GOVINDA KIRAN PRASAD ALAHARI

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Mobile: 9959152174

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over (14 +) Fourteen Plus Years of IT experience as a Business Analyst / Product Owner w.r.t collaboration with
various teams to affect a seamless transition of knowledge and requirements in a SDLC Process.
• Diverse experience working with various domains, which include US Insurance (Life, Health, Group Insurance),
Insurance Carrier Operations Management, Healthcare, Document Management and others.
• Experienced at working with cross-functional and multi-cultural teams.
• In depth understanding of the AS-IS and TO-BE business processes.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies including Waterfall and Agile Scrum.
• Experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering (where
client interaction could be regarded as my strength), Requirement Elicitation, Requirement Analysis, Requirement
Documentation, design, development, testing and deployment.
• Excellent Analytical skills in understanding and identifying the Business process and conducting feasibility studies
to develop Scope and Vision Document.
• Expertise in identifying High level requirements and analyzing and uniquely converting each Business
Requirement to Functional Requirement.
• Expert in Tracking and Managing the Requirements using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Created and Simplified Business Use Cases.
• Adept with different Requirement Elicitation techniques like, JAD sessions, Document analysis, Prototyping,
Reverse engineering, Observation, Interview, Brainstorming.
• Expertise in creating Wire frames/ Mock ups using MS Visio, BALSAMIQ, MS PAINT.
• Excellent skills in facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) for eliciting functional requirements that
support the High Level business requirements and documenting business process flows.
• Experience in writing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD),
Statement of Work (SOW), User Stories etc.
• Extensively utilized MS SharePoint as data repository for document, content and Project Management.
• Conducted Stake Holder analysis to get a clear understanding of the process and various roles and responsibilities
of the team members and to know the POC - Point of Contact.
• Skilled in performing Gap analysis and Impact Analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the
enhancements to meet the end-state requirements.
• Expertise in assisting the Testing Team in creating the Test Scenarios, and Test Cases and efficiently prioritize and
manage the defects using the Defect Tracking system.
• Experience in conducting User Acceptance testing at both local and client environments.
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• Expert in writing detailed system use cases, developing business test cases, and working with QA teams during
testing phase thereby facilitating acceptance testing with stakeholders and business users

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems : Windows 9x/XP/2000/XP/Vista.

Business Modeling Tools : MS Office, MS Visio, Balsamiq.
Databases / Query Tools : SQL
Modeling Applications : Rational Rose, UML & MS Visio
Requirements Management Tools : Rational Requisite Pro
Packages : MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint
Data Mining Tools : QlikSense, Quick Sight

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Organization : Virtusa
Domain : Insurance
Duration : December 2021 – Present
Role : Business Analyst/ Product Owner
1. Group Insurance Wizard
2. Claim Vantage

Job Description :
▪ Responsible for understanding all the above-mentioned applications to understand potential requirements proposed
by the client
▪ Responsible for gathering, analysing and managing of client requirements by interacting with clients through meetings
and one on one discussions
▪ Provide overall business and systems analysis and design support
▪ Management of aspects and disciplines in Agile Scrum process
▪ Research, define and prioritize product features and functional requirements and produce requirements specifications
▪ Responsible for preparation of workflow diagrams and business process documents
▪ Responsible for preparing User Stories and other related scenarios
▪ Maintaining coordination with User interface team and Quality Assurance team in the process of developing the product
▪ Responsible for explaining the requirements to the software development and testing teams
▪ Depicting Use case diagrams and other types of diagrams of UML

Organization : Deloitte (Deloitte Application Studios)

Domain : Document Management System
Duration : December 2017 – 2021
Role : Business Analyst/ Product Owner
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Project Description : Archive it Audit – This application manages the Audit related files / documents in the
form of archives by providing limited access to the respective archive team members so that the information is accessible
by / to the right resource(s) at the right time.

Project Description : Archive It – This application manages the files / documents belonging to all businesses
such as Tax / Consulting / Audit / Advisory in the form of archives by providing limited access to the respective archive
team members so that the information is accessible by / to the right resource(s) at the right time.

Project Description : GPS Archive It – This application manages the files / documents belonging to US Federal
Government in the form of archives by providing limited access to the respective archive team members so that the
information is accessible by / to the right resource(s) at the right time.

