Yamini Sriram

Email/Skype Id: acwnmi@r.postjobfree.com

949-***-****

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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

15+ years of overall IT experience as a Senior Product/Business Analyst, Release Manager,

Scrum Master, Programmer (SQL Queries, PL/SQL) supporting software development for full

lifecycle project implementations.

15+ years in PL/SQL,SQL, Oracle

Strong background performing requirements gathering, requirements management, creation of

user stories, business process improvement analysis and defining business rules including policies

and conditional statements, UAT, functional, systems integration testing and co-ordination with

business units for end user roll-outs.

End-end solution implementation experience ( Project inception till retirement) Identifying

Business case, Writing use cases, Preparing high level technical requirements, Solution document

Monitoring and Control, Functional testing, Maintaining Status reports, action log, risk log and

management, change log, release plan, lessons learnt and thorough Project Closure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database: Oracle 7.x, 8.x, 8i, 9i, 10G MS Access, SQL Queries

Oracle Application Versions: 10.7 (CHAR), 10.7 (NCA), 11.x, 11i (TCA)

Oracle Application Modules: CRM, OM, ADV. Pricing, AR, AP, INV, BOM, PO, EDI, ASCP,

ODPSourcing

Tools: Visio, MS Project, Rational Rose, Spotfire, D3 charts,

MSOffice,

Jira Fisheye, SQL Loader, TOAD,Formatter Plus,

SQNavigator, Informatica(Certified)

Methodologies: SOA, ITIL V3, Agile SCRUM, Iterative, Waterfall

Front End Tools: Designer 2000, Developer 2000, Oracle Web Server, SQR,

Reports 6i, Forms 6i, Crystal Reports

Data ware House General Ledger, Informatica,ETL

Languages: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Ajax, CSS, HTML 5, XML,

SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, Visual Basic 5.0,PERL, COBOL

Software Design: UML, OOD Concepts, Blaze

Web Design HTML, XML, Dream Weaver

Middleware: BizTalk, MSMQ, WebSphere MQ

Mobile Technologies: Android and iOS

EDUCATION:

Bachelor in Electronics and Communication, University of Madras, India Apr 92 Apr 96

PG Diploma in Java Programming, NIIT, Madras, India Oct 00 Apr 01

Advanced Concepts in UNIX and Perl Oct00

Blaze Certified Programmer Jun 04 Jul 01

Professional Accomplishments Special Achievement Award Winner for system analyst within

Hartford and Vouchd multiple times

Scrum Master Certified

US Citizen

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Business/Product Analyst May12

Current

Vouchd Inc Irvine,CA

Working with the team to gather project goals and needs and translate them to Business and high level

technical (for UI changes and Screen changes) requirements. Assisted and followed roadmap for the

program including deployment milestones, and communication plans. Attended weekly leadership

reporting on status, issues and plus action plans for risk mitigation. Was part of successful launch of web

& mobile applications spanning a wide array of open source java technologies, packaged solutions to

technology strategy initiatives.

Job Responsibilities:

Business Analyst responsibilities include

Driving the complete requirements for the web and mobile based App.

Managed end-end application development (Requirement analysis, design, development and

deployment, Testing, Documentation, Reporting, risk management and post production support).

Major contribution in UX Design and DB design.

Key role in all phases of the project (SDLC)

Defined the source to target data mappings, created business rules and data definitions.

Defined key identifiers for each mapping/interface and writing the functional requirement

documents for each identified source.

Subject matter expert to offshore team and key role in transforming the Business requirements to

Technical Team, defining navigational flow and user experience.

Maintained/prepared required Project Governing Technical documents as per project and

organization standards.

Going extra mile to define rules for Elastic search.

Writing Strong SQL queries to fetch data from the server to manipulate and validate results.

Agile/Scrum/Jira Process

Working on an agile based process. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on

project specifics and client goals, creating detailed requirement road maps, plans, schedules and

work breakdown structures.

Excellent Data Analysis skills, i.e. analyzing and mining large business data to identify patterns

and represents in understandable format for taking better decisions ( MDM )

Established the Agile methodology and the sprint structure to the process.

Part of the facilitation of the scrum ceremonies which include Daily standups, story breakdown,

Backlog scrub, Team skills building, Retrospective, Backlog prioritization and sprint planning.

Ensuring the stories in Jira/RTC are prioritized, estimated prior to sprint planning.

Worked well with Scrum team, Business team, QA and senior management team.

Testing responsibilities include

Preparation Test Strategy/Review of Test Plan/ Test Scenarios / Test Cases for QA team . Working

closely with testing teams and monitoring the results for performance.

U/I strategy.

Co-ordinate with Onsite/off-shore Development team to keep track of Functional changes.

Preparation of Weekly / Monthly Status Report.

Mitigating risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data.

Responsible for strategy, implementation and generation of business analytical reports for better

signups.

Delivery responsibilities include

Coordinated with development resources for the timely delivery and resolution of customer and

project related issues.

Impact Analysis and Maintained/prepared required Project Governing documents as per project

requirements.

Performed Functional Testing, Post Go-live support.

Assisted with demos, deployments, project meetings, release notes for the work performed.

