1. AJAY DASARI
Email: ajaybabudasari@gmail.com | Phone: 678.938.8847
Summary:
● Over Nine years of diverse experience in Business Analysis, Data Analysis &
Functional testing in Finance and Insurance Industry software applications.
● In depth knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle with complete
understanding of business process, defining vision documents, interacting with
stakeholders, understanding user requirements to articulate into User Requirement
Specifications.
● Exposure to industry standard software development methodologies like Agile SCRUM,
V Model, Waterfall and industry specific Hybrid models.
● Experienced with all phases of software development including requirements gathering
and documentation, writing FRS, Gap analysis, UML diagrams, user acceptance testing
● Conducted user training as part of change management program
● Proficient in conducting JAD sessions, writing use stories, capturing use cases and
deriving requirements.
● Hand on experience using Wireframe for mockups and walk-throughs.
● Solid experience working on SharePoint.
● Well conversant with MS Visio application to create UML diagrams
● Proficient in establishing QA Procedures, Preparing Test Plans and functional testing of
Insurance software applications (Policy Admin, Billing and Claims applications).
● Excellent interpersonal, presentation, written and communication skills.
Professional Experience:
State Farm, Bloomington, Illinois (May 2012-Jun 2016) Business Analyst
Project Scope:Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Property and Casualty Workload Management
tool and part of Property and Casualty Business team

2. P&C Workload ManagementTool allows Underwriter to review the risk involved in doing
business with new applications for insurance contracts. And for existing insurance to retention or
renewal after reviewing the claims and policy details.
Responsibilities:
 Liaised between Stakeholders, SMEs and IT teams
 Research and Analyze Business needs and objectives to improve Property & Casualty
products, contracts and processes.
 Utilize requirements, analysis, and design skills to determine changes needed to
existing applications.
 Analyze trends and statistical information, develop reports, and provide
recommendations for improving the workflow efficiencies and effectiveness.
 Actively seek and respond quickly to Business partners inquiries.
 Worked on requirement gathering, documentation, Requirement validation and
verification and processes conducting JAD sessions, and focus groups
 Conducted meetings with the Underwriters and Actuaries to write the user stories
 Worked with product owner to prioritize the product backlog
 Worked with technical team to load product backlogs into sprints
 Defined the user stories success criteria to ensure the testability of backlog
 Participated in Scrum planning, daily scrum, backlog refinement, sprint review and
retrospective meetings
 Conducted Mock-ups and Walk-through sessions
 Developed UML diagrams such as Process-flow, Activity Diagrams and Data-flow
Diagrams
 Documented both functional and non-functional requirements, Use Cases, Technical
Specifications and Systems Requirements Specification (SRS),
 Conducted GAP analysis, documenting the enhancements to meet the end-state
requirements.
 Analyzed Customers Requirements, Established Key Features, Business
Requirements, Functional and non-functional requirements, conducted meetings,
established discussion points and meeting minutes, approvals and baseline.

3.  Worked on Agile methodology under various phases of requirements incomings,
Established project schedule and timeline, Prepared Project planning documentation.
 Used Lotus-Notes for documentation repository, exported requirements to Quality
Center, managed the various requirements.
 Worked with system architect, database developers and lead developers to establish
logical and physical design, Use cases, user stories, design documentation.
 Establish new process and change in existing process, work flow, documented them,
process improvement with clients existing system and provided suggestion.
 Established Test plan and strategy for all testing activities, unit, integration, system,
functional and acceptance testing UAT, established test data, Managed all testing
activities including regression, Load and Performance testing L&P and sign-offs
 Worked on defects, managed and resolve them, conducted meetings with business
and technical people to raise the issue and resolve.
Environment:-
ODI 12c, Cognos report studio, Cognos power play transformer, Cognos framework
manager, PL/SQL, SQL*PLUS, SQL Loader.
BRITISH TELECOM (Mar 2011 – Feb 2012) Business Analyst
British Telecom is lead Telecom provider across United Kingdom. ‘BT Vision’ is an Enterprise
Business intelligence Team. The team objective is to develop an Enterprise Data Warehouse for
Business Analysis and reporting needs.
Responsibilities:
 Worked as a member of the agile team that extensively used Scrum methodology
 Gathered requirements from the stake holders, wrote user stories and developed other
scrum artifacts as part of deliverables.
 Documented both functional and non-functional requirements, Use Cases, Technical
Specifications and Systems Requirements Specification (SRS), Conducting GAP
analysis, documenting the enhancements to meet the end-state requirements
 Tracked the business requirements/changes and made sure that all the stakeholders
have the same perspective and are at the same page
 Conducted requirement workshops for business users to create a process integration
document

4.  Conducted group meetings and one-on-one sessions with the product owners for in-
depth understanding of their requirements.
 Created traceability matrix to ensure the forward and backward tracking of functional
and user requirements.
 Involved in writing test plans, defining test cases, test scenarios and data sets;
developed and maintained test scripts, analyzed bugs and interacted with
development team in fixing the errors using HP Quality Center
Environment:
Oracle warehouse builder 11g, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL,MS Visio, Rational Rose,
Tata Teleservices Limited, Hyderabad (Feb 2007-Feb 2011) ETL Developer
ETL Developer
Tata Teleservices Limited spearheads the Tata Group’s presence in the telecom sector;
Tata Teleservices Limited is the pioneer of the CDMA 1x technology platform in India. And
crosses the 50 million subscriber mark with the growing business and competition, Business
Intelligence Team is the central place for analysing the data coming from various operational
systems is apparent
Responsibilities:
 Analysed the requirement documents and get the design concerns clarified with
Business
 Developed Unix Scripts to load the files received from source system into database.
 Developed various OWB mappings and process flows to transform the data from source
to target database.
 Based on the data present in the data warehouse, populated the data into dimension and
fact tables.
 Developed various oracle scheduler jobs and program to schedule the owb process flows
and UNIX scripts.
 Developed various Oracle sub functions like Stored Procedures, Functions, and Packages
using PL/SQL as per the Design Documents.
 Developed packages by using Cognos frame work manger and published those in portal
 Built various reports such as list reports, dashboards by using Cognos report studio.
 Built various analytics by using Cognos power play transformer.
 Created test scripts for all instances of the database for Unit testing.
 Deployed the code from Development environment to test environment

5.  Provided developer support to UAT teams till the code moves to production
Environment:-
Oracle warehouse builder 9i, Oracle 9i, Cognos report studio, Cognos power play
transformer, Cognos framework manager, PL/SQL, SQL*PLUS, SQL Loader.
Technical Skills:
Programming
Languages
SQL
Operating Systems Windows NT, Windows XP, UNIX, LINUX and DOS.
Databases Oracle9i/8i/7.x, MS-SQL Server 2000, MS-Access
Testing Tools QuickTestPro9.0/8.2/8.0, LoadRunner,
WinRunner7.6/7.0/6.0.
Web Related HTML
Source Control Tools Rational Clear Case
Others Microsoft Office, Macromedia Flash, Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop
and Adobe Image Ready.
Education:
 Bachelors in Computer Applications