SUMMARY:

• Confidential has 100+ Months of experience in IT Industry in Banking, Healthcare domain & Mainframe Technologies.
• He has extensive experience in Requirements gathering, Preparation of BTRD’s and design documents, Estimation, Design, Construction, Testing (Unit Testing, SIT and UAT, Application Maintenance & Support. Syam has previous experience of working for Amex Credit Card Applications and has been working in IT service projects for the Confidential.
• He has experience in Credit Cards Application processing, Medical claims processing, Encounter Processing, HIX Claims processing, Clinical editing and EDI transactions.
• Capable of managing work from conceptualization to completion with deadline sensitivity.
• Excel in team collaboration, brainstorming and communication skills.
• WGS medical claim Processing modules, Adjudication, Enrollment and Membership, WGS Enterprise Pricing, Provider Systems
• Excellent Healthcare Domain knowledge
• Interfaces for various Upstream & Downstream systems
• Check write and financial systems
• Explanation of Benefits, Remittance Advice, General Ledger, Journals, Accumulators, Copay and coinsurance
• S/W development life cycle methodologies
• Requirements definition, functional specifications and gap analysis
• Implementing projects, end to end testing and user acceptance testing
• Have thorough understanding of Consumer Driven HealthCare business which includes HSA (Health Savings Account), HRA (Health Reimbursement Arrangement) and FSA (Flexible Spending Account)
• Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development, Testing((Unit Testing, SIT and UAT) and Application Maintenance & Support
• Strong knowledge in IMSDB/DC, COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL
• Experienced in Functional, System, and Regression testing
• Experienced in Clear Quest tools. Also knowledge in creating test plans, test results, test data and review of output files
• Solid knowledge of TSO/ISPF, JCL, Mainframe tools and utilities.
• Experienced in performing batch and online testing in mainframe environment.
• Assists others in the writing of user documentation, instructions, and procedures. Monitors and documents post - implementation problems and revision requests.
• Experienced in analyzing requirements and preparing test plans from the same.
• Manages integrated functionality, usability, reliability, and performance and support requirements of a system. Creates feature test strategies and environment needs.
• Provides the link between the technical and business views of the system by ensuring that the technical solutions being developed will satisfy the needs of the business.
• Immensely worked on proposals, Proof of Concept preparation, Requirements gathering, Preparation of BTRD’s and design documents, Estimation, Design, and Construction, Testing (Unit Testing, SIT and UAT), Application Maintenance & Support and Quality process.
• Experienced in Estimation, POC Activity, System analysis, Gap analysis and preparing Design documents
• Proficient in Word, Excel, Access, Project and Windows operating systems
• Shown the potential and performed at the capacity of a SME & Leader
• Played various roles and responsibilities such as Team Lead, System Analyst, Technical SME, Domain Expert, Reviewer, Mentor, Designer, Developer, Tester and Trainer
• Mitigating the risks foreseeing the issues
• Excellent in handling multitasking
• Efficient in Test data management and masking
• Performing GAP analysis to effectively gather business requirements
• Efficient in translating Business Requirements into Functional and Non-Functional Requirements.
• Expertise in requirement gathering tool IBM Reqpro.
• Extensive experience with conducting and participating in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with SME.
• Strong understanding of the WGS claims processing & reimbursement methodologies
• Authored Business Requirements documents(BRD), Functional Specification documents(FSD), Software Requirement Specification documents(SRS), Use Case Specification(UC) documents, Test Plans, Test Cases, UAT manuals and experienced in carrying out UAT walkthroughs & functional testing
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, excellent planning and multi-tasking abilities, with proven experience in utilizing people and process knowledge to help enterprises make critical decisions
• Ability to create Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for tracing and managing changes in requirements
• Competent & experienced in issue identification, escalation & resolution (jointly working with business, development & QA teams) during requirements, design, implementation, QA & UAT phases
• Extensively involved in Project Scoping, Requirements Analysis, System Design, Testing & Transition phases
• Capable of managing work from conceptualization to completion with deadline sensitivity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM Mainframe

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL, REXX, Dylakor, SAS

Databases: IMS DB, DB2, VSAM, Teradata

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/VISTA/7/8/10

Development Tools: Changeman, SAR, Fault Analyzer, Debugging tool, Xpeditor, Abend - Aid

Other Utilities: IMSDC, Control-M, JOBTRAC, SPUFI, IOF, IBM File Manager, Table Base, SAR, EZYEDIT, File-Aid, CA-Dispatch, NDM, FTP, CA-Dispatch.

Rational Tools: ClearQuest, RequisitePro

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the one liner requirement, conduct JAD sessions, develop functional requirements
• Attend discussions with client, Business analyst, System Architect to discuss various integration issues and suggest and derive solutions.
• Performing requirements analysis, detailed application design, documentation and development
• Analyze requirements and do the impact analysis to make sure that the existing system functionalities are not affected.
• Keep track the progress of all the tasks based on the estimation provided and schedule with the help of various tools to balance the load
• Estimating time required for project completion, design documentation, design reviews and development, testing and deployment of application enhancements, as well as project planning
• Develop technical requirements using functional requirements
• Creating the Functional Design Documents and Technical Design Documents, Unit Test Plans for the requirements.
• Developing and testing the integrated system by working closely with the System Architect.
• Prepare the Design document
• Analysis and development of application programs
• Reviewing work products and deploying the application in the test environment and initiating the process of user acceptance testing. It includes fixing of bugs and technical errors that may come up during this phase
• Supporting the system components during system testing, integration testing and during promotion of these components to production environment
• Maintain the quality documents in the Project Folder
• Providing solutions for improving the clients business, processes and profitability.
• Possible ways to improve the business that favors/improves the systematic processing of claims

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as offshore lead in the project
• Involve in new project discussions and proposals.
• Participate in the high level analysis and the customer impacts.
• Managing Requirements, which involves the analysis of project requirements with a view to understanding the same and to identify the gray areas in the requirements.
• Preparation of Technical requirements.
• Analyzing programs to decide on changes needed and how to implement this with minimum impact to existing processing.
• Reviewing the design and providing suggestions to improve the same.
• Review build activities & Code, Unit Test Plan and Unit test Results prepared by the team.
• Involving in following all the phases of the software development life cycle throughout the project.
• Coordinating release and Integration testing which impacted other systems and other Projects.
• Working with the client in coordinating activities
• Train the team members in Credit Card Application processing.
• Mentor the new joiners in team.
• Ensuring that the team has the required technical expertise to execute the project.
• Clarifying the issues of the team members and helping them in the proper execution of the project.
• Identifying and developing the reusable modules and templates that will help in improving the productivity of the team.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements as and when it comes.
• Interacting effectively with Onsite POC for requirement clarifications.
• Preparing design documents for various requirements.
• Coding the programs as per the specifications, testing, implementation and PIS support.
• To establish and implement configuration management activities for the project
• Identify, organize and facilitate to control the configurable items throughout the lifecycle of the project