PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of Business Consulting & Business Development experience in the Insurance & Healthcare Industry.
• He is currently designated as a Senior Consultant with Confidential - Insurance Practice. Samrat has interacted extensively with senior client stakeholders during the course of multiple engagements and service offerings, some of which include Requirements Management Consulting, Business Consulting, Process Consulting, Business Architecture Re-design, Business Aligned IT Strategy, Strategy and Roadmap, Presales and Business Development.
• Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Leading Roadmap and Strategy assignments by understanding the painpoints, roadblocks and helping client stakeholders strategize by using industry domain knowledge and recent technology trends.
• Developed considerable functional expertise on the Confidential v 7.0 product.
• Good experience of working on Agile Methodology Based Projects
• Developed Service offerings for Confidential Business Consulting - Insurance in the following areas: Business Architecture, Business Aligned IT strategy and Business Operating Model.
• Assisting with Practice development, People management, thought leadership and developing Point of View documents and White Papers.
• Extensive experience in the usage of Requirement Management tools like Integreat, Requisite Pro and Enterprise Architect.

WORK EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Confidential, CT

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the Inception workshop discussions for Track 1 in order to scope out the high level requirements for Release 1.
• Identifying the new user stories based on the changes to the OOTB discussed during the Inception workshop.
• Creating the user story templates for storing it in Product Backlog.
• Involved in Estimating the total work effort of Concept & Delivery team.
• Identifying the initial set of stories for Sprint planning by the Product Owner, based on the Agile development process.
• Creating the detailed level user stories for development team to consume, based on the discussion with business owners of each LOB.
• Review of deliverables from onshore and offshore team.
• Performing the initial set of User Acceptance Testing

Confidential, Springfield, MA

Senior Consultant / Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Planning the requirements deliverables for certain capabilities like enrollment, and contribution.
• Conducting requirement gathering and review workshops with Business consultants and subject matter experts.
• Coordinating with Project Managers of other programs within Tech Strategy
• Onsite and offshore work coordination
• Review of deliverables from onshore and offshore team.
• Providing inputs into streamlining the entire requirements management process
• Designing the requirements specification template for business consumption
• Tracking and estimating changes to the project scope

Confidential / Springfield, MA

Senior Consultant / BA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Discussing the Project Charter with key business stakeholders and preparing the High level Business Requirement Document(BRD)
• Preparing the Requirements Management Plan(RMP) for the Participant Portal
• Estimating the effort and the team size
• Taking interviews to recruit the right people for the Participant Portal project.
• Leading requirement gathering sessions with Business subject matter experts
• Coordinating deliverables with BA leads & Project Manager of multiple other programs within Tech Strategy
• Tracking and estimating changes to the project scope.
• Preparing the Best practices list for the Integreat tool used in Requirements Gathering and propagating the list to other programs within Tech strategy as well.

Confidential, Farmington, CT

Senior Consultant / Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Leading the brainstorming sessions with business heads to identify the areas of improvement in the underwriting and contract administration workflow
• Preparing and monitoring the Requirements Management Plan(RMP) for the Requirements phase
• Conducting brainstorming sessions with business heads to identify the areas of improvement in the underwriting workflow
• Creating As-Is and To-Be business processes
• Managing change requests related to project scope and change in signed-off deliverables
• Designing the requirements specification template and Use Case template for use during the Requirements gathering phase.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Senior Consultant / Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering business requirements in the form of stories under the Agile development process.
• Interacting with Client’s Business to understand and document the requirements pertaining to the New Business - Auto LOB
• Preparation of User Acceptance criteria pertaining to each story
• Participating in the User Acceptance testing of the application.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Senior Consultant / Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managing Requirements for various screens and interfaces
• Interacting with Client’s Business for requirements gathering and design validation
• Analysis of functional requirements document to understand and interpret the impact of additional functionalities being added to the Requirements list
• Validating all the test scenarios/test cases being prepared by the QA team

Confidential /

Assistant Manager Business Development

Responsibilities:

• Alliance Manager from Confidential Insurance practice for various products.
• Interacting with our Product Partners to get a perspective on their Product Portfolio offerings.
• Interacting with the various Confidential Account Representatives to understand the product landscape in their accounts.
• Preparing the solution offering roadmap and estimating the effort and team size for each offering.
• Leading the team in evangelizing and developing Confidential Insurance solution offerings for key business clients
• Arranging Account Workshops in collaboration with Confidential Account Executives and presenting Confidential ’s various Insurance solution offerings in these workshops.
• Devising Go-to-Market strategies for in-house solutions in collaboration with our partners.
• Organizing partner sponsored events at multiple India centers like Chennai and Bangalore
• Planning Joint Account Mapping strategies with the Account team

Confidential

Senior Consultant / Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the Application transition roadmap
• Leading the client interview sessions to get a proper understanding of the client system.
• Giving Reverse knowledge transfer to the client regarding our understanding of their system
• Preparation of elaborate Business Understanding Documents and process maps based upon the system understanding.
• Leading the team in successfully implementing a Retail Product from offshore
• Leading the team in creating business artifacts like Process Maps, Industry Analysis report, COE Deck, SOQ etc. for the Long Term Center of excellence (COE) at offshore.
• Preparing Functional Specification documents including process narratives, workflows and screen prototypes

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the Estimation plan for each and every module
• Creating Functional Specification Documents (FSDs) and process maps for each application
• Business Knowledge transition between offshore teams through discussions and Walk through sessions.
• Interacting with Client’s Business and IT for requirements and design clarifications
• Developing the process handbook, detailing the step-by-step process for data mapping from old to the new application.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead Business Analyst for the Claims Reporting and Security modules
• Performing a comprehensive gap analysis on the already existing requirement artifacts
• Interacting with clients to gather business requirements
• Documenting Functional specifications, Use Cases and Activity Diagrams
• Conducting business requirement walkthrough sessions with the technical design and testing team

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documenting the current state business processes
• Conducting domain training sessions for the offshore development team
• Contributing business artifacts like Use cases and case studies for the Policy Admin Center of Excellence(COE) initiative of Traveler’s offshore team