Project Engineer

NARAYANAN NARAYANAN

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Profile

Over 6 years of professional experience in software industry with 4.5

years of experience as Business Analyst having thorough understanding of

various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phases like Requirement

analysis, Design, Development and Testing.

Key Skills

. Extensive experience in gathering and analyzing requirements

. Excellent experience in managing and documenting the requirements

. Involved in converting the business, functional requirements into

effective design

. Effective communication of requirements to developers and QA engineers

. Well versed in different management scenarios like Change Control

Process,

Quality Assurance and Defect Tracking

. Excellent facilitation skills in conducting business meetings,

walkthroughs,

brain storming sessions, knowledge sharing sessions

. Proven problem solving skills to give quick and effective solutions

. Sound decision making capabilities, coupled with excellent

communication and interpersonal skills

. Always adhered to compliance procedures

. Exposed to CMM - Level 5 (optimized) standards

. Having excellent track record for meeting deadlines and submitting

deliverables on time

. Self-motivated team player, willing to learn and adopt new technologies

quickly

. Versatile player capable of working in different phases of SDLC

Technical Skills

Documentation Tools : MS Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Testing/Reporting Tools : Mercury Test Director 7.6, Spirit,

Crystal Reports

Version Control Tools : MS Visual Source Safe (VSS), Perforce

Operating System : Windows NT/2000/XP, MVS/TSO

(IBM Mainframes)

Databases : MS SQL Server, MS Access

Domain Exposure : Healthcare, Government Projects

Mainframe Skills : COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, File-

Aid, Endevor, Xpediter

Professional Experience

HP Enterprise Services December 2006

to Till Date

Client : Maryland State Retirement Agency, MD

Project : MPAS-1 (Maryland Pension Administration System - Phase 1)

Role : Lead Business Analyst

MPAS-1 is designed to modernize the existing Legacy Pension System (LPS).

This redesigning process is essentially the first step in redeveloping the

business processes for Maryland State Retirement Agency. The goal of the

MPAS-1 Project is to recreate the Legacy Pension System (LPS) with an

agile architecture using .NET.

Responsibilities include

. Interacting with Business Owners to gather the functional

requirements and business needs.

. Gathering technical requirements by analyzing the modules of existing

Legacy Pension System (LPS)

. Facilitating meetings with Business Users to discuss more about

the gathered requirements and finalizing them.

. Interacting with Business Stake Holders to gather requirements for new

enhancements

. Documenting the gathered requirements (Functional, Technical,

Enhancements)

. Creating Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) document from the

gathered requirements

. Giving walkthroughs to development team leads which gives a clear

picture about the requirements

. Effort and Cost Estimation for Change Requests (CRs)

. Coordinating with development team to implement the Change Requests

(CRs)

. Leading the offshore business analyst team who will be working with

offshore developers

. Answering queries raised by developers during design phase of the

project, if required

. Reviewing the design documents

. Helping the QA test engineers in creation of test cases and

reviewing them

. Data conversion activity from Legacy based VSAM file systems to

Relational Data model

Accenture August 2005 to November

2006

Client : United Health Care (UHC), NJ

Project : TOPS - Field Expansion (F-Ex)

Role : Business Analyst

TOPS - Field Expansion (F-Ex) is a multi-phase project to standardize some

of the currency and non-currency fields of the claims processing engine

TOPS (The Online Processing System).

Main functionality of this project is to expand the fields in programs,

files and the online screens

to meet the current business needs.

Responsibilities include

. Interacting with business owners to gather the business, functional

requirements

. Interacting with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to understand impacts

of expanding the target fields

. Creating detailed requirements document which carries the

business, functional requirements

. Performing Impact Analysis to identify the modules which need a

change to expand the target fields

. Analyzing the impacted modules to understand the data movement

between the target field and other fields as a part of technical

analysis

. Creating technical specs based on the technical analysis

. Conducting knowledge transfer session about the gathered requirements

to the development team

. Answering the queries raised by developers

. Helping the testing team in creating test plans and strategies

according to the stringent testing standards to ensure a defect free

field expansion

. Reviewing the design documents and test cases

Accenture January 2005 to

July 2005

Client : United Health Care (UHC), CT

Project : Claims - Data Architecture (DA)

Role : Software Development Engineer

Claims - Data Architecture is an enhancement project where the data

architecture was changed. In this project, complete back end of the claims

system is changed from VSAM to DB2 to increase the claim processing

efficiency. This backend change would also ensure effective handling of

high volume of data.

Responsibilities include

. Performing the impact analysis to find the impacted modules of claims

system that needs conversion

. Performing code analysis for the impacted modules to understand the

existing code and document the same which will be used in the design

phase

. Preparing technical specification for the required functionality

change based on the technical analysis results

. Coding the modules based on the given technical specification

according to the coding standards

. Preparing unit test plan to test the converted modules

. Performing unit testing based on the test plan

. Fixing bugs raised during the testing phase

. Answering the queries raised by testers

. Coordinating with testing team in resolving the defects and take it

till closure

Accenture June 2004 to

December 2004

Client : United Health Care (UHC), CT

Project : Summary Check OM (Operational Maintenance)

Role : Production Support Engineer

Summary Check is the system, which issues the cheques and Explanation of

Benefits (EOB) to the members and the providers. Summary Check OM is the

production support based project, which supports clients summary check

system on a 24/7 basis.

Responsibilities include

. Fixing the production abends within the given SLA limits, (For a batch

abend, severity is sev 2 and SLA is 4 hrs)

. Giving turn around fix for one time occurring production problems

. Identifying the root cause and giving a permanent fix for the

frequently occurring production problems

. Resolving the user raised tickets for the existing production problems

. Performance tuning for critical modules

. Scheduling the jobs to run in production

. Giving support at the time of production release

. Implementing new functionalities for a sev 4 ticket in an existing

module as per the technical specification provided

Accenture December 2003

to May 2004

Client : United Health Care (UHC), CT

Project : Pilot Production Execution (PPE)

Role : QA Engineer

Pilot Production Execution project is a part of client's online claims

processing system called TOPS (The Online Processing System). Pilot

Production Execution is used to evaluate the production run with the recent

development/enhancement changes in the test environment. Based on the

results from Pilot Production Execution, these changes would be fine tuned

and moved to the client's production system.

Responsibilities include

. Executing a pre-setup clone of production run in the test region

according to the request specification given by developers

. Setting up the sequence of JCLs for a new Pilot Production Execution

. Analyzing the developer's request and making necessary changes to the

JCLs, which are required for a smooth execution

. On a successful execution, sending out reports and statistics of the

run to the developers

. Raising defects/issues in Test director when the execution fails due

to the defects of recent developments

. Monitoring a defect until closure

. Test region control and maintenance

Educational Credentials

. Masters in Computer Engineering, Bharatiyar University, India

. Bachelors in Computer Science, University of Madras, India

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