SAI ROHITH CHERUKUMILLI

518-***-**** adg65g@r.postjobfree.com open for relocation www.linkedin.com/in/sai-rohith-cherukumilli

Professional Summary

Analytical, enthusiastic and innovative Business/Systems Analyst with 7+ years of extensive experience working in Finance, Insurance, Health, Retail and Supply Chain domains holding master’s degree in management information systems. Expert in leading cross-functional teams in gathering requirements, design, development, testing, implementation documentation and delivery of SDLC process innovations, Business Process Modelling, Business Analysis driving the attainment of business goals. Vast experience in analyzing market trends, Systems Knowledge developing dynamic business strategies for an employee centric organization and looking to apply my ample experience & skills in predictive analysis toward the success of the company.

Expert in Business Process Re-engineering,Business objects universe configuration-Loops,contexts, new product development,Electronic Data Interchange(EDI), product cross selling and upselling strategies, understand the Business process, functionality and requirements and to translate them into system requirements. Identified, developed operational initiatives for business readiness needs.

Collaborated with the Stakeholders, Business Users, Developers and other teams to identify and engage on improvement opportunities by gathering requirements and work on the Data Analysis and Statistics.

Proficiency in Data Visualization analysis, Financial and Statistical Modelling manipulating large data in DB back up assumptions and communicate complex analysis both verbally, written and documented.

In Depth Knowledge of System Development life Cycle (SDLC) Analysis, Key Process Indicators (KPIs), Design, Risk Analysis, System Integration and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), After Sales/ Production Analysis.

Hands-on Experience with Project Reporting, Project Solution Scope, Feasibility Analysis, Cost & Benefit analysis, Project Plan and Schedule Preparation. Experienced in Agile Project Activities Like Planning, Inception, Iteration, Story writing, Sizing, Sprint Open/Close Validation and Planning.

Project Coordination, Work Packages and Initial Cost Estimation, Project portfolio maintenance, Orientation to ensure customer-focused processes, satisfaction and strategic decisions.

Predictive Modelling with Identifying complex problems, review/suggest related information to increase and optimize efficiency, profitability, options and implement solutions for managing the release design and deployment into production within schedule/budget, estimate assessment of new data source accuracy

Expertise in conducting User Acceptance Tests (UAT), GAP analysis and Impact analysis to aid in the calculation of the Critical Success Factor (CSF) of the project.

Experienced in Project budget analysis,Digital application building,Outsourcing Strategies, and Contract Management, developing project plans, UI Design & Requirement Validation, identifying documents and Re-Engineering process with deployment/release methodologies.

Certified ITIL and SCRUM MASTER efficient in elicitation techniques like interviewing, questionnaires, brainstorming, focus groups etc.

Education

Wilmington University August 2015 - May 2017

Master’s in Management information Systems

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University August 2011- May 2015

Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering

Professional Experience

Lincoln Financial/Insurance, Greensboro February 2019- Present

Senior Business Systems Analyst/SME

Working as a Business Analyst on a project application named e-NIGO,Digital application which enables the end users to sign and review the forms using Docusign. And project called Term modernization.collaborating with applicable internal & external stakeholders on complex assignments/projects for different assigned areas of responsibility.

Maintaining knowledge on current and emerging developments and trends for assigned areas of responsibility, assesses the impact, and collaborates with management to incorporate new trends and developments in current and future solutions

Identifying, Designing, Developing and defining Operational initiatives to ensure business is ready by Using structured requirements process, clearly articulates, documents, analyzes and validates more complex business requirements using Rally,JIRA,Version one, MS Visio, MS word, Excel etc.

Managed, Analyzed and Retrieved Data using SQL and MSQL and Hands on Experience with Data visualization tools like MS Visio, Tableau etc. for mockup creation.

Facilitating change to the organization through the more complex analysis, design and implementation of business processes that achieve business objectives and needs.

Making a positive contribution as demonstrated by making suggestions for improvement, learning new skills, procedures and processes, ensure a customer-focused process and strategic decisions.

Explained Property& Casualty terms, Insurance Rules, Workers Compensation,JAD sessions, Guidewire Claims to the Dev team and acted as SME.

Collaborating effectively with appropriate internal and/or external stakeholders on more complex issues and conflicts that impact time, cost, scope, quality and risk of assigned projects.

Determining and recommending the most appropriate response to identified more complex problems, issues and/or defects by assessing impact and prioritization.

Worked with Different types of insurances like Life, Health, Annuity,Actuary and underwriting Teams and thorough knowledge on insurance domain and financial transactions and payments.

