Harika Talluri

Business Analyst

727-***-****

acxsxv@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

Over 8 years of experience as a Business Analyst in business and functional requirements elicitation, analyzing requirements, SDLC Methodology and Project Management.

Performed various analysis including Requirement analysis, Data analysis, GAP analysis, System analysis, impact Analysis and Resource Analysis

Experience in Change Management, application development and maintenance, application enhancement and production support area

Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience including Analysis, Design and Review of Business and Software Requirement Specifications, Development, Testing and Agile software development methodology

Raise Concerns, Risks, Issues, and Dependencies wherever required in any phase of SDLC

Determine scope and priority of the requirements and decision making for a change request

Proficient in producing documents like Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Request for Proposals (RFP), and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).

Create Functional Requirement Document (FRD) based on Business Requirement Document (BRD) with GUI changes (which includes prototyping, mock up screens, data flow diagrams, wireframes etc.) and give walkthrough of those functional requirements to the business, development and QA group.

Utilized MS Project and variance analysis to manage schedules, meet deadlines and plan resources in line with triple constraints. Followed up with weekly project status, organized task review meetings, conducted status meetings, managed deadlines, and facilitated prioritization discussions.

Adept in creating Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Flowcharts, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and experienced in change management.

Experience in Data Warehousing, Extraction, Transformation and Business Intelligence Tools

Experience in sharing bug report, status report, Minutes of Meeting to the management group

Experience in creating/writing the user stories in JIRA and Confluence tools.

Efficient at conducting UAT (user acceptance testing), Functionality testing, Unit testing, Integration testing, System testing, Operation Readiness testing and Regression testing.

Did Training Need Analysis (TNA) for the team and prepare training material for them and conduct knowledge sharing sessions required for the project.

Have worked in onsite-offshore model and handling offshore team of 8 associates

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems

DOS, WINDOWS, UNIX,MAC OS

Languages

C, C++, Java, HTML, JSP, PL-SQL, XML, Unix, UML

Databases

DB2, Oracle 10g, MS-SQL Server 7.0/2000, MS Access

Requirements Gathering and Quality Tools

Peregrine Service Center, HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, Load Runner, Win Runner, Rational Requisite Pro, PVCS Tracker, Rational Clear Quest, Microsoft Visual Source Safe, Harvest Change Management, JIRA, Remedy and Firebug

Methodologies

Agile, Scrum, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Spiral,SDLC/ Waterfall and Iterative, Lean

Content Management Tools

SharePoint, Documentum, TeamSite, DOORS, Rational Rose

Analysis, Development and other Tools

IBM Web Sphere Application Developer (WSAD), TOAD, SQL Navigator, PL/SQL Developer, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Visio, Access, Power point, Outlook, Project), Orbit Reports, Crystal Reports, WinSCP, AEM, Putty and Beyond Compare

Professional Experience:

Crum and Foster, NJ Jul 2015 – Till date

Business Analyst

Description:

Crum & Forster (CnF) provides specialty and standard commercial lines insurance products through their admitted and surplus lines insurance companies. Seneca Binding Authority (SBA) is subsidiary of Crum and Forster and offers General Liability, Property and Inland Marine coverage for a wide variety of Excess and Surplus (E&S) risks including contractors, day care, distributors, farm, garage, habitational, hotels, manufacturers, a variety of mercantile risks, restaurants and bars, special events, vacant risks and many other types of exposures. SBA currently uses Solartis policy admin system and they are changing their policy admin system to Accenture’s Duck Creek. This project is being implemented in Agile methodology.

Responsibilities:

Interview client and gather the requirements

Prepared corresponding artifacts: FRD (Functional Requirements Document), BRD (Business Requirements Document) and SRS (System Requirements Specification).

Create minutes of meetings and published to all stakeholders highlighting discussion points and pending action point

Followed the Agile methodology for the entire SDLC.

Create/Update the user stories based on the requirement in the confluence. Update mock up screens as per requirements update/change

Created affiliate artifacts: Use Cases, Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams and Interaction diagrams using MS Visio.

Support Dev/QA team for the business queries in that sprint

Utilized Agile Scrum methodology and conducted Daily stand up meeting, Sprint Planning meeting, Sprint Review meeting, and Sprint Retrospective meeting.

Give demo for the work done in that sprint to the business

Participate in sprint and poker planning with BA/PM/Dev/QA to conclude the user story points and the effort estimates

Work on backlog grooming items and present what items can be picked up in next sprint to the squad/scrum master.

Tracked UAT (User Acceptance Testing) to verify the implementation against the requirements.

If needed, split the user stories into small pieces so work can be assigned to Dev/QA. Need to choose user stories which don’t have dependencies so team can work on different modules/pages to avoid conflict

Decide the prioritization of user stories based on business responses

Participate in daily stand up and retrospective sprint meetings

Keep an eye on JIRA agile board to track the movement of user stories/bugs

Validate the bugs opened by QA/business and take appropriate action

Anthem Inc., Cincinnati, OH April 2014 – Jul 2015

Business Analyst

Anthem (formerly WellPoint) is the largest health insurer in the US, it is a Blue Cross or BCBS licensee in more than a dozen states and provides plans under the Unicare name in other parts of the country.

Responsibilities:

Interacted with stakeholders and gathered requirements as per the business needs.

Conducted GAP analysis by understanding the AS-IS system and the TO-BE system requirements by having discussions with the SME’s.

Monitor lifecycle of project and evaluate customer reviews for business process

Working closely with Business to understand the business priorities required for release planning

Coordination with offshore team, attending project kick off meetings and status update meetings with the Client

Establish business processes, analyze existing process and recommend improvements to same.

Responsible for System Integration and UAT

Effort estimation for the change request for Requirement gathering and requirement management within RequistePro and Rational DOORS

Coordinate with information technology department and prepare designs for functional specifications.

Analyze functional requirements and collect all requirements and document processes.

Maintained business requirements, use cases, Functional Requirement Specifications, and business rules in ReqsuitePro and traceability.

Assignment of change request to the team after the project is approved for execution

Developed Test Plan and Test cases based on the Use cases and Functional specifications

Periodic monitoring of Resource Loading, tracking of requirement status against milestones

Coordination with offshore team, attending project kick off meetings and status update meetings with the Client

Infinite Campus, Blaine, MN Feb 2013 – March 2014

Business Analyst

Responsible for managing Campus Instruction - Student information system project through to successful delivery.

Acted as the primary liaison between the Business Units, Information Technology (IT) and end users.

Gathered and submitted proposals for change management plans.

Demonstrated skills in interviewing business units, stakeholders and technical leaders to gather and clarify business requirements.

Led planning meetings, JAD sessions (Joint Application Design), analysis development, test inspections, and other project meetings throughout product life cycle.

Conducted interviews and developed business cases to implement process changes, create training material, and instructed clients on new processes and procedures.

Reserve engineered, created, and developed project documentation including: entity relationship diagrams, use cases, data flow diagrams, data dictionaries,

Led for iteration and sprint planning meetings based on epics and user stories and managed backlogs.

Worked closely with the agile development team to get the design into development.

Wrote SQL statements to query data for Data validation and Data quality.

Thomson Reuters, Minneapolis, MN Mar 2010 – Jan 2013

Business Analyst

Reuters Space is a Collaborative environment for Reuter’s global financial customers to create their personal community sites. In today's competitive environment, the ability to form communities efficiently with customers and colleagues is more important than ever. Reuters Space is an exciting new service which allows users to easily share ideas, find unique sources of information and build new business relationships with customers, business partners and employees.

Common Platform is a renewed effort of pulling together all Thomson Reuters commercial software to help its sales force life easier by means of simpler and coherent set of offers for all Customers. In the Day 1 release of Common platform by Thomson Reuters, major features of Reuters Space are being integrated with "Reuters 3000 Xtra" which is a high-speed, integrated information and transaction service. This gives users a commanding view of the global real-time financial arena and provides a combination of news, information and insight as well as access to the global Reuters trading community. Reuters Space integrated with 3000 Xtra reflects vast experience in global financial markets and its functionality is continually upgraded and content enriched.

Responsibilities:

Act as a communication liaison between the business units, end users and application developers in defining, evaluating and developing processes to meet user requirements.

Prepare Use-Case, Functional and Non-Functional Requirement documents and conduct JAD sessions for Reuters Space (Commentaries, Profiles, Contacts/Groups, Search, Business Intelligence and Compliance) modules. – SharePoint 2009

Organize and participate in project commitment review sessions with upper management/stakeholders.

Create work bench, project plan with development, testing tasks and estimates.

Enforce the SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Agile to track/document team velocity, issues/Risks, in-bound/out-bound dependencies and develop contingency plans

Work with development and testing teams in day-day activities such as participating in daily scrums, helping in prioritizing tasks and iteration planning. – J2EE, DB2,.Net 2.0, SQL Server, XML/XSD, MOSS 2009

Lead on Release Management activities like code release to QA, Pre-Production and Production along with documentation.

Coordinate UAT with Business and End users. Document UAT bugs, assign priority and work with IT teams to develop resolutions to these bugs.

Lead On-site and Off-shore communication at all management levels and distribute status reports. – JIRA

All Nippon Airways (ANA) / Wipro, Bangalore, India Apr 2008 - Feb 2010

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Requirement Gathering of the existing ANA Legacy system for migration of Open systems

Setting up JAD sessions to gather initial set of requirements

Worked with business to come up with the Use Case Domain model

Conducting walkthrough sessions with end users

Prototyping of screens using VISIO

Creating Use Case Diagrams, Activity and Class diagrams to communicate requirements

Documentation of Use Case and giving presentation to the business team.

Working closely with Business to understand the business priorities required for iteration planning

Peer Review of Use Cases and incorporation of suggestions/feedback

Interaction with the Subject Matter Experts, Technical Leads, Design Engineers, Development Leads

Creating Traceability of functional requirement to Use Cases

Writing of business rules in structured English format

Participating in retrospective meetings

Responsible for Functional Testing

Tracked defects to closure and prepared defect summary report

Education and Certifications:

Masters of Business Administration (MBA) - Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst of India (ICFAI)

Bachelors of Engineering in EE - JNTU University

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