Business Analyst/ Project Coordinator

Skills

Employment History:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Property and Casualty Insurance Surplus Lines insurance Filing and Reporting SLFR system.
• Experienced in reengineering of Surplus Lines Filing and Reporting project which result of emerging of two main Chartis projects called Surplus Lines Filing System SLFS and Surplus Lines Reporting System SLRS .
• Knowledge of implementation of projects methodologies such as Water fall and Agile
• Dealt with Business, Underwriting, private Brokers and Chartis owned brokers, and Claims department.
• Assist project managers in GAP and Risk analysis.
• Created NRRA business requirements to be implementing in SLFR project and provided to Capri team a third party vendor .
• Provided business analysis system data to Capri team to create a Capri Calculator to calculate Surplus Lines taxes and fee for non admitted insurance policies.
• Worked on projects to enhance surplus lines application design, such as e-Surplus, Program Connects etc.
• Worked with Underwriting, senior management, legal officials and other stake holders to establish comprehensive business and functional requirements and then translate those requirements into a Software Requirements Specifications SRS document.
• Discuss with technical teams As Is scenario and discuss ways to develop a To Be scenario.
• Participated in the JAD sessions with the SME's, Business, Underwriting department and Surplus lines to obtain business requirements.
• Designed UI screens for the Chartis insurance web application based on feedback from User groups
• Assisted project manager in the development of project schedules and estimates.
• Worked with test team to design and document test cases
• Worked with developers and quality assurance team to review use cases and functional requirements.

Environment: Window 2007, MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, and MS-Projects

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Property and Casualty insurance, and dealt with Actuarial, Underwriting, Claims, Product Pricing department.
• Assist project managers in GAP and Risk analysis.
• Senior member of the team responsible for development and maintenance of the website for online quotes and sales.
• Experienced in Requirements gathering Techniques for Water fall and Agile Projects.
• Worked on projects to enhance application once it was in production including a project to reduce time to quote on the internet in half.
• Worked with Underwriting, Pricing and Product Management, senior management, legal and other stake holders to establish comprehensive business and functional requirements and then translate those requirements into a Software Requirements Specifications SRS document.
• Discuss with technical teams As Is scenario and discuss ways to develop a To Be scenario.
• Participated in the JAD sessions with the SME's, Underwriting and Product management departments to elicit and gather requirements.
• Reviewed, analyzed and interpreted data for performance Points of views.
• Designed UI screens for the geico.com customer facing web application based on feedback from User groups
• Worked with test team to design and document test cases
• Worked with developers and quality assurance team to review use cases and functional requirements.

Environment: Window 2007, MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, and MS-Projects

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead requirements gathering efforts by working with Subject Matter Experts SMEs to interpret and document requirements at an appropriate level of detail to ensure readiness for direct utilization by the implementation teams
• Experienced in Property and Casualty insurance industry, worked with Underwriting and product pricing department.
• Consulted with the SMEs in understanding processes to create process maps to document requirements and design of the Policy and Billing Administration systems
• Elaborated on the process maps
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams
• Analyzed business rules and functional specifications to develop detailed use cases and test cases
• Created conceptual data definitions and document how data is used in processes and business rule
• Developed communication materials for requirements reviews and working sessions
• Documented key insights and business implications of business requirements artifacts for requirements review
• Lead in the identification and development of quality management plans, test scenarios, and test scripts for user acceptance based on system requirements
• Assist project managers in implementing the Test Plan and Test Strategies across various releases
• Ensured that Functional Testing executed meets documented testing standards
• Assist project managers in Risk analysis

Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio, HP Quality Center, Windows XP, MS Office, MS Project

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall project planning, coordination and execution of projects, but not limited to updates, maintenance, modification, trouble shooting, research and training.
• Support compliance of all corporate policies and general procedures guidelines.
• Minimized operational risk by using risk management techniques.
• Assisted with ongoing development and implementations of Insurance policies and state's regulations.
• Conducted GAP analysis to identify customer channel usage trends and interaction focusing on likelihood to-buy product recommendations and reduce client attrition.
• Analyzed functional specifications and data from various sources, such as mainframe, oracle data base.
• Authored Functional Specifications communicated them to development and testing teams.
• Designed and developed project documents templates based on RUP methodology.
• Varied General Accounting, Treasury, Functional Analysis, Financial Reporting, Budgeting and forecasting.
• Assisted with budgeting process, preparation of financial summaries and various project implementations.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams

Environment: Window 2007, MS Visio, MS Word, Excel, and MS-Projects

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed GAP Analysis and Risk Analysis between the As-Is and the To-Be system.
• Reviewed the Project Vision document and specified the Scope, Stakeholders and the High Level Business Requirements.
• Communicated extensively with users to define key requirements which included Operational and managerial reporting needs, Workflow management, Quoting and marketing needs, Policy life cycle, Claims management, Disaster recovery procedures.
• Modeled use-case diagrams in Rational Rose to show end-user interaction with the personal information, loan information property information modules.
• Prepared sequence diagrams, class diagrams and activity diagrams to elaborate the behavior, structure and process flow for the use-case models.
• Identified and developed quality management plans, test scenarios, and test scripts for user acceptance based on system requirements.
• Performed sanity checks to ensure security and validation of online submissions. Included features to display contextual help in each section of the process.
• Conducted interviews with users to elicit requirements test strategy pertaining to Navigability, User-Interface Design, transaction processing and work flow.
• Developed test cases and for use-case models for the reports interface.

Environment: RUP, Rational Rose, MS-Visio, Mercury QC, Clear quest, SQL Server.