PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

An innovative and dynamic technologically savvyBusiness Analyst withover eight years of corporate experience 8yrs , andMBAinFinancewithsuccessful background in Business Analysis, Business Modeling, Requirement Gathering, Technical Documentation, Software ValidationData Analysis professional and institutional claims management. Domain experience in Financial Management as well as all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle and a firm understanding of the technologies involved including VB.Net,SOA web services, XML , SQLand code. Proficient in Implementing SharePoint and hands on experienced in usingCASE tools in gathering, analyzing and documenting requirement artifacts.

Qualification Summary

• Extensive experience in gathering, managing and documenting business requirements, communicating effectively with Upper management,Stakeholders, SME's, Tech Leads and Business Users.
• Comprehensive knowledge of SDLC methodologies including AGILE methodologies SCRUM, RUP Extreme Programming Tools and traditional methodologies like WATERFALL and SPIRAL. Performed duties related to SCRUM Master.
• Excellent facilitation skills in conducting walkthroughs, interviews, brainstorming and JAD sessions.
• Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into system requirements/business rules and designing business models using UML diagrams Context, Use Case, Sequence and Activity diagrams in Enterprise Architect, MS Visio, Rational Rose and Version 1.
• Expert in business processengineering and SDLC, including analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of innovative software applications as well as re-engineering existing applications.
• Knowledge of SharePoint Administration, Deploying Libraries,list, web parts, Shared Services, Indexing, Search, User Profile creation, and various application tasks.
• Proficient in conducting GAP Analysis, SWOT/MOST/PESTLE Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Risk Analysis, Impact Analysis, Time tracking and ROI as well as expert use ofSurveys andQuestionnairesin gathering info.
• Expertise in creating Static Wire Frames using mock-up tools to assist UI/UX team in UI Prototype designing.
• Expertise in writing effectiveTest Cases and Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure adequate software testing and manage Scope Creep.
• Experience in working with Data Management and Data Governance based assignments.
• Proficient with high-level Logical Data Models, Data Mapping and Data Analysis.
• Extensive knowledge in Data Validation in Oracle and MySQL by writing SQL queries.
• Worked closely with System Architect to implement Service Oriented Architecture SOA , client side validations, server side validations, web method definitions and data mapping components.
• Well versed in different management scenarios like Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration, Scheduling/Time Box Management and Conflict Management.
• Experience inHealth care Management with excellent Domain knowledge in financial industry's financial instruments and financial markets Capital Money . Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal and presentation skills expert at managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong knowledge on Medicare, Medicaid, CMS, HMO, PPO.
• Experience working with on-shore, offshore, on-site and off-site individuals and teams.
• Strong understanding of Software Testing Techniques especially those performed or supervised by BA including Black Box testing, Regression testing, and UAT.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Responsibilities

• Analysis business processes and performs needs assessments in an effort to align information technology solutions with business initiatives. Interprets business needs and translates them into system requirements
• Writes business specifications and forwards to technical staff for system development
• Interprets systems specifications to develop, maintain and support automated business processes
• Provide technical expertise in identifying, evaluating and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet user requirements.
• Configure system settings and options, plans and executes acceptance testing, and creates specifications for systems to meet business requirements.
• Builds productive internal/external working relationships.
• Interface with External Clients and communicate system components
• Execute training sessions by preparing documentation and demonstrating system functionality
• Document system solutions, training guides, and/or user manuals
• Eexercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Used MSVisio and Enterprise Architect to create flowcharts and work flow diagrams.

• Managed Traceability Matrix to trace Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Use Cases and Test Cases.

Responsibilities

• Defined the project charter, created project stake holders list and documented the WBS Work break down structure
• Created the requirements schedule and the project road map
• Defined the requirements elicitation technique and gathered requirements through conducting interviews with all business stakeholders
• Responsible for the Business and System Requirement Specification and approval
• Establish Data Governance related to future interaction request to web service. Elicit and documented parameters, standards necessary for interactions request for future analytics
• Performed Data Analysis based on exploratory data analysis using R language. Performed data mining using various techniques including clustering, decision trees, ensemble models, association analysis using the GUI RATTLE
• Performed Data Manipulation, Data Exploration, Data clustering, Data segmentation, Forecasting and Time Series analysis and built Regression models
• Contributed to the development and advancement of new principles, concepts and strategies for the services supported by the team
• Debug problems across complex applications and environments
• Communicated project status, system issues, and accomplishments to peers, and manager.
• Managed critical issues and escalate to technical managers and peers as needed to resolve project, design, and/or Production issues.
• Developed business process diagram, contextual diagram, activity diagram, sequence diagram and data flow diagram
• Performed end-to-end analysis of the web services supporting the enterprise level applications
• Conducted data analysis in support of applications and projects, including identifying and documenting business rules, data needs and data specifications.
• Partnered with multiple business units to provide an understanding of the data governance policies and standards that impact their operations
• Engaged directly with internal clients to understand their culture and business, translating their data management objectives into detailed delivery plans
• Created process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to solution designers and developers and/or the project team.
• Help define requirements based on user and stakeholder needs.
• Research, design, and prototype new user experiences.
• Designed Developed Data Lineage across enterprise level applications