End to End exp with delivering outputs with Internal organisations,Knowledge of Testing APIs using tools like Postman, Soap UI and reading XML,JSON message specs in automation testing.

Analyzed more complex assignments and/or projects for assigned area(s) of responsibility in New Business IT team by providing more complex research and analysis to support business operations and presents findings to management or project leader. Serving as a mentor and share knowledge with team members.

Environment: Agile, Kanban, Tableau, UML, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, Share point, MS PowerPoint, JIRA,AWD, Oracle, MS Project 2010, MS Visio, SQL,MSQL,XML

Aflac Insurance, Columbus, GA October 2018- January 2019

Senior Business Analyst

Worked as a Subject Matter Expert between IT and business partners on project called Enterprise Management and worked on business objects parameters.

Identified and communicated business needs, translated them into business and technical requirements, for which solutions were implemented.

Also, handled the Team as a Senior-level project team member as a liaison between Stakeholders and IT to provide technical solutions to meet user needs and maintain established business relationships

Lead and assisted with project deliverables- project initiation requests, business and technical requirements, use cases, interface specifications, business architecture models, cost/benefit analysis, risk and issue logs, test plans, training plans and elevation / validation plans.

Communicated and presented complex technical concepts simply and effectively to non-technical team members. Predicted long term needs, performed gap analysis.

Worked with Health and life insurance teams in a project called Enterprise data management Which includes working with guidewire claims, sales and annuity and insurance payments.

Experience working on life, Annuity, Actuaries, Underwriting and claims teams for the health insurance.

Participated in identifying opportunities that impact business strategy and system performance, JAD sessions with Stakeholders to enable technical solutions for process improvements

Conducted Systems Analysis with a focus on business and technical process models and use cases, data flow preparation, ER diagrams, Architectural Diagrams,Business process modeling, Business process flow according to the market strategies and product development, made recommendations for buy Vs. build decisions understanding system interfaces.

Provided testing support and analysis for defect resolution Performs,Product management and backlog issues other related duties as required.

Mentored and develops junior team members into resources with higher skill sets.

Environment: Agile, UML, Enterprise Architect, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, SharePoint,MS PowerPoint, MS Project 2010, MS Visio, SQL Server,JIRA.

NYS Office of Mental Health, Albany, NY July 2017- September 2018

Business Analyst

Working as a Business Analyst for Multiple projects like Personalized Recovery oriented services(PROS) is a recovery-oriented program for individuals with mental health conditions that cause impairment in their lives. The person-directed program integrates physical and behavioral health services in a manner that provides treatment, support, and rehabilitation services,KIDS-About the Child Health and medicaid, Teens and family indicators and CMHP-The County Profiles Dashboard is designed to facilitate local planning through a collaboration between the Office of Mental Health the Conference of Local Mental Hygiene Directors (CLMHD), and the interagency Mental Hygiene Planning Committee, including representatives from the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) and the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS).

Worked as a Lead BA,Scrum master in all phases of business operations report specifications development including creating business requirements documentations (BRDs),leading JADsessions, report mockups, flow charts, and acceptance testing for business intelligence tools to design report, data analysis, Fit Gap analysis or Dashboards for operational reporting business solutions.

Created process flow and architecture diagram using tools such as MS Visio for support of written deliverables and assistance in establishing common understanding across the project.

Worked in Quality Assurance Report Testing, Bug tracking in HP Quality Center or JIRA, Delivered Social programs and development of user acceptance documents for reports.

Used SQL and MSQL for business user report Development, Testing, Statistics and Analytics and OBIEE Analytics, OBIEE Dashboards, and/or Business Intelligence or application reports made using tableau.

Worked with US and NY Tax regulations and compliance programs and worked on Business objects parameters, dealt with product management and backlog issues.

Experience working with EDI between multiple organisations of NYS,Working with large data sets (e.g., 20,000,000 plus records) Oracle 10g/11g databases and healthcare standards such as HIPAA 4010, 5010, ICD-9 and ICD-10 and experience working with Electronic Medical Records(EMR) and Electronic Health records(EHR) of NY state Individuals.

Work on multi-disciplinary teams, XML Development teams translating business/program subject matter information into requirements for technical specification and translating technical information for business/program consumption to ensure consistency and common understanding across the stakeholder groups.

Environment: Agile, UML, MS Word, MS Excel, CURAM,MS Outlook, HIPPA, Share point, .net,MS PowerPoint, MS Project 2010, MS Visio, SQL Server, Oracle Database,JIRA.

