Siddhartha Achyuta

Address: **** ** ** **, *** #*102,

Oklahoma City, OK, 73159

Email: aczak4@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 940-***-****

Business Analyst with over 3 years of experience as in focusing mainly on the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) principles of Agile Methodology and Rational Unified Process (RUP).

Interacted with stakeholders, gathering requirements, rating them and assigning priorities to each of them

Develop and implement Six Sigma processes that ensure optimal production efficiency that meets critical timelines.

Develop business process models for projects and demonstrations at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) using business process model notation and enterprise architecture.

Insurance system life cycle experience (Policy, Claims, Billing, etc.) experience

Experienced in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions for requirements gathering, analysis and design. Organized weekly Project Status and Task Review meetings.

Advanced Excel skills (VBA, Pivot Table etc.) and Proficient in processing different data formats and tables from kinds of data sources

Efficiently carried out SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) implementation.

Experienced in creating Business Requirement Document, Functional Requirements Specifications, Documentation, and Scope Documents.

Derived functional specifications document based on the User Requirement Specification and used JIRA for documenting requirements.

Functional knowledge of sales and distribution requirements in ERP (orders, deliveries, shipments, scheduling agreements) is required. Knowledge of material, quality, and financial management

Proficient in Developing and executing Test Plans, Test Case, FRD,Trizetto Facets 4.x and Medical Billing, Test Scenarios, also performing functional, usability testing and ensuring that the software meets the system Requirement retrospective, backlog grooming, sprint reviews and maintaining the product backlog

Exclusive involvement in a formal review of representative set of user stories and business rules from a batch with the Product Owner and Quality Analyst Team.

Pega Scrum - experience in PRPC, BPM.

Strong organizational and presentations skills, thorough knowledge of Salesforce.com and CRM tools

Strong knowledge of CRM and ERP business systems.

Experienced in creating Business Requirement Document, Functional Requirements Specifications, Documentation, and Scope Documents.

Responsible for verification that the delivered application requirements meet the customer needs based on the specifications, ensuring minimal defects in both UAT and production

Proficient in using Agile Scrum methodologies, performed roles of Scrum Master following sprint/standup sessions and used Excel extensively to write user stories, analyzed the Iteration Burn Down charts and reviewed defects.

Educational Qualifications:

Bachelors in Technology – Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India

Masters of Science in Engineering Technology – University of North Texas, Denton, TX

Skill Set:

Business / Modeling Tools

MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Rational Rose

Requirements Management Tools

Rational Requisite Pro

Databases

SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access, Oracle, Tableau

SDLC Methodologies

Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Iterative

Web Technologies

Java, JSP, VB Script, VB 6.0

Testing Tools

HP ALM, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Load Runner, Rational Test Manager, Rational Clear Quest

Professional Certifications:

Project Management – Lean Process Certified

Six Sigma(Green Belt) -Certified

Executive Management- Certified

Work Experience:

Business Systems Analyst Jan 2016 to Present

Anthem Inc

Norfolk, VA

Description: ICCA (Integrated Care Coordination Application) engagement involves developing an end to end system to support the Anthem LTSS business process using Care Management framework. Pega is being used as the software solution to meet the LTSS business process & requirements. The LTSS program provides long-term support services, for HCBS (home and community based services) and Nursing facility services, to recipients eligible for enrolment.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to create best-in-class solutions that integrate technology, information, and business processes

Identify, plan, develop, implement, and maintain business systems solutions that support client operational needs.

Provide technical consultation to the client team and related internal stakeholders

Translate requirements into business, system and functional requirements and partner with IT Developers in translating requirements into design specifications

Involved in HIPAA EDI transactions such as 834, 835, 837 (P, D, I) 270, 271, 278

Expertise in claims processing subsystem - Enrollment and Eligibility verification for recipients and providers, claims processing, Claims Pricing, Claims Adjudication and payment scheduling and claims reporting.

Experience in real-time EDI transactions such as Benefit Inquiry and Response and Claim Status Request and Response (276 / 277)s.

Involved in Forward Mapping from ICD-9 to ICD-10 and Backward Mapping from ICD-10 to ICD-9 using Axway

Created Test Conditions from business requirement document and functional requirement document.

