Senior Business Analyst

• May 2016 - Present

Sr. Business Analyst

• Jan 2015 - May 2016

• Manage individual project tracks and sprints• Work with the business to gather, understand and assess the scope of the project• Collaborate with business SMEand IT resources to walk through FRD and Use cases• Prepare Use Case documents based on the functional requirements specifications• Document requirements and obtain sign-off on the requirements• Coordinate with the development team for project status and clarify requirements as needed• Participate and assist the business in preparing the UI wire-frames design sessions • Review test scenarios/test cases written by the testing team for system integration testing.• Participate in the UAT sessions to assist the users.

Sr. Business Analyst

• Jun 2013 - Dec 2014

• Responsible for gathering and documenting the functional business requirements• Work closely with the business SMEs on gathering the requirement specifications• Prepare Use Case documents based on the functional requirements specifications• Work on the ISO Rating requirements specifications• Participate in the requirements review sessions with the development team• Assist the QA team with the scenarios and test scripts development for sprint testing• Participate in the business demo sessions and UAT sessions• Provide timely status and escalate issues to the Project Manager

Business System Analyst

• Jul 2012 - May 2013

• Work with the business to understand, gather and assess the business requirements• Document requirements and obtain user sign-off on requirements• Work with the developers to discuss requirements and any clarifications needed• Analyze and review test cases prepared by the QA team for system integration testing• Support functional, UAT testing and provide analysis of the raised defects • Work with the business to understand, gather and assess the business requirements• Document requirements and obtain user sign-off on requirements• Work with the developers to discuss requirements and any clarifications needed• Analyze and review test cases prepared by the QA team for system integration testing• Support functional, UAT testing and provide analysis of the raised defects

Business Analyst

• May 2008 - Jun 2012

• Conduct JAD sessions with Policy Admin, Claims, Finance, Billing• Prepare requirement document and receiving sign-off • Create workflow charts and diagrams for the business and the developers • Perform gap analysis between the existing system and the new system• Requirements analysis and produce detailed use cases for the interfaces• Design the writing and earning pattern generation of the manual conversion policies• Conducted regular meetings with the business users to report the development status • Work closely with the development team throughout the development life cycle• Estimate testing effort -System Integration, Functional and User Acceptance Testing• Conduct daily defect meetings in the defect tracking tool (Mercury QC) • Provide analysis of the valid defects that were raised by business stakeholders.

Business Analyst and Sr. QA Analyst

• Mar 2007 - Nov 2008

• Participate in functional & technical design sessions, workgroup meetings• Prepare estimations by analyzing requirements, testing scope and resources allocated.• Identify test data required, approaching the right team for data conditioning to ensure test data is ready for SIT (system integration testing).• Review test scripts written by the test team, coordinate with the testing team and discuss the daily updates.• Interact with developers to resolve application defects.• Develop Database queries to test for data integrity.• Ensure that the requirements, test cases & defects are properly uploaded and tracked in quality center.• Participate in weekly status meetings to co-ordinate the testing efforts.

QA Analyst

• Sep 2002 - Jul 2006

• Write use cases, test plan using TestDirector to streamline the testing effort for both functional testing as well as performance testing.• Clarified S/W requirements and specifications by thoroughly understanding the SRS document and conducting conference calls with business analyst, developers and clients.• Generated TSL (Test Script Language) using WinRunner by creating GUI and Bit Map script files and later executed them in batch mode for Regression testing.• Prepared detailed bug reports and Test Metrics on a weekly basis for the project members. • Prepare cycle plan as per the schedules for executing the test scripts, retesting, regression testing and defect closure before code freeze and going into production.• Used Test Director as a defect tracking tool.