SUMMARY:

• More TEMPthan 12 years of experience in health care industry and out of which more TEMPthan 5 years in Blue Cross Blue Shield and Blue Care Network of MI.
• Solid experience in Portico Provider Information management System and it’s customization according to teh BCBM and BCN Business Process.
• Knowledge of Facets Provider, CPF and other Applications.
• IBM Certified Business Process Analyst. Over 12 Years of Experience as a Test Specialist, System Analyst, Business Analyst, Software Engineer, Programmer Analyst.
• IBM Certified Specialist for Test Management. IBM Certified specialist for Rational Unified Process.
• IBM Certified specialist for Rational Requirements Management w/Use Cases.
• Expertise in teh art of uncovering teh Requirements. Functional experience and understanding of teh core fundamental and discreet activities in teh business organizations and ensuring optimization of economy, quality and preciseness, through TEMPeffective cost control, commercial focus, so as to ensure an utmost client and customer satisfaction. And handling teh Post - Go Live operations.
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Strategy and Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Analyzed Business requirements, Functional Requirements and developed Test Cases for both positive and negative tests.
• Performed Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, and GUI testing.
• Conducted vigorous regression testing. Wrote test cases for each valid transaction and reported bugs.
• Performed and facilitated Cross-Browser testing on application using Browsers IE and Firefox.
• Tracked and reported teh bugs using Rational Clear Quest and coordinated with teh developers.
• Proactively interacted with Team Lead and Business Analysts to see if there is any requirement change to update & prepare test case.
• Worked with vendors, customers and SME’s to identify and define business rules, requirement change related to specific project functions.
• Interaction with Project Manager, Testing & Development Team Lead to report defect metrics, status, severities and developer assignments.
• Tracked and communicated critical project issues executive management. Worked efficiently with offshore data development team.
• Performed validation tests to ensure dat teh developed functionality meets teh specifications prior to UAT testing.
• Attended weekly status meeting and assisted QA Team Lead/Project Manager in preparing status report.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Consultant / Test Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Training teh new resources and halp testers and developers understand business rules and requirements
• Understanding teh Software Architecture of overall project.
• Understanding almost all teh segments of Health care payer’s business process
• Developing high quality Test Scripts by uncovering teh complex requirements.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrices and verification with scope and requirement.
• Test Data Preparation for teh multiple complex scenarios.
• System Integration Testing for verification and validations of teh requirement.
• Regression testing after each and every build.
• End to End testing like real business scenarios.
• Defect Tracking & reporting and resolution in Rational Clear Quest.
• Coordination of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and tracking business concerns.
• Facilitated discussions of applications and business issues.

Confidential, MI

Consultant / Test Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Developing high quality Test Scripts by uncovering teh complex requirements.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrices and verification with scope and requirement.
• Test Management with Mercury Quality Center.
• SIT testing for verification and validations of teh requirement.
• Regression on each build delivered.
• Defect Tracking & reporting and resolution in Rational Clear Quest and spread sheet.
• Touched almost all teh segments of Health care payer’s business process.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and track concerns.
• Getting Business approval from teh users.
• Facilitated discussions of applications and business issues.

Confidential, New Hudson, MI

Test Specialist / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed all involved stakeholders towards requirements efficiency.
• Involved in business process re-engineering and workflow architecture.
• Conducted research to understand various vertical market segments & business models.
• Developed key relationships with business unit partners in support of assigned program.
• Dashboard configuration.
• Adhered to all process throughout teh SDLC of teh respective projects.
• Worked through Complete Testing Cycle for different projects.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and track concerns.
• Facilitated discussions of applications and business issues.
• Interacted with leads and manger regular basis for different project needs and issue resolution.Confidential

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirement after having meeting and interviews with SME’s (Subject Matter Experts). Prioritized Requirements to teh specific needs of teh project. Organized JAD sessions. Planned and defined system requirements to Use Case Scenarios, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using RUP methodologies.
• Developed Requirement specifications and process diagrams including activity diagrams in Rational Rose, MS-Word, MS-Visio and Rational Requisite Pro. Developed Requirements Traceability Matrices and verification with scope and requirement. Test Management with Mercury Quality Center.
• SIT testing for verification and validations of teh requirement. Defect Tracking & reporting and resolution in Mercury Quality Center. Touched almost all teh segments of Health care payer’s business process.

Business Analys

Confidential, Wixom MI

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirement after having meeting and interviews with SME’s (Subject Matter Experts). Tailored teh RUP to teh specific needs of teh project. Organized JAD sessions. Planned and defined system requirements to Use Case Narratives Use Case Scenarios Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using RUP methodologies and Rational Rose Enterprise Suite. Developed Requirement specifications and process diagrams including activity diagrams in Rational Rose, MS-Word, MS-Visio and Rational RequisitePro.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrices and verification with scope and requirement using Rational RequisitePro. UAT testing for verification and validations of teh requirement. Defect reporting and resolution. Implementations of CMMI Process areas to follow CMMI 3 level.

Environment: MS Visio, Windows XP/2000, J2EE, HTML, SQL/PLSQL, XML, MS Office Suite, Rational Rose Enterprise Suite (Rational Clear Case, Rational RequisitePro, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Rose)MS Project. I.T. Business Executive

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designing out various reports to halp out understanding of product and process of teh industry. Understanding local bodies’ requirement and specification about industry norms and rules. Planned and defined system requirements, Business requirement documents, Legal documents, process reporting and specification documents in MS - Office and Visio.
• UAT testing for verification and validations of teh requirement. Understanding of India’s Cane and Sugar industry. Evaluating teh Political & bureaucratic pressure, obligations & working atmosphere, temperament of teh people to work with, workers union leaders, noing their strengths and weaknesses, general habits and to use teh calculus of all these together in order to exploit every thing even teh bad to attain teh best possible results and out come.

Environment: MS Visio, Windows, SQL/PLSQL, MS Office Suite. EDUCATION: Bachelor of Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology