Project Manager Test Cases

Prabhu Dorairaj

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908-***-**** (C) ● 908-***-**** (H) ●

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GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:

Fulfill a role as a Business Analyst and contribute towards achieving the project and organizational goals. Possess a strong understanding of all phases of SDLC. Possess an academic background in Business Administration, Neuro-psychology, and Pre-Medicine. Capable of acclimating to different fields, work environments, and perspectives. Highly value self-improvement and maintain a coach-able mind-set; allowing for constant progress, and collaborative team work under challenging work situations. Preferred industries include Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Financial and Insurance.

EDUCATION:

Master’s in Public Health at Purdue University

November 2017 – May 2019

Under Graduation (2012-2016): Boston University

Major GPA: 3.54

Major: Studying Pre-Medicine and Psychological Brain Sciences (2013-2016)

Initially studied Business Administration at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University (2012-2013)

Academic Awards/Honors:

Dean’s List for Fall Semester 2015 (for outstanding academic performance)

High School (2008-2012): West Morris Central High School,, Long Valley, NJ.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

-Experienced in all phases of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment. Proficient with software engineering methodologies like Waterfall and Agile.

-Adept at Business Modeling using MS Visio/Enterprise Architect/Axure.

-Expertise in Requirements Gathering and Gap Analysis through user interviews and workshops.

-Experience in conducting JAD sessions with business users and development team for driving business requirements gathering.

-Exceptional documentation skills on Use Cases and Functional Requirement Documents, Use Case diagrams, activity diagrams, using MS Visio/Enterprise Architect/Rational Rose.

-Well-versed in creating wireframes and screen mock ups using Visio.

-Developed specifications for enhancements from existing legacy system documentation and procedures

-Experience in defining Test Cases, analyzing bugs, interacting with QA / Dev. teams in fixing errors for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

-Business Tools/Processes

-Office Tools: MS Office (MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, Outlook Express), MS Visio, MS Query and MS Project.

-Packages: Enterprise Architect 7.0, Rational Requisite Pro.

-Methodologies: Waterfall and Agile.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

-Completed a case study of the new ‘To-be’ system. Held JAD sessions with account executives, and managers to gather business and functional requirements.

-Played an integral part in analyzing the scope, design, development and execution of the project. Authored business and functional requirements document.

-Managed requirements and communicated with users, test team and project manager.

-Maintained proper communication with the developers ensuring that the modifications and requirements were addressed. Reviewed and prioritized Use Case, and Activity Diagrams using Visio with developers.

-Worked with end-users to define requirements and coordinated user management and developer expectations.

-Assisted project manager with determining task priorities, milestone and deliverables during inception and elaboration phase using MS-Project.

-Performed Gap Analysis; appraised project status to upper management on weekly basis using weekly status report.

-Complete thorough User Acceptance Testing preparation and execution by established deadlines.

Involved working closely with Business partners, PayPal, and IT on daily basis.

ENVIRONMENT: Oracle 11g, UML, Microsoft Visio, and MS Access

Client: American Express, New York May ‘17 – Aug ‘17

Business Analyst

Involved as a Business Analyst in a project to build a Credit Decision System (CDM for efficient handling of credit card applications. The functionalities include application forms which are used to screen consumers, processing the filled-in forms received from the consumers, accepting / rejecting applications and determining the credit limits to be extended to individual consumers.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Involved in the analysis of the legacy application management system being retired, documenting the as-is processes, identifying process gaps and desired system functionality, interviewing SMEs and users to discover new requirements. Participated in data mapping exercise to support a parallel data migration effort for migrating data from the legacy platform to CDM.

-Facilitated team meetings to coordinate activities for JAD sessions to elicit requirements.

-Provided requirement walkthroughs for the development and QA teams.

-Responsible for gathering requirements for the portal applications, overseeing the design, development, and implementation of data integration, analytics and reporting solutions.

-Involved in the creation and maintenance of the workflow plans and artifacts.

-Performed gap analysis between current and desired performance.

-Assisted in developing test plans, use case model, test cases and test procedures.

-Developed detailed system requirements specification (SRS) documents.

ENVIRONMENT: Oracle 11g, Visual Basic, Use Case Analysis, and MS Visio

Client: Webster Bank, Waterbury, CT May ‘16 – Sep ‘16

Business Analyst

Project objective was to re-engineer an existing retail online banking application for better performance and customer satisfaction, catering to the following functions: Online Accounts Management, Online Bill Pay, Statement Delivery, and Account Alerts.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

-Functioned as a primary liaison between the business, operations, and the technical team throughout the project.

-Created As-Is Business Process Models using MS Visio.

-Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with Subject Matter Experts to identify business rules, functional and non-functional requirements.

-Responsible for defining Functional Requirement Specifications, following the Agile

methodology.

-Designed wire frames and activity diagrams using MS Visio to outline the “To-Be” screens and “To-Be” processes.

-Participated in daily Scrum and bi-weekly project status meetings.

-Conducted requirement walkthroughs with developers and QA team to help them understand the requirements.

-Involved in creating test cases and participated in testing. Maintained traceability matrix between requirements and test cases. Conducted bug triage with QA and Development team to go over the defects.

-Created release notes to support monthly releases.

-ENVIRONMENT: Oracle 11g, Visual Basic, Use Case Analysis, MS Visio

-OTHER ACTIVITIES/SKILLS

-Experience with SPSS Statistical Software Program (2015)

-Acquired statistical programming skills through an Experimental Statistics course.

-The Biryukov Academy of Art & Music (2012)

-Weekly took lessons in Drawing and Painting and clearly demonstrated my artistic abilities

-Dance Member and Choreographer of Boston University's "BU Khatarnak All Male Fusion Dance Team" (2012-2013)

-Responsible for actively choreographing, using Facebook as source to publicize and invite people to dance shows, communicating with dance members of other teams, and traveling to other states and cities for dance shows and competitions.

-Boston University's India Club Member (2012-2013)

-Showcasing dancing and promoting other Dance, Singing, A Capella teams, and fashion shows via social media networks, social gatherings, meetings. Festivals, etc.

-Also encompasses voting for potential President and Vice President candidates of the Boston University's India Club Member.

-Tamil Actor Elviin's "Live to Dance" Dance Academy in Chennai, India (May 2017)

-Individual Dance Training (Breakdance, Hip Hop, Popping, Tutting, Krumping, and Jazz)

-Hobbies:

oRegular User of Microsoft Office and Windows 8.1

oDrawing and Painting

“Water for the Worlds” Showcase Painting was displayed at the United Nations branch in Australia (2012).

-Experience with SPSS Statistical Software Program

-Dancing: Breakdancing, Hip Hop, Popping, Tutting, Krumping, and Jazz

oPublicizing and Promoting my Dance Videos on Youtube

Youtube Channels:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcFee7EoylRtnqWWp9HyDdw

https://www.youtube.com/user/prabsraj

-Experienced Video Software Editor

oFrequent editor of personal music/dance videos and videos of others through the use of PowerDirector and iMovieHD video editing software.

-Experienced User of Social Media Networking Sites (Google, Facebook, YouTube, Google, and Twitter)

-Pianist (10yrs – present)

-Drummer (12yrs-present)

-Possess a constantly growing knowledge of Neurological, Psychological, Mental and Genetic Disorders

-LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY:

-Fluent in English, Tamil, Hindi, and Spanish

-Limited Proficiency in French, and Telugu

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