Farooqi, Muhib

Business Systems Analyst.

Fairfax, VA

Email: ac7qt9@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 571-***-****

Career Summary

Strong understanding of analyzing various business processes, user and system requirements; and implementation to functional or technical specification on various projects. Strong experience in healthcare domain.

Extensive experience in creating/writing BRD (Business Requirement Documents), BTRD, Gap Analysis, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams to extract business process flows and workflows, thereby helping development and quality assurance in understanding the requirements.

In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies having thorough understanding of various phases such as Requirements gathering, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.

Experience reviewing and documenting systems, products, and processes to better implement Agile best practices.

Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Stand-ups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective.

Strong analytical, technical and problem resolution skills; good communication skills.

Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to identify the business rules and reporting requirements which can be reviewed and understood by both business users and developers.

Experience in reviewing test processors, defining test cases, reviewing and maintaining test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with team members in fixing errors and conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Extensive documentation skills for use in Standardization of Testing and Programming Procedures and Guidelines.

Demonstrated effectiveness interfacing and negotiating with clients, internal customers and vendors.

Experience removing impediments, escalate issues and guide the team to resolution.

Experience prioritizing and grooming the development backlog, participating in release and sprint planning, and driving user stories to successful completion

Self-starter with excellent presentation, communication, documentation, project planning and interpersonal skills.

Proven ability to adapt to a structured approach to Process and System Design and Implementation

Work Experience

Business Systems Analyst

Anthem – Norfolk, VA October 2017 – November 2018

Responsibilities:

Performed Front-End Testing, Functionality Testing, and Data Driven Testing using QTP.

Identified and recognized opportunities to resolve problems related to EDI transactions.

Analyzing, defining and grooming user stories using grooming/refinement/elaboration sessions with the concerned product owners, development and the testing team.

Created User Stories into Product Backlog Items (PBIs) and lead PBI grooming sessions for Prioritization and Sprint planning.

Lead the Sprint Planning sessions with the team to place the Backlog in appropriate sprints and implement Release planning.

Creating and managing JIRA boards and tracking activities of team.

Participated in daily SCRUMS and provided SA support in each Sprint.

UML diagrams such as activity and use case diagram were used to document the requirements and ensure creation of high-level system requirements documentation.

Performed ad hoc system analysis.

Responsible for coordinating test data preparation, validating data and ensuring testing cycle is completed with necessary test scenarios reviewed.

Actively participated in different stages of project such as Design, Planning, Development and Debugging.

Capture and track the bugs to the resolution as they arise in the QA and UAT testing phases.

Developed BPMN flows in visio and documented user stories.

Assisted in simulation of business process models in BPM.

Documented all testing results and made recommendations for changes and updates.

Helped test throughout new regulatory healthcare requirements.

Answer questions and provide clarification/direction to development and support teams regarding user stories and functions

Created Enabler stories with the Scrum Master.

Technical Skills:

Project Methodologies: Agile(scrum), waterfall

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio

Operating Systems: Windows NT/XP/2000, UNIX

Database: SQL server

File Transformation/transport: IBM WTX, IBM WMB

Req. Tracking: Jira, Confluence

Quality Assurance: ALM QC, Jira

MS applications: Microsoft Office Suite, MS VISIO, MS Project

Languages: XML, Java, HTML

Education

Associate's in Architecture and Science.

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