SUMMARY

• Business Analyst with 5+ years industry experience and expertise in Business Requirement gathering,Business Process flow,Business Process Modelling and Business Analysis.
• Knowledge of teh Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phases such as Planning, Analysis/Design, Development, and Testing for teh software/system development process.
• Experience in Project Management professional in project planning, implementation and execution.
• Well versed in project management tools like MS - Project, Team Foundation Server, and Liquid Planner for status reporting, scheduling and planning.
• Experience in creating and executing test plans for functional tests, QA tests, regression tests, smoke tests and UAT using Test Link.
• Experience in facilitating teh test process by using bug tracking tool JIRA.
• Experienced in testing different healthcare ERP solutions such as FACETS, Med Plus, EPIC and other claim processing solutions
• Well versed in project management tools like MS-Project, Team Foundation Server, and Liquid Planner for status reporting, scheduling and planning.
• In depth knowledge in documenting requirements changes using Traceability matrix and Team Foundation Server.
• Hands on expertise with collaborative tools like SharePoint and Confluence.
• Initiated Agile Scrum in several projects and planned daily scrum meetings.
• Implemented SQL scripts, stored procedures, triggers and indexes for various database operations.
• Deep technical background and solid working knowledge of SQL Server Data warehouse systems.
• Extensively worked on all phases of Data Warehousing project like Data Cleansing, Data modeling for data staging & Data Mart, ETL, Indexing, Quality Assurance, Data updating plan, and Data presentation tobusinessusers.
• Created Data Mapping Documents and worked withbusinessto write transformation rules.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and extraction/ transformation/ loading (ETL) process using SQL scripts.
• Well versed in project management tools like MS-Project for status reporting and planning.
• Expert in conductingbusinessreviews, walkthrough sessions and facilitated monthly and weekly meetings/reviews.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to tailor presentations towards different functional areas ofbusiness.
• Expert in coordinating work plan between project manager and teh client with Microsoft Project.
• Demonstrated an exceptional ability to adapt to new developments in teh world of technology and working environment.
• Ability to prioritize and schedule multiple tasks on a day-to-day basis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Methodologies: UML, Waterfall, Agile, SDLC

Defect Tracking Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, Rally, HP Quality center

Documentation Tools: Balsamiq, Office 365, MS Excel

Operating systems: Windows server 2012, Windows client 8/10, UNIX

RDBMS: MS Access, SQL server, Oracle, DB2

BusinessBuilding Tools: MS Visio, Rational Rose, Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project.

Reporting Tools: Tibco Spotfire, MS Crystal Reports

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst

Confidential, NC

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development & documentation of Software Requirements Specification (SRS) and using Rational Rose.
• Responsible for analyzing and discrepancy resolution for teh monthly trustee reports that are posted for investors. Furthermore, analyze portfolio metrics in correlation with teh fund's indenture.
• Conducted Functional Walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and supervised teh development of User Manuals for customers.
• Implemented teh data governance standards, policies, and procedures for teh control, protection, consistency and delivery of corporate data and information assets.
• Collect, review and analyze system related changes to ensure compliance with department SLAs, policies, procedures, and/or regulatory and risk requirements
• Performed teh physical database design, normalized teh tables, worked with Denormalised tables to load teh data into fact tables of Data warehouse.
• Responsible primarily for Cash Equities, Single Stock Flow Derivatives and Equity Capital Marketsbusinesses
• Participated in defining and makingbusinessrules in terms of analyzing teh pricing method of fixed income products (treasury bills/notes/bonds, e.g.) so as to has a concept of how teh credit rating agencies rate teh clients' credit
• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with committee of SMEs from variousbusinessareas including Credit Profiling, Treasury /Cash Management, and Marketing Analysis. Identified/documented data sources and transformation rules required populating and maintaining data warehouse content.
• Researched and constructed communications to investors consisting of market data, fund data and statistics in regard to each monthly report and payment per fund.
• Performed GAP analysis to compare teh existing system with teh proposed system and documented new requirements and features. Supported PMO by mentoring specific projects in application of teh new SDLC based on teh Agile Unified Process, especially from teh project management, requirements and architecture perspectives.
• Present each portfolio's status for discussion at monthly company meetings with senior executive staff.
• Access Moody's and S&P websites to maintain portfolios (publicly rated deals).
• Hold bi - monthly compliance meetings with colleagues to ensure that each portfolio's compliance process is consistent, discuss potential and existing legal issues across all portfolios, and dissect and create strategies for reporting.
• Created financial models for new floating rate loan portfolios. Identify and resolve discrepancies across all warehoused asset data points.
• Functioned as teh primary liaison between thebusinessline, operations, and teh technical areas throughout teh project cycle
• PreparedBusinessProcess Models that includes modeling of all teh activities ofbusinessfrom conceptual to procedural level.

