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BusinessDevelopmentManager

Teja Alimilli

Business Analyst
Wake Forest,NC

Summary

  • Seasoned Business Analyst offering 9 years of experience in Business Analysis, Product Management, Detailing User Stories, Data Analysis, API Integrations, Project Coordination, Database Testing, Production Support, UAT Testing and Exposure to all stages of Software Development Life Cycle, testing life cycle.
  • Expert on business and systems requirements, user acceptance testing and end-user training. Accomplished at leveraging past lessons to inform future decision-making.
  • Predominantly worked with US Insurance agencies and Carriers. Work experience in Agency Management, Compliance, Agency Onboarding and Compensation Management.
  • Experience in Creating Requirement Documents, Integration Documents, UI Wireframes.
  • Understand the current state of the business and define the Future state of the business process and get the requirements sign off from stakeholders.
  • Working Experience with JIRA, Confluence for Managing the Product backlogs, Sprints backlog and Product Documentation. Expertise in creating Initiative, Epic, User Stories. Well versified with MS SQL, Tableau, Excel, Figma for Data insights & Visualization and MS VISIO, Lucid Charts for the process flow diagrams.
  • Performs 1:1 interview with stakeholders to understand the requirements.
  • Expertise in preparing Product Manuals, Approach documents, Use Cases, GAP Analysis, Functional and Regression testing.
  • Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Lead Business Analyst

Aureus Analytics
Hartford, CT
06.2021 - Current
  • Paradiso, Atkinson Insurance, iProtect
  • DONNA is an Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics platform for the US Independent Agencies
  • It predicts the next move that an agency should take in terms of increasing their revenue
  • It has capability to generate predictions based on the existing book of business that gets enriched on DONNA
  • Drives the Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Identifies and Prioritize the Sprint Backlog and Product Backlog
  • Communicate Sprint Goals and share required reports with cross functional Teams
  • Acts as a bridge between Onsite Team and Offshore Team
  • Create the detailed requirements and scenarios and get the sign off from stakeholders
  • Discussion with External API Vendors, Analyze and create detailed API documentation
  • Involved in Multiple Requirement Gathering sessions and handled Changes Requests
  • Works closely with Development Team and operations Team to answer any questions they may have and makes sure the deadlines are met
  • Performs Analysis using Google Analytics, Hot Jar, User Guiding on newly introduced product features on how extensively they are being used
  • Uses Jira and Confluence for Documentation, Tracking and Release of the Sprint.
  • Worked one-on-one with clients to improve [Type] specifications.

Lead Business Analyst

Aureus Analytics, SIAA
, USA
06.2021 - Current
  • Harvey is Designed for Insurance carriers and aggregators to show the aggregate data across agencies, HARVEY helps agencies Identify additional business potential with each agency and gives the Benchmark Agencies on Customer Experience, Retention Business, Uplift Potential
  • Idea generation, discussing them with the business team with an approach document
  • Create wireframes for the new features identified and get the mockups reviewed and signed off from business team
  • Write detailed specifications from functional and the UI Perspective in confluence
  • Create Initiatives, EPIC and user stories in JIRA
  • Performs UAT on the release features and creates a release note for the internal stakeholders on the production deployment
  • Works with marketing team to communicate the release features with the customers and also the prospects
  • Look at the product performance metrics from Google Analytics and submit the reports to the product management team.
  • Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.

Lead Business Analyst

Vertafore
HYDERABAD, India
05.2019 - 06.2021
  • The Suite provides the tools to modernize the distribution channel
  • This includes electronic onboarding, Producer Management & Compliance (with NIPR & PDB integration), Incentive Compensation Management, analytical reporting, and a rich self-service producer portal
  • This suite is exclusively designed for insurance carriers by line of business, where workflows, business rules, and reports are built to work right out-of-the-box
  • Responsible for creating BRD, FRS, UI Mockups and get them signed off from client
  • Single point of contact for the clients looking at the CRs, Production Support, Billing
  • Create documentation around Current state, Future State, and the GAP analysis
  • Collaborated with product managers and a development team to identify and resolve issues, coordinate system requirements, and create project timelines and product backlogs
  • Performed DB Testing on data import integrations
  • Collects metrics on Product Performance and initiates discussion with Product Management Teams for corrective action
  • Involved in status calls and defect triage calls with the key clients and onsite team
  • Prepared weekly status reports and presented them to offshore and on-site team.
  • Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.

