SUMMARY:

• I have around 6.5 years of experience as a Senior Business Analyst.
• I possess strong business analysis skills and experience as a part of various System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) stages, Software Testing Life Cycle stages (STLC) and Defect Management Life Cycle.
• Expertise in business requirements analysis, Creation of functional requirement documentation, impact analysis, creation of testing strategy, User acceptance test Plans and scripts, test data setup, test Execution, defect reporting and triaging.
• I am accustomed to both Waterfall and Agile methodology of a software development lifecycle.
• I possess outstanding verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, excellent presentation and public - speaking aptitude and have demonstrated analytical, documentation and listening skills.
• Additionally, I am a US Citizen authorized to work.
• Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development, Testing and Maintenance.
• Self-starter, able to manage individual responsibilities and also contribute successfully to team deliveries on complex, long term projects.
• Full life cycle analysis and documentation, including Business Requirements document, Functional Specifications and Implementation Plans.
• Extensive experience working in all stages of system development lifecycle, facilitating conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions among stakeholders and managing changes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to document and present the results of analysis clearly and concisely, using effective written reports and diagrams.
• Effective management of stakeholder relationships at all levels of the business (both internally and with third party suppliers).
• Project governance, including day-to-day management and resolution of risks, issues and dependencies.
• Good business-facing skills and ability to successfully solve non-technical business and process issues.
• Experience in conducting GAP Analysis and Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Experience in Microsoft Visio and Rational Rose for creating architecture diagrams
• Strong technical background and full project life cycle experience gained as a former tester delivering enterprise level applications.
• Expertise in manual functional testing, system testing, integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing.
• As a business analyst, triaged defects with developers and QA and reported Testing summary to Management
• Well versed in both Agile and Waterfall model of a testing lifecycle
• Good experience in Healthcare domain
• Test Documentation, Test Strategizing and Planning, Test Scripting, Test Execution, Defect Reporting
• Executing Selenium test cases and reporting defects
• Great expertise in testing web services via SOAP, using the open source testing tool SoapUI
• Familiar with commercial insurances, HMO’s, Medicaid and Medicare In-depth knowledge of advanced medical terminology
• Expertise in Enrollment and Billing platforms/ Oracle Ledger of healthcare domain
• Functional knowledge of insurance companies and claims information
• Expertise in databases like Oracle, SQL

TECHNICAL SKILL SET:

Programming Languages:  Java, Dot Net, Visual Basic based applications for testing.

Databases & Tools: Microsoft Visio, MS SQL server 2008, MS-Access, IBM DB2, 

Web service Tools:  SOAP UI, UDeploy, Oxygen, WinScp, Putty

Other Utilities: HP Quality Center, HP ALM IBM Rational Clear quest, IBM Rational Clear case, Rally, JIRA, Selenium

Other tools:  Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Role - Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Engage business managers to gather software requirements/ business rules approved by Confidential with development/ scrum teams.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into business requirement document, use cases, user stories written in Rally tool.
• Created workflow/process diagram, data flow diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
• Evaluate risks related to requirement implementation, testing processes, project communication
• Facilitated and triage defects between development and QA teams.
• Helped business leads and participated in user acceptance testing and regression testing.
• Draft and maintain business requirements and align with functional and technical requirements.
• Facilitate monthly client meetings to explore potential solutions for business requirements
• Worked with vendor partners to explain the business needs of the system changes
• Reviewed the design created by development teams
• Reviewed the testing strategy and test scenarios created by QA teams.
• Manage Change Control requirements and working with Business to schedule the delivery timelines.
• Great expertise in testing web services via SOAP, using the open source testing tool SoapUI
• Familiar with commercial insurances, HMO’s, Medicaid and Medicare In-depth knowledge of advanced medical terminology
• Expertise in Enrollment and Billing platforms/ Oracle Ledger of healthcare domain
• Functional knowledge of insurance companies and claims information

Role - Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with business stakeholders to gather functional and non functional requirements during JAD sessions and create the functional requirement documents along with specifications.
• Studied the existing business process to create the workflow illustrating the existing system.
• Facilitated to write user stories in the form of Requirements in Rally tool for Agile Model delivery
• Created use cases for different business scenarios.
• Actively analyzed current business process and worked with management to implement enterprise solutions to ensure compliance.
• Created flow diagrams in Rational Rose and Microsoft Visio.
• Creation of Requirement Traceability matrix
• Involved in Gap analysis
• Involved in User acceptance testing on behalf of the business team,
• Creation and Execution of Test cases and logging defects in ALM.
• Used SOAPUI for testing SOAP based Web Services.
• Experience testing SOAP and REST web services.
• Manually performed back-end testing on Oracle database by writing SQL queries.
• Performed Data Validation using SQL queries.
• Worked in fast paced Agile (Scrum) environment.

Confidential

Role – Enumerator/ Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Collected and analyzed data regarding the quantity of the population within a certain region.
• Prepared all initial documents in regards to particular area, proper placement of team members, and additional required paperwork.
• Assisted in day to day organization