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Employment History:.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with the lead in selecting an approach for conducting business analysis activities.
• Conducted Stakeholder analysis to identify Customer SME, Domain SME, Implementation SME, and End users who are affected by the initiative.
• Created stakeholder matrix to determine the influence of stakeholder Vs the impact on stakeholder
• Conducted Requirements elicitation activities through requirements workshops, brainstorming sessions, Interviews.
• Worked on an Application of several software development methodologies, depending on the methodology employed by the project
• Gathered User and Business Requirements through JAD sessions, surveys, user stories.
• Interacted with business users across multiple geographies in gathering requirements, scoping of requirements and coordinated for requirements sign-off.
• Worked with senior business executives to capture the business goals, objectives and absorbed them into the business requirements document BRD .
• Conducted JAD Sessions periodically with various stakeholders at various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC to discuss open issues and resolve them.
• Provided strategic support in development of detailed project plans, work assignments target dates.
• Applied Rational Unified Process RUP , Waterfall methodologies to develop the applications.
• Authored Functional Requirement Documents FRD and the non functional requirements document.
• Prepared requirements package and conducted structured walkthrough sessions for obtaining stakeholders agreement.
• Created data flow Context diagrams to represent informational flow through the BioNet QMI system and generated reports using Visual Basic Applications VBA .
• Used organizational process assets to communicate requirements to stakeholders.
• Used process mo deling technique BPMN to build flow charts describing the current as-is and future to-be state within the organization.
• Worked on .NET, Windows based technologies
• Absorbed change requests and control towards implementation by conducting feasibility analysis.
• Used data modeling techniques for building logical data models to illustrate entity-relationship diagrams, identifying the attributes for each entity, establishing one-to-one and one-to-many relationships and process flows in status transition representation.
• Analyzed business processes and developed prototypes for business stakeholders to validate the business needs.
• Gathered business definitions from SME's for all the fields in the application and ensured co-ordination with Master Data Management, MDM team.
• Identified the business risks associated with the new BioNet QMI system and formulated a Mitigation Plan to reduce the effect of critical risk factors.
• Coordinated with the development team in defect fixing and communicated requirements from the business.
• Acted as a prime contact during User Acceptance Testing phases of the project
• Worked on bi-directional traceability between source requirements and product or sub product requirements
• Created data mapping spreadsheet and analyzed reference data at attribute level during data integration and data migration. Identified the issues during data migration and worked for defect resolution.
• Ensured comprehensive defect tracking and issue resolution using JIRA and Quality Center
• Created business rules artifact and used statistical inference modeling concepts Decision models to develop decision logic for business rules to produce a desired action.
• Used UML methodology to design data flow diagrams and use case diagrams.
• Used SQL queries to retrieve data from the repository tables and conducted data attribute analysis.
• Conducted GAP analysis and documented the outputs of the analysis.
• Acted as a customer representative during the iteration cycles, and aided in the data mapping process.
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix and aided the QA team in the identification of test scenarios, integration, functional and user acceptance test cases.
• Used Sharepoint/Doc share as central repository for OPA's/artifacts. Uploaded baseline docs to Sharepoint for access to all the stakeholders.
• Conducted user walk through sessions for the business users and senior management.

Environment: MS Visio, Serena Business Manager, HP Quality Center, SQL

Confidential

Business Analyst

• Create new treaty or amendment
• Set up header information
• Integration of data from QT and BoF
• Capture additional details at a treaty level
• Followed a hybrid of egic planning of budget forecasting and proposed enhancements Waterfall, RUP and Agile approach of development throughout the project
• Capture contractual general, retention, costing and non contractual admin claims data at a segment level
• Initiation of Wording and Treaty set up work flows and their execution
• Handling multiple work flow scenarios
• System restacking logic for amendments/versions

Responsibilities:

