PRATIK SHYAM

Sr. Business Analyst

Phone: 469-***-**** E-Mail: adk1i1@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Around 9 years IT experience specializing in comprehensive Business Analysis, Data Modeling, and extensive industry domain knowledge in Healthcare, Retail Pharmacy Insurance, and Finance.

Highly efficient in Requirement Gathering, Modeling, Designing, Testing, Validation, Workflows, and Data Management.

Extensive experience in Waterfall and Agile (Scrum) methodologies, enterprise environments, architectural and solution design, implementation, and complex customizations.

Worked in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including UAT Testing, Production and Deployment.

Knowledge of SFDC.

Liaison to several cross-functional teams and in-depth understanding of the AS-IS and TO-BE business processes and experience in converting these requirements into technical specifications for preparing test plans.

Efficient in reformulating strategies through Process Re-engineering, Change Management, Release Management and Process Improvements.

Good UI/UX development skills.

Lead planning meetings, eliciting requirements from stakeholders through Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions, focus groups, and interviews for developing BRD, FRD, FSD and SOW.

Created Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burndown chart, RFI, RFP and managed User Stories.

Expertise in conducting in-depth Problem Analysis, GAP Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, and Impact Analysis. Assisted in conducting Cost Benefit analysis and ROI analysis.

Implemented data modeling techniques including data visualization, data warehousing and data mapping.

Conducted overall business management and data management by using Microsoft Excel and database tools including SQL, MySQL, and MS Access.

Prepared graphical depictions of project processes using Sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD), Use Case diagrams, Wireframes, Mockups, including the business workflow.

Implemented Manual and Automation testing techniques by the creation of Test666 Scenarios, Test Plans, Test Cases, and facilitating Test Inspections.

Detailed knowledge on different modules within healthcare (Membership, billing, Enrollment, Claims, Capitation, Providers).

Good understanding about the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standard used in various business processes.

Strong Knowledge and understanding of ICD-9-CM and ICD -10-CM coding and claims processing

Experience with HIPAA compliance, and Involved in up-gradation of HIPAA 4010 transaction to HIPAA 5010 in health care with strong understanding of Medicaid and Medicare rules and claim adjudication.

Knowledge in generating Reports, Analytic Snapshots and Dashboards, Enabling Email Services, and constructing Page Layouts.

Excellent interpersonal skills, effective writing, and oral communication skills.

Ability to work both independently and as part of a team to meet objectives. Possess ability to motivate a team towards successful completion of project milestones.

Certifications

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Certified.

Scrum Master Accredited Certification (SMAC) Certified from International Scrum Institute.

Technical Expertise

Domains

Healthcare, Finance, Retail

Requirement Management

HP ALM, Blueprints, Doors, ERP, TFS

Document Creation/Management

MS Office Suite – Word, Excel, Outlook, Publisher, PowerPoint, OneNote,

MS Project, Adobe Acrobat, Lotus Notes

Content Management

MS – SharePoint

Database Management

MS-Access, SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Erwin, Guidewire, Informatica, ETL, STIBO

Business Modeling

Enterprise Architect, Balsamiq, MS-Visio, Rational Rose, Pencil

Business Intelligence

Cognos, Business Objects, Crystal Reports

Testing

Selenium

Bug Tracking/ Quality Control

JIRA, Rally, HP Quality Center

CRM

Salesforce, Pega, Dynamics 365

Languages

UML, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, APEX, Visualforce

Operating Systems

Windows, Mac OS, Unix and Linux

Other Tools

PeopleSoft, PEGA, and Insurity

Methodologies

Agile-Scrum, Waterfall

Education

B.E. Vishveshvaria Technological University, India

New Jersey Institute of Technology, MS Information Systems. USA

Work Experience

Client: Verizon, TX April ‘20 – Present

Role: Business Analyst/System Architect

Project Description:

Worked on multiple projects such as creating API strategy, reactive retention of customers, and updating reporting tool.

Responsibilities:

Worked with API developers to devise API strategy for Verizon Business Group.

Identified API requirements and approached Business Sponsor for the need of new APIs.

Worked with stakeholders and other architects to estimate t-shirt size, impact analysis, as part of the HLA.

Analyzed and worked on migration of the reporting tool from EDocs to Looker.

Actively took part in backlog grooming and wrote User Stories.

Provided end user support wherever required.

Recommended corrective actions, if necessary, along with the progress against Development/Action Plan routinely to the Project Manager

Created system design documents, data design documents, uHLA.

Client: Agilent Technologies, CA January ‘19 – March ‘20

Role: Sr Business Process Analyst/ Data Analyst

Project: PIM System

Project Description:

Agilent manufactures medical instruments and devices. The project was based on the PIM system that Agilent uses to manage its data on their website. I was involved in improving the usability of the system by analysis and exploratory testing. I worked with the data team to perform bulk upload data on our database, generate reports, and create test data. I was the leading tester for my team during UAT.

Responsibilities:

Worked with stakeholders to identify business requirements and system requirements.

Constantly looked for improvements that can help with the usability of the system.

Created mockups and wireframes to suggest improvements to the current UI/UX.

Lead JAD sessions, discussions, and was in constant communication with the development team.

Collected, stored, reviewed and modified requirements in Confluence.

Actively helped team to manage backlog for grooming.

Assisted the team during release planning to prioritize requirements based on feedback of customers and stakeholders.

Created test data for every release.

Used STIBO STEP Workbench to upload data to database.

Took part in data migration and data mapping.

Created test cases and test scripts for UAT, and took part in functional, regression, and end-to end testing.

Lead UAT for Scrum team and managed defects that were occurred during UAT.

Generated benchmark reports.

