios to ensure requirements are being satisfied.
• Allocated timelines using MS Project by scheduling meetings with developers and testers.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering and analyzing Business and system functional requirements and for understanding and translating these needs into Business Requirement Specification BRS , System Requirement Specification SRS documents, Conceptual design document CDD , Client requirements document CRD , and Functional specification document FSD .
• Creating use case scenarios and documents work flow and business process.
• Prepared use cases and data flow diagrams to analyze the impact of ICD10 diagnosis codes embedded in different systems and applications.
• Followed the Rational Unified Process RUP methodology of iterative software development with its various workflows, artifacts and activities.
• Business reporting analyst using MS ACCESS, BUSINESS OBJECTS, and EXCEL, tracked, analyzed, and reported.
• Working with the development and implementing the new designs of the layouts between ICD-9 and ICD-10 crosswalk.
• Responsible for conducting gap analysis as is to be for ICD9 and ICD10. Prepared Data Flow Models for code sets validating in Facets and Claim Process Engine.
• Supporting IT unit creating functional specification documents for the design, development and implementation of project.
• Utilized corporation developed Agile SDLC methodology.
• Used Scrum Work Pro and Microsoft Office software to perform required job functions.
• Used General equivalence Mappings GEM to convert ICD 9 to ICD 10.
• Validating imported and exported files in different format and preparing layout charts for the data transports.
• Supporting, Assisting and advising Project Director and Program Manager from time to time for Project Management and taking decisions on various aspects of the project like performance metrics and non-functional requirements.
• Confidential

Business Analyst

Job Responsibilities:

• Created functional and non-functional requirement documents and technical specification documents and delivered within project timelines by conducting user interviews for requirements gathering, analysis, and design.
• Wrote SQL query to extract data from the tables to validate data flow.
• Created SQL scripts to load legacy data into Oracle staging tables and wrote SQL queries to perform Data Validation and Data Integrity testing.
• Worked with Fixed Income Business users to facilitate technical team with functional aspects of various capital market instruments.
• Facilitate meetings with front office /middle office desk supervisors, Market Risk managers and subject matter experts to breakdown source data analysis associated to the KRIs key risk indicators .
• Perform credit risk and Market risk assessments of new customers.
• Conducted JAD Sessions periodically with various stakeholders at various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC to discuss open issues and resolve them.
• Used SQL queries to transfer data from the server to the web page. Conducted presentations on the progress of the project after ever phase of SDLC based on RUP methodology.
• Skilled at performing GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing UAT , SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis and ROI analysis.
• Met with client groups to determine User Requirements and Goals, thus converting User Requirements and Business Requirements into Functional Requirement Specifications.
• Assisted with Manual and User acceptance testing of the systems UAT , developing and maintaining quality procedures and ensuring that appropriate document is in place.
• Identifying and measuring risk ledger faced and calculating credit risk, making decision on the applications and preventing loss by evaluating credit risk.
• Facilitated UAT and test strategies with developers and testers and performed manual front-end testing to check all the functionalities incorporated with the different modules. Involved in UAT session to test the system with stakeholders.

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Forecast and monitor North American and Indian market trends.
• Analyzed of bank volatility, assigning limits and exposures based on CAMEL and BASEL II guidelines.
• Create recession analysis model and risk model analysis for Insurance companies.
• Analyzed for potential governmental system breakdown and changes.
• Performed and recommended steps to analyze and upgrade the existing process in order to increase the efficiency.
• Designed and demonstrated technical solutions for international clients
• Proficient to analyze and document business requirements and system functional specifications.
• Executed in a team to determine the control strategy of the process and documented steps for process automation.
• Performed required GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing UAT , SWOT analysis, Risk Analysis and mitigation plan, Cost management and ROI analysis, feasibility studies and to define scope efficiently.
• Worked extensively with the stakeholders and with different levels of management to identify requirements, business events and to develop functional specifications for the lending procedures.
• Provided projects with pre-project planning expertise high-level and detailed project
• Tracking Central bank's policies and interpreting data for internal policy modification.