Environment: Siebel, Ab Initio , HP ALM, R Studio, IBM DB2, MS Visio , ERWIN Data Modeler , SAP HANA , RATTLE , RCommander ,Hadoop.

Responsibilities

• Assisted in building sophisticated Algorithm based on the business process and data requirements
• Wrote business scenarios, use cases and assisted in interface/prototype designs.
• Assisted teams in Agile sprint planning and trouble shooting of the customer issues. Active member of the triage team for the analysis of the system and data related issues.
• Communicated with developers on daily basis during requirement and development sessions. Helped them in understanding the business requirements for the proper implementation of business rules in the system development
• Managed backlog items, and enter user stories in ScrumDO for the current and upcoming iterations. Worked closely with the team/stakeholders to verify that the iteration needs were met and properly communicated.
• Acted as a Scrum master and managed a team of 9 members, provided support to development team and testing team.
• Worked with multiple teams like business requirements team, V V Verification and validation , PDM Production Data Management team Infrastructure team. Represented the ADO Application development organization and worked with these cross functional teams to align everyone's interest and synchronize streamlined the application development process.

Environment: Java script, JMS, JSON, Oracle 11g, Fitness Testing tool , DB Fit , QTP, IBM Cognos, SERENA, ALM Application Life Cycle Mgt , MS Visio, MS project MS office.

Responsibilities

• Coordinated with PM to discuss and create template for Project Technologies, Methodologies, Budget, Time factor, Risk register, MS project timeline, Project mile stones, WBS, Critical path analysis,.
• Planned and supervised target meetings with SME's such as Financial Advisors , JAD sessions with all Project stakeholders including Tech Leads , direct interview sessions, conference calls and produced detailed artifacts such as Surveys/Questionnaires and minutes of meetingscovering issues discussed.
• Gathered, analyzed, documented high level business requirements and produced corresponding technical requirement artifacts such as Business Requirement Documents BRD , System Requirement Documents SRD , Test Cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix and all the affiliate artifacts like UML diagrams Use Case, Activity, and Sequence Diagrams .
• Conducted Gap analysis, SWOT analysis, Decision Point Analysis, Communication Analysis, Business Rules Analysis, Document Analysis and other related analysis such as Scope creep assessments and Goal Orientation Assessments.
• Conducted detailed Process Analysis and Decision Tree Analysis and assisted in Business Process Re-engineering procedures including identifying bottle necks and failure points, and developing alternative paths for process flow.
• Effectively managed project risks by creating and managing a Risk Register which identifies, prioritizes and measures risk, risk drivers and expected loss.
• Assisted the Project Manager in developing, tracking and managing the project triple constraint schedule, cost, resources and scope usingMS Project.
• Applied Agile SCRUMand conducted Sprint Planning meeting, stand up meetings, retrospect meeting and created spring backlog.
• Assisted UI/UX team in translating client graphical requirements to reality by creating Mockup Screens.
• Effectively managed change by deploying change management techniques such as Change Assessment and Impact Analysis.
• Assisted design and validation processes by performing explanatory Data Mapping and supervised Data Migrationprotocols.
• Facilitated the Designed and development of Business Rule Engines to support SOA architecture and web services.
• Worked closely with System Architect to implement Service Oriented Architecture SOA , Client side Validations, Server side Validations, Web Method definitions and data modeling.
• Involved in defining the business rules engine for making decision about aggregating federated information in real time, resolving sourcing system conflictand coordinating data visibility with data quality rules incorporated in the in-house application
• Identified and documented Business Rules, created detailed Use Cases, and Conducted User AcceptanceTesting.

Environment: Water Fall, AGILE SCRUM Methodology, RUP Tools Requisite Pro, Rational Rose , Oracle,SharePoint SQL Server, MS Word, MS Access, MS Excel and MS Project, HP Quality Centre.

.Responsibilities

• Prepared Business Requirement Documents BRD based on the gathered requirements Act as the mediator in business and technical capacity.
• Defined various UML diagrams activity, sequence, sequential and contextual to create a graphical representation for the developers and the database architect.
• Used Scrum methodology for the SDLC and utilized the scrum software Reilly. Worked as scrum master
• Defined Business rules on data model and entity relationship ER . Defined web methods and mapped it to the database
• Involved in implementing the SOA environment. Defined web services that can be combined in end-to-end business processes by a technique called Business Process Orchestration.
• Defined business rules under .net framework for client side validation and defined business rules in business layer cs files .These business rules can talk to all web services and database.
• Directly interacted with the Stakeholders/Business Managers and served as a primary point of contact.
• Data warehousing and Business Intelligence BI for trend analysis, forecasting, reporting solutions depending on project requirements.
• Analyzed and conducted data mapping of the metrics with the member profile data and also the negotiated contract data to understand the overall profiles of the members.
• Responsible for defining the Test plan, analyzing the Test scenarios, preparing Test case documents, defining the performance environment requirements
• Supported Data developers in performing Data Migration activities and protocols for new projects that required database mapping and backup.

Environment: .Net, DB2, Ms Sql, XML, C , Oracle, MS Vizio, Scrum Reilly and MS Project.

Responsibilities

• Gathered Requirements from JAD sessions involving SME's Architects and Designers , Technical Team, Software designers and Customer Focus groups and used Requisite Pro to manage the requirements.
• Facilitated requirements meeting, group discussions with end users and subject matter experts SME to elicit requirements.
• Worked extensively on the documentation of the scope of the Project, Functional Requirement Document and Data Requirements, ad hoc reporting and system reporting.
• Gathered knowledge on HL7, HIPAA rules and regulations.
• Mapped HIPAA compliant EDI transactions for 837: healthcare claims and 835: payment advice transactions
• Extensively involved in implementing SOA architecture to centrally define policies that govern web services operation such as access policy, logging policy, and content validation.
• Performed rigorous GAP Analysis by studying the last released application version including the last released versions from the competition using SWOT analysis, MOST analysis and Cost Benefit Analysis.
• Created detailed UML diagrams using Star UML, Enterprise Architect.
• Used MS Visio and Enterprise Architectto create flowcharts and work flow diagrams.
• Managed Traceability Matrix to trace Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Use Cases and Test Cases.
• Involved in implementing Oracle MDM system and defined master data that connects to transactional system and Data warehouse.
• Extensively involved in Data Governance that involved data definition, data quality, rule definition, privacy and regulatory policies, auditing and access control.
• Assisted the QA team in developing Quality Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases prior to release
• Participated in all Black Box Testing including Regression tests and Integration tests for application ad-ons.

Environment:SCRUM, RUP Tools Requisite Pro, Rational Rose , XML

LoadRunner, WinRunner, MS-Project, MS Visio, Java, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Words, Windows XP, UNIX, Documentum, Crystal Reports XI, MS SQL server 2005, SQL Server management Studio Express

Responsibilities

• Assisted Project Manager in preparing high level project plan using MS project that included major milestone tasks along with time and cost information.
• Conducted GAP analysis and SWOT analysis that defined current systems and procedures, risks and recommendations for system interface with business mission and vision.
• Interfaced with SME's to understand, prepare and producerequirementartifacts such as Business Requirement Documents BRD and System Requirement Documents SRD for ongoing projects.
• Conducted highly effective companywide Town Hall meetings to aid participatory grass root innovationand JAD sessions for requirement gathering.
• Assisted Business owners in conducting Business Process Re-engineering with the operations management and HR management as part of the company's continuous improvement philosophy.
• Recommended changes for system design, methods, procedures, policies and workflows affecting
• Medicare/Medicaid claims processing in compliance with government compliant processes like HIPAAEDI formats and accredited standards like ANSI.
• Developed Prototypes of new information processing application and as well as GUI prototypes using mockup screens.
• Identified and prioritized business and systems issues by applying analytical tools such as Impact Analysis, Root-Cause Analysis.
• Utilized UML based methods using MS Visio and Rational Rose to develop Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and assisted in developing Sequence Diagrams and Communication diagrams for the architects and developers.
• Interfaced with Offshore Architects and Developers during design and development phases of the system.
• Supervised Final User Acceptance Application Testing UAT before application releases.

Environment: Agile methodology, Oracle, SQL, SQL Server, MS-Office, MS-Visio, MS-Access, MS-Project, MS Office Suite MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access , XML.