EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of experience in Application, Database development, Business System Analysis, Scrum master and technical Project Management using waterfall & Agile methodology, implementation of DevOps strategy. Business/ Technical/ Infrastructure/Functional Analyst, Application SME in Speciality Insurance Domain, Project development in Financial, banking, Manufacturing, Auto & Home Insurance, Travel domain
• Assess & Implement DevOps strategy, worked with different application teams to assess their application and helped them to implement DevOps and Agile framework.
• Enterprise Resource tracker and Automation tracking application development, responsible for requirement collection, interfacing with business users across all CIO units, Helping business to break bigger Need in smaller chunk to deliver it faster, Helped to deliver minimum viable product at the earliest, Help the business user to Prioritize requirement based on value and need, Help in creating success criteria, providing them efficient solutions, work arounds, temporary interface through excel and SharePoint, preparing workflow and business process, Preparing How to document, transforming Business need into technical requirement, connecting with developing team to develop user centric application, Interfacing Testing team, release team, change management, server procurement, perform testing at various level to ensure product quality, scrum team management and practicing agile methodology, training users, updating stake holders on latest status.
• Ensure smooth release Global infrastructure - ICE, Worked with various teams like IBM, DR, HP, SFT, Database management, MQ, SSO, DNS, EMC, ITIM, Firewall on RFS,VSS,CI Package gating for Infrastructure Procurement and configuration . Managed automation projects to improve application team time.
• Global travel worked with different work streams managing scrum team in implementing third party tool
• IDN worked as BSA for huge Data Warehouse migration project with cross commit, multi-vendor teams.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Played BA/SCRUM master/PM/DevOps Consultant/Infrastructure Consultant /Production support
• Participated in preparing Business Use Case, proposals based on business requirement and efficient solution to deliver faster in market
• Adept in agile, waterfall methodology implementation using SDLC life cycle
• Exposure in database design, migration, data optimization and development
• Broad experience with application development including SOA & production support
• Performed DevOps assessment with application teams and supported DevOps implementation
• Expertise in Kanban, Rally & Jira
• Experience in SharePoint development
• Expertise in Visio, preparing workflows and visual diagrams
• Expert or high proficiency in all Microsoft Office Suite products
• Worked with enterprise teams to procure environments and configure it for application teams
• Coincidental management of on-shore and off-shore development teams
• Experience working with multiple vendors and cross functional teams
• Project management expertise in resource management, project tracking, user/ management reporting, facilitation and coordination
• Cost and resource estimates, including scope and risk assessments
• Project task definition, assignments, and monitoring
• Creating Requirements Plan and monitoring of the completion of project plan and had responsibilities of other management activities
• Conducted work sessions, workshops, peer reviews, and inspections to build and validate deliverables
• Leading the team in terms of coordinating and facilitation of the creation of process models, requirements, and use case documentation.
• Identify and document workflow needs with business systems
• Identify, design, and document business processes.
• Identify, verify, and document functional, technical, and non-functional requirements using requirements management best practices
• Translate requirements into key deliverables and participated in Knowledge transfer to development and testing team.
• Monitor and ensure that requirements are traced, met, tested, and implemented
• Review detailed design, test plan and test case results to ensure all requirements are understood and met
• Participate in unit testing, Integration testing, UAT
• Facilitate Defect management effort
• Define and document scope and manage scope changes through the lifecycle
• Create Change Requests for requirement changes
• Requirement collection
• Elicit and analyze as-is and to-be business processes and business requirements
• Document Requirements
• Prioritize, analyze, and validate the requirements
• Participate in requirements review
• Establish the Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Create Simulation / Prototype, as required
• Partner with Quality Assurance Manager to conduct the requirement review

KEY DELIVERABLES OWNED:

Requirements Plan

High Level Requirements

Detailed Functional Requirements

Non-Functional Requirements

Business Use Case Model and Inventory

Use Case and workflow Documents

Screen Specifications

Data Migration Mapping

SKILLS AND TOOL USED:

Methodologies/Process: DevOps,Water fall, Agile, Object oriented analysis & design, Unified Modeling Language (UML) Rational Unified Process (RUP),Kanban

Languages: Visual basic, VBA scripting, VB.Net, Java Script,, HTML, SQL, C#, CSDK Borland, J2EE (Servlets, JSP, XML, XSL)

Application software: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Microsoft Visio, TSO/ISPF, People soft, SharePoint, Clarity, HP Quality Center, Style Report, Crystal report,SSRS, PVCS, CVS, Filenet, Rational rose,Jenkin,Lara,Rally,Jira

Data Bases-Middleware: TERADATA,ORACLE,SYBASE,SQL Server,DB2 Windows, MS Access, Mainframe file browsing, UDB, View point (Teradata tool), Atanasoft Terada data compression tool

Operating System: DOS, Windows 95 and NT, Windows XP, Windows 7,Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix

Responsibilities:

