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BusinessAnalyst

Sudha Yemireddy

Houston,TX

Summary

Results-driven A+ Scrum Certified Business Analyst and Software Quality Assurance Analyst with over 8 years of diverse IT experience across multiple domains. Expertise in gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, along with strong proficiency in conducting requirement analysis, gap analysis, and use case design. Demonstrated ability to lead the design and implementation of comprehensive test strategies while ensuring adherence to industry-standard testing methodologies. Proven track record in client management, project planning, and delivering high-quality results on time, supported by excellent interpersonal and communication skills that facilitate effective collaboration with stakeholders at all levels.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Business Analyst

API Insights
01.2024 - Current

Vision Integration Platform (VIP), is the new Tennessee state-wide web-based computer system for collecting client information, automatically determining eligibility and calculating benefits for a variety of different family assistance programs. It is a state-of-the-art application that can quickly adapt to rapidly changing program and policy requirements. VIP is administered by the Tennessee Department of Human Services. It supports several key State programs as follows: Families First, Food Stamps, Tenn. Care Medicaid and Tenn. Care Standard, Child Care.

  • Facilitated requirements gathering sessions to capture and document user needs effectively.
  • Conducted regular stakeholder meetings to ensure alignment on project objectives and deliverables.
  • Developed detailed user stories and acceptance criteria to guide development teams through the implementation process.
  • Facilitated communication between technical and non-technical team members, ensuring project alignment across all parties involved.
  • Helped deploy system enhancements to improve field operations.
  • Collected, defined and analyzed business requirements.
  • Improved business processes by analyzing system requirements and implementing effective solutions.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to gather essential requirements, ensuring successful project outcomes.
  • Gathered, reviewed and reported on findings.
  • Facilitated smoother project management processes by introducing agile methodologies, which improved team collaboration.
  • Improved stakeholder satisfaction with detailed requirement gathering and effective communication.
  • Played key role in successful launch of new product lines by coordinating between development teams and stakeholders.
  • Improved team productivity with development and implementation of customized project management tools.
  • Collaborated with upper management to drive strategy and implement new processes.
  • Oversaw document development across project workstreams to create internal control statements per compliance and regulatory standards.
  • Communicated and explained business requirements to team members to understand and implement functional demands.
  • Enhanced project management skills by defining and presenting system solutions and timelines for business needs or technical problems.

EDI Analyst

Cognosante
02.2015 - 07.2016

Project CMS 1095A Error Resolution process.Investigate consumer complaints about incorrect 1095-A tax forms received from CMS in regards to their Affordable Care Act health insurance. Correlate data with multiple sources to get a clear picture on the coverage and then change the invalid data accordingly.1095-A HICS Case Life Cycle : Analyze Correlated and Uncorrelated Cases (Policy Start/ End Date, Monthly Premium, Advanced Premium Tax Credit "APTC", Covered Individual, Issuer Name, Policy ID, Multiple, Reprint), Make a Decision (Approved or Denied), Send to Outreach (Appropriate Verbiage), Resolve the Case ( Consumer agreement), Close to HICS in CMS Website ( Appropriate Verbiage)

  • Analyzed EDI transactions to ensure compliance with federal regulations and standards.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve data discrepancies in EDI submissions.
  • Developed and maintained documentation for EDI processes, enhancing team understanding and efficiency.
  • Coordinated with external partners to facilitate EDI onboarding, ensuring a smooth integration experience.
  • Established and maintained relationships with vendors and partners to streamline EDI communication.
  • Conducted root cause analysis for EDI-related errors, implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
  • Fostered a culture of continuous improvement by proactively seeking feedback from internal and external stakeholders, implementing changes as needed to enhance overall performance.
  • Evaluated current practices regularly to identify opportunities for improvement in coordination with IT teams or vendors.
  • Improved EDI system efficiency by analyzing and troubleshooting discrepancies and data issues.
  • Developed comprehensive testing plans for validating incoming and outgoing EDI transactions, ensuring accuracy and reliability.

QA/Business Analyst

Dish Network LLC
08.2010 - 11.2013

POET (Pricing and order entry tool) which is used by vendors of Dish Network LLC to place orders for their customers. And to assign different channels according to their customers wish along with different packages that are offered by Dish. It is a web based application which helps vendors to assist their customers with different products and packages of dish network in each geographical area of United States.

  • Involved in Scrum development process and prepared Sprint burn down chart, product catalog and sprint backlog contain Business Requirements and supporting documents that contain the essential business elements and definitions as well as the tasks to be completed.
  • Working with clients to better understand their needs and present solutions using structured SCRUM approach.
  • Gathered user and business requirements through open-ended discussions, brainstorming sessions and role-playing.
  • Documented the user requirements Analyzed and prioritized them and converted them as system requirements that must be included while developing the software.
  • Planned and defined Use Cases created Use Case diagrams, Scenarios and Use Case Narratives using the UML methodologies.
  • Created Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and ER Diagrams.
  • Created Mock-up forms in MS word for better visualization and understanding of the software solution.
  • Tracked change requests and monitored workload and schedule.
  • Facilitated JAD sessions with management, development team, users and other stakeholders to refine functional requirements.
  • Scheduled meetings with developers, System Analysts and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion.
  • Created and managed project templates, use case templates, requirement types and tractability matrix in Requisite Pro.
  • Managed workload, schedules and coordinated status review meetings with project managers, business managers and team members.
  • Authored progress and completion reports which were then submitted to project management on a weekly basis.
  • Identified various frequently used modules with in the application as well as the peak user volume for load testing purposes.
  • Analyzed the test results from QA teams using Performance Studio Analysis to create various scenarios.
  • Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Test manager for User Acceptance Testing.
  • Collaborated with Quality Assurance Analyst in Automated and Manual Black box testing.
  • Helped in creating end user manuals and procedure manuals.

