PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 11+ years of IT experience as Scrum Master, Business Analyst / Product Owner, Developer.
• SAFe® 4 Scrum Master certified - Applying the Scrum Master role within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) enterprise.
• Experience in Gathering Requirement from Business, Conduct Stockholders meeting (or) workshop to clarify/freeze the requirement, Conduct Architect meeting to check the feasibility and system stability,Identify System Requirement (Interface), perform Data Profiling, Prepare System Design, Draft Stories, Algorithms, Wireframes and other supporting artifacts, determine the Data Requirement, Validate the Test scenarios/cases, to an extend of UAT and Defect management.
• Experience in Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint tracking, huddle meeting (standup), Couching the team on Agile standards, Continues Integration, Continues Improvement, Problem Solving sessions, Story writing, Backlog refinement, Metrics Preparation, Retrospection meeting.
• Strong experience in data profiling and reporting with Oracle, DB2, SQL, and Pl/SQL based on the user requirements or to understand the statics of the system to meet the business requirement request.
• Sound knowledge on Insurance domain on end-to-end Policy and Claims lifecycle.
• Have good hands on experience in HP Quality Center, Rally, IBM RTC - Rational Tool Concert, IBM RRC - Rational Requirements Composer for Defect and functional requirement tracking, Use Case for translate complex scenarios.
• Good hands on experience in agile methodology and Waterfall methodology.
• Strong knowledge in translating Business Requirements to understand IT systems requirements.
• Expert in policy / claims conversion (Big-bang / Periodic), System decommission by cutting the entire inbound and outbound interface and archival of DB data to RTF files.
• Sound knowledge on policy activities like Accident management and analyze and assign activity point based on Lexis Nexus MVR or CLUE reports.
• Strong technical experience in JAVA/J2EE, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, TCL, COBOL, JCL, CICS, ADS/O, DB2, SQL, IDMS, ICETOOL/DFSORT, REXX, VSAM, IBM Utilities and VB Script.
• Sound knowledge on Functional, Product Development and Data Migration activities.
• 8+ years of experience with Confidential account in various location in different Java / Mainframe Developer, Business Analyst / Business System Analyst, Data Profiling.
• Strong presentation, analytical, technical and communication skills. I also have hands-on experience in leading all stages of system development efforts including Requirement Gathering, Analyzing the user requirement, preparation of unit test case document, code enhancement in component services and application services and performed unit testing for various scenarios, Defect triaging to relevant stake holders and UAT support.
• Excellent leadership qualities managing 15-member team and effectively making sure that the process is followed strictly with timely and effective deliverables.
• Has 8+ years of Insurance work experience which includes 4+ years in onsite.
• Has 6+ years of Agile methodology experience and 2.5+ years of SAFe Scaled Agile experience.

SKILL:

Languages: JAVA/J2EE, Sprint, Struts, Hibernate, TCL, COBOL, JCL, CICS, MQ, REXX, ADS/O, ICETOOL/DFSORT, VB Script

Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL, PL/SQL, MS Access, IDMS, VSAM, SQL

Tools: SVN, Eclipse, HP Quality Centre, IBM-RTC, IBM-RRC, Rally, Fileaid, Expeditor, Intertest, Adsalive, OLQ, DMLO, CA-7, OPC, Endevor

Operating System: MVS, OS/390, Z/OS, MVS, UNIX, Windows

Product: Java EXIGEN, HAL, CUI.

Mainframe: HUON, OCS, COGEN.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Sprint Planning meeting, Huddle meeting (stand-up), Sprint Review meeting, Retrospection meeting.
• Requirement gathering is done and based on the business needs, system is analyzed and identify the approach on the new system design.
• Writing functional / technical stories for JAVA application Event Bus, by gathering the requirements from business via JAD sessions, workshops.
• Make the team stay on track on the deliverables and clear the technical challenges by team discussion, brain storming sessions to identifying the best solutions.
• Couch the team on the agile process on individual bases or the whole team on, roles and relationship and make the team to follow the agile process strictly.
• Identifying the correct capacity of the team and comment the sprint scope, based on the available capacity, which will help the team to not over commit.
• Facilitate small to large cross-functional meeting and conduct information gathering sessions (grooming session).
• Facilitate discussions with System architects, IT developers to understand requirement feasibility to customize and implement configurable components.

