Anshali prasad khorgade

Business Analyst

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SUMMARY OF SKILLS

Expertise in all phases and methodologies of Software Development Life Cycle including Waterfall, Agile/Scrum and Rational Unified Process.

Conducted JAD Sessions with Business Users and separately with development & QA teams.

Business Analyst with solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling, Data Analysis, Data Mapping and Business Analysis.

Experienced in Project Management, Business Analysis, Claim Operations Readiness for new releases, Business Process Modeling, Use Case Modeling using UML, Data Modeling, Project Management, Change Management, Software Training, Software Development Methodologies, QA Testing and Systems Testing, troubleshooting of client server and web-based systems.

Expertise in Graphical User Interface Testing, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Stress/Load Testing.

Established experience in providing marketing research consultation to the key business units to help defining the business issues.

Skilled in conducting GAP Analysis, User Acceptance Testing, SWOT Analysis and Cost Benefit Analysis.

Designed Entity Relationship Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams in the Functional Specifications.

Highly skilled in using change control and bug tracking tools like Clear Quest, Rational Requisite Pro and Quality Center for identifying, analyzing and documenting defects including version and change control.

Documented Test Plans; created, imported and ran Test Cases; logged Defects and performed Manual Testing in HP Quality Center.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst

Horizon Group USA Newyork, NY May 2019 – Present

Project: ERP:APPRISE ERP (Domain: Supply Chain and Manufacturing)

Horizon Group USA (HGUSA) is a leading arts and craft and fashion consumer product company. Develop and distribute a large scope of categories from fashionable jewelry and apparel crafts to seasonal stationery & impulse products.

Role and Responsibilities:

Development and management of project plans for large to medium projects.

Identify opportunities to improve business process/procedure to provide more effective/efficient solutions.

Developed data flow diagrams, illustrating the flow of data from the Legacy systems into the Application Database Tables, along with checkpoints for testing/verification.

Created requirements analysis and design phase artifacts using Requisite Pro and Rational Rose.

Involved in creating targeted questionnaires and interviews for SMEs, Clients and Business Users to gather requirements.

Created Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Collaboration Diagrams. Interacted with various cross-functional teams for building business Use Cases.

Interacted with the developers to report and correct bugs.

Prepared detailed reports of the Bugs, Pass-Fail report, Comparison Chart Release Management documentation.

Integrated Requisite Pro with Rational Rose to provide all teams visibility and maintain tractability among requirements, use cases and change requests.

Managed all the requirements in Requisite Pro, making requirements available to all team members.

Designed Use Cases and Sequence Diagrams using Rational Rose. Prepared Use Case Documents and utilized MS Visio to create UML Diagrams including Use Case, Activity and Class Diagrams to extract business process flows and workflows.

Development of program specifications to address existing business issues. Specification may be used externally by other programming resources, or internally to direct the individual’s development process.

Identification of required resources, including hardware, software and personnel.

Development and execution of testing plans to insure that delivered solutions meet required needs. Business Analyst will be involved in final testing and sign-off of solutions before moved into production.

Develop implementation and training plans for release of new development to the user community. Provide initial and follow-up training as required to successfully implement development solutions.

Develop documentation on solution functionality and process flow that can be used by user community for self-training/issue resolution.

Provide first level support to users for issues related to application functionality/user training.

Development of required reporting/data analysis models using existing data reporting/modeling tools.

Environment: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project), SQL, SQL Server, UML, My SQL,HTML, XML, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, SQL, Enterprise DW

Business/Systems Analyst

Briggs and Riley, Hauppauge, NY December 2016 – March 2019

Project: Multiple enhancements to the web portal.

Coordinated with Management and Business Stakeholders to define scope, analyze requirements, evaluate feasibility and determine strategic needs.

Guided Project Team with business needs and project objectives to identify and refine requirements.

Conducted meetings and workshops to discuss high-level requirements.

Conducted JAD Sessions to allow Stakeholders to communicate their perspectives, resolve issues and reach agreements.

Worked extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance testing.

Resolved system issues and performed application testing as necessary.

Processed orders and Validated them based on transaction rules.

Maintained regression Test Cases. Used JIRA for logging/tracking defects.

