Responsible for supporting an Agile Scrum team including the Product Owner, other Systems Analysts, Developers, and Quality Engineers (QE) tasked to implement requested features into the Cirrus application used to manage health insurance functions including benefits, financial transactions, and claim adjudication.• Analyzing High Level Design (HLD) documents that are provided by Data Architects to support Feature development.• Meeting with Data Architects and Systems Analysts to better understand the HLD documents and the business need behind them.• Enhancing process flows that are included in the HLD documents by providing technical detail and executable SQL where needed.• Writing User Stories to communicate to Developers and QE the requirements for new functionality requested by the business.• Using Rally as the tracking tool for User Stories.• Attending all Scrum team standup meetings.• Updating the project Data Model.• Providing requirements clarification to Development and QE as needed.

Responsible for supporting an Agile Scrum team of Business Analysts, Systems Analysts, Developers, and Quality Assurance (QA) Analysts tasked to implement requested features into one of the two applications used to provide Case Management functionality for the client.• Analyzed business requests (Features) that are documented by the Business Analysts.• Met with business representatives and Developers to better understand the business need and scope and how to funnel the business requests into User Stories• Wrote User Stories to communicate to Developers and QA the requirements for new functionality requested by the business.• Groomed User Stories with the Scrum team.• Used Rally as the tracking tool for User Stories.• Attended all Scrum team standup meetings.• Attended all demos for User Stories for which I was the assigned System Analyst.• Accepted Technical User Stories in Rally when implementation was successfully demonstrated by Development/QA• Provided requirements clarification to Development and QA as needed.• Providing input to sequence diagram documentation for analyzing real-time messaging to other applications.

Responsible for interacting with a client to gather software requirements and deliver them internally to Developers and QA.• Through meetings and Functional Change Requests initiated by the client, received and negotiated new requirements for a web-based travel booking solution for the client.• Wrote User Stories to communicate to Developers and QA the new functionality required by the client.• Used Team Foundation Server (TFS) as the repository for all work items including User Stories and defects• Supported meetings initiated by the client to clarify requirements.• Analyzed and interacted with visual design documents provided by the client to communicate web page design changes.• Provided clarification to Development and QA as needed.• Worked with Project Management to scope User Stories into development sprints (Agile methodology).• Following up with BSA validation that requirements were met after QA testing is complete.

Responsible for analysis and documentation of Central Accounts Receivable System (CARS) and other peripheral software applications.• Analyzing and documenting the main functionality of each module of the CARS COBOL application and the interactions between those modules.• Leading the IT effort to identify an approach to exhaustively analyze the CARS mainframe COBOL application to prepare for its rehosting and rewrite.• Writing and managing the implementation of Project Initiative Requests (PIRs) to enhance CARS functionality in response to user requests for changes due to business needs.• Documenting high level business requirements that have been implemented in a Visual Basic Accounting application.• Beginning the coding effort to port the same Visual Basic Accounting application over to Java.• Documenting high level business requirements for the DMC Accounting function to enable the DMC to choose a potential alternative enterprise solution.

Responsible for coordination and management of a Wells Fargo Wholesale Line of Business application.• Completed Change Requests and Work Orders for release of new application functionality into Non-Production and Production environments.• Managed application defect assignments in ALM/HP Quality Center.• Interfaced with business representatives on status of application functionality.

IT liaison between client-facing Program Management and IT departments. Provided requirements definition for Development, QA, and outside vendor. Fulfilled Program Management data requests. Provided domain expertise throughout the SDLC.

• As IT representative, acted as liaison between Program Management and IT departments.• Wrote SQL for querying data for fulfilling Program Management data requests.• Updated Web application pages through HTML interface.• Received requested application requirements from client-facing Program Management team.• Led meetings with third party vendor tasked to deliver some of application requirements.• Wrote Change Requests and other requirements documentation for use by vendor, and internal Development and Quality Assurance teams.• Led Requirements Reviews with Development/QA and provided domain expertise throughout the SDLC.• Assisted QA in writing SQL for test case execution.• Assisted QA in developing and organizing test cases and identifying and categorizing scenarios for testing.• Performed spot checks on data deliverables or application functionality and acceptance testing for final verification.• Utilized QTrack application for logging and tracking defects, enhancements, tasks, and support items.• Performed project management duties for IT by working closely with the online Project Manager to oversee and coordinate Development and QA resources and schedules.

Responsible for developing software to enhance the functionality of applications used by internal and external customers.• Demonstrated use of Agile (SCRUM) to Software Development Group to promote implementation of this methodology.• Analyzed and refined business requirements for application updates by interacting with Business Analysts and assessed impact of requirements on current applications including time to implement new functionality.• Planned software development tasks for internal applications, demonstrated product to management and reviewed “lessons learned” in follow-up team meeting as part of the SCRUM process.• Wrote code in Forte and Java by using Eclipse to implement new functionality requirements.• Performed unit tests on coded application enhancements.• Analyzed and resolved application defects and issues.• Mentored other Developers, Quality Assurance Testers and Business Analysts on application usage, Forte language and internal processes/procedures.• Served as Developer Technical Liaison for Production application releases.

Responsible for providing software requirements for use by Software Development Team to implement new application enhancements.• Interacted with internal customers to identify application enhancements to meet business requirements.• Documented application requirements as use cases for analysis phase of software development cycle.• Clarified and refined requirements with the Software Development team.