Skills

Please use this table to list the skills noted in the Required/Desired section of the Peoplefluent requirement. In addition, please respond with the years of experience for each skill and the last time each skill was used. Add or delete rows as necessary.

Employment History

Confidential

Business Analyst/Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extracted the Business Requirements during various sessions with business leads and tagged all requirements in Requisite Pro, tracing them all the way to the stakeholder requirements
• Created functional specifications, business requirement s BRD and Use Cases using UML.
• Analyzed and design Use Case diagrams, using UML/Visio.
• Identify and Document Business Rules for ILog Implementation
• Create source to target mapping spreadsheets
• Gather new attributes requirements and the derivation logic to document Business rules document.
• Involved in ETL Mapping and documentation
• Performed GAP Analysis and derived requirements to enhance the existing system and improve efficiency.
• Responsible for daily communication with the Senior Management with response to project progress and various deadlines.
• Conducted JAD sessions with extensive involvement from Business, Development, Testing teams, Architects, SME's Subject Matter Experts and Managers of various Business Units.
• Used MS Office extensively Word, Excel, Access, Visio, Power Point, Outlook, Project for calculations, graphs, analysis, presentation and documentation throughout the project.
• Generated various queries using SQL for data manipulations.
• Involved in walkthroughs and meetings with development team to discuss related issues.
• Helped the testing team in creating test strategies and test plans to be used in the QA testing process.
• Assisted in writing Test cases, test scripts and the test plans to accomplish the QA process.
• Experience with Systems Testing, Functional Testing, Stress Testing, Regression Testing and Performance Testing.
• Participated in User Acceptance Testing and ran multiple test cases to test all paths.
• Actively involved in defect tracking and defect reporting and created modification requests in HP Quality Center.

Environment:

MS Office, MS Project, UML, RUP, Visio, MS Sharepoint 2010, HTML, XML, SQL, Oracle, Windows and HP Quality Center.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Write Detailed Business requirements documents for all the trading and analysis tools of client based application, web based application and Cloud based application
• Determining the use cases and use case scenarios from the business requirements.
• Participated daily in Agile Scrum methodology process by providing detailed analysis for systems analysts, development scrum teams and project stewards.
• Experience in Trading Analysis.
• Gained valuable Project Management experience working with software development teams and monitored daily tasks using MS Project and MS Excel.
• Performed GAP Analysis and derived requirements to enhance the existing system and improve efficiency.
• Design the mock-ups and visuals for the requirements
• Liason between third parties and the development team during the integration of any third party based tool in the platforms.
• Supporting the Development and QA Quality Assurance teams both on and off shore.
• Substantiation of process workflows, use case diagrams, use case documents and traceability matrix documents.
• Used the different artifacts of the Agile-Scrum methodology to strategize the implementations in different phases of SDLC
• Involved in various different testing roll outs such as Regression, Rolling Regression, UAT User Acceptance Testing .
• Prepared and produced weekly project status reports to the Senior Project Manager
• Coded Store Procedures, Functions and required Database objects as per the design logic defined in the Low Level Design Document for different reports and data validation.
• Created Reports using all the Business Objects functions like Drill Down, Prompts, and Dimensional and Measure variables to show accurate Results.
• Written SQL Queries, test the queries, and also involved in performance tuning and query optimization.
• Developed new Crystal reports from scratch to meet the client requirements and supported the customization.

Environments:

Rational Requisite Pro, Agile, HP Quality Center, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Visual Studio TFS-Team Foundation Server 2008 2010, VB.NET, Snagit Ver. 8, 9 and 10.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Write Detailed Business requirements documents BRD and assessment of current OTC derivatives instruction trade management processes for front, middle and back office, reference data, data attributes and security master database
• Performed the role of financial analyst and worked on Processing and maintaining PeopleSoft nVision reports for the business unit.
• Reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating business processes and end user needs in order to implement and maintain PeopleSoft functional solutions supporting the business goals.
• Was part of the team working on preparing and entering accounting month end close journal entries including revenue, revenue deferral, expense accruals and reclasses by appropriate unit, department, project and account code into PeopleSoft Accounting System .
• Ensure that work with counterparty and notational fail process remains intact with integration with Murex and that the original trade remains, that new deals, and unwinds have operational transparency.
• Determining the use cases and use case scenarios from the business requirements.
• Responsible for creating use case document by coordinating with various teams such as business team, engineering team, designing team, portal team, stakeholders and CE Client Experience team.
• Experience in lending loan, collections.
• Performing document and version management for use case document spread across multiple releases.
• Facilitating the CE Customer Experience / UC Use Case review meeting with the core business team, Web development team, Designing team and the Testing team to present the use case and assist design and development.
• Gained knowledge in all aspects in commercial lending including underwriting, entity formation and legal documents and 3rd party reports.
• Performed unit testing and regression testing in testing various reports and to check the validity of the data retrieved from the database.
• Worked with ETL team during the upload process and helped with Data Mapping between the data mart and the Source Systems.
• Developed SQL queries to validate ETL process, perform database testing and data validation testing, and generate ad-hoc client reports.
• Determining and implementing the scenarios of STP Straight through Processing in the existing system.
• Substantiation of process workflows, use case diagrams, use case documents and traceability matrix documents.
• Involved in various different testing roll outs such as Regression, Rolling Regression, UAT User Acceptance Testing , etc.
• Analyze the data received from various sources such as FTP File Transfer Protocol FMS File Management System and Legacy database suggest improvements in the process.

Environments:

HP Quality Center, MS Visio 2007, PEGA PRPC, Java ,SQL, FTP, MS Project 2003, MS Excel 2003, MS Word 2003, MS Power Point 2003, MS Outlook Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared project scope, project vision, and communication plans.
• Conducted JAD sessions with business users and technical units to gather the requirements Interfaced with business users to create Business Requirements Document BRD and Functional Specifications Document FSD based on the analysis of HIPAA transaction processing workflow model.
• Strategized implementation of agile with scrums throughout the Software Development Life Cycle and managed cross-functional team towards the accomplishment of tasks towards a goal.
• Worked with the user interface team to design the GUI for the application.
• Performed project management tasks: created project plans and task lists, managed resources and monitored timelines
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram using UML and Microsoft Visio.
• Incorporated and implemented all the HIPAA standards, Electronic Data Interchange EDI , transaction syntax like ICD-9 coding and HL7.
• Involved in developing Report Design documents RDD based on user requirement document for the BI reports.
• Worked as a Data Specialist to provide analysis, development and support of business reporting requirements and create effective and efficient solutions.
• Assisted team members with design and architecture of day to day and project tasks.
• Maintain and improve the existing Reports to improve their performance.
• Created Business Rules document studied about the Claim Component and HIPPA.
• Worked in testing the professional, institutional claims processing and adjudication and validate data with facets.
• Analyzed and worked with HIPAA specific EDI transactions for claims, member enrollment, billing transactions.
• Created and modified SQL scripts for creating various schema objects - tables, views, synonyms, integrity constraints, indexes and views in the database.
• Supported and assisted QA in developing Quality Control test plans and scripts as well as extensively involved in User Acceptance Testing.
• Ensure Claims are valid and settlements are made as per the company practices and procedures.
• Examined similar healthcare services to determine the extent of coverage.

Environment:

Agile, Scrums, UML, Rational Requisite Pro, Clear Case, MSVisio, MS Office, Rational Clear Quest, Windows XP Pro

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project planning, creating Project Charter and creating Idea Creation Request along with project manager.
• Conducted JAD sessions with brokers, enterprise user representatives and SMEs.
• Many implementations utilized Microsoft .NET, T-SQL, vb.net.
• Analyzed and documented Reinsurance Claims, Billing Collections, and Accounting modules of the application.
• Collaborated in building a business analysis process model using Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, and MS Visio.
• Provided key initiatives in working with users in defining project and system requirements.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Responsible for gathering requirement for Data Warehouse for commercial lines of property and casualty insurance.
• Worked on commercial lines of property and casualty insurance including both policy and claim processing and reinsurance.
• Created business requirement documents and integrated the requirements and underlying platform functionality.
• Provided inputs in the strategic development of detailed project plans, work assignments, target dates etc.
• Created 'As Is' high-level and detailed business process flow diagrams in the form of Swim Lane diagrams.
• In accordance to gathered business requirements, created 'To Be' high-level and detailed business process flow diagrams in the form of Swim Lane diagrams.
• Validated 'To Be' high-level and detailed business process flow diagrams with stakeholder, SMEs and lead business analyst.
• In accordance to gathered business requirements, created Use Cases, Functional Requirement Document and GAP and Impact Analysis.
• Performed requirement analysis, went through all the use cases and issue logs and helped team organizational team member in designing and drafting different life insurance, auto and commercial quotes.
• Facilitated the User Acceptance Testing UAT and documented any issues or defects.
• Performed analysis on enterprise data/report integration and provided functional specification to development team to build Enterprise Reporting Systems.

Environment:

MS Visio 2003, Mainframe, SDLC, FTP, MS Project 2003, MS Excel 2003, MS Word 2003, Microsoft.net, MS SQL Server/ Oracle, Interlinks, Plainview.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the FC's to understand AG Edward's investment banking products and brokerage options as a part of the project.
• Worked with the mainframe team, FC's, stakeholders and management team in gathering various requirements for the project.
• Gathered and documents the requirements using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Discussed these requirements with other members of the team like the DBA, Project Manager, Application developers and the FC's.
• Worked on the various phases of SDLC.
• Performed project management activities such as task scheduling, resource allocation and developing charts.
• Designed detailed logical class diagrams, activity diagrams and other high level process flows.
• Facilitated JAD Joint Application Development sessions with the management team, stakeholders, FC's and mainframe team.
• Performed high level security data risk analysis, GAP Analysis among different applications, incorporated these gaps into models and documents.
• Co-Authored in making the Use-cases and the functional requirements document.
• Worked with the mainframe team, caliper application developer and other members of the project team to develop a test base, plan and then create test cases, test scripts and documented them using Test manager.
• Worked with application developers to create a test strategy to implement various phases of testing like Unit testing, volume testing and Integration testing.
• Facilitated UAT User Acceptance Testing with the stakeholders, management team, FC's and Mainframe team,
• Responsible for the overall growth of the project from requirement gathering to testing.
• Worked with the UNIX server team to gather the requirements for the project and documented them in the Requisite Pro software.
• Worked with the Caliper Application Developer and the end users to develop a test base.

Environment:

Requisite-Pro, Rational Unified Process RUP , Primavera Team Play, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, Test Manager, Java, Windows NT/2000, F-Secure Client, MS SQL Server.