SUMMARY:

• A Seasoned Business Analyst consultant with over 10 years of experience in top - notch IT organizations globally in healthcare, finance and insurance domains
• Proficient in Business analysis, SDLC processes, Agile Methodology, CMMI, PPM, Release Management, Risk Management, Team Management, Testing and Client Interaction along with development and testing experience including UAT
• Extensive experience in requirements analysis, team management, quality assurance, release management and project coordination in various roles like Business Analyst, Test Lead and Programmer Analyst
• Proficient in Client Interaction, Requirements gathering & analysis, Team Management and Testing/Quality Assurance
• Well-versed with PMO implementation, incident management in healthcare and safety, Risk management

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conduct business requirement sessions with business users to collect requirement and create requirement specifications for Web solutions of the client involving data transfer through XML files
• Elicit requirements pertaining to auto finance and mortgage from business stakeholders and create clear and concise functional requirements for the same
• Participate in the development and grooming of Product Backlog Stories with business and technology partners.
• Analyze high level business and system requirement to come up with detailed Specification document, Test Plan and setup testing estimates
• Participate in daily Stand-up meetings, Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review meetings and Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Analyze user stories to create Test Objective and Test Scenarios
• Create releases and requirements in HP Quality Center; manage users & grant privileges and perform any modifications in fields in the HP ALM tool
• Manage RTM in the HP ALM tool
• Create and manage dashboards in HP QC for the weekly and monthly management reviews
• Use QTP for creating and executing automation test scripts for requirements related to web forms
• Assist in entering and updating Issues (Epics, Stories, and Tasks) onto JIRA Agile application
• Maintain internal and external feedback/query logs
• Conduct Specification document, Test Objective and Scenario walkthroughs meeting with Peers, business and development team in order to ensure that the analysis documents and test scripts meet its objective of quality
• Manage a team of 4 configuration analyst/ testers for their day to day activities and assignments
• Develop and review test cases written by test team and ensuring that team follows review process
• Create Data-Driven tests to check application performance with different sets of data
• Perform Smoke, Functionality, Integration, System, Regression Testing based on Analysis and understanding of the requirements
• Perform regression & integration testing. Perform Backend Testing by using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database
• Conduct Defect Triage meeting during test execution to priorities the defects as per their business requirements and impacts
• Manage release cycles of solutions as per requirements for iterative development

SKILL:HP Quality Centre/HP ALM, Quick Test Pro, Rapid SQL, Sybase, DB2, Mainframe, Notepad++, Microsoft Word, Excel, MS Visio, PowerPoint and Microsoft Project, Data Modeling & Mapping, JIRA, XML (file transfer)

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements for business definition and facilitate JAD/JAR sessions with stakeholders to refine functional requirement for thick and thin client (web solutions) using XML, HL7 and EDI messages for the data transfer of Confidential t information
• Document, coach, and elicit business requirements, compliant to CMMI, from subject matter experts by writing user stories resulting in a clearer, more detailed and more complete understanding of project deliverables
• Create Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and manage User stories
• Participate in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum Stand Up, and Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Analyze and map business requirements to test approach
• Test the user stories for accuracy and compliance to ensure undisputed acceptance and validation of stories
• Implement use of HP ALM Quality Center for testing needs; reporting and customization as per project needs
• Train IT and non-IT business users in HP ALM Quality Center
• Development and implementation of IT enterprise testing strategies, best practices, and methodologies, compliant to CMMI practices
• Requirements management for integration of solutions for Confidential t admission & care, incident management, ERP, cerner etc.
• Integration of priority modules of SRM (Safety and Risk Management) system was a very important part of this process wherein the physicians could report incidents (concerned with safety and health of Confidential ts) in the hospital.
• Supervise testing of required enterprise integration engine and interfaces as per client’s SLA requirements
• Vendor deliverable management associated with requirements and testing of all vendor solutions including integration
• Release Management for solutions to different environments and into Production
• Communication management providing close liaison with key stakeholders at Sidra with to access appropriate subject matter experts and to validate that the deliverables meet their requirements

SKILL: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, SharePoint, MS Visio, E Draw, JIRA, Tableau, Cerner, ERP, CRM, XML (file transfer), HIPAA, EDI and HL7 messages

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Communicate with onsite coordinators for analysis of Functional Requirements
• Lead and supervise a team of Test Engineers, involved in System, Regression and Integration testing of interface software(s) used in the Bank of Ireland
• Take ownership of Project Deliverables like Functional Requirements, Test Approach Document, Systems Test Cases and Test Results Document
• Evaluate test results to determine compliance with established business processes and business requirements
• Project management for the offshore team involved in requirements analysis and testing, for everyday resolution of their issues and queries
• Create and provide reports and interactive dashboards to the executive management for weekly and monthly tracking of project and performance matrix
• Provide inputs to other documents like Detailed Technical Design
• Provide technical and functional expertise to the team in Mainframe programs

SKILL: MS Office - MS Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint, IBM Rational Rose, JIRA, Data Modeling & Data Mapping, Mainframes

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Communicate with clients to determine business requirements for their web applications
• Responsible for producing Project Deliverables like Requirements Definition Document, Functional Design Document
• Provide inputs to other documents like Test Design etc
• Work as a coordinator between the clients and technical team
• Managing a team of Business Analysts
• Provide Mainframes to the team members

SKILL: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, SharePoint, MS Visio, JIRA, Mainframes (Cobol, JCL, DB2, IMS)

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Client interaction and requirements analysis (web application for insurance)
• Design, develop and supervise development of Mainframe programs
• Plan the testing approach & test model, supervise integration & user acceptance testing
• Supervise a team of testers for testing in Mainframes
• Responsible for project documentation related to requirements, design and testing
• Project coordination

SKILL: MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, MS Visio, Mainframes (Cobol, CICS, JCL, Db2, IMS)

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Business Requirements analysis
• Coding, testing and maintenance (Mainframes system)
• Coordinate with the team at onsite

SKILL: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, SharePoint, MS Visio, E Draw, COBOL, CICS, IDMS, IMS, DB2

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• System Analysis of ABINT which included detailed study of the number of programs in the application; writing an SA document for the same, explaining the total flow and the methods of flow of the information/data in the system
• Client interaction and requirements analysis
• Coordinate and support the team at offshore i.e. in design, development and testing of mainframe programs
• Review testing approach, model test cases and supervise testing at onsite
• Project documentation document, Design documents, Test documents
• Get sign offs from the client for requirements, project plan, design & final conversion

SKILL: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, SharePoint, MS Visio, COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, IMS, MQ Series (messaging)

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project planning and design
• Project coordination
• Client interaction and requirements analysis
• Plan and review testing approach & test model and supervise all phases of testing
• Responsible for project documentation like Requirements Analysis Document, Functional and Technical Design documents, Test Plan, Test Cases etc.

SKILL: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, SharePoint, MS Visio, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, IMS