SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished IT professional with more than 10 years of multifaceted experience in Project Management, Business Analysis, Test Management, System Analysis, Production Support, Application Testing and Development (in Java and .NET technologies).
• Rich techno - functional experience, in the areas of System Integration, Application Modernization, Application Development and Maintenance.
• Proficient in requirement elicitation, analysis, project planning, scheduling and execution.
• A successful team player with diversified work experience such as a Business Analyst, Test Manager, System Analyst, Subject Matter Expert and a Lead Developer.
• Professional Scrum Master ( PSM I ) from Scrum.org.
• Certified Fellow in Academy for Healthcare Management ( FAHM ) from America's Health Insurance Plans
• Sun Certified Java Professional ( SCJP 1.4)
• Experienced in handling large scale enterprise projects, coordinating with multi- geographical onshore and offshore teams on testing and development activities.
• Hands-on experience in development, build management, change management and implementation support on Java and .NET based projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Java, C#. Net and VB.Net

Databases: Oracle and MS SQL server.

Configuration Management: Rational Clear Case.

Change Management: Rational Team Concert (RTC) and Clear Quest.

Requirement Management: JIRA, Rational Next Door Generation (RDNG), Requisite Pro and Confluence

Modeling & Designing Tools: MS Visio and IBM Rational Rose.

Other tools: MS Office Suite, MS Project and Plan View.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,

Product Requirement Management

Responsibilities:

• Work with the various business managers and execution leads to define, analyze and document detailed business requirements for the GBD Facets' Cash Operation and Finance area.
• Elaborate business requirements to developers and system analysts, to identify, define and document technical requirements.
• Create and refine of technical and functional user stories in JIRA.
• Maintain the product back log, refining and prioritizing between the different user stories after proper estimation.
• Walkthrough the changes with testing team and provide specification for testing.
• Work with SIT and UAT testers, validate test cases, monitor execution and collect metrics.
• Review the defects from testing and expedite defect resolution.
• Monitor progress, identify risks and provide updates to the project execution managers.

Confidential, Mason, Ohio

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work with various lines of business to elicit, document, analyze and clarify requirements, for the changes and enhancements performed on the non-discretionary benefit documents.
• Assist with building business case, project justification and identifying risks associated with each requirement.
• Assist team members on assignments including mentoring and on-the-job training. Mentor team members in business analysis principles, patterns, processes, practices and tools.
• Facilitate JAD sessions between the IT teams, review the requirements, data needs and risk planning and management.
• Prepare mapping documents to integrate the web services based data flow between the enterprise benefit repository and the document generator.
• Lead the sync-up between the different teams in the benefit documents automation, and monitor the progress to report to the business and IT leadership.
• Participate in planning and scheduling for the fulfillment documents, working closely with the IT and business PMs and maintain the inventory tracker.

Confidential, Mason, Ohio

Test Execution Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage the User Acceptance Testing of EOC documents for a large enterprise program, leading the UAT support team and coordinating with 3 different IT teams and the business testers team of 20 contract administrators.
• Identify test data readiness and prepare testing schedule for all 14 states under testing.
• Identify critical defects, prioritize and expedite defect closure by developers.
• Introduced a group based test case selection over the random sampling method in SIT and UAT, resulting in increased test coverage and improved accuracy in the benefit documents.
• Achieved standardization of defect reporting across all levels of testing (Unit, SIT, UAT, Regression and Audit) of the EOC documents, a highly-acclaimed process improvement, for its high efficiency on defect monitoring and closure.
• Automated the reporting of the defect resolution progress, increasing the speed of fulfilment of the benefit documents to members.

Confidential, Mason, Ohio

Subject Matter Expert (SME) / Service Delivery Lead

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a Single Point of Contact for all the end to end deliverables of ALPS Suite (consisting of Java and .NET based applications)
• Lead a team of 3 onshore consultants and 10 offshore consultants.
• Analyze business requirement, perform feasible study and provide the technical requirement details to the offshore development team.
• Promote changes to test, run test status meeting, expedite defect closure and collect sign-offs.
• Plan and coordinate the release activities of system changes and upgrades.
• Maintain the contract between Cognizant and Client, by submitting contract renewal, Statement of Work (SOW) and invoice documents.

Confidential, Mason, Ohio

Onshore Lead Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and Unit test the Java module for the system changes and enhancements requested by the business team.
• Peer review the code developed by other developers and confirm quality and coding standard adherence.
• Review and optimize SQL queries for better performance (MS SQL Server).
• Control the schema updates (XSD) and coordinate promoting the changes with downstream.
• Coordinate UAT, provide Root Cause Analysis and expedite defect resolution.

Confidential

Java Developer and Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Development, Unit testing and Implementation of the system changes and enhancements of multiple assignments based in Java technologies.
• Develop Java module based in Spring framework to meet the business and technical requirements.
• Experienced as a system tester for six months and worked on test planning, test case preparation, test execution, reporting and metrics collection.