SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of comprehensive experience as a Business Analyst in Healthcare and Retail E - Commerce industry.
• 2+ years of experience project teams applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
• Supported projects throughout the development/project life cycle, from establishing vision and scope to validating requirements in the testing phase using various methodologies (Waterfall, RUP, and Agile Scrum).
• Developed and maintained strong and productive relationships with business leaders and SMEs associated with a project or a specific phase of a project.
• Experienced in facilitating JAD sessions, Scrum sessions, Requirement elicitation sessions, Interviews and Focus Groups.
• Skilled in translating business objectives into prioritized functional requirements and recommending feasible solutions to the business problems.
• Produced professional quality project artifacts including but not limited to business requirement document (BRD), visual diagrams (e.g. Wireframes, Swim Lane, Use Case, Context, and Data Flow), traceability matrices, issue logs and other documents as needed.
• Ability to write SQL queries to extract data from production and Business Intelligence databases.
• Prepared presentations, reports, tables, graphs, and observations to present clinical/consult/claims data or results.
• Experienced working in a Managed Care and government health programs (e.g. Medicare/Medicaid).
• Extensive knowledge of healthcare claims processing including EDI transactions (820, 835, 837, 270/271, 276/277, and 998/999), HIPPA 4010/5010, and ICD 10 implementation.
• Experienced in developing Test Cases, Test Scripts, UAT Plan and Test Plans based on both business and system requirements.
• Possess very good organizational and communication skills, with the ability to multi-task and deal with shifting priorities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows and Unix

Languages: HTML, Java, XML and SQL

Tools: Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, CaliberRM, MS Office, MS SharePoint and PeopleSoft

Database: MS SQL Server 2005, MS Access, DB2 and Oracle

Testing Software: HP Quality Center, JIRA, Clear Quest and HP ALM

Software Packages: MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, Project, Access, Lotus Notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Schenectady, NY

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed root cause analysis on denial claims for rejections based on new ICD 10 adjudication.
• Performed impact analysis for readiness of ICD 10 conversion and dual processing to continue run out of ICD 9 claims.
• Worked closely with adjudication department to research complex claims inquires that would require customized communication responses for auto-adjudication failures.
• Conducted JAD sessions with business and IT to highlight impacts of ICD 10 transition and obtain detailed requirements to finalize business requirement document (BRD).
• Researched reporting department impacts of ICD 10 by conducting detailed SQL queries on test and production claim records.
• Created GAP analysis and mapping documents for 837I and 837P to ensure that all existing information was being submitted.
• Led meetings as the project SME with work-stream owners of different functional areas such as Claims, Benefit and Provider Configuration, Member Enrollment, Special Populations to engage them in procedural support for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Prioritized and Communicated open issues and project risk/mitigation plans to UAT teams.
• Worked closely with QA Team to prepare detailed test cases by analyzing technical requirements and ensuring requirements traceability using HP Quality Center.

Environment: Waterfall, MS Office, SharePoint, Quality Center, DB2 and MS Visio

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Waterfall Methodology to configure and develop process, standards and procedures.
• Conducted requirement sessions, workflow diagrams, UML diagrams, process models, activity diagrams, use cases for incorporating design changes in the order creation/ management system.
• Clearly understood coding standards required for all Medicare Part D Users transactions involving electronic data interchange as provided by department of health and human services and incorporated at every stages of the project wherever found necessary.
• Prepared the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD) for the enhancement of the existing services.
• Analysis and Design of existing transaction sets, and modification of these transaction sets to ensure HIPAA compliance.
• Conducted data analysis, created data mapping and data interface documents to aid in documenting requirements and functional specifications.
• Involved in forward mapping EDI transactions from and backward mapping from .
• Attended meetings with QA and Developer to discuss defects, bug fixes and testing updates
• Provided Production support and post-production support/explained the changes to the business users/did one on one sessions/one to many sessions to make the business uses aware of the system changes.

Environment: Waterfall, MS Visio, MS Office, HPQC, PeopleSoft and SharePoint

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated JAD sessions with team leads and development team to determine high level functionality and to determine system level requirements.
• Gathered requirements in the form of high level User Stories and User Interface wireframe diagrams.
• Participated in User Story walkthroughs to identify Epics that could be broken down into further smaller user stories which could be developed in a single sprint.
• Worked on gathering requirements by analyzing the existing system and holding meetings with various SMEs and technical architects for businessapplications.
• Conducted JAD sessions to resolve the conflict arising from ambiguous requirements and/or User Stories that were not identified as Epics in sprint planning sessions.
• Created the process flows, Use Cases and Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams using MS Visio.

Environment: Agile, Windows XP, MS Suite, Requisite Pro, SharePoint and HPQC.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated joint requirements planning sessions with the business unit to gather requirements and conduct requirements sign-offs.
• Created User Stories that were prioritized through analysis of project-critical milestones and then developed as per the agreed iterations and sprint backlogs, in collaboration with Cross-functional teams.
• Managed JAD session with the Project Managers, developers, SMEs and testers for the project to ensure understanding and implementation of critical success factors.
• Involved with Technical Team to design and deploy Web Services/ Service Oriented Architecture for communication between application servers to save cost, and maintain reusability of the code components.
• Extracted data thru SQL queries for data validation.
• Collaborated with DB team in data mapping, field mapping, data integration and data warehousing
• Collaborated with the QA team in the development of Test Cases for UAT, SIT, and system testing for creating the Test Plan and evaluate Acceptance Criteria thru consultations with SMEs.

Environment: Agile, CaliberRM, MS Office, MS Project, Visio, SharePoint and HPQC

Confidential, Addison, IL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the Program Manager in defining, documenting, and implementing success milestones for the Project's critical path, and Confidential -dates for the complete SDLC.
• Coordinated between teams to clarify GAP’s, and find resolutions conflicting issues by investigating and highlighting the discrepancies when found.
• Gathered requirements by leading user story development sessions with internal and external stakeholders while observing and documenting current business processes.
• Participated in Conducting release planning, sprint planning, product and sprint backlog grooming, sprint reviews, retrospective, daily scrum meetings, user story development, and other related activities.
• Developed business relationships and integrated activities with development and testing teams to ensure successful implementation and support project efforts.
• Drafted Use Stories and Use Cases (when needed) for the functionalities in collaboration with the Business SMEs.
• Actively helped the UAT Business lead in conducting smooth and successful UAT.

Environment: Agile, JIRA, Java, SQL, Quality Center, MS Project and MS Office.

Confidential, Brentwood, TN

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted GAP Analysis to understand the reason for delays in submitting claims to the carriers and documented findings.
• Organized requirement gathering sessions with stakeholders to get a better understanding of claims processes and gathered requirements to create the Business Requirement Document (BRD).
• Conducted user interviews to analyze the requirements and managed changes by implementing a formal change management methodology using SharePoint.
• Created current and future state Process flow diagram using MS Visio and conducted walk-through sessions of the process flows with the vendor and client to validate them.
• Tracked stakeholder requested enhancements and maintained changes using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Assisted the project manager in developing and updating timelines for project delivery, implementing milestones, managing risks, issue and resources for successful completion of the entire project by using MS Project.
• Continually interacted with the business and technical teams to ensure consistency in ideas and other work processes related to the project.
• Coordinated and performed UAT (User Acceptance Testing) to assess if the system could support day-to-day business and user scenarios and ensure the system was sufficient and correct for business usage.

Environment: Waterfall, MS Visio, MS Share Point, MS Office, Oracle Database and QTP.