PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of diversified IT experience as a Business Analyst in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process including System Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation and Documentation.
• Experience in various domains such as financial services, Health, insurance and IT.
• Experience with management and development of key life - cycle policies, procedures, and processes.
• Extensive knowledge of Object Oriented Analysis and Design using Unified Modeling Language (UML), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Waterfall cycle, Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case and MS Visio.
• Experience in interacting with business users and executives to identify information needs, gather requirements, and authoring Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using UML modeling.
• Performed Unit/System/UAT tests/test cases with QA Team to overcome issues.
• Skilled in translating business objectives into prioritized functional requirements and recommending feasible solutions to business problems.
• Identified risks and controlled project schedule variances with Gantt charts and project management software tools
• Goal-oriented team player with strong Organizational and Project Management skills often appreciated and rewarded by supervisors, customers and stakeholders for significant contributions to their projects.
• Extensive experience in business analysis, gap analysis, cost/benefit analysis, risk analysis, testing, development of functional specifications and project planning.
• Experience in defining test criteria, project schedules and base- lining test plans with the help of project meetings and walkthroughs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, UML, Mercury Test Director, QTP and Clear Case, C, C++, Shell, Perl, JAVA, J2EE, MS Access, SUN Solaris 10.0, and Lotus Notes, Vista, and HP: HPUX, Mainframes, MS Office 2007 (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook), MS Visio, MS Project and MS FrontPage, HTML, XML, HP QC, JIRA, Bugzilla, SharePoint, Vignette

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business Requirements from the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and documented the requirements in the BRD
• Expert in ICD 9 - 10 Conversion Analysis.
• Web Portal Development - worked as a Business Analyst gathering requirements to develop a referral portal
• Documented Current State vs. Future State for a Referral Web Portal.
• Testing - Developed Test Scripts using Test Director and coordinated with developers to quickly resolve the defects associated with them
• Created Business Requirement Documents and System Requirement Documents as a result of meetings with the Business Areas. Obtained business sign offs on the documents after reviewing the final documents with them
• Assisted in creation of the Functional Design Document from the Business Requirements Document which was used as the by the development team while preparing the design and held the responsibility of the required data setup for unit testing
• Change Control Process - Led the Change Control Process for changes submitted for the BRD once the document was submitted to IT department.
• Documented the UAT Plan for the project and worked with the UAT Team to ensure every acceptance criteria for the requirements has been included in the UAT task plan
• Maintained the Traceability Matrix table to uniquely trace the identified business requirements to general design to testing as proof that requirements requested have been developed into a solution and that it has been tested and tracked.

Environment: Agile, MS Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, J2EE technology

Confidential, Waltham, Massachusetts

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Elicitation and analysis of end user requirements and information download to the development team.
• Participated in formulation of the Project Plan and Scope, preliminary and definitive Budget estimation.
• Initiated JAD sessions with End Users using one on one and group interviews techniques to better understand the requirements.
• Created extensive use case, activity and sequence diagrams of the required system to enable clarity on project goals.
• Created System Specification Document, Requirement Specification Documents, Use Case Models, and Work Flows.
• Garnered information and knowledge on ICD 9-10 and HIPAA 4010/5010
• Updated and mentored end users throughout the Development Life Cycle with bi-weekly presentations and webinars.
• Maintained Change and Traceability Matrix throughout the project keeping track of the scope, timelines and budget of the project.

Environment: SQL, RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Clear Quest, MS Visio, windows XP, Mercury Test

Confidential, Illinois

Sr.Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the stakeholders by interviewing them, by preparing questionnaire and getting feedback.
• Communicated Project Requirements, Business Issues, Solution and made recommendation.
• Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business requirements, doing gap analysis and documenting them textually or within models
• Analyzed and documented Business requirements and detail design of the software for full understanding of the business
• Supported the assigned project manager with creating detailed project plans and assisting in developing, scheduling and tracking project timelines.
• Identified KPI aligning with business rules.
• Create Use Case using UML tools and Process Analysis tool such as Fishbone Diagram, and business process flow chart using MS Visio.
• Created use case scenarios and documented work flow and business process.
• Prepared the UML Use Cases using Rational Rose
• Used MS Visio for flow-charting, process model and architectural design of the application.
• Documented business workflows textually as well as in UML diagrams according to RUP for the stakeholder review.
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.

Environment: RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Visio, SQL 2008, UML Diagrams, Quality Control, Test Director

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and identified gaps in existing system comparing and contrasting with documented business requirements, As-is system and the To-be system.
• Managed multiple aspects of product design and end user analysis objectives for Work Smart MD Java based medical practice management & HIPAA compliance applications.
• Used Requisite Pro for requirements management and functioning on new project request and Clear Case for versioning of requirements documents.
• Created Test Scenarios and Test Requirements for QA team, based on the Use Cases and Business Requirement document.
• Track the project using project management tools including MS Project and Rational Requisite Pro and presented various analyses to the top management.
• Development of project work plans throughout SDLC while conforming to extensive methodology requirements set by HIPAA.
• Facilitate sessions and meeting with project team, developers, analysts, and support team.
• Interacted extensively with the client to successfully and swiftly identify and resolve problems, and integrate system enhancements.

Environment: UML, PDF, RUP, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Office, Clear Case, Clear Quest, SQL Server

Confidential, Pittsburg, KS

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in defining scope of the project along with vision statement
• Accumulated customer requirements from various end users through surveys, interviews and JAD sessions
• Created functional, technical and system requirement documents for trading system.
• Responsible for meetings with users and stakeholders to identify problems, resolve issues and improve the process to ensure a stable and accurate solution
• Applied Unified Modeling Language (UML) methodologies to design Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagram in Rational Rose
• Created use-case scenarios in MS Visio and MS PowerPoint for better visualization of the application and managed them using Rational Requisite Pro.
• DeployedCSC’s front-end Web application using POINT IN.
• Automated different steps in claim handling process using POINT IN.
• Created test plans and scripts, facilitated user acceptance testing and tested strategies with developers and testers
• Performed testing to check all functionalities of different modules using Test Director.

Environment: Agile, UML, Use Cases, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Project, Point IN