Sr.Business Analyst

Overview Expertise in understanding business requirements, artifacts and test

strategy to implement detailed test plans and test scripts using

manual and automated test tools.

Extensive experience working in all stages of system development Life

Cycle. Extensive experience leading, facilitating conducting Joint

Application Development (JAD) sessions among user community, stake

holders and technical management, creating project plans and

schedules and managing changes.

Experience in implementing Functional, Unit, Black and White box

Testing of GUI, Batch, Report and Data Warehouse Applications in

varied platforms based on Software Testing Life Cycle requirements.

Proficient in testing the applications using both Manual

and Automated Testing using Tools like Quick Test Pro (QTP), Mercury

Interactive Tools Win Runner, Test Director (TD), Quality Center 8.2.

Professional, efficient, focused and prompt in determining

priorities, following up and coordinating work to meet deadlines

within budget for customer satisfaction.

Coordinate with development team during Software Development Life

Cycle to understand the application, develop test cases and resolve

issues to meet deadlines.

Career Highlights

COMPANY

TECHNOLOGY

ROLE/RESPONSIBILITY (PROJECT)

Express Scripts Inc. formerly Medco Health Solutions

Clear quest, Microsoft Office 2010 (Project, Word, Excel PowerPoint, Access,

Visio), Agile and waterfall Methodology, Micro focus Optimal Trace.

Sr BA Analyst: Experienced Senior Business Analyst with over 5 years of proven

skills in requirement gathering, interacting with developers, documenting various

business processes, coordinating various projects.

Express Scripts Inc. formerly Medco Health Solutions

AS400, JCL, TSO, CICS, RUMBA, SDSF, FTP, CJ2, CA7, MS Access, MQ-Offload,

Genexcel, DB2, Teradata, Datamart, Clearquest, SPUFI, SQL,Oracle 10g.

Sr. QA Analyst: Implemented and tested complex ETL transformation rules and a

series of ETL processes to allow for the addition of new capabilities to a data

warehouse for MEDCO organization in an engagement that came in on time and well

under budget. Tested mappings to load, extract, and transform data to the data

warehouse to maintain the historical data.

Xybion Medical Systems

QTP 9.0, IIS, J2EE, Web Sphere 6, .NET Framework 2.0, SQL Server 2003, Oracle

9i,10g, Windows 2003/XP, Crystal Report 10.0, Metaquest, Eclipse, UNIX

Sr. Validation Specialist: Delivered reports and application as per the Client

requirements with highest quality standards. Knowledge of FDA, GLP and

GCP regulations. Develop CSV Validation Protocols and Reports. Developed

validation master plans, IQ, OQ, and PQ protocols, and summary reports.

Paris Securities Corp

Mercury Quality Center 8.2, Win Runner 7.5, C#, JSP, EJB, Java Servlets, VB .NET

1.1, SQL Server 2000, WebSphere 5.1, Rational ClearCase, IIS, AIX

QA Analyst: Performed various Test Scenarios including Positive and Negative

Testing and also performed Regression and Stress Testing to ensure business

functionality coverage.

Med Edge

Winrunner 7.0, Oracle 8i, Test Director 8.0, JSP, JavaScript, HTML.

QA Analyst: Extensively interacted with Business Team, Developers and end users to

test according to their requirements

Experience

Nov 2011 - Present

Galaxy Systems

Client: Express Scripts Inc., Franklin Lakes, NJ

Role: BSA

Express Scripts Inc. is a largest pharmacy benefit management

organization in the United States. The company processes

pharmaceutical claims for members at network pharmacies and at

their own mail order pharmacies. As Business Solution Architect I

am focused on business processes and how technology supports the

business needs, driving strategic ideas into the technology

roadmap, and moving ideas into conceptual solutions.

Engaged prior to project approval to translate concepts, ideas

and issues across business and IT boundaries

Scheduled JAR/JAD (Joint application Review/Joint Application

design) sessions

Ensured consistent delivery of business requirements and

capabilities to address business demand and make sure they are

aligned with capability roadmap.

Identified and coordinated finance enterprise impact to business

process because of changes.

Extensive experience working in all stages of system development

Life Cycle. Extensive experience leading, facilitating conducting

Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions among user

community, stake holders and technical management, creating

project plans and schedules and managing changes.

Also, Analyzed and synthesized results from Joint Application

Development (JAD), proposed alternative tasks and transformed

those into Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional

Requirement Document (FRD). Documented Requirement Traceability

Matrix(RTM) for requirement elicitation and linkup to

deliverables.

Provided functional/business processes insight to project

managers during various projects

Owned and mastered the overall business processes for various

functional areas

Helped articulate assigned business/functional processes to other

groups in the organization

Developed and maintained high level business process flows and

high- level business requirements. Identified testing scenarios

to support delivery of identified capabilities

Monitored product delivery at predefined checkpoint to assure

compliance with business requirements and process design

Engaged the business to evaluate and prioritize small projects

and defect fixes.

