Sowmya Rachaputi

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Mobile: 412-***-****; E-Mail: acrasj@r.postjobfree.com

• A professional with 5+ years of experience building information technology based business application solutions with focus on business process management, requirements analysis, technical analysis, and validation.

• Gather, synthesize and prioritize requirements using interviews, document analysis, require

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ments workshops and surveys.

• Data gathering and provide analysis on small to medium size analytical projects for system enhancements and reports.

• Successful track of managing, collaborating communication and support between end-users, managers and development team.

• Worked closely with project stakeholders, SMEs, and professional teams to analyze require

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ments and build specifications for new applications and re-engineer existing applications.

• In depth knowledge and experience in Software Development Life Cycle process (SDLC) at all stages.

• Creative and innovative thinker, with excellent communication skills bringing energy, enthusi

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asm and effective problem solving approach.

Career Objective: A hard working professional with focused approach to add value to the organiza

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tion. Strongly believe in work that gives me an opportunity to contribute to the company’s growth and success using strong creative, innovative, analytical and efficient problem solving approach.

Worked on moderate custom projects.

Conducted trainings within/across cross functional teams to impart knowledge transfer.

Contributed strategies towards effective quality product improvement.

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Sowmya Rachaputi

263, Venango Trails, Mars, PA 16046

Mobile: 412-***-****; E-Mail: acrasj@r.postjobfree.com PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Technical Analyst, Highmark Inc, June 2013 – January 2015

• Utilized current Industry standard methodologies like agile (RUP) and waterfall to establish require

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ments and support development for application system interfaces and reports.

• Customer focused business system support for in house systems. Worked as SME during elabora

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tion phase for Pega-UM clinical transformation project.

• Perform analysis on business operations collaborating with end users to identify business needs.

• Communicate with IT Team to define project scope, work effort estimates for Utilization Manage

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ment System Enhancements.

• Maintain and support back end database tables for Pharmacy Utilization Management Systems.

• Experienced in analyzing, developing, testing and deploying CMS Medicare Part D reports using Cognos framework. Involved in CMS Medicare Part D audits.

• Build SQL queries to extract, analyze and build reports to support compliance (audit) requirements.

• Made recommendations using data analytics reports for business process improvements as part of Highmark Rapid Improvement program.

Requirements Analyst, Parexel International, January 2011 – July 2012

• Conducted JAD sessions to define system scope and project objectives by analyzing business pro

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cesses.

• Gathered requirements and prepared business requirement documents (BRD). Responsible for translating BRD into use cases, functional specifications and test plans.

• Closely coordinated with end-users, managers and developer team for arriving at an effective solu

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tion.

• Developed and maintained all operational and technical flows using Visio and Power point.

• Validated requirements to provide effective solutions by collaborating between end-users, managers and developers team.

• Assisted in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

• Proactive in identifying deficiencies of the product and logged into Bug Zero to communicate to ma

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nagers and development team.

• Conducted peer requirements quality reviews and requirement document inspections.

• Lead spear head requirement meetings for business process improvement to increase effectiveness and efficiency.

• Aided workflow analysis and process design.

• Collaborated communication among the customer (client, project manager and medical team) and software development teams.

• Conducted training sessions to do knowledge transfer among cross functional teams.

• Contributed Innovative solutions in introducing collaborative tools among our team. Software Engineer/Business Analyst, McKesson Corporation, June 2006 – May 2008

• Wore multiple hats as an evolving business analyst while performing Software Engineer role.

• Conducted JAD sessions for effective communication of views between stakeholders and gathered business requirements.

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Sowmya Rachaputi

263, Venango Trails, Mars, PA 16046

Mobile: 412-***-****; E-Mail: acrasj@r.postjobfree.com

• Created UML diagrams such as use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams.

• Documented use cases, designed Data Flow Diagrams (DFD’s), Entity Relationship Diagrams

(ERD’s), and modeling tools were used to create web page mock ups.

• Ensured that all the artifacts are compliance with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.

• Installed and configured open source reporting tool to integrate with internal remote oracle databa

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ses.

• Collaborated communication among developers, testers and end users to evaluate client’s business reporting needs.

• Built scripts to integrate with internal remote data sources to extract desired data and develop re

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ports using SQL queries.

• Complete ownership in analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of database reports.

• Technical documentation on reports designed.

• Provide Technical and procedural support for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

• Conducted training classes for end users on data warehouse schema used to implement reports. Software Engineer, Cerner Corporation, September 2005 – February 2006

• Analyzed and defined internal user needs by gathering requirements.

• Implemented database scripts to integrate different data sources to design and develop reports using Cerner command language (CCL).

• Provided input for analysis, functional design, development, testing and support.

• Conducted training classes to make end users understand data storage content for their utility. Technical recruiter, Partners Alliance, March 2005 – August 2005

• Experienced in accessing Xtranet database.

• Worked on queries and tools to extract data for presenting appropriate information on the website to job seekers.

Global Internship Program Intern IV, BNY Mellon, June 2004 – August 2004

• Implemented business transaction data analysis and supported data process flow improvements. Debugged SQL queries support and enhance reporting capabilities.

• Implemented enhancements for web user interface of legendary billing systems. Education

• 2005 M.S. in Information Sciences (GPA: 3.8/4.0), University Of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A

• 1997 B.E in Computer Engineering, Satyabama Engineering College, Chennai, India Technical Skills

MS Project, MS Visio, MS Power point, MS Excel, MS-Access, SQL, ODBC, Windows, MS DOS, Unix, Oracle, ODBC, Oracle PL/SQL, HTML, DHTML, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, VB 6.0, JAVA, JSP, Servlets, Cognos v.10.2.1

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Sowmya Rachaputi

263, Venango Trails, Mars, PA 16046

Mobile: 412-***-****; E-Mail: acrasj@r.postjobfree.com Certifications

• Microsoft Certified Professional in VB 6.0

• Certified training in writing system/functional requirements for custom applications in business ana

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lysis

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