PARAMESHWARI NALLA

BUSINESS ANALYST/ QA ANALYST/ SCRUM MASTER/RELEASE MANAGER

CELL: 732-***-****/ EMAIL: adf4ng@r.postjobfree.com

Robbinsville, NJ-08691

US CITIZEN

Professional Summary:

Over 11+ years of experience in Business Analysis/System Engineering, Software Quality Assurance/Testing, Release management/project management in Telecom, Finance, Banking and Health care domains.

Strong experience in SAFe agile/Scrum agile, waterfall methodologies, PI planning, Use cases, Defect analysis, Risk analysis, Test Case review, Test Scenarios review, Client demo validation, Production issue analysis, Data models, Interface agreement review and JAD/JAR sessions.

Facilitated agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance

.Experienced with Enterprise Architect tool to provide conceptual diagrams, flow diagram, and UML design.

Strong experience in developing Requirements Gathering, Use Cases, Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts in Functional testing, Integration testing, UAT, Regression testing, GUI testing, Back-end testing, System Testing.

Experience with Manual/Automated testing using ALM, UFT, JIRA and Confluence.

Knowledge in Selenium automation testing.

Experience with Medicaid/Medicare/Healthcare data and analytics.

Strong experience with WorkDay for hiring employees, Terminating employees, Change Job, moving organization and Payroll validation

Technical & Business Skills:

Requirement Tools

JIRA, Confluence, Rally, iRISE, TDP, Agile Craft, Visio and Enterprise Architect (Sparx)

Languages

Python, SQL*Plus, VBScipt, HTML, Shell Scripting

QA testing tools

ALM, UFT/QTP, Clear Quest, QC, LoadRunner, JIRA

Defect trackers

Rational Clear Quest, ALM, JIRA, TDP

Web/App Servers

Apache, WebLogic

GUI / Tools

Rational Rose, TOAD, Visual Basic, Microsoft Office

Database

Oracle, MongoDB

OS

UNIX, Linux, Windows

Microsoft Tools

SharePoint, PowerPoint, MS Access, Word, Excel, MS Visio Outlook, OneNote, OneDrive, Yammer, Teams

3rd Party tools

Alayacare, CellTrak, VoterVOICE

Architecture

Microservices, REST APIs, Webservices, DevSecOps, Workday

Clients & Experience

Bayada Home Health Care, NJ July 2019 to till date

Business Analyst/QA Analyst Responsibilities:

Bayada is global health care company and it is non-profit organization. Bayada provide home health care for adults and children in terms of personal care with State Medicaid and Medicare certified visits Habilitation and Hospice services.

Researched and gathered detailed requirements and translated it into proposed system enhancements.

Analyzed user requirement document, specifications and developed test plans, test cases which includes Testing Overview, Test Objectives, Testing Strategies, and Test Environment, what will be tested, what will not be tested.

Harmonized in Medicare and Medicaid domains of the home healthcare systems and industry for home health care employees, clients.

Scheduled home health care visits for clients and employees using third party applications -Alayacare and CellTrak and ran the payroll process after process the visits.

Established different type’s offices -home office, hospice office in test environment.

Formulated test plan and test cases for Medicare programs and Payroll process based on business rules.

Participated in Load Testing using LoadRunner and Stress Testing.

Environment: JIRA, Confluence, Business Objects, Data stage XML, Windows 10, MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, Word, Visio, Teams), Zoom, SQL Server, WorkDay and LoadRunner.

AT & T, NJ Sept 2015 to June 2019

Business Analyst:

This is project is to provide the inventory data for business needs across products and service to improve the customer experience. This application for planning and coordination of all phases and activities involved in the release of a system or system update into the production environment. Administered telecommunications functional groups which include – Sales, Billing, Service Assurance, Provisioning domains.

As a BA, coordinated with stakeholders to gather the requirements, functional specifications and synchronized in requirement analysis, design, development, testing and integration of business needs in Sales, Service Delivery, Provisioning and Billing functionalities.

Participated in Daily Scrum meetings and conducted peer reviews/grooming sessions of work items produced at various stages of the project.