Environment: Java/J2EE, PCF - Pivotal Cloud Foundation, Quality Centre, Rally, Clarity, Service Now

Confidential

Business Analyst / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business requirements on Core Property/Auto Insurance JAVA product, Underwriting Eligibility rules, Inspection process, Rating Algorithm, Workflow management, User roles and privileges for property/Auto Policy Administration System (PAS).
• Conduct Sprint Planning meeting, standup meeting, problem Solving sessions, retrospection meeting.
• SME for Exigen PAS Property Insurance JAVA product. Have extensive knowledge on Policy Admin System, Documents System.
• Providing Business solutions by working with Business/Product team and identify the functional requirements and its corresponding implementation scope in the vendor provided PAS System.
• Facilitate small to large cross-functional meeting and conduct information gathering sessions. Defining testing scope and strategy.
• Facilitate discussions with System architects, IT developers to understand requirement feasibility to customize and implement configurable components required for Property/Auto Product.
• Worked extensively for JAVA based project in requirement gathering, User Story writing, mentoring the team, reviewing test packages, supporting Dev team for requirement clarifications, Defect prioritization, SME clarifications etc.
• Handling requirements for Policy conversion from Legacy System to current PAS system by doing Gap analyses and coming up with appropriate conversion requirements to support converted policies in new system.
• Reviewing test plans, scenarios and cases and providing Business priority for the defects identified. Conducting user sessions to evaluate their needs and pain points, using their feedback to in corporate better functionality in the PAS system.

Environment: JAVA/J2EE, Sprint, Hibernate, MQ, Quality Centre, RTC, RRC, DB2, SQL, Service Now

Confidential

Business Analyst / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the existing document generation process and gathered the requirement from business on the new process and designed the new document generation engine in Exstream, created the functional requirement and supporting artifacts and implemented a customized feed for the entire Auto, Home forms.
• Managing the entire business analysis team for Policy application and providing the delivery responsible support.
• Provided support to revamp the entire document generation process.
• Acting as point of contact for the quality & audit related activities for Confidential business application.

Environment: Exstream, XML, Oracle, Quality Centre, DB2.

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in proposing solution for implementing of PCI - tokenization for handling the critical data like Credit Card, Bank Account Details and so on in HUON and the time line schedule on all the impacted application.
• Involved in requirement gathering and designing new enhancements for the mainframe projects - Payment Central, Membership Club Separation (Identifying Membership related tables).
• Involved in providing business clarification for the Incidents and SR tickets which is assigned to HUON team.
• Involved in conversion of migrating all the active policies from HUON PAS to Exigen PAS systematically.
• Involved in requirement gathering on decommission of HUON system and all the other supporting system and archiving the policy data for future audit purpose.

Environment: JAVA/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, MQ, Oracle, Quality Centre, DB2, SQL, COBOL, JCL, REXX, Mainframe Utilities, VB Script.

Confidential

Lead Developer, Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirement, preparation of function requirement document, developing new enhancements for the projects - HO-6, Lawsuit, HO-6 Renewal, MP2.0, and CEA Choice and fixing production issues.
• Involved in Screen design and changes using HTML, JAVA Script and CICS. He has prepared architecture diagrams for all claims application.
• Conducted stockholders meeting to identify the pain areas in the system and Developed VB Scripts and REXX (Mainframe) tool for various automation activities. Also, developed tools to improve the process and quality of the project.

Environment: Java/J2EE, HTML, TCL, JAVA Script, VB Script, MQ, Quality Centre, DB2, SQL, CICS, COBOL, JCL, REXX, Mainframe Utilities.

Confidential

Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the user requirement, preparation of unit test case document, code enhancements in component services and application services and performed unit testing for various scenarios for EMCS/PMCS system and in adopting the quality procedures.
• Co-ordinates the work with onsite counterpart, assigned and managed tasks to team members, prepared estimation for the change requests, follow up and resolve the issues, reviewed the deliverables, training the resources, Quality assurance activities.
• Acted as VI Champ (Value Innovation Champion) role, to conducting Idea generation, logging the generated idea in idea portal, implementing the ideas and conducting campaign.

Environment: Java/J2EE, MQ, DB2, CICS, COBOL, JCL, REXX, IDMS, ADS/O Mainframe Utilities.

Confidential

Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a developer of the Enhancement tasks, which involve understanding the new requirements from clients and suggest design changes for new module.
• Actively involved in preparing test cases and testing the new module/changes.
• Developed few modules for Supply Chain - scheduling enhancement project.
• Involved in analysis of the problem request and tickets raised by scheduling users and interacting with them directly.
• Actively taking part in tracking project hours and adopting the quality procedures in ePMS.
• Involved in Configuration management activity such as maintaining the project related document in VSS for the entire project members.

Environment: Java/J2EE, MQ, COBOL, JCL, REXX, IDMS, ADS/O Mainframe Utilities.