Wrote SQL Queries to validate data from different databases. Extracted data from data warehouse by writing SQL Queries.

Involved in debugging.

Actively work from the Project Initiation Phase to define the scope of the project and make presentations to the Senior Management.

Reviewed Project Scope, BRD Requirements, and DRD Data Requirement Documents.

Presented data reports to project manager and made recommendations to government departments based on analysis

Create the required Process Flows, Use cases and other business related flows using MS Visio and other Pega tools.

Create Application Document and review it with all the impacted areas and stakeholders.

Help the Dev teams to design the various out of the box rules like decision tables, declare expressions etc wherever it is necessary for a faster and efficient Pega implementation

Actively take part in the project Design to ensure the adherence of Pega Guardrails and Pega OOB functionalities.

Help the QA teams to define the correct test cases and efficient test plans.

Environment: PRPC v7.1.8, CMF, Oracle 10g, FACETS (Trizetto), PLA, SOAP UI, Axway, MS SQL

Business Systems Analyst Jan 2015 to Aug 2015

Cognosante LLC

Dallas, TX

As Business Systems Analyst, I created Functional Requirements document and Process Flow diagrams for a Salesforce implementation. Defined, documented, set up and executed test cases. Served as the primary point of contact for Business and System related issues for both, external as well as internal clients.

Responsibilities:

Strong Business analysis skills through an in depth understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and understanding different methodologies at all stages of Rational Unified Process(RUP), Agile, Waterfall and Business Process Re-engineering.

Strong knowledge of modeling the system using Use Case Diagram, UML Diagrams (Activity diagram, Sequence diagram, State diagram and Class diagram) and also knowledge of Impact Analysis, Scope Definition and Change Management through MS Visio.

Using JIRA Agile and Blueprint Systems, created user stories and their relevant acceptance criteria for specifying functional requirements for a broad range of features including the login, dashboard and database functionality.

Assess project risk using methods to identify risk, probability, impact and how to mitigate those risks.

Gather information at the right level of detail and scope to represent the stakeholders needs, and ask questions that lead to an understanding of the business need rather than what they want.

Participate in end to end implementation planning including project management, issue management, communication and change management.

Participate in the implementation phase to ensure that the proper business scope has been met and create test plans and conduct UAT (User Acceptance Testing) with the end users using HP-ALM

Make use of ServiceNow for Vendor Invoice Management, Inventory Management, Software Asset Management, Demand Management, Incident, Problem, Request, Change Management, Document Management for Service Orders, Workflow Management & Deployment Management

Created Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for end to end tracking of business requirements from Analysis to implementation phase

Worked on Data Mapping among different interfaces

Business Analyst /Quality Analyst Jan 2013 to July 2014

Computer Management Corporation(CMC)

-Owned by TCS

Hyderabad, India

Responsibilities:

Facilitated meetings with the external customers to elicit their specifications for the invoices and formulated clear, well-defined Business Requirement Document (BRD).

Closely worked with Product Owners to manage Product Backlogs to prioritize features and subsequently created Sprint Backlogs.

Assisted Scrum Master to facilitate scrum meetings such as Sprint Planning meeting, Daily Scrum meeting, Sprint Review meeting, Sprint Retrospective meeting, and Backlog Refinement meeting.

Participated in requirement review meeting and gave feedback on inconsistent requirements and requirements.

Identified gaps between existing processes and requirements.

Developed Test Plan based on the Functional requirement specifications.

Researched and documented existing processes and developed test cases and scripts to support test plan using Quality center.

Performed Functional testing, Integration testing, Data integrity testing, Negative testing and Regression testing on the application.

Performed session timeouts and failover testing of the servers.

Performed device testing on all components and software testing of Kiosks using the application.

Identified defects, logged them and followed up with developers for issue resolution.

Provided test summaries and defect reports on demand to manager.

Created and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)

Performed full life cycle testing of software releases, including new development, enhancements and maintenance to ensure timely delivery, quality and end user satisfaction.

Used SQL queries to validate the test data as needed.

Environment: MS Office, Agile, Snag it Editor, XML Files, JIRA, SQL, Center, Manual Testing, JBoss Web Server, Webclient, Oracle

PS: References provided upon request

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