Environment: MS Office, JIRA, SharePoint, Agile-SCRUM, MS-Visio, SQL, STIBO STEP, Balsamiq, Confluence

Client: McKesson Specialty Health, AZ August ‘15 – December ’18

Role: Sr. Business Analyst/ Systems Analyst

Project: Patient Assistant Services

Project Description:

McKesson Specialty health provides services of patient’s coverage information to patients and providers for reimbursement of specialty drugs. The first phase of the project involved data migration of the Java based application to a Salesforce platform. The second phase of the project involved reporting of data to third party vendors and clients. The application helped determining patient eligibility for reimbursement of the specialty drugs and for the patients to get the claims processed.

Responsibilities:

Gathered, analyzed, and prioritized business requirements and system requirements that must be included while developing the software.

Elicitation techniques used included interviews, surveys, prototyping, and developing mockups of the GUI.

Prepared Logical Data Models that contained set of diagrams, Business Requirement Documents, and supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the end user requirements.

Conducted JAD sessions with data management team, SMEs, vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues.

Collected, stored, reviewed, and modified requirements in MS Word.

Authored progress and completion report which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis.

Formulated and executed business rules for Guidewire Claim Center.

Planned and defined system requirements through Use Case Diagrams, Use Case Scenarios, and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies.

Created Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams in MS Visio.

Created State Chart Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Collaboration Diagrams thus defining the Data Process Model and Business Process Model.

Worked on creation of wireframes during the Elaboration Phase.

Took part in data migration and data mapping activities to migrate from a legacy-based Java app to a salesforce cloud platform.

Created ER- diagrams, assisted in the ETL process as a part of data warehousing process.

Managed third party applications integrated into the Salesforce Org.

Created test cases and test scripts to check the functionality of application (UAT).

Performed manual front-end testing to check all functionalities of different phases.

Suggested measures and recommendations to improve the current application performance. Designed organizational tools and forms to facilitate accurate data collection and recordkeeping.

Involved in exploratory testing on the website.

Identified/documented data sources and transformation rules required populating and maintaining data warehouse content.

Environment: MS Office, JIRA, SharePoint, Agile-SCRUM, MS-Visio, SQL, Salesforce, informatica, Team Foundation Server, Guidewire Claim Center, AWS

Client: Express Scripts, NJ February ‘14 – June ‘15

Role: Sr. Business Analyst

Project: Retail Pharmacy Claims

Project Description:

The project involved the enhancement of the regular claims process for purchase. The project’s goal was to improve the entire claim adjudication process from receiving the prescription to processing the payment process and updating accounts receivable. It also eliminated the complex, inefficient and labors-intensive aspects of payment processing, including customizable workflow, compliance, document preparation management, and customer relationship management.

Responsibilities:

Performed and assisted the Business Intelligence department with internal audits for insurance claims

Documented system requirements to meet business and end user needs.

Associating Business Processes to data, job profiles and corporate applications.

Involved in Capturing and Designing, Executing and Monitoring Business Process Management Activities.

Identified requirements by conducting JAD sessions with SMEs and Business Owners.

Interacted with Business Owners, Delivery Managers, Application Developers, Testers and other IT staff to ensure successful teamwork and high-quality solutions in the development and delivery of new applications.

Evaluated the information gathered from multiple sources, decomposed high level information into details to gain understanding of end-to-end solution.

Coordinated and facilitated requirements analysis and walk through meetings.

Employed systems analysis methodologies to obtain analyses and document IT system/application requirements including user security requirements.

Utilized standard templates to write requirement specifications accurately and concisely.

Produced the visual models for the application to create State Chart, Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams.

Coordinated business and IT signoff on requirements documentation. Created and maintained project schedule using MS Project showing all the deliverables target dates.

Worked as primary IT contact for team members developing and executing test plan.

Communicated business risks and project cross-impacts to Project Manager and BSA Manager - Support.

Working on the Business problems cited by the Account management team and provide Data backed recommendations/insights.

Generated Business intelligence reports using crystal reports, which were used to make strategic decisions.

Provided additional adjudication processing assistance to team members with complex reimbursement and client-related questions.

Involved in managing Test Requirement Management and Business Rules Management.

Environment: MS Office Suite – Word, Excel MS project, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Share Point, Cognos, UML, JAD, GAP, PL/SQL, Agile Scrum, Jira, PEGA, Crystal Reports

Client: First Union National Bank, Linden, NJ October ’12 – January’14

Role: Associate Business Analyst

Project: Transfer and Payment Service Up-gradation

Project Description:

The objective was with Union Bank’s Retail Banking transfer service customer can securely send money to friends, family or coworkers using an email address or mobile phone number. Customer can transfer money without using the recipient Bank account number. This service also allows customers to transfer money from Union Bank account to any other bank account.

Responsibilities:

Worked as a Business Analyst for multiple module wise development teams. The project followed full project life cycle as per the SDLC specifications using MS Project.

Worked along with the team members to create Request For Information and Request For Proposal documents.

Categorized and prioritized requirements from end users and communicate with project manager to design the business requirements

Worked with project manager and high-level management team to identify Project Scope, develop work plans and schedules.

Generated functional requirements by collectively gathering requirements from all teams.

Created and maintained Business Requirements document and System Requirements document. In addition, was responsible for getting appropriate sign-offs and approvals.

Assisted in GAP analysis and business process reengineering; identified and documented improving area to meet the end state requirements.

Developed BRDs and FSDs and designed Use Cases using Microsoft Visio.

Created wireframes and prototypes.

Worked with QA testing team to design test methods to verify the application's functions of generating consumer loan, home equity, refinance, and performing commercial loan activities.

Reviewed and modeled existing loan processing workflow; identified improved opportunities

Assisted in UAT.

Environment: MS Office – Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint. UML, Axure, Waterfall Methodology, Balsamiq, Team Foundation Server, PeopleSoft

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