Job Description :
▪ Responsible for understanding all the above-mentioned applications to understand potential requirements proposed
by the client
▪ Responsible for gathering, analyzing and managing of client requirements by interacting with clients through meetings
and one on one discussions
▪ Provide overall business and systems analysis and design support
▪ Management of aspects and disciplines in Agile Scrum process
▪ Research, define and prioritize product features and functional requirements and produce requirements specifications
▪ Responsible for preparation of workflow diagrams and business process documents
▪ Responsible for preparing User Stories and other related scenarios
▪ Maintaining coordination with User interface team and Quality Assurance team in the process of developing the product
▪ Responsible for explaining the requirements to the software development and testing teams
▪ Depicting Use case diagrams and other types of diagrams of UML
▪ Experience of managing a team of 7 PODS (each comprising of 6 to 8 developers & 2 testers) under the guidance of the
Engineering Manager
o Demonstrated strong team player and interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships
across organizational levels and effectively deal with a team comprised of both local and off-shore
team members.
o Converted functional requirements to user stories and created the product backlog.
o Facilitated the estimation of product backlog Items and shield team from external interferences
during sprints.
o Calculated velocity, framed burn-down velocity chart, re-populated the release backlog with
unfinished user stories, and showcased the stakeholders with the slice of potentially shippable
product at the end of every iteration.
o Facilitated the team in identifying and managing interactivity dependencies within product
development.
o Served as a mentor and coach for agile methodologies to members of the scrum team, product
owner, and other agile project leaders.
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Organization : Launchship
Domain : Vendor Management System
Duration : April 2017 – December 2017
Role : Business Analyst/ Product Owner

Project Description : Vendor Management System, which manages the process of inviting new contract
workers into the application with the complete procedure of verification and validation of the information provided by them
during the execution. After the contract workers are incorporated system will also manage the weekly pay off value
calculations etc.

Organization : Computer Solutions & Software International

Domain : Insurance (Life, P & C)
Duration : May 2011 – March 2017
Role : Business Analyst / Product Owner
There were many projects there were handled in the past 4 + years, the details of which have been provided below:

Project Description : VUE Onboarding is a Producer Invitation system, which manages the process of inviting
new agents / agencies by carries with the complete procedure of verification and validation of the information provided by
them during the execution.

Project Description : VUE Producer Portal is an end-to-end Producer Information Management system,
which manages the producer details (such as license, certification, policy and compensation) for the user to access them and
manage them at any point of time.

Project Description : VUE Product Management is an end-to-end Insurance Product Management system,
which manages the life cycle of the products that are defined by the carrier such as Guardian, Gerber and Aetna etc.

Project Description : VUE Compensation Management is an end-to-end Producer Remuneration Management

system, which manages the monetary details of the producers of a carrier from time to time (which could be weekly,
fortnightly or monthly).
Project Description : VUE Claims Management is an end-to-end Claim Process Management system, which
manages the process of health care claim initiation and validation.

Project Description : VUE SumTrust is an end-to-end Banking system which manages all the processes that are
handled in a financial intuition such as account creation and management.

Project Description : Benefit Summary Tool is an application that aids the insurance carriers in selling their
policies to the prospective customers.

Project Description : SKM is an application that aids the producers in expanding their business to new
customers using various forms of media such as mail, SMS, emails, online marketing etc.
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Project Description : Admin Config & Integration Manager are applications that help in management of the
administration module of any application and data migration respectively. These two were internal projects.