• Educating application team on benefit of DevOps /Continuous delivery
• Help team in assessing application team on their working pattern and assessing Automation and process gaps
• Perform gap analysis and prepare DevOps opportunity which can increase productivity
• Onboarding Application team for DevOps implementation
• Transform team from waterfall to agile for continuous delivery with frequent release pattern to improve faster time to market
• Help on understanding implementing Agile practices
• Help team to implement TDD approach, pair programming
• Help team to organize requirement in Rally agile tool and Kanban process
• Help team to transfer repository from SVN to GIT and educating them on branching pattern
• Helped application team to implement Build automation using Jenkin,Maven, spring architecture and integrating Nexus repository
• Help team for Deployment automation using CA LARA
• Help team to integrate Test Automation using Junit/QTP/Selenium
• Integrating test case and stories with HP QC
• Code review using GIT Gerrit
• Use of Test Data Management tool
• Help on LISA service virtualization for testing without actual service developed
• Integrate SonarQube for Code quality and code coverage
• Setup CD pipeline using XL Release
• Helped team to procure Cloud servers understanding team need
• Researched on Virtual/portable development environment using docker,Vagrant simulating to production kind environment so to avoid having physical environment for developer to test and developer can spin different environment.
• Coordinate with tool team to implement Automation for application team
• Track progress on DevOps implementation
• Preparing report to show efficiency gain in terms of defect reduction and faster time to market
• Interface between product owner, business and scrum team
• Prepare Use case document and proposal and different solutions
• Prepare mockup screen and any workflow or diagram
• Prepare How to use and User Manual
• Help product owner to groom product backlog & create acceptance criteria or success criteria
• Advising on creating Minimal Viable or usable Product
• Help in analyzing gaps
• Manage scrum events like sprint planning, daily standup, show n tell, retrospective
• Perform Testing & Manage defects
• Prepare delivery plan and track progress
• Report status to stake holders
• Facilitated discussion and conflict resolution
• Training users on new application and mapping with Business need
• Procure servers for application, database and mange those servers
• Help in database design and data migration from SharePoint to sql server

Confidential, Phoenix

BSA/PM

Responsibilities:

• Worked on automation for manual reporting to automated tool using sql server and SSRS tool to reduce time spent in manual tracking.
• Facilitated coordination with different teams for RFS and VSS projects like IBM,HP,EMS,DR,SSO,MQ,EDMS,EMC
• Review and approve CI packages
• Provide End to End support to application team for VSS projects
• Preparing weekly/monthly/Quarterly status report while automation is going on.
• Support AEDC folder creation for CI package.

Confidential, Phoenix

BSA

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of system requirement and Verifying the user specifications
• Preparing data mapping from Source system to Teradata tables.
• Performing Data compression analysis.
• Analyzing data load.
• Ensured Coordination with team and explaining the requirements
• Participated in activities of Designing as per the data flow.
• Ensured appropriate Analysis of program specifications by team members and lead discussions both internally and with the client to resolve queries.
• Lead Specification review and helped resolving issues by trouble shooting.
• Reviewed test plans for the various tasks.
• Participated in various Unit, Integration and System testing.
• Participated Defect status meetings.
• Preparing status report.
• Perform data migration.
• Estimating timelines.

Confidential, Minneapolis

BSA

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of system requirement and Verifying the user specifications
• Preparing data mapping from Source system to Oracle tables.
• Ensured Coordination with offshore team and explaining the requirements
• Participated in activities of Designing as per the data flow.
• Ensured appropriate Analysis of program specifications by team members and lead discussions both internally and with the client to resolve queries.
• Lead Specification review and helped resolving issues by trouble shooting.
• Reviewed test plans for the various tasks.
• Participated in various Unit, Integration and System testing.
• Participated Defect status meetings.
• Handled offshore and onsite team efficiently.
• Introduced new automation concepts in Testing, which has expedited the testing
• Demonstrated skill in organizing the work and delivering the projects with quality.
• Coordinating with cross commit teams with different vendors.

Confidential, New Jersey

PM,BSA, Solution lead, Team lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed several projects as technical lead, Business Analyst and SME.
• The Project Management aspect of the role consisted of the following activities:
• Oversee activities that entailed Collecting requirement and Verifying the user specifications
• Ensured Coordination with offshore team and explaining the requirements
• Participated in activities of Designing as per the data flow.
• Ensured appropriate Analysis of program specifications by team members and lead discussions both internally and with the client to resolve queries.
• Created work breakdown structures for the business requirements as specified by the customer
• Estimation of the tasks as per specifications for both new development initiatives and Enhancements.
• Lead Specification review and helped resolving issues by trouble shooting.
• Reviewed test plans for the various tasks.
• Participated in client communication for various Unit, Integration and System testing.
• Organized various customer demos
• Core responsibility included Monitoring the project status and progress using CNA proprietary project monitoring tool.
• Conducted Defect status meetings.
• The Tech aspect of the role consisted of the following activities:
• Design of screen flows, Entity Relationship resulting in ER Diagrams.
• Participated in re-architecting the application.
• Lead initiatives of Load testing and performance testing.
• Lead POC initiatives.
• Throughout the tenure successfully handled several complicated projects.
• Handled offshore and onsite team efficiently.
• Managed Projects with new concepts and processes that has generated more than expected revenue.
• Demonstrated skill in organizing the work and delivering the projects with quality.
• Achieved awards and recognitions from Confidential for performance.
• Streamlined the processes needed for smooth project delivery.
• Successfully designed and implemented new product approach through pdf submission which has gained high demand, made business easy and the concept has been borrowed by other projects.
• Envisioned and presented value add(s) concepts to management to get more trust.