• Elicited and analyzed complex business needs and opportunities by conducting enterprise wide work sessions.
• Worked with business users, subject matter experts, and functional representatives across multiple business functions to align technology solutions securely with business strategies, standards and practices.
• Participated in the development of project initiation activities and project scope definition assessments.
• Developed strategic partnerships with the business unit to acquire a solid knowledge base of the business line including the business plan, products, processes and revenue streams.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Incorporated Application Life Cycle Management ALM , SDLC methodologies to develop the applications.
• Created Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Visual Design Requirements artifacts.
• Played a vital role in impact analysis and sizing T-shirt estimates and dollar amounts of initiatives.
• Conducted Sizing reviews at the end of requirements phases Feasibility and Analysis to discuss potential cost drivers with the project management team.
• Created Context diagrams, Business process swim lanes BPMN As-is and To-be for the identified areas of study within the Operations Portfolio.
• Worked on Rational Unified Process or Agil
• Used Snag it for creating business prototypes and mock-ups.
• Worked on bi-directional traceability between source requirements and product or sub product requirements
• Used business process modeling techniques to identify essential/core business processes and decompose them to sub-processes.
• Worked on an Application of several software development methodologies, depending on the methodology employed by the project
• Created UML Use cases and Activity diagrams to illustrate the functional and system behavior.
• Provided GAP analysis study reports with proposed functionality for implementation.
• Worked towards project stakeholder acceptance for the documented requirements and proposed solution.
• Created business rules for High risk policies based on the Statistical Decision model analysis.
• Provided support and communicated requirements to the QA team in the Defect management process.
• Conducted benchmarking activities to identify best practices.
• Followed a hybrid of egic planning of budget forecasting and proposed enhancements Waterfall, RUP and Agile approach of development throughout the project
• Worked on .NET, Windows based technologies
• Expert in using Version Manager and PMG for artifacts storage sharing with enterprise wide project teams.
• Worked on Data Warehousing concepts to build dimensional data models and conceptual data models. Maintained Master Data Management MDM artifact and worked consistently towards data integrity.
• Handled CIM Enterprise approved RFC's from initiation to implementation.
• Created and maintained a requirements traceability matrix in Rational DOORS for all the initiatives.
• Managed the requirements change control process and reflected costs of change in DOORS.
• Connected requirements to test cases and test results in DOORS.
• Published Change control documents using standard templates RPE in DOORS.
• Worked with SQL queries using Microsoft Access to analyze data and generated forms and reports in various formats like Excel, MS word and Outlook. Created Excel Pivot tables and Pivot charts report prototypes for validating with the business.
• Identified, addressed, and escalated action items, risks and issues associated to the project.
• Captured accurate meeting minutes and distributed across the project management team.
• Acted as a point of contact from the requirements perspective during the test phases of the project.
• Created business data dictionary and data mapping spreadsheets.
• Worked on business re-engineering projects which involved extracting and compiling of business rules from the code Data mining.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirement analysis by gathering both functional and non functional requirements based on interactions with the process owners stakeholders for implementing the LPS-MM application Origination Process
• Good understanding of loan origination process and the documents involved in the set up 10O3, Good faith estimate and TIL Truth in Lending
• Worked on an Application of several software development methodologies, depending on the methodology employed by the project
• Worked with business users and reporting team to build custom reports and documented the reporting requirements.
• Knowledge of LIBOR concepts in syndicate lending and good understanding of spreads in different market conditions.
• Worked with Six Sigma DMAIC methodology for process improvements.
• Worked on bi-directional traceability between source requirements and product or sub product requirements
• Captured, Organized and Tracked requirements in Rational DOORS.
• Created DOORS attributes on each requirement to enhance allocation and clarity.
• Published baseline documentation set from DOORS and linked test documents in DOORS
• Created statistical analytical models that estimate future credit risk and losses at the account level for all existing and prospective loan products.
• Worked as an Interface between the loan advisors, brokers and different teams involved in the application development for better understanding of the business reporting functionality.
• Worked with data marts specific to loan parameters for analyzing the preliminary information and attribute classification.
• Used SQL queries for data retrieval and data analysis.
• Good understanding of Underwriting and the importance of Debt to Income ratio in loan approval process.
• Conducted impact analysis on requirements gathered from the users for upgrading the existing Business Finance functions BFM in certain areas like account reconciliation services, automated clearing house ACH , payments and wire transfer.
• Used RUP and Software Development Life Cycle SDLC to manage the deliverables over the entire project life cycle.
• Worked on descriptive models to quantify relationships in data and to classify customers into groups and their relationships with the products.
• Created Business requirement documents, Functional Requirement Documents FRD and undertook sessions for the development team to provide better understanding of the requirements.
• Created UML Use cases, Swim Lane process flows, Entity relationship models etc.
• Created Conceptual models using DWH concepts to identify the important entities and the relationships at an attribute level.
• Developed various reports for user verification like Cross Tab Reports and Sub Reports, various charts and graphs like Bar charts, Line graphs, and Pie charts by using Microsoft Access, Visual Basic VBA modules, Crystal Reports and exported reports into formats like PDF, HTML, Excel, Word and RTF.
• Participated in GAP analysis around the identification of business rules and system process flows, user administration, requirements and assumptions.
• Created data mapping templates and aided the development team to reduce the bandwidth of the project.
• Used BI reports to analyze data marts and configure dashboards.
• Worked on large data, tables,, reports and ran queries in VBA module Visual Basic .
• Created business rules in BRE which is associated to Drools Java rule engine.
• Aided the QA team to understand the system and develop effective test plans, by conducting sessions.
• Worked on front end COGNOS for reports extraction.
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing and Business-to-Business Transaction testing.
• Synchronized and prioritized relevant defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements.