Rakesh Kumar Kajjam

• Analytical Senior Business Consultant with expertise in developing and executing robust business plans. Skilled in identifying weaknesses, monitoring existing business practices and recommending effective solutions. Driven and logical with strengths in handling key accounts and exceeding expectations. Adept at working with public sector organizations, private companies, and multinational companies. First-rate relationship building, decision-making and communication talents.
• Over all 13 plus years of extensive experience as Business Analyst/Consultant with solid understanding of Business Requirement Gathering, Data analysis, Data Modeling, Warehousing and Business Process Modeling.
• Expert in application/system development life-cycle; concurrent development strategies, process streamlining, iteration modeling, rapid application development (RAD), and waterfall, Agile and RUP methodologies
• Lead stakeholder engagements to ensure the scope, clarified business requirements, perform analysis between goals and existing procedures, and design process improvements to increase productivity and reduce costs.
• Experienced in customer/client interaction, deep understanding of business systems functionality and technicality.
• Partner with subject matter experts to gather and develop detailed business requirements for system implementations and service requests.
• Skills in developing Use Case diagrams, Sequence diagrams, State Chart diagrams, and Class diagrams.
• Proficient in gathering business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions through interviews, questionnaire, video conferencing, JAD sessions and conference calls.
• Strong knowledge of Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Class Diagrams.
• Experienced in creating Test Plans. Thorough hands on experience with designing test cases covering all test conditions and eliminating redundancy and duplications
• Experience in a Hospital IT infrastructure upgrades, worked with Clinicians, Doctors and Caregivers for application compatibilities, interrelated workflows.
• Worked in both Agile (SCRUM) and Waterfall methodologies.
• Expert in Developing and reviewing project plans, open issues, resolves issues, and communicate status of assigned projects to users and manager.
• Thorough knowledge of Business analysis and Iterative Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Rational Unified Process (RUP) and RAD. Proficient in applying RUP in all the four phases during software development Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition.
• Involved in Sprint Planning Meetings (Review product backlog and set scope for sprint) and expert in setting up sprint goals and standup meetings.
• Leading JAD sessions to facilitate discussions of requirements scope, priority, and dependencies. Work with application architects, developers, testing teams thereby coordinating efforts.
• Expert in using industry standards to uncover the client requirements and identifying the system requirements by creating Use Case Models, workflow diagrams as per UML methodology
• Expert in writing detail system use cases, developing business test cases, and working with QA teams during testing phase thereby facilitating acceptance testing with stakeholders and business users.
• Experience in the documentation of specifications, creating step-by step technical and user manuals with illustrations, screen prototypes and implementing new processes and technology.
• Conducting Feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify the business-critical high-risk areas and recommending solutions to management.

Recognized with several impact awards for going above and beyond.

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