Malathy Devarajan

Business Analyst - United Services Automobile Association

San Antonio, TX 78240

ac3hx9@r.postjobfree.com

210-***-****

•Over 11 years of total IT experience and Technical proficiency as Business Analyst, Tech Lead and Lead Developer.

•Extensive experience on Agile and waterfall Software Development Life cycle model.

•2 years of experience on Scrum Master Role which includes writing Epic, Stories and maintaining the project activities on RTC.

•4 years of experience on working in RTC.

•2 years of experience on conducting iteration planning and release planning .

•Excellent written, verbal communication skills and problem solving skills.

•Substantial experience in Insurance and Banking domain.

•Extensive experience on Microsoft Products like Excel, Word, Power point, Access, VBA, Excel Pivot Tables.

•Communicated client’s business requirements to the Development and QA Team by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models.

•Performed functional, regression, user acceptance and integration testing to verify the Business needs are met.

•Provided input into developing and modifying systems to meet client needs and develop business specifications to support these modifications.

•Closely worked with the Business and the Technical team to ensure the deliverables met the Business requirements

•Experienced in understanding AS-IS process and provide recommendations to improve the efficiency.

•Implemented Java and J2EE Design patterns like Business Delegate and Data Transfer Object (DTO), Data Access

•Object and Service Locator.

•3 years of experience in developing Web Services using - SOAP, WSDL and developing DTDs, XSD schemas for

•XML.

•Experience in implementing the MVC Architectural Pattern using Struts Framework.

•Very good experience on Object Oriented Programming.

•Created stored procedure for application.

•Experience in writing Junit and automation test scripts using Selenium.

•Experienced in writing SQL, PL/SQL, developing view and stored procedures.

•Very good Organizational, Analytical, Teamwork skills along with good communication and interpersonal skills, Very good team player, Ability to handle tasks independently.

Willing to relocate to: Houston, TX - Austin, TX - San Antonio, TX

Authorized to work in the US for any employer

Work Experience

Business Analyst

United Services Automobile Association

December 2009 to Present

Dec 2009 -Till Date

USAA is a Fortune 200 financial services company focused on providing banking, investing, and insurance to people and families that serve, or served, in the military of the United States and other selected federal agencies.

Line of Business: Insurance & Banking.

Software Development Tool: RTC.

Trainings Attended: Agile Scrum Master, Technical Writing.

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities and Activities carried at USAA:

Participating in Big Room Planning and writing Epics and Stories.

Involving the Business, Development and QA team for iteration planning.

Collaborating with the Technical team to prepare the High-level Design document

Requirement validation of subsequent phases.

Conducting daily standups with the entire team to track the tasks, impediments and parking lots to ensure the deliverables are on track.

Conducting meeting with Business team / vendors for any clarifications or questions.

Conducting functional, User Acceptance testing to ensure the Business needs are met.

Creating the Project Document for the project for future reference.

Providing help to the QA team to create/provide test data.

Generating Project related documents from the RTC to present it to the Project Manager.

Preparing documents to be presented for the sponsor meeting.

Making sure that team is following Agile Scrum Methodology throughout the project.

Using IBM RTC tool for agile methodology.

Developer

AXA Financial-USs

January 2008 to November 2009

Jan 2008 - Nov 2009.

AXA develops its Financial Protection business under a single brand, in a way that not only respects its values and commitments but also supports its ambition of attaining leadership in its industry.

AXA's mission is to help customers live their lives with more peace of mind by protecting them, their relatives and their property against risks, and by managing their savings and assets

Line of Business: Insurance & Banking

Operating System : Unix and windows

Tools IDE: Eclipse, Web Container: Tomcat, Microsoft SQL server

Programming Languages: Java, JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, HTML, and Shell Scripts. Data Base SQL

Role: Developer

Responsibilities at AXA - US:

Involved in the knowledge transfer and the preparation of the Induction Manual.

Solving Tickets raised for AXADistributors.com, Underwriting System and SalesCenter Applications.

Writing re-usable DTS package for routine jobs using Enterprise Manager.

Unit test the jobs according to test plans.

Bug Fixing and Production support.

Using Query Analyzer for database access, modifications and creating new tables/ Stored Procedures.

Developing Unix Shell Scripts and perl scripts for routine task and scheduling it through cronjob.

Maintaining the backend file version using PVCS and Front End Files using TeamSite.

Ensure a Quality Delivery by following all the programming standards including AXA standards.

Activities carried out at AXA – US:

Understanding the existing application

Address the existing defects and fix it.

Resolving production tickets raised by the application users.

Creating stored procedure for application.

Code Construction using structs framework.

Production Deployment.

Worked with QA team for testing and resolve defects.

Interact with onshore team on daily status.

Generate adhoc reports requested by client.

Constructing reusable jobs for recurring reports and activities.

Developer

AXA Insurance - London

September 2006 to December 2007

AXA Insurance UK Plc provides general insurance products. The company was incorporated in 1903 and is based in

London, United Kingdom. AXA Insurance UK Plc operates as a subsidiary of AXA Insurance Plc.

Line of Business: Insurance & Banking

Operating System: Unix and windows

Tools IDE: Eclipse, Web Container: Tomcat, Microsoft SQL server

Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript, XML and XSL.

Data Base: SQL

Role: Developer

Responsibilities at AXA - UK:

Develop the application using Gen-e-Sys framework.

Solve technical issues arising out of the development activities.

Ensure a Quality Delivery by following all the programming standards including AXA standards.

Used SQL DB Access and Data loader tools for database access and loading stubbed data into Oracle database

Test case management and bug tracking are done using Product Studio.

Preparation of Unit test plan and System Test Plan for testing the application.

Unit testing and Integration testing on Integration Environment.

System testing of the application.

Document the results for future reference.

Knowledge Transition (KT) to new team members.

Activities carried out at AXA – UK:

Collect business requirements from the client.

Prepare Analysis and Design Document.

Prepare requirement matrix document.

Preparation of High Level Document (HLD) and Low Level Document (LLD) for Requirments.

Preparation of Unit Test Plan (UTP) and Test Cases.

Code Construction

Production Deployment.

Worked with QA team for testing and resolve defects.

Support Interfacing systems.

Performing Internal Quality Assurance (IQA)

Performing External Quality Assurance (EQA) to other application.

Knowledge Transition (KT) to new team members.

Interact with onshore team on daily status.

Education

Master of Science in Software Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology - Vellore, Tamil Nadu

2006

Additional Information

Skills:

Software Development Methodology: Agile and Water fall.

Documentation and Presentation Tools: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio.

Software Development Tool: RTC

GUI & Tools: IBM RSA V7.5 & V8.0, Eclipse, Putty, winSCP, SQL Developer, IBM DB2, SQL Loader, FTP, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Squirrel, Data loader.

Application Servers: IBM WAS V7, Tomcat.

Java/J2EE Technologies: Servlets, JSP, structs, Junit, EJB 2.0/3.0, JDBC, RMI, JMS and JNDI.

Web Technologies XML, XSL, XSLT, YUI, CSS 3, Java Script, HTML, AJAX, JSON, GUI, Web services (SOAP, WSDL).

Programming Languages: Core Java, C++, C, YUI, JavaScript, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, XSL, UNIX Shell Scripts, Visual Basic.

Testing Tool: Selenium.

Testing Framework: Junit,TestNG.

DataBase IBM DB2, Oracle 10, MS SQL Server 2008. Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Linux

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