QA Analyst

Medtronics, Inc.
05.2009 - 04.2010

Pricing & Contract Management (PCM) Model N 5.0.9 is a Web-based application and used by the customers to buy the products of Medtronic's. It's a major business which includes Pricing & Contract Management (PCM) Model N 5.0.9 upgrade. The main intention of upgrade to Model N 5.0.9 is to demonstrate that the expected functionality meets the business functional requirements, compliance and/or regulatory requirements as documented.

  • Developed the Test cases and Test Methodology manual testing of the entire application for doing Regression testing.
  • Developed and executed Test Scripts for Smoke Test prior to build deployment.
  • Wrote Test cases and Test scripts for the Functional Testing.
  • Documented test cases corresponding to business rules and other operating conditions.
  • Worked on testing the complete Application as per the Technical Design Documents.
  • Interact with business analyst, system staff and developers.
  • Participate in weekly meeting with the management team and walkthrough.
  • Developing testing schedules and monitoring progress against the schedules.
  • Performed End-to-end testing manually for web application. Also performed System testing to make sure data added form front end makes it thru the integrated systems and all edits are performed on the data.
  • Reviewed and analyzed the System Requirement Specs (SRS) and design documents.
  • Involved in writing the test plans, test cases, and test scripts of ESM
  • Performed Functional, Integration, System, UI, GUI and User Acceptance testing for Test case Execution.
  • Extracted data from various sources like Oracle, flat files and SQL Server.
  • Responsible for conducting incremental integration, regression testing and Cross browser testing on an extensive basis.
  • Performed back-end testing procedures using SQL statements to verify data integrity for some online customer interactions.
  • Involved in Manual Testing of the application using Quality Center & established the baseline scripts for future automation.
  • Developed automated scripts using QTP, parameterized the test scripts, created database checkpoints and bitmap checkpoints.
  • Performed Regression testing after modifying the changes for each Build using QTP.
  • Created Component objects for Excel and made use of Shared Object repository in Data driven testing Framework.
  • Developed Driver Script using VB Script to run multiple automated scripts concurrently.

QA Analyst

Vanguard Group
01.2008 - 10.2008

My Clients is a Web-based application serve as a single location to enable associates to view and manage their client information. In this project redesign of client pages has been done, to enhance an associate's ability to “Understand the client” by viewing and capturing meaningful client data in a centralized location.Paper Statement Redesign project is a Mainframes application. In this project they redesign paper statement of their clients to improve data & information accuracy of clients, Reduce cost of producing paper statements, simply statements making it easier to read and align more closely with web.

  • Translated functional requirements and technical specifications in to test scripts for Paper Statement Redesign Project. Involved in Initial Requirement Study & GAP Analysis.
  • Performed systems testing for mainframe, client/server and web applications.
  • Developed the Test cases and Test Methodology for manual testing of the entire application.
  • Responsible for designing and developing systems test plans, test scripts and test cases from business system requirements.
  • Responsible for Conducting Regression Testing and creating daily defect reports.
  • Responsible for Conducting daily status meeting and co-ordinate with development teams, Release Management and Implementation teams.
  • Worked closely with UAT Team to ensure the successful completion of UAT. Fully involved in UAT testing phase to support client.
  • Supported test environments and populated test data with them. Analyzed input and output of test data. Identified discrepancies between requirements and expected results.
  • Analyzed project documentation written by other team members (includes the functional requirements and unit and integration test plans) to ensure the requirements are testable and the full range of system aspects are being tested.
  • Reviewed the technical writer's technical and user documentation to validate procedures.
  • Extensively used Quality Center for Monitoring & Defect Tracking. Participated in Inspections and other meetings throughout product life cycle to identify testing issues. Worked with development team to understand for the purpose of developing test cases. Responsible for Tracking Defects using Quality Center and making sure that the defects are efficiently passed from one bucket to another.
  • Maintained Traceability Matrix for latest test results information. Generated Reports using Quality Center at the time of execution and releases.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Southern University and A&M College
Baton Rouge, LA

Bachelor of Technology - undefined

Sri Venkateshwara University
India

Skills

  • Skilled in UML tools including MS Visio
  • Testing Tools: HP ALM, HP Quality Center, and Quick Test Professional
  • Platforms: Windows, Linux, UNIX
  • Languages: HTML, XML, Java, JavaScript, VBNet, VB scripting
  • Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access
  • Microsoft Tools: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project
  • Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, TFS, JIRA
  • Test Strategies: Integration, System, Regression, Functional, Smoke, White Box, and Black Box

Certification

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Timeline

Business Analyst

API Insights
01.2024 - Current

EDI Analyst

Cognosante
02.2015 - 07.2016

QA/Business Analyst

Dish Network LLC
08.2010 - 11.2013

QA Analyst

Medtronics, Inc.
05.2009 - 04.2010

QA Analyst

Vanguard Group
01.2008 - 10.2008

Bachelor of Technology - undefined

Sri Venkateshwara University

Master of Science - Computer Science

Southern University and A&M College
Sudha Yemireddy