Release responsibilities include

Understanding the release expectations from initial stages of the projects and playing along with

the release schedules

Sticking to the release process which is agreed by key stakeholders

Ensuring to get a sign-off from Dev lead, QA lead Business team before release initiation.

Post release reviews, Continuous Integrations and Deployments.

Environment- Skills/Toolsets: Product Requirements Engineering; Agile Software Development J2EE,

Hibernate, Oracle Database, SQL, Neo4j 1.9.7, Janrain, Google API, Facebook API, Twillio, Elastic

search 0.90.13, Lucene, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, JBoss 7.x, Maven 3.1,MS SQL, Microsoft Project

Toolkit, Git Hub, Microsoft Office Suite and Atlassian tool suite(Jira, Bamboo etc

I-Link Solutions Reston, VA

Senior Business/Product Analyst May 10- May12

Gathered and understood the Business challenge and provided solution to customers and Primary point of

contact for customer and development team. As Senior Product Analyst, I was involved in working on

various new projects within the Financials team and helping to resolve day-to-day issues. Involved in

customizing the existing Oracle Reports and also developing new reports for sales and service

monitoring. I was involved in the on-going automation of the system for inventory, sales and services.

Also I actively worked with billing Project Team for enabling payments to be made automatically for all

the employees and vendors.

Job Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented data integration modules for Extract/Transform/Load (ETL)

functions.

Experience with various ETL, Data Warehousing tools and concepts.

Preparation of Functional Specification / High level Design Document

Preparation/Review of Test Plan/ Test Scenarios / Test Cases, status reports

Co-ordinate with Onsite/off-shore Development team to keep track of Functional changes.

Environment Oracle 8i, 9i, Reports 6i,Logic Server, Java, EJB, HTML, XML, J2EE, Oracle, Blaze,

UNIX,Informatica, Toad, COBOL,SQL,PL/SQL,ETL tools

Senior Software/Product Applications Analyst Dec 07 May10

Designed and developed custom interface programs to process transactions in the areas of Inventory, Bills

of Materials, General Ledger, Sales, Purchasing and CRM. I was involved in the automation of the system

for inventory, sales and services. Did lot of report analysis on the sales, service and customer interface

system. This was used for driving the automation for the entire system. Oracle Reports were developed

Environment Oracle 8i, 9i, Reports 6i,Logic Server, Java, EJB, HTML, XML, J2EE, Oracle, Blaze,

UNIX,Informatica, Toad, COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL, ETL tools

The Hartford, Simsbury, CT Mar98-Dec05

Senior Functional Anlayst/System Analyst

Worked on several projects as a Senior Functional Anlayst/System Analyst. Was able to multi task these

projects within an aggressive timeframe. Some of the projects are discussed here. Part of my

responsibilities also included establishing the controls for Sarbanes Oxley, Deloitte and Touche Auditing

process. I was also asked to be involved in Business Continuity planning project which makes an

assessment of system impacts and solution for disaster and recovery processes.

SOLAR Billing accounts receivables system

Designed, developed the SOLAR Billing Accounts Receivable Process. I had to research the root cause in

the existing process and it involved in setting up meeting with various business customers. I was involved

in getting the business requirements and translate the business requirements to technical requirements,

prepare the impact analysis and propose the best approach and solution to handle this. I also separated the

tasks for on-site and off shore developers. Monitored the responsibilities of the developers and assigned

the tasks accordingly. I was also responsible for developing test strategy, test plan, test cases

Financial Month End Process

Designed and developed the Financial Month End Process for a newly acquired Business which involves

research on finding out the best approach to integrate the Acquired Company's ledger to our ledger. This

involved detailed assessment of each product the company owns and creating our interface to capture the

month end feeds. And was involved in finding the appropriate earned and unearned calculations and how

they can be reported to the ledger. Also most of the systems were on different platforms, used informatica

to read the file and load it into our repository to validate.

Outsource Billing/Medicare Claims System

Worked in the design and requirement mapping of outsourcing our in house Billing/Claims system. This

included communication with the Vendors, involving in RFPs, Scoping phase, Requirement mapping to

technical design and solution design of the project. Also my responsibilities included to train the

developers with the technical specifications and assist them through put the complete life cycle of the

project.

Medicare Supplement Part A Claims

Designed and developed a system, which automated the process of adjudicating/approving Medicare

claims and printing checks and explanation of benefits (EOBs). This replaced the legacy system which

involved manual intervention. This also included file transmission from Mutual of Omaha that follows

the HIPAA rules. This project was done using Oracle forms, reports, PL/SQL stored procedures,

packages and triggers. Batch jobs were scheduled under two different OS, VAX/VMS and Windows NT.

SQL Loader was used to load input files from 3rd party agents.

Environment: Informatica, Oracle 9i, Toad, COBOL, UNIX, Logic Server, Java, EJB, HTML, XML,

J2EE, Blaze, UNIX

PriceWaterHouse Coopers Jul 97 Mar 98

Client The Hartford, CT

Designed developed a stand alone system which accepts data files to report the commission, sales and

premium information on a monthly basis. The feed is taken using SQL loader and then looked upon for

errors and finally processed.Used various PL/SQL stored procedures, reports 25 and forms designer as the

interface tool.

Environment: Oracle 7, Forms 4.5, Reports 2.5, and Windows 95

References: Upon request.

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