GAIG
05.2017 - 04.2019
  • Prepared Requirement, Approach documents and technical documentation
  • Worked closely with clients in understanding their problems, Daily standup calls, Worked as a liaison between client, development teams and testing team
  • Collaborated with product managers and a development team to identify and resolve issues, coordinate system requirements, and create project timelines
  • Worked closely with stake holders and other team for requirement documents sign off.

Business Analyst

Vertafore
HYDERABAD, Telangana
05.2015 - 04.2017
  • Worked closely with clients on requirement elicitation, Documentation
  • Prepared Flow Diagrams and reviewed scenarios prepared by Testing Team
  • Attended daily calls and prepared Meeting notes and shared with Peers
  • Presented Weekly status reports to client and On-shore Team
  • Responded to support Tickets and emails from client
  • Experience in writing SQL Queries to perform DB Testing., is a web-based artwork management solution that manages the complete artwork process in a user-defined manner
  • It automates the artwork flow, thereby saving time, managing accountability of work, and providing visibility of completed work from both internal and external agencies
  • In other words, it makes the process of maintaining and updating artwork much simpler
  • Part of a War Room & Hyper care for resolving issues
  • Responding to issues during UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
  • Handling change request from the client & doing impact analysis on the change
  • Key POC for client support
  • Performed Sanity, Functional, Integration and Regression Testing of the Application at different levels
  • Preparing the validation documents for the software product specific to the client
  • Analyzing business requirements and identifying test scenarios
  • Perform extensive manual testing on key areas of the application
  • Delivering KT sessions for the newly joined team members
  • Consolidate all the issues and report them to the client in the form of Daily Status Report
  • Authoring test cases prepare data sheets for optimum coverage of test requirements and finally map the master cases to data sheets
  • Review of system test cases, GUI test cases, regression test cases and sanity test cases as per testing requirements and upload them to Quality center as per client specification.

Software Engineer, QA

GreatFour Systems
HYDERABAD, India
04.2013 - 04.2015

Artwork Manager is a web-based artwork management solution that manages the complete artwork process in a user-defined manner. It automates the artwork flow, thereby saving time, managing accountability of work, and providing visibility of completed work from both internal and external agencies. In other words, it makes the process of maintaining and updating artwork much simpler.

● Part of a War Room & Hyper care for resolving issues.

● Responding to issues during UAT (User Acceptance Testing).

Handling change request from the client & doing impact analysis on the change.

● Key POC for client support

● Performed Sanity, Functional , Integration and Regression Testing of the Application at different levels.

● Preparing the validation documents for the software product specific to the client.

Analyzing business requirements and identifying test scenarios.

● Perform extensive manual testing on key areas of the application.

Delivering KT sessions for the newly joined team members.

● Consolidate all the issues and report them to the client in the form of Daily Status Report.

Authoring test cases prepare data sheets for optimum coverage of test requirements and finally map the master cases to data sheets.

Review of system test cases , GUI test cases, regression test cases and sanity test cases as per testing requirements and upload them to Quality center as per client specification.

  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
  • Tested methodology with writing and execution of test plans, debugging and testing scripts and tools.

Education

B.Tech -

JNTU, HYD
10.2007 - 05.2011

Skills

Business Analysis

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Additional Information

  • ACHIEVEMENTS , Awarded with Employee of the year 2018 at Vertafore. Nominated for Employee of the Year 2017 at Vertafore. Employee of the month Award at Vertafore.

Certification

ISTQB

Accomplishments

● Awarded with Employee of the year 2018 at Vertafore.

● Nominated for Employee of the Year 2017 at Vertafore.

● Employee of the month Award at Vertafore.

Timeline

Lead Business Analyst

Aureus Analytics
06.2021 - Current

Lead Business Analyst

Aureus Analytics, SIAA
06.2021 - Current

Lead Business Analyst

Vertafore
05.2019 - 06.2021

GAIG
05.2017 - 04.2019

Business Analyst

Vertafore
05.2015 - 04.2017

Software Engineer, QA

GreatFour Systems
04.2013 - 04.2015

B.Tech -

JNTU, HYD
10.2007 - 05.2011
Teja AlimilliBusiness Analyst