Managed scope and user expectations. Maintained core deliverables including Status Reports, Schedules, and other key stakeholder presentations/communication.

Worked extensively on User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, Negative testing and Integration testing.

Reviewed requirements and understood technical recommendations and constraints.

Developed comprehensive and accurate Functional Specifications, Data Mapping and Process Flows.

Identified gaps and performed GAP Analysis with respect to CMS requirements.

Business Analyst

Independence Blue Cross, Philadelphia, PA March 2015 – November 2016

Project: Date Warehouse Merging.

Worked with Business teams to define the product roadmaps and determined features/functions that needed to be added on an ongoing basis.

Wrote Function Specifications Document and walked through with developers and testers.

Designed, documented and created mapping documents for data analysts and quality assurance analysts to make changes in Data Model, ETL Code and prepared Test Plans.

Wrote SQL Queries to do data profiling and in-depth analysis of system and data to provide accurate data to meet the business requirements.

Developed plan for data feeds and data mappings for integration between various system and meet project deadline.

Organized and scheduled User Interviews, User Meetings, Group Meetings and JAD Sessions.

Conducted daily meetings between team members for tracking the progress of project.

Conducted Data Analysis, System Analysis and GAP Analysis.

Analyzed the core product needs from various internal and external sources in the areas of IBC Core Platform, Reports and Dashboard, and mapped them to establish IT requirements.

Designed the extracts and created Specifications Document for the outside vendors to meet their needs by providing data from Active Enterprise Data Warehouse.

Performed efforts estimation with collaboration with the Developer, QA and other interfacing teams for the design and development of enhancement or any changes in the application.

Business Analyst

Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI July 2013 – January 2015

Project: Development of a new Web Portal and Health Information Exchange.

Developed business process flow with Unified Modeling Language and Rational Unified Process methodologies/tools for Work Flow and Use Case Diagrams.

Created Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams to analyze the requirements.

Assisted Project Manager in setting project expectations.

Performed GAP Analysis and evaluated the impact of changes.

Conducted JAD sessions between End Users and Development Team.

Gathered, analyzed and wrote Business Requirements. Defined Business and System Requirements.

Created detailed business process models, data integration requirements and data mapping documentation.

Defined timelines for project delivery and managed projects/resources to successful completion.

Coordinated with the Helpdesk team to investigate and resolve production issues.

Analyzed requirements using Rational Rose and Rational Requisite Pro, and performed the iterative process to develop Use Cases.

Developed applications for Electronic Billing/Scheduling and Electronic Medical Records.

Created Mock-up forms in MS Word for better visualization and understanding of the software solution.

Developed Test Scenarios and implemented Test Plan.

Tested the application and reported the bugs to the development team.

Business Analyst

Synovus Bank, Columbus, GA April 2012 – June 2013

Project: Development/Implementation of an Online Quotes/Policy Application.

Actively participated in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle and applied Unified Modeling Language methodologies to design Communication Diagram, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagram and ER Diagrams.

Wrote Business Requirements Document and Functional Requirements Document.

Performed GAP Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new requirements.

Performed Risk Analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risks areas for the project and prioritized the application development and testing.

Created Business Use Cases, User Requirements Document, Functional/Technical Documents.

Responsible for identifying and documenting business rules and creating detailed Use Cases.

Documented Data Sources and Transformation Rules required to populate and maintain Data Warehouse Content.

Analyzed ETL process created in Informatica, developed SQL Queries and tables which replicated the ETL, and compared the SQL results with the Informatica tables.

Provided documentation such as Requirements Management Plans, Functional Requirements, Test Plans and Test Cases.

Developed summary reports including line and pie charts, trend analysis reports and sub-reports according to business requirements using SQL Server Reporting Services.

Created SQL Scripts for demonstrating the prototypes and for verifying the result sets.

Extensively interacted with User Group and Development Team.

ENVIRONMENT: MS Office Suite, Lotus Database, MS Visio, Rational Unified Process, Unified Modeling Language, Test Director, Tableau, Load Runner, SQL, SAS Data Studio, Oracle/SQL Server, MS SharePoint, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Project, AQT, Teradata, JAVA, SSRS, Erwin, HP ALM, Query Builder, Visual Studio, JIRA, Hybris.

EDUCATION: Master in computer engineering

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