Brishna Raja
Cumming ,Ga
Summary
Business Analyst with over 6 years of experience leading a diverse technical team in system and process analysis and improvement implementation. Seeking a challenging opportunity that utilizes my skills. Proficient in software development life cycle methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile/SCRUM, Jira with strong expertise in Business Analysis and Modeling. Skilled in gathering business and functional requirements, Business Process Reengineering, Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM), Software/System Requirements Specifications (SRS), risk analysis, and business process modeling.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Analyst
StateFarm
11.2021 - 10.2024
- Facilitate all agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, weekly grooming, retrospective, and review and planning session
- Conducted meeting with SME’s and business owners to identify Functional and Nonfunctional requirements
- Interacted with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Business Owners; Conducted detailed interviews with them, recorded the requirements, and reviewed the gathered requirement by both technical and business people to break down functional requirement and document detailed User Stories
- Analyzed the business process to identify gaps with the implementation in New Market by creating Process Flow diagrams in Vision
- Clarifying the requirement to help IT team to understand and provide extensive information related to requirement with help of business owners and proxies
- Involved in preparing Test Cases based on business requirements
- Responsible for identifying and documenting business rules
- Participated in frequent agile team meetings (Scrum planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives) to provide guidance to an agile product development process
- Responsible for efficient document management using MS SharePoint and to update the document and transmit the information to all stakeholders
- Helped developers to fully understand the need of business requirement so that they can build the system as requested
Business Analyst
State of New Jersey Department of Human Services
Trenton, NJ
02.2019 - 10.2021
- As a System Analyst I supported the Medicaid eligibility by identifying and defining detailed product requirement and acceptance criteria
- Assisted Project manager to prepare Business Process Diagrams using the BPMN Standards
- Analyzed user and data issues related to Medicaid eligibility determination system
- Recommended solutions based on data analysis to increase business efficiency and/or improve existing processes
- Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for projects, implementations, system fixes and enhancements, etc
- Interacted with department heads to finalize business requirements, functional requirements and technical requirements and created Business process model
- Involved with the QA team to conceptualize, determine and develop test approaches and methods for unit testing, integration and functional testing, load and usability testing according to the application complexity and test requirements
- Conducted daily meetings at On Shore and weekly meetings with the Off Shore
- Responsible for planning, conducting and coordinating the User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Junior Business Analyst
Unicare Corporation
Cleveland, OH
08.2018 - 12.2019
- Perform requirements gathering and analysis; interview the subject matter experts, stakeholders and executive sponsors
- Interact with the business analysts & business users for design & requirement clarification for external projects & change requests
- Developed project specifications including functional requirements, User Stories, acceptance criteria
- Documented UAT scripts and coordinated with QA testing for test cases
- Communicate with vendor to regarding new updates on Facets and solution to their existing system
- Gather requirements for different products and do the gap analysis for the products
- Closely coordinate with both business users and developers for arriving at a mutually acceptable solution
- Document all the changes for the enhancements and recommended changes
Skills
- Agile/SCRUM
- Waterfall
- Visio
- Jira
- SQL
- Excel
- Windows
- UNIX
Timeline
Business Analyst
StateFarm
11.2021 - 10.2024
Business Analyst
State of New Jersey Department of Human Services
02.2019 - 10.2021
Junior Business Analyst
Unicare Corporation
08.2018 - 12.2019