Actively assessed new and existing solutions and viability within

the context of process challenges

Coordinated and collected ROM (rough order of magnitude)

development estimates for projects impacting business partner

applications

Developed Solution Planning artifacts (High Level requirements,

SDD (Solution Definition document), Estimates, Presentations,

etc.)

Evaluated value-impact of changes to design/delivered solution

Participated in test planning to ensure prioritization of high

risk requirements and scenarios

Engaged in User Acceptance testing and assist in identification

of testing scenarios to support delivery of identified

capabilities

Sep 2010 - Nov 2011

Galaxy Systems

Client: Medco Health Solutions, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Role : BA

Medco Health Solutions, Inc. is an American Pharmacy Benefits

Management (PBM) company which served more than 65 million people

before it was acquired by Express Scripts. Medco provided

pharmacy services for private and public employers, health plans,

labor unions, government agencies, and individuals served by

Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans. As business Analyst I

acted as bridge between IT and business system viewpoint.

Decomposed high level requirements into functional requirements,

user stories etc. Created mockups of reports and screens be

better understanding

Created requirements document that provided a shared

understanding between business and IT regarding the priorities

and functionalities of the software

Assisted the project manager in creation of project documentation

and define business analysis best practices

Worked with development and QA teams to provide the requirements

clarifications and test verifications. Ensured that QA test plans

are complete and accurately reflect the business requirements

Assessed BA resource need and communicated to BA manager

Created a High Level Business Requirements, supporting functional

diagrams and dependencies for the identified requirements

Assisted the PM in creating the Solution Definition Document,

verified functional scope, finalized Stakeholder diagram and

reviewed kickoff meeting materials

Scheduled JAR/JAD (Joint application Review/Joint Application

design) sessions.

Documented the current state, future state and gap analysis.

Ensured all deliverables, as defined in BA competency document,

are complete and accurate prior to review with larger audience

Reviewed all requirements documentation prior to formal approval

being sought. Ensured requirements trace to project scope

Tracked and monitored BA deliverables for completeness to meet

the milestone dates

Scheduled requirements review sessions with stakeholder and

submitted requirements specification document for approval

Saved all the approval emails and the requirements document in

the project folder.

Participated in high level design sessions with technical teams

to ensure business requirements are met.

Attended formal design reviews and ensured traceability to

requirements is performed

Conducted requirements/design review sessions with QA team

Attended test plan and test case review sessions to ensure

traceability to requirements is performed

Reviewed test results to ensure quality and completeness.

Participated in the user acceptance testing process as needed

Provided support to help answer requirements relates questions

and Participated in the Post Project Review.

Oct 2009 - Aug 2010

Galaxy Systems

Client: Medco Health Solutions, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Role: Sr. QA Analyst

Represented QA group in requirements review, design meetings,

design documentation review and in ongoing testing for completed

test cases.

Defined ongoing QC business process and created a formal test

plan.

Responsible for validating data loads from multiple source

systems, monitor run time campaign drops, vendor feedback files

and returned e-mail.

Validated data loaded into Datamart using SQL Queryman Teradata

and provided QA reports for signoff on data and report quality.

Verified multiple data sources in RUMBA using FileAid and SPUFI.

Cross referenced new data in Data Mart with current and

historical data for anomaly detection.

Tested mappings to load, extract, and transform data to the data

warehouse.

Tested a series of ETL processes to validate new capabilities

added to the data warehouse for MEDCO.

Implemented and used Rational Clear Case/Clear Quest systems to

support version control, change and defect tracking.

Oct 2008 - Feb 2009

Amerisoft Pro

Client: Medco Health Solutions, Somerset, NJ

Role: Sr QA Analyst

Developed Test cases, Test Summary Reports, Test Scripts for

manual testing.

Created a traceability matrix for software requirement

specifications, software change requests and validation test

cases.

Executed any requested reruns within the specified timeframe.

Provided data extraction of eligible members, dependents and

groups to validate.

Performed Claims processing, including card, directs and mails as

appropriate.

Generated data files using GENEXCEL from MVS and TSOB.

Edited the JCL code as required for testing the application

functionality.

Gained knowledge of FDA regulations during internal and external

QA audits including validation of Analytical Software.

Utilized Risk Assessment Methodology in Medical Claims

processing.

Completed the Telepaid and Directs spreadsheets that require

CERT/CAT testing.

Ran Excel macros to clean the spreadsheets to prepare for further

processing.

FTP files to and from Mainframe to be consumed by various

mainframe Jobs.

Reviewed and validated data which further processed by MVS job.

Process claims using CJ2 and CA7 and validated using SDSF.

