SUMMARY

• Seven plus years of EDI experience involving Support/Analysis/Design and Testing of applications in different domains.
• Acquired Certification in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).
• Extensive Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Proficient in ANSI X12, Edifact and EDI standards.
• Experience in converting EDI transactions like 810, 850, 832, 856, 270, 271, 276, 277, 278, 834, 820, 837 and 835.
• Database experience using Oracle 9i, MS SQL Server, DB2, etc.
• Good understanding and development EDI programming specification using Implementation guide or Trading partner Agreement.
• Proficient in developing E.R Diagrams, Use Case Diagram, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Class Diagrams.
• Analyze and develop large quantities of data in SQL to manipulate modify and debug various tables for reporting services.
• Good experience dealing with high pressure situations and have a strong sense of urgency.
• Extensive knowledge of business process remodeling.
• Able to write test cases depending on the requirement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C, JAVA, Oracle, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL

Translators: Websphere TX (WTX)

Standards: ANSI X12, EDIFACT, HIPAA.

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i, SQL Server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Alpharetta, GA

EDI Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Help the projects (Healthcare and Non-Healthcare) go-live by first testing the change controls in UAT environment and then by deploying into Production using change Control Manager.
• Migrate Mercator components from DEV to QA to Prod and constantly monitoring the Production environment if the change has triggered any expected/unexpected failures.
• Configure Trading Partner information in Mercator Commerce Manager according to the Trading partner requirement and specifications.
• Validate the defects based on the mapping logic and making sure the fields are accurately mapped in the system.
• Analysis of translation errors that failed in the inbound and re-processed the EDI’s without losing the information.
• Implement data exchange standards (EDIFACT and X12) with new trading partners and perform maintenance/enhancement work with existing trading partners.
• Maintain the production flow which means monitoring the inbound and outbound transactions and re-process any translation errors in the EDI files without losing the information.
• Deploy WTX map components on Unix System in UAT and Prod environment.
• Coordinate with Vendors to set up EDI trading partner relationships using Partner Manager.
• Perform ongoing maintenance and Troubleshooting. Briefly document all the maps, including all the description, Error Handling, test cases and test procedures.
• Primary support for customer inquiries of EDI orders and monitor error queues during EDI processing.
• Design test strategies and test plans for HIPAA 5010 276/277 Healthcare transactions as per the client’s requirement specification.
• HIPAA 4010A1 to 5010 conversion, impact and business rule validation for all 12 standard HIPAA 5010 transactions: 270/271, 276/277, 278/278, 820, 834, 835, 837 (IPD).
• Performing hourly smoke testing and ensure that the system is up and running 24/7 on rotational based schedule within the team.
• Active participation in disaster recovery processes.

Environment: UNIX, IBM WTX (Web sphere Transformation Extender 8.0/8.1/8.2/8.3 ), Mercator 6.5/6.7,EDISIM, Gentran, Oracle 9i, UltraEdit, EDISIM, Putty, Commerce Manager, MS SQL Server.

Confidential - NY

EDI Developer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in WTX design to deliver extracted database data to business partner.
• Developed maps using Websphere TX v 8.1, 8.2.
• Designed queries for specific customer information.
• Supported WTX infrastructure for term project.
• Provided after hours support for client maps in Unix environment
• Actively participated in all phases of testing lifecycle (Design, Planning, Development and Results).
• Design Test Plan and test strategies based on high level business and technical documents.
• Implemented Standardized and Unified process throughout the software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved with other team members to set up testing tools, implementation and testing environments.
• Modified previously existing test cases that were driven by the manual testing.
• Write Unit, Integration and System Test cases using Quality Center from Functional, Technical and other high level documents.
• Designing and developing business processes using Sterling Commerce Business process modelling tools.
• Manually Conducted Positive and Negative testing.
• Extensively involved in writing Test scripts using Quality Center to perform Manual and Automation testing on the AUT under the different Programming Environment.
• Set claim processing data for different Facets Module & Validate EDI Claim Process.
• Developing EDI/XML/Flatfile/CSV mapping using Sterling Map Editor.
• Installed product for both development and production use.

Environment: Websphere TX (WTX) 8X, EDI, Message Broker, XML, UNIX, AIX, Oracle, MQ Series, EDSIM, IBM B2B Sterling Integrator (4.3/5.0/5.1/5.2 ), Sterling Secure Proxy, Sterling File Gateway.