Business Analyst

Confidential - Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD sessions to Elicited requirements and help develop teh product backlog.
• Attended daily stand up meetings, review meetings in an Agile environment. Divided teh project into various phases and shared teh updates with teh stakeholders.
• Gathered teh requirements from teh stakeholders and converted them into user stories in Jira. Also added teh acceptance criteria in teh Gherkin format to each user story.
• Performed GAP analysis by comparing teh current system performance to teh desired performance and documented all teh gaps.
• Worked with various teams on Setting new JIRA & Confluence instances for new teams.
• Responsible to create confluence page to track weekly deployment for QA, UAT and PROD.
• Full software lifecycle development experience in aBusinessAnalystrole. Jira/Confluence.
• Analysed Facets configuration and Change requests for teh purpose of determining change to Scope and impact on existing systems configuration that is dependent on teh new workflow rules engine, updated JIRA User Stories.
• Analysed and model Test plans, Use Case Model cases & Test procedures for Agile delivery of teh new sub - system.
• Critically evaluated information gathered from multiple sources during requirements gathering, User Story writing and performed analysis and reviews and responsible for tracking, tracing and managing requirements in JIRA
• Worked in UAT Testing phase, conducted User Acceptance Testing, End-to-End Testing and Integration Testing.
• Created data mapping document and added transformation rules according to teh givenbusinessrules. Also, created and maintained teh Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Worked on teh entire life cycle for requirements management - gathering, analysing, documentation and delivering teh requirements.

Environment: Agile Scrum, MS Office, MS Visio, Axure RD MS Project, HPALM, JIRA

Business Analyst

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Assembled business requirement documents (BRO) and teh functional specifications as per teh user requirements.
• Managed relationships with healthcare partners and key stake holders to ensure our clients' needs were met.
• CreatedBusinessWorkflow based on teh requirements gathered from teh client.
• Created functional specification documents based on thebusinessrequirement documents.
• Conducted weekly meetings with teh clients and internal teams to formulate priorities and determine both automated and manual determine solutions.
• Management according to teh HIPAA Compliance Standards for Claims Processing.
• Coordinated services for equipment distribution and home addition projects between clients and health equipment partner companies.
• Extensively worked with HIPAA 837,834, 297 files.
• Working knowledge for FACETS hatch file
• Tested different portals like Member portal, provider portal as part of HIX 10/1 releases.
• Extensively worked with HIPAA Privacy FACETS application groups.
• Extract and validate data from FACETS database using SQL
• Involved in creating documents and diagrams for Claims Processing.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in EDI transactions, ASC X12 transactions like 270,271,277.
• Worked on modules related to, Claims, Providers, & Contracts and worked with Claims attributes, Provider attributes, enabling EOB & Remit rules associated with Provider configuration process in FACETS.
• Working Knowledge of teh data model, data fields, relationships (backend) of teh FACETS System. FACETS tables such as Provider, Contract, Benefit, Claim, Claim details, and Member.
• Organized JAD Sessions to resolve issues and conflicts and to arrive at quick agreements regarding teh system architecture design
• Performed Functionality and Regression Testing on IBM Curam web application
• Testing execution of CURAM/ACES customized components general test types of Unit.
• Worked with teh project manager for planning and organizing teh project activities, and in communicating with otherbusinesscenter managers and stakeholders of teh project.
• Analyzed and documented teh limitations of teh billing system.
• Interacted extensively with teh client and teh management teams to understand teh requirements and to report teh status of teh testing efforts on their applications.
• Performed Gap Analysis. Followed teh RUP methodology for teh entire SDLC. Actively worked with developers as needed to isolate teh Root Cause Analysis of defects.
• Worked with teh clients on teh final signing process in teh User Acceptance stages. Managed scope and deadlines.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed enhancement and modification request issues.