Run AIDS430/CIDS430 jobs and MQ Offload on Mainframe.

Validated prior authorizations for various claim types.

Validated Telepaid and directs claims against specified rules.

Nov 2007 - July 2008 Xybion Medical

System, Cedar Knolls, NJ

Role: QA Analyst

Involved in writing test cases using functional specification and

various use cases provided by client.

Validated new measurements entered by systems like Estrus Cycle

Monitoring, Estrus Observations added to Animal Room and Mating

Monitoring, Fetal Gross Observations added to Necropsy module.

Validated various summary reports for the new measurements that

were a part of the major release cycle of PATH/TOX system.

Created a traceability matrix for software requirement

specifications, software change requests and validation test

cases.

Gained knowledge of FDA, GLP & GCP involved in internal and

external QA audits, validation of analytical software and full

GLP compliance. Followed Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD)

paradigm.

Developed test scripts using QTP for functionality, and

regression testing. Extensive use of Stored Procedures for

optimizing database transactions.

Maintain a strict validation procedure to ensure that the system

maintains its data integrity, retrievable, reproducibility and

control of personnel access.

Developed, authored and reviewed IQ, OQ, PQ protocols and

reports.

Used Crystal Report Server 10.0 for Reports and MetaQuest bug

tracking tools.

May 2007 - Oct 2007

RSG North America

Client: Paris Securities Corp

Role: QA Analyst

Reviewed Software Requirements and Business Requirements

documents to get a detail understanding of product.

Involved in ETL processing using Argent batch processing.

Assisted in Computer System Validation (CSV) Documentation.

Created Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios and other

deliverables.

Generated and enhanced Test Scripts using Win Runner.

Performed Integration Testing for System Compatibility Testing.

Identified, analyzed and documented Defects using Test Director.

Executed SQL queries for back-end testing on SQL Query Analyzer.

Oct 2006 -Apr 2007

RSG North America

Client: Med-Edge, New York, NY

Role: QA Analyst

Analyzed the user/business requirements, functional specs and use

case documents to prepare test cases.

Interface with development and business units to prepare test

plan.

Developed test cases and test scripts using Win Runner for

functionality, and regression testing.

Performed database testing by extensive use of SQL.

Used Test Director for reporting defects.

Jan 2006-Oct 2006

RSG North America

Client: Inter Change Bank, Hackensack, NJ

Role: QA Analyst

Developed and executed the test cases for manual testing.

Coordinated with the business analysts and developers to discuss

issues and bring them to closure.

Created automated test scripts and recreation testing using Test

Director.

Performed all aspects of QA best practices, staff coordination

and communications.

Participated in weekly meeting with the management team and

walkthroughs.

Used SQL to perform Backend Testing on Data Warehouse.

Used Test Director as Bug Tracking Tool.

Jan 2005-Dec

2005 RSG North

America

Client: Mediware, Summit, NJ

Role: QA Analyst

Analyzed business requirements, system specifications and

prepared test strategy for Functional, Security, Performance and

Integration testing.

Developed test cases using Test Director to test various

scenarios.

Developed positive and negative test cases for various modules

based on the business requirements and process flow.

Executed automated test scripts for regression testing using Test

Director.

Developed scripts with data parameterization to automatically

supply variables with test data using Data Driven Tests.

April 2000 - Feb 2004

Various Clients in India

HSBC Bank, Pune,

Apr 2004 - Dec 2004

Anderson Technologies, Pune

Jan 2003 - Feb 2004

Life Insurance Corporation, Hyderabad Apr

2000 - Feb 2002

Conducted Functional, Regression, Performance, and Load/Stress

tests.

Performed manual testing of the application and identified

defects.

Parameterized the test scripts to generate and test different

reasons for inquiry.

Analyzed transaction graphs, web resource graphs and network

graphs to pinpoint the bottleneck.

Developed SQL scripts for performing backend testing.

Responsible for production support, user training and documented

user manuals.

Education 1996-1999 B.Com (Bachelors in Finance and Commerce)

Osmania University Hyderabad, India.

Diploma in Computer Science Applications

Technologi Languages/Technologies: Java, J2EE, XML, HTML, DHTML, WSDL,

es VB.NET, ASP.NET, VB 6.0, C#, C++, AS 400, JCL

Databases: SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i,10g, MS Access 2000, SQL

Server 2000/7.0, DB2

Tools: ClearQuest, TestDirector, MetaQuest, PVCS Tracker, QTP,

WinRunner, Quality Centre, Test Director, TSO, Rumba, Teradata,

Citrix, Metaframe V11.2, MS Visio, PowerPoint, MS project.

Operating Systems: Windows 2003/XP/NT, MS/DOS, MVS On Mainframe,

Unix.

References Available on request.

Citizenshi Eligible to work for any employer (Pending Permanent Residency).

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