Job Description :
▪ Responsible for performing extensive research on Claims management, producer Onboarding cycle and other aspects
of the health insurance domain
▪ Responsible for gathering, analysing and managing of client requirements by interacting with clients through meetings
and discussions
▪ Provide overall business and systems analysis and design support
▪ Management of aspects and disciplines in SDLC
▪ Research, define and prioritize product features and functional requirements and produce requirements specifications
▪ Responsible for preparation of workflow diagrams and business process documents
▪ Responsible for preparing Functional Specification Documents (FSD) and Use Case Description document
▪ Maintaining coordination with User interface team and Quality Assurance team in the process of developing healthcare
information system
▪ Responsible for explaining the client requirements to the software development and testing teams
▪ Depicting Use case diagrams and other types of diagrams of UML
▪ Experience of managing a team of 8 (6 developers & 2 testers) under the guidance of my Project Manager
o Demonstrated strong team player and interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships
across organizational levels and effectively deal with a team comprised of both local and off-shore
team members.
o Converted functional requirements to user stories and created the product backlog.
o Facilitated the estimation of product backlog Items and shield team from external interferences
during sprints.
o Calculated velocity, framed burn-down velocity chart, re-populated the release backlog with
unfinished user stories, and showcased the stakeholders with the slice of potentially shippable
product at the end of every sprint.
o Facilitated the team in identifying and managing interactivity dependencies within product
development.
o Served as a mentor and coach for agile methodologies to members of the scrum team, product
owner, and other agile project leaders.
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Organization : Napier Healthcare Solutions
Domain : Healthcare
Duration : November 2010 – May2011
Role : Business Analyst
Project Description : Bhutan Project (Napier Lite) is an end-to-end Hospital management system, which
manages the entire healthcare processes form Inception to End providing an overall control of the hospital environment
imparting decision-making power wrested with the privileged resources.
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Job Responsibilities :
▪ Working on Bhutan project Requirement Gathering
▪ Analysing the PACS (Picture Archiving & Communication System), Physiotherapy-Processing System.
▪ Client Calls & Internal Call with Account Manager to discuss the project plan and requirements.
▪ To assist / newly design client specific application
▪ To design test cases for the client specific rules using Rational Rose
▪ To troubleshoot concerns of the developing team developing the rules.
▪ To troubleshoot concerns of the client testing the rules in an UAT environment.
▪ To handle/execute change requests initiated by the client on existing rules.

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Organization : DSR Solutions Ltd
Domain : ERP
Duration : April 2009 - November 2010
Role : Business Analyst
Product Description : Enterprise Optimus is an end-to-end Enterprise Management application which caters
to the diversified needs of the management industry. Enterprise Optimus addresses the real time organization project
management scenario while proactively preparing for program & portfolio management. This product best fits in the domain
where management of projects, programs, portfolios and associated resources (nine knowledge areas from PMBOK) plays
an important role. Sustaining the competitive edge, through its principles based on PMBOK knowledge areas Enterprise
Optimus in the best suite of application for the management of an organization & associated projects.
Job Responsibilities :
▪ Responsible for performing extensive research on Project, Program & Portfolio management, Resource Management,
Deviations Management, Risk Management, Quality Management etc
▪ Responsible for preparing Product Requirement Document (PRD), Functional Specification Documents (FSD) and Use
Case Description document
▪ Responsible for prioritizing requirements for the latest version of the product based on MoSCoW Analysis technique
▪ Responsible for preparation of User manual using Adobe Robo Help7
▪ Responsible for performing functional testing
▪ Making presentations on product fitment and demonstrating how a product meet customer need

Organization : DSR Solutions Ltd

Domain : Healthcare (Patient Registration, CPOE, Practice Mgmt, Nurse Scheduling)
Duration : April 2009 – November 2010
Role : Business Analyst
Product Description : Med Optimus is an enterprise-wide solution catering to the essential needs of health care
industry in the lines of managing the patient records and scheduling of work force. Med Optimus is the product-line of
Schedule Optimus that facilitates automatic scheduling of the hospital staff to the respective shifts by considering all the
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possible constraints. A strategic scheduling philosophy backed by powerful automation that helps health care in optimal
utilization of resources
Job Description :
▪ Responsible for performing extensive research on EMR practices, Claims management, Nurse Scheduling and Health
care standard bodies
▪ Responsible for gathering, analysing and managing of client requirements in healthcare domain by interacting with
clients through meetings and discussions
▪ Responsible for evaluating the data collected through task analysis, business process, surveys and workshops
▪ Managing presales requirements gathering
▪ Provide overall business and systems analysis and design support
▪ Management of aspects and disciplines in SDLC
▪ Research, define and prioritize product features and functional requirements and produce requirements specifications
▪ Responsible for preparation of workflow diagrams and business process documents
▪ Responsible for preparing Product Requirement Document (PRD), Functional Specification Documents (FSD) and Use
Case Description document
▪ Maintaining coordination with User interface team and Quality Assurance team in the process of developing a healthcare
information system
▪ Responsible for explaining the client requirements to the software development and testing teams
▪ Depicting Use case diagrams and other types of diagrams of UML

Academic Credentials
2009 MBA (Marketing & Foreign Trade) Badruka Institute of Foreign Trade
2007 B Sc (Biotechnology) Osmania University

Personal Details
Date of Birth : May 28th 1981
Marital Status : Married
Father’s Name : Late Sri A. Siva Prasad
Location : Hyderabad