Strong knowledge in SAFe agile projects - Contributed in PI (Program Increment) planning session with business team members to ensure all AT&T products and services are available for customers.

Architected data migration into Mongo DB for high performance and availability.

Formalized use case, workflow, conceptual diagrams using UML design tool – Enterprise architect (Sparx systems).

Worked closely with product owner to ensure all the reports from the work stream are documented and the data elements (business names for the fields) are captured to display order status in web as well as mobile GUI.

Synchronized in several production/UAT defect issues by analyzing the issue and providing inputs to resolve issues.

Launched GUI based on business need and took part in demo calls to validate the requirement.

Environment: DevSecOps, MongoDB, CDP, Java, ETL, GG, Microservices, AgileCraft, EA, JIRA,TDP, Business Objects, ReqPro, Data stage UML, Windows XP, MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Project), Quality Center, iRise,Wireframe.

IBM/AT & T, NJ Feb 2012 to Aug 2015

Scrum Master/Release Manager Responsibilities:

As a Scrum master/Release manager, successfully delivered over $ 5 M client technology refresh project, on-time/on-budget by leading cross-functional team utilizing project management best practices..

Controlled and organize walk through meetings to review project plans, Go/No Go readiness assessments, task dependencies, installation instructions, back out procedures with stakeholders and project teams for the release management process and procedures.

Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%.

Customized timeframes for more than 50% of projects by successfully maintaining change management process.

Accelerated AOTS Change Management request and collaborate with project teams and obtain the necessary approvals.

Raised tickets in change management tool and worked closely with users in order to resolve the issues.

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities

Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project was within scope and budget.

Environment: Java, ETL, GG, AgileCraft, EA, JIRA,TDP, Business Objects, ReqPro, Data stage UML, Windows XP, MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Project), GitHub, Quality Center, Wireframe.

Wells Fargo, MD October 2009 to January 2012

QA Analyst

The application featuring various online services include personal and commercial banking. The enhanced feature e-bill services makes online banking experience more convenient and easy to use by the end users. The application also has various tools such as Investment that help to create a sound portfolio and have a transparency in your investments.

As a QA analyst, analyzed system requirement specifications and develop Test plans, test cases to cover overall QA System Testing.

Created screen mockups for GUI and got signoff from stakeholders.

Coordinate tracking of defects during different release phases with Project Manager and work with Project Manager to ensure proper closure.

Developed spreadsheet – based report of impact Analysis and post release issues for management.

Analyzed Portfolio Management, Investment Planning, Financial Planning, Customer Support and Investment Strategy Tools and processes

Extensively worked on Functional testing, Regression testing, Black Box testing and Integration testing.

Identify any other potential risks that exist in the current authorization and claim process related to claims overpayment.

Environment: SQL*Plus, Rational Clear Quest, Oracle 8.05, Windows 95/98/2000, MS-Office 2000, WinRunner7.5, TestDirector7.6, Load Runner 7.6, Manual Testing, ALM, UFT/QTP,

BCBS, NJ June 2008 to September 2009

QA Tester/UAT Tester

BCBS is one of the largest health Insurance Company in Unites States. The application is developed to assign health care programs to employers, add new employers, view employee dependents, and all other related information.

As a QA tester/UAT tester, involved in discussion with the Business Analysts/Subject Matter Experts (SME) during creation of test plans and test cases.

Translated project requirements into test plans and test cases, produced acceptance testing in QA environment, reported bugs, and ensured stability before deployment.

Worked on Backend validation using SQL queries execution.

Performed analysis on inbound/outbound file layouts and analyze sample data to identify the transformation rules with respect to the business logic

Streamlined Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Backend Testing, Black Box Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Environment: WebLogic, Oracle 11/R12, SQL*Plus, Web Services, Web GUI, JIRA, TOAD, Windows 2000/NT, Rational Clear Quest, Test Director, Manual Testing, Oracle 8.05, MS-Office 2000, WinRunner7.5, TestDirector7.6, C#, ASP.Net, Load Runner 7.6

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science – Kakatiya University, TS, India

CERTIFICATIONS:

Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

https://www.scrum.org/certificates/428777

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