Confidential - NY

EDI Analyst/Support

Responsibilities:

• Developed EDI specifications for the client’s supplier base using Edifecs SpecBuilder 7.0 for 850, 860 and 810.
• Designed and developed testing procedures for HIPAA Health care 276/277 transactions, and ensured that they are properly analyzed.
• Analyzed and reviewed test data files and test scripts for the HIPAA 5010 276/277 PEND, RFAI and 837 transactions.
• Worked with creating companion guides for 837 HIPAA 5010 transaction.
• Performing hourly Smoke testing and ensured that the system is up 24/7 on rotational basis.
• Tested HIPAA EDI Transaction validation using Quality Center tool. Entering defects during bugs found during UAT testing and assigning it to the appropriate developer.
• Used various TPs to bypass HIPAA edits during the submission of claims.
• Used Quality Center to enter defects and to test the HIPAA validation for the EDI transactions.
• Used various TPs to bypass HIPAA edits during the submission of claims.
• Tested all Types of SNIP Testing for HIPAA including integrity testing, requirement testing, balancing testing, situational testing, code set testing, product or services testing, and guide-specific testing.
• Proficiency in use of HP quality center for performing integrated quality testing.

Environment: EDIFECS XENGINE 7.0, EDIFECS Transaction Management 7.0.7, HTML, Oracle 11i, IBM rational tools, Quality center 10.0, Microsoft Office 2007, Unix

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

EDI Developer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in maintaining the Decision Support System Oracle database in which the Mississippi Medicare (PartA, Part B) Medicaid data exist.
• Created Use cases to test new Medicare products and rules for groups and individuals (includes Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement and Part D).
• Responsible for providing guidance to the team members in preparing the Detail Design documents, under HIPAA compliance guidelines
• Inbound/outbound tracking maps using database adapter (MDQ Files)
• Involved in the designing tracking XSDs.
• Starting and Stopping launcher on UNIX.
• Written Unix Shell Scripts and scripts for the Auto Deployment process of applications.
• Responsible for all the deliverables of the assignments taken up.
• Responsible in conducting status meeting of the tasks assigned to the team members and report to the upper management.
• Involved in preparation and review of Test Plan, Test Grids and Test Data.
• Involved in preparing the conceptual Design document for NPI project for Facility Claims and COB.

Environment: Unix AIX, J2EE (EJB, JMS), XML and XSD, Hibernate, WebSphere App server, Oracle, etc

Confidential - Boston, MA

EDI Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of trading partner requirements, creation of design documents and mapping specifications based on HIPAA guidelines.
• Configuration of trading partner information in Mercator Commerce Manager according to the trading partner agreements and specifications.
• Experience with IDoc Importer to create Type Trees automatically from SAP R/3 Definitions.
• Created Type trees for the IDoc of SAP system using IDoc Importer and Type Tree Maker.
• Maintain the production flow, which includes monitoring the Inbound and Outbound transactions and loading to Database.
• Upgrading of Mercator Types trees and Maps from Mercator 6.7 till Web Sphere TX 8.1.
• Used WebSphere MQSeries as a message broker to interface with SAP system.
• Implementation of Business Rules in the maps to check for input errors to generate the output in EDI format.
• Coordination with trading partners to resolve Inbound and Outbound errors.
• Creation of test plans, XML Files, Flat files to test various functionalities built into Mercator maps.

Environment: WebSphere TX 8.1 Windows NT, MVS, JCL, CICS, DB2, XML, SAP-IDOC, SAP, Websphere MQSeries.

Confidential - CO

WTX /EAI Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Business requirement gathering and analysis of DataStage TX Maps and EDI gap analysis - and further based on the analysis, prepared mapping specifications to enable development.
• Deployment WTX maps components on UNIX and NT Systems.
• Developing Maps to convert the EDI/XML/EDIFACT into proprietary format and vice versa.
• Documenting the maps which include all the description, test procedures and Error Handling Procedures.
• End to end testing and issue resolution in the test and QA Environment.
• Deployment into the production server and provide production support for the interfaces.
• Performance tuning the interfaces.
• Worked on several EDI transactions such as 204, 210, 214, 846, 856, 888, 940, 945, 990 and 997.

Environment: Websphere TX (WTX), Oracle 9i, TOAD 9.0.1.8, AIX, UNIX, HP-UX, XML.

Confidential - Birmingham, AL

Consultant/Production Support Specialist/EDI Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the design and development of multiple Material's handling map convert the IDOC data into legacy or EDI format and the reverse direction.
• Ensure that all production system uptimes are updated daily and monthly and the production system uptimes are meeting the Desired Service levels.
• Support HP client base on EDI communication Protocol Using VAN (GXS), AS1 And AS2
• Monitor EDI Mailbox and check, manage and Fix error messages
• Developed Map using put commend to split the input data accordingly to the plant and transferring the data using MQ series to the plant servers.
• Involved in creating type trees for the internal format of NCC.
• Developed Broker maps to convert the R/3 map to BW format before loading it into BW.
• Designed and developed multiple EDI 810,850,855,856 and 997 maps.

Environment: UNIX/AIX, EDI, ANSI X12 (4010), Edifact, Rosettanet, XML, Mainframes, SmartFTP, Cyclone Interchange, Gentran, Analyzer and MS-Office.