SUMMARY:

• I have over 6 years of experience in the IT industry working as a Business Analyst, System/Application Analyst, Proxy Porduct owner and as a Scrum Master. I have worked in the HealthCare/Airline/Finance domains.
• Equally comfortable working in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Excel in eliciting requirements and translating them into user stories or use cases.
• Great Liaison that addresses all the business/developer needs so that a successful product will be launched.
• I have worked on front - end projects as well as back-end projects and can translate either side requirements in a precise manner where the development team can translate the requirement and implement the solution. Lead UAT testing with complex business teams.
• Overall, I am passionate about what I do as a business analyst and a team player that has great communication skills that will make sure an astonishing product is launched.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies/Processes:  Agile, Waterfall, Rational Unified Process, UML

Tools:  MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook, Access), IBM Rational Rose, IBM Rational Requisite Pro, IBM Rational ClearQuest, IBM Rational CleaCase, HP Quality Center, HP WinRunner, HP LoadRunner, Informatica Power Centre, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Photoshop, JIRA, Microsoft Team foundation server

Technical Knowledge/Systems:  Epic Systems, Windows XP/7, Sun Microsystems JRE 1.4.2, Apple JRE 1.4.2 Java Script, Java, JSP, JSON, J2EE, XML, HTML, DHTML, TOAD 7.6, SQL, Unix, Linex, CORBA Services (IONA Orbix), JMS (TIBCO EMS), Oracle 10g, Sybase, PHP, .NET, ASP.NET, SAP ERP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Grand Rapids, MI 

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering, documenting business process flows, business process modeling, conducting business analysis
• Converting functional requirements into independent user stories
• importing user stories into Jira
• Creating different matrixes (data layouts, release plans)
• Grooming prioritizing the backlog items in Jira
• Locking scope down
• Working with the vendor to understand the risk and impact and helping the project manager to come up with a release plan
• Facilitating and addressing cross-functional stake holder's requirements
• Working as a liaison between Business, IT and solution architects
• Conducting and planning Scrum Ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint retro perspectives)
• Creating project definition documents
• Creating UAT test scripted and lead user acceptance testing with business users

Confidential, Hopkins, MN

Business Analyst/Configuration Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and organized JAD session with stakeholders
• Document business requirements, analyze data sources, workflows
• Create business process models, flow diagrams, activity diagrams,
• Write user stories into Rally
• constantly update user stories and acceptance criteria with the changing requirements.
• Follow Agile Methodology throughout the project lifecycle
• Liaison between Business and IT
• Organize and Coordinate Scrum Ceremonies (Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint
• Retrospective, Sprint Demo)
• Coordinate the testing activity, create test scripts
• Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process and helped coordinate the application deployment process.
• Work independently with minimal supervision throughout the project

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Document and store business requirements in Quality Center
• Scheduling and holding regular Jad meetings with the system architects, developers and quality testers
• Work on HIPPA Transaction and code sets standard according to the test scenarios such as 270/271, 276/277, 836/835 transactions
• Log errors, report defects, determine repair priorities and track defects until resolution using Quality Center.
• Involved in Facets implementation, end -to - end testing of facets Enrollment Claim Processing and Subscriber/Member Modules. Involved in up-gradation of HIPAA X12 4010 transaction to HIPAA x12 5010 and ICD-9-CM to ICD 10

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop Business requirement document for the Appraisal and Credit departments 
•  Suggest Technical Solutions 
•  Documenting business process flow, business process modeling
• Facilitate and managed meeting sessions with a committee of SMEs from various business areas.
• Designed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Collaboration Diagrams
• Conducted workflows, process diagram and gap analyses to derive requirements for the automation process.
• Participated in Bug-Review meetings with software developers, QA engineers

Confidential,  Louisville, KY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather Business Requirement
• work as a liaison between varies I.T departments
• Review Business requirement, Functional Design Documents, Technical Specification documents, to develop Test Cases
• Interact with Claims, Payments, and Enrollment to understand the business processes
• use SQL statements to query the Oracle Database for Data Validation and Data Integrity
• Conduct Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions 
• Create Traceability Matrix to ensure that all requirements are being addressed
• Lead the UAT testing during the project

Confidential, Mendota, MN

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• managing projects using defined project management practices, understanding business processes and translating how they can be best supported and leveraged with the appropriate technology
• Gather requirements and analyze open issues;
• translating user requirements into functional specifications;
• Coordinating the delivery of estimates, technical specifications, configuration and development between the application outsourcer and the business
• Coordinating and participating in the planning and execution of integration, regression and User Acceptance Testing; maintaining technical documentation for business processes as defined in the methodology
• Working with the business and internal IT teams to ensure functionality is delivered using solid release planning and implementation methods.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with business users to gain knowledge of the existing system and understand their needs
• Documented the As-Is processes in Visio
• Conducted Release planning meeting to develop feature list, prioritize stories based on business value, estimated story points and develop a release plan
• Conducting iteration kick-off meetings with Business Users, Project Manager, Development and QA teams to document Product Backlog Items
• prioritize and scope out the Product Backlog Items (PBI) based on priority and bandwidth
• Conducted SPRINT sessions with 2-week iterations
• Participated in Daily Standups to update Storyboards and develop User Stories
• Review user stories with stakeholders
• Helping developer in unit testing, system integration testing; performed regression testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Performing GUI testing to make sure that the final product 
• Effectively worked with technical teams to research and advise on alternative technical solutions to address critical business issues and opportunities
• Communicating with stakeholders to resolve issues relating to budget and deadlines
• Escalating any timeline related or show stopper issues to the appropriate stakeholders