SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience in as business analyst, business requirements modeling and development of Web Based, and Client/Server applications in diverse business domains of Healthcare Insurance, Public
• Capable of functioning with equal efficiency as an individual contributor or a team leader/player
• Proficient in SharePoint 2013, MS Project Management 2010, M.S Visio 2010, PowerPoint 2010, MS Excel and Access and wireframes
• Efficient in gathering, eliciting, prioritizing and documenting business requirement and conducting JADD sessions and control group settings to achieve meeting objectives Bridged the gap between platform and data sets
• Excellent technical understanding and worked extensively on Agile - Scrum methodology

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OPERATING SYSTEM: Microsoft Windows 95/98/nt /2000, XP, Vista, Mac OSX 10.3

AUTOMATED TESTING TOOLS: HPQC

GUI TOOLS: GUI, Adobe Photoshop, MS Excel, MS Office, MS Project

LANGUAGES: C++, MLASP.NET 3.0 /3.5, HTML /DHTML

REQUIREMENT MANAGEMENT: Rational Requisite Pro

MODELING TOOLS: MS Visio, Rational Rose, wireframes

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS: MS Project, SharePoint 2010, Share Point 2013 as content management tool

DEFECT TRACKING TOOLS /CHANGE MANAGEMENT TOOLS: Rational clear quest

METHODOLOGIES (SDLC): Scrum, Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall Model

DATABASE: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, MS Excel spreadsheet

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Mclean, Virginia

SharePoint Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Obtained, reviewed, gathered and documented use case and requirements pertaining to our SP2013 Portal Page Configuration project efforts.
• Illustrated the alignment (or lack thereof) between strategic goals and key business decisions regarding portal layout, design and functionality of each stakeholder team as it pertains to SharePoint 2013
• Responsible for the use case / requirements life cycle for SharePoint 2013 project including but not limited to: creation of project plans, research and analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, training, and documentation.
• Conducted thorough analysis of business objectives and business operations, through the use of frameworks to create use case models and related documents, process flows that link these aspects of the enterprise together.
• Developed an integrated view of the business unit, in the context of the enterprise, using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques as a part of this team you will be integral to the SharePoint configuration process
• Assisted into the Business and IT process to deliver high quality SP2013 configuration roadmap requirements
• Applied methodology for capturing the key views of the business units
• Coordinate and facilitate Business and IT Use Case workshops.
• Effectively communicate the effects a system change on areas of the business
• Work with business users to determine scope and requirements for new projects or working with business users on issues/opportunities on existing applications/process
• Identifies / recommends alternative methods and technologies to meet business needs
• Develop test plans based on business requirements and technical specifications

Environment: Rational tools, Excel, Power Point, SP 2013, Wireframes, MS Office, Windows XP

Confidential, Texas

SharePoint Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements by driving workshops, JAD sessions, user-group meetings and working with global, cross-functional, stakeholders and virtual teams.
• Teamed up with both internal and external software development groups to provide functional requirement specifications in form of Use Cases, Business Process Flows, and Prototypes and Management Reporting requirements.
• Worked on creating Functional Specifications, wireframes, UI specifications and UI prototypes on the Medicaid system application
• Synthesized User Interface and Business Process Requirements and translated it into the Business Requirement Document (BRD)/FRD to be used as input to Functional Design Specifications.
• Demonstrated experience in the elicitation, formulation, articulation.
• Familiarity with requirements management tools, data capture and traceability matrix formulation

Environment: Rational Rose, UAT, UML, GUI, JADD sessions, Visio, SDLC- Agile(Scrum), MS Office, wireframes, Windows 2000/XP, Share Point 2013 Content management tool, HPQC

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Eliciting and defining system and user requirements through observation, interviews, JADD sessions and analysis for Human Resource department of Public safety
• Working directly with end-users to define requirements and provide technical advice and assistance in a large-scale environment
• Translating business requirements into functional requirements.
• Utilized MS Share point 2010 as a collaboration tool for management of requirements.
• Interviewing non-technical end users to determine and document current business process flows
• Used Visio to create business process flows including standard flowcharts and swim lane diagrams.
• Created test conditions, test cases, and test scenarios, wireframes, use cases and use case diagrams and business cases
• Experience analyzing end-user needs, root cause analysis and conducting fit gap analysis.
• Involved as a tech. BA from project initiation through completion on two software development projects
• Used PM software (e.g. MS Project) as Content management tool a to develop and maintained a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) on projects Experience using a business requirements tracking tool for recording and prioritization of business requirements.
• Documented experience in systems process and data mapping, requirements, gathering, and analysis as well as proficiency in the creation of detailed documentation, Business requirement Document using user stories Conducted UAT sessions for the end users.
• Managed off shore team and on shore team for clearing defining the requirements

Environment: M.S office Suite, UAT, UML, wireframes, SDLC, M.S Visio, Agile method - Scrum,.Net, QTP, Oracle, MS Windows XP, SharePoint 2010, M S Project, RTM, HPQC

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated JAD sessions with SMEs’, Product owner, and Development managers to understand the business process, gather Business Requirements and identify enhancements for the application.
• Involved in complete cycle of SDLC and followed AGILE methodology viz. Scrum throughout the project.
• Assisted in release plan and iteration plan for the project working with the stakeholders
• Maintain the prioritized Sprint backlog
• Worked on EDI transactions: 270, 271, 834, 835, and 837 (P.I.D) to identify key data set elements for designated record set. Interacted with Claims, Billing, Adjudication and Payments and Enrollment and also on ICD 9 and 10 procedure code sets and hence analyzing and documenting related business processes.
• Developed the strategy for developing and implementing new EDI (HL7 and X12) interfaces and converted historical and clinical data
• Researched/Analyzed the various steps involved in claims processing life cycle and then wrote the BRD in such way that developers could construct the system to identify riskier claims
• Documentation mainly done using user stories to facilitate understanding to the technical team in order to design the software
• Conducted requirement sessions, identifying business needs, getting sign-off on requirements and capturing requirements in Caliber RM and Rally.(SDLC-Agile Scrum)
• Facilitated pre-planning meetings, demos and daily stand ups and road map creation

Environment: Windows XP professional, Share Point 2010, JADD sessions, UAT, SIT UNIX/Oracle Platform, XML, Agile (Scrum) load runner and win runner, UML, MS Visio, Quality center, Clear quest, clear case

Confidential, CA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with stake holders to understand and document business requirements.
• Worked on gathering and analyzing Business and system functional requirements and for understanding and translating these needs into Business Requirement Specification (BRD) and
• System Requirement Specification (SRS) documents.
• Documented the requirements using SharePoint 2007 as a Content management tool
• Created and managed Use Cases and requirements and created use case stories to capture exact needs and requirements of end users.
• Created site maps followed by content hierarchy in order to get a graphical view of the final product
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions and weekly client and team meetings.
• Interacted with the Subject Matter Experts (SME) and stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.

Environment: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, SQL, Rational Requisite Pro, Test Manager, Win Runner, Rational Clear Quest, HTML, XML.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Business users and Product group to identify various data elements that were required for risk assessment and reporting.
• Worked closely with the SME’s and Risk Professionals to identify elements that contributes to default risk.
• Interacted with Business users to understand the business rules involved in assessing counterparty diversification and data rules applied to trigger alert for credit ratings or exposure.
• Presented system prototypes to the business stakeholders during JAD sessions.
• Presented business solution document walk-through to the Business, Product and Developer to help them understand the future state of the system.
• Provided project status to project owners in weekly meetings and kept track of project using MS Project for status reporting and project planning.
• Created current and future process models by using Microsoft Visio and identified existing gaps that required to be addressed.
• Documented requirement change requests and technical change request for stakeholders for any requirement or technical changes that came up after business solution document sign-off.

Environment: Agile, MS Visio, Rational Clear Quest, MS OfficePL/SQL (Oracle), SharePoint 2005

Confidential, Washington, DC

Jr. SharePoint Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between the developers and management staff.
• Conducted meetings/interviews and JAD sessions with stakeholders to collect business requirements
• Prepared business workflow models that cover "How" business processes are accomplished.
• Conducted meetings with Subject Matter Experts for Requirements Gathering.
• Identified the business requirements from the end users keeping in mind their need for the application and documenting it in MS Excel and MS Visio for the developers.
• Created and managed project templates, use case project templates, requirement types and traceability relationships in Rational Requisite Pro.
• Created Analysis Model and Data Model and used these artifacts to develop the Design Model: Class Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams.
• Attended change request meetings to document corresponding changes and implemented procedures for enforcing changes through defect tracking using Rational Clear Quest.

Environment: RUP, UML, M Visio, Rational Requisite pro, MS Office Suite, HPQC, MS SharePoint 2005