Candidates About

Shimona Bhalla

Senior Business Analyst

Ø  Talented, self-driven Business Analyst with over 10 years of Business Analysis and extensive expertise in data analysis  for various companies in the financial and healthcare domains.

Ø  Expert in business analysis, project planning, strategic planning, systems analysis and troubleshooting, quality control, forecasting, scheduling and planning, and tracking of results.

Ø  Highly knowledgeable in software development, requirements analysis and database design.

Ø  Expert at creating and implementing technical and operational plans and strategies.

Ø  Superior analytical, troubleshooting communication and presentation skills.

SQL • Cognos Reporting• Data Analyst• Visual Source Safe• Business Analysis • Pivot Tables

  Visio • PVCS Tracker • Rational Clear Case • Clear Quest • Rational Unified Process (RUP)  

HTML • XML • SDLC • Agile Methodologies • Requirements gathering • MS Project

Project Planning • Scheduling • Defect Tracking• Reporting • Automated testing tools

 Corporate communications • Automation • Team Track

Bank of America

thousand oaks, CA, OCT 17 – CURRENT

Business Analyst

¨       Worked as lead business analyst on a number of projects including QAP, Foreclosures, Loan Origination and mortgage servicing.

¨       Collaborated with analysts, developers and business owners to develop user stories and coordinate deployments in production.   

¨       Interfaced with business users to prepare and update business requirements.  Created test cases and test scripts.

¨       Used Excel and Access databases extensively for data conditioning in preparation for User acceptance testing

¨       Worked with QA team to design test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing.

AIG Inc.

Woodland Hills, CA, OCT 06 – Oct 16

Senior Business Analyst

¨       Managed project review and implemented technology standards for various projects at AIG.

¨       Collaborated with analysts, developers and business owners on new project initiatives including launch of Index Line of business, Income protection features like Income Plus and Income Builder, Annuity Net, Blue frog and Firelight.

¨       Co-ordinated development of new requirements, data models and documentation throughout project lifecycles.

¨       Developed detailed project plans for multiple simultaneous projects, resulting in increased visibility of inter project dependencies and improved development efficiency.

¨       Identified project risks.  Designed and implemented project status reports and communications.

¨       Coordinated deployment activities with Release Management.

¨       Participated in daily defect and test execution meetings across various business teams and provided relevant status.

¨       Worked extensively on the VTXml Product suite to test XML transactions.  Validated input XML structures against data in the Annuity Net Database.

¨       Piloted various projects using Agile/Scrum.  As a lead BA participated in daily standups, retrospective sessions and used JIRA to document user stories and issues and generated reports in JIRA.

Kaiser Permanante

Pleasanton, CA, April 05 – Jan 06

Senior QA Consultant

¨       Analyzed business and system requirements for KP Health Connect –NCAL –Inpatient Rx Spring 05 releases.

¨       Developed new test cases and modified existing test cases for Regression testing.

¨       Conducted shakeout test before the regression cycle and ported the ancillaries to new instances and verification.

¨       Analyzed workflows for Cadence HOV Rx related functionality

¨       Created Test Scenarios and Test cases for Cadence HOV Rx.

¨       Executed the test cases for Cadence HOV Rx.

¨       Analyzed and tracked defects in Test Director and participated in defect management meetings.

¨       Coordinating with AC’s on issues relating to build, environment setup, defects and other report printing issues.

PMI Mortgage Insurance

Walnut Creek, CA, January 02 – March 05

Senior QA Consultant

¨       Determined testing requirements for the IDEA/400 Application used by PMI.  Developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conducted baseline testing and generated reports. 

¨       Analyzed application, system and security errors.  Escalated issues to developers and verified fixes.

¨       Designed test plans and defined cases for functional, integration, system and UAT testing.

¨       Attended weekly defect report meetings and presented progress updates.

¨       Participated in GDUP (Goal Driven Unified Process) a customized version of Rational Unified Process.

¨       Used SQL extensively to extract data from production environments to the test environments for data comparison.

Nine West Inc

White Plains, NY, June 99 – December 01

 QA Analyst

¨       Tested the ERP Application called ACS Optima

¨       Helped develop UNIX and RPG Scripts for testing.  Documented complete software testing process.

¨       Interacted with developers, system engineers, and testing teams to identify application defects.

Computer Generated Solutions

New York, NY, March 98 – June 99

Software Engineer

¨       Developed and maintained various applications on the AS/400 platform for various clients.

¨       Developed prototypes and system enhancements for ACS Optima.

¨       Remediated and tested various applications to ensure Y2K compliance.

¨       Bachelor of Science – Computer Science, Punjabi University, India

¨       Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA)

¨       Certificate program in Web Technologies

¨       Certified AS400 Developer

¨       Agile and Scrum Programs attended at AIG

Platforms: Windows, Linux, Unix, AS/400, IBM Mainframes

Applications: Pega, Visio, MS Office, Crystal Reports, SQL, Oracle, MS Access, DB2

Languages: SQL, XML, HTML, DHTML, C++, ASP, Java, J2EE, Visual Basic

Web Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic

Software:  Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project

Issue Tracking: ALM, JIRA, Rally