SICL America-A2ZShopcenter, Cinnaminson, NJ Jan 2016- June 2017

Business Analyst/SME

Lead planning efforts for assigned project on E-Commerce platform as a consumer facing application to develop a project plan, project contract, project risk analysis, schedule and budget in conjunction with the project team to achieve the project goals.

Participated in agile development for new SAP Hybris e-commerce platform using SAP services.

Worked on Creating APIs for the UI design using SOAP/REST and API schemas using tools like swagger.

Worked technical expertise for SAP Hybris integration using web services for multi-channel access.

Experienced in gathering and documenting Business Requirements on BRD, experienced in writing Use Cases. Ability to gather and document the 'As-Is' and 'To-Be' processes.

Managed Agile SCRUM Life Cycle, Product backlog, Iterations/Sprint plan using Team Foundation Server (TFS), and used TFS for work item management, custom reporting to track sprint/release progress, Backlog Grooming and Defect tracking.

Experience with E2 collaboration while working with purchase orders and end users and API creation for tokenization and credit card billing and payments.

Performed content optimization, title tags, meta description, H1s - keywords, character length, structure, website design, user experience and measuring site behavior in Google Analytics.

Primarily responsible for adding and editing Adobe Analytics tags, administration and tagging through Tealium for 3rd party tags, and analysis of web trends, traffic, and site functionality.

Implemented processes for Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Planning, Tracking and Delivery using Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, and RUP.

Worked with Teams involving Hadoop and ETL Informatica.

Managed paid advertising, pay-per-click campaigns, SEO and social media (blogging, Twitter, and Facebook) and created mockups, dashboards using qlikview.

Created, documented and facilitated training for end users on processes in SAP Hybris framework with the aid of offshore team and Designed and implemented basic SQL queries for QA testing and report/ data validation. Customized the Dashboards to track usage for productivity and performance of business users and their CRM teams.

Involved in Test Planning, Test development for Integration, Functional and System Testing which include executing SQL queries to retrieve data and test/compare and working on XML queries.

Verified that requirements are testable and generated testing objectives. Closely worked with QA on organizing Test Plans and training rollout, preparing Test Cases and UAT scripts, actively participated in testing to ensure successful implementation and project sign-off.

Vijay Agro Products Private Limited, India January 2013- July 2015

Business Analyst

Interacted with Stakeholders to identify business system needs, proposed solutions for business problems and evaluated alternate methods to increase and optimize efficiency, profitability, of the overall process.

Analyzed and documented business system requirements for consumer facing website portal and the corresponding impact on business processes. Responsible for maintaining the minutes of all the requirement gathering sessions.

Responsible for defining the scope and implementing business rules of the project, as well as gathering business requirements and documentation.

Experience in Dealing with the products purchase,Product management,upselling,profits and loss caluclations, Data reconcilation issues using MDM and also handling collaboration tools for demand and supply orders and Created APIs for payments through credit cards using swagger.

Worked as a team with other business analysts to make an object-oriented model of the application and create use cases.

Extracted the business requirements from the end users by several Requirement Gathering Sessions (RGS) keeping in mind their need for the application and documenting it for the developers.

Was responsible for the creation and approval of the functional specification. Worked as a technical writer working on technical specifications, converting business specifications into technical specifications, Cost quality control, information security, customer manuals and online documentation.

Translated Business requirements to functional and technical language with the help of Use cases and UML diagrams for developers. Critical thinking and explaining process to team,Carried out forward and backward tracing for verification and validation purposes.

Provided support to the QA team in User Acceptance Testing, .net teams in development, Created reports for business analysis purposes using Microsoft Excel.

Environment: MS Visio, UML, SQL, MS Office (MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Access).

Technical Skills

Business Skills Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile/Scrum methodologies Business Requirement Document (BRD), Business Process Analysis & Design, UML, GAP Analysis, Workflow, Dataflow, Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERD), UML, UCD, DFD, Impact Analysis, JAD session, Salesforce

Software Packages C, C++, SQL, XML,JSON,MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Outlook), Visual Studio, MATLAB, SharePoint, Quick Sight, Power BI

Databases SQL Server, Oracle and DB2

Methodologies, Processes Agile/Scrum, SDLC, Waterfall, Storyboards, Workflows, Scenarios

Certifications Certified Scrum Master, ITIL

Six Sigma Tools DMAIC • DFSS • DAEE • ANOVA • Hypothesis Testing • Fish Bone Analysis • Root cause analysis • Gage R&R, • Kanban •JIT • Poka Yoke • TQM •TPM • SIPOC • Multivariate testing- APQP

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