BRITE MAREENA JAMES
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SUMMARY
Sincere & diligent technology professional offering over 8 years of business analysis experience.
Proficient in requirement analysis, business, technical and use case documentation, test case preparation and execution.
Expertise in Microsoft Office tools and IBM Rational tools.
Possess excellent communication and interpersonal traits with talent for problem solving through reasoned thought processes.
Aim to pursue challenging opportunities with an organization of high repute where I could leverage my knowledge and strong IT-Business liaison skills.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
UST Global Inc.
Business Analyst
September 2007 – Present
Roles & Responsibilities:
Project: HEB
Role: Systems Delivery Analyst
May 2014 – Present
Identify, prioritize and structure the business needs
Analyze the business needs, system capabilities, workflows and functional limitations
Define functional requirements and create requirements artifacts and other related deliverables
Describe software quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements
Design and execute functional test procedures using Quality Center.
Work as a liaison between the business unit, technology team, support team and testing team
Ensure all project requirements are conformed during every phase of the project life cycle
Ensure requirement traceability throughout the project
Perform UAT and Production support whenever required
Project: Online Store for WellPoint Inc.
Role: Business Analyst
July 2010 – April 2014
Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops,
site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios & business
analysis.
Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts &
decompose high-level information into details.
Communicate and collaborate proactively with external and internal stakeholders to
analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver Business Requirements Document, Use Cases, Technical responses, Flow Diagrams and Screen designs.
Facilitate communication between the customer community (internal and external
customers) and the software development team.
Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, while evaluating and translating information into appropriate wording for the intended audience.
Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision
and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
Work as liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.
Perform user acceptance tests & system integration tests to ensure quality
Prepare test cases and test data for unit testing, coordinate with SIT team for preparing test cases & test data and support implementation teams through execution.
Manage SIT & UAT testing defects using IBM Rational Clear Quest & analyze each defect, assign it to appropriate development team & help them to resolve the issue.
Represent both IT and Business validation during production implementation.
Project: WellPATH for WellPoint Inc.
Role: Associate Business Analyst
September 2007 – July 2010
Analyzed the business requirements and documented the functional requirements for letter migration.
Prepared use case documents & estimated the personal hours required for the project.
Prepared schedules for each task using the Microsoft Project and tracked the work completion.
Coordinated with onsite and offshore letter migration teams.
Prepared test cases & executed the test plan for both functional and non-functional requirements.
Coordinated both Unit Testing & System Integration Testing.
Managed configuration control for documents and deliverables.
Tools Used:
IBM Tools: IBM Rational Software Architect, IBM Rational Clear Quest, IBM Rational Clear Case,
IBM Rational Requisite Pro
HP Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA, HP Project and Portfolio Management
Database: SQL Server 2008, Oracle
Others: MS Visio 2010, MS Project 2013, iRise
EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, TRAINING & ACHIEVEMENTS
Degree
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science (June 2002 - May 2006)
Mahatma Gandhi University, INDIA, 77.58 %
Certifications
Business Systems Analyst Certificate from InQuestra Learning Program (through ACM)
Professional, Academy for Healthcare Management (AHM-250)
ITIL Version 3 Foundation Examination certificate
Oracle PL/SQL Developer Certified Associate
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in .Net Framework 2.0 Web Application
Training:
Attended Training in Developing Enterprise Application & Web Services Using J2EE Technologies (120 hrs)
Attended Training in VB.Net Programming (50 hrs)
Achievements:
oReceived Excellence Award from WellPoint client for WellPATH Project
oReceived Certificate of Appreciation from WellPoint client for the Online Store Project.
oReceived Certificate of Appreciation for active involvement in CSR activities.