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KRISHNA TIRUNAGARI

Brampton,ON

Summary

  • 18 years of IT experience as Business Systems Analyst
  • 13 years of experience in Insurance domain and 4 years in Wealth Management as a Business Systems Analyst
  • Have 1-year experience in Telecom domain as Business Systems Analyst

· Have experience working for large legacy transformation projects and optimizing the complex workflows

  • Have good knowledge and experience on Group Insurance benefits (Life, Health, Dental, Drug and Disability benefits) and adjudication.
  • Have good knowledge and experience on Auto Insurance coverage’s
  • Have good knowledge and experience working on Wealth Management and Investments
  • Have good knowledge Agent commissions (Group New Business and Renewals)
  • Excellent analytical and communication skills that are required to effectively work in the field of applications development and maintenance.
  • Experience in API and Web services specification creation

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Business Systems Analyst/Product Owner

TELUS Health
10.2015 - 01.2024

1Key Responsibilities

  • Epics, features and User stories and tasks creation in JIRA
  • Document creation in confluence and link the corresponding epics and user stories
  • Collaborated with cross-functional team of developers and designers in utilizing Agile/Scrum methodologies to deliver requirements for Epics within a tight deadline.
  • Conducted multiple JAD sessions to synchronize different stakeholders on their objectives and gathered requirements.
  • Understand the functional behavior of existing legacy mainframe applications and performed mapping of data elements
  • Root cause analysis and resolution of production issues
  • Support QA, UAT team by reviewing the test plan and test cases and provide sign off

Key Accomplishments:

  • Identified and analyzed around 5000 pharmacy claims which were possible incorrectly paid for one of the client due to an issue in processing and provided the logic for the final amounts calculation.
  • Successful delivery of work packages for the integration projects and ensure that functionality delivered on time, which enabled the clients on boarding on time with very few defects
  • Created Software requirement specifications automated conversion process for cert to cert and group to group conversion, which involves the data conversion across multiple applications and strong collaboration was needed across business, Product and development teams.
  • SME for all the file uploads and external web services related to Group and member enrolments
  • Implementation of new client end to end .

Senior Business Systems Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services (Client- Canada Life)
08.2010 - 09.2015

Key Responsibilities

  • Requirement capturing/gathering and gap identification
  • Use Case Models and Use Cases and business cases
  • Conducted multiple JAD sessions to synchronize different stakeholders on their objectives and gathered requirements.
  • Contracts and Booklets generation – worked on Taxonomy, Metadata, embedding variables in paragraphs, versioning and Content Management
  • Assist in the development of system test plan and System Integration Testing
  • Root Cause Analysis and resolution of group system support tickets


Key Accomplishments :

  • Optimized the business processes by identifying the opportunity areas, which helped the reduction of delays and cost benefits by automation of manual tasks using tools
  • Designed a complex Acquire customer process in IBM case manager, which ensured proper tracking, automation and content management capabilities
  • Resolved the Group system support ticket with alternate solution that helped to save money for client , where the initial estimate was 70k CAD ,finally the change was delivered in 15k CAD


Business Systems Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services (Client -Auto Insurance)
09.2009 - 07.2010

Key Responsibilities

  • Created data mapping documents between source and target DB’s
  • Defined the transformation rules between source(Legacy) and target based on the Business requirements
  • Performed high level testing to ensure that data is matching between source and target post ETL process (both Quantitatively and Qualitatively)
  • Authored complex SQL queries to verify the data has migrated successfully from source to target databases.
  • Authored business and transformation rules for the claim adjudication behavior based on the US state rules (related to Personal injury and Liability coverage amounts)
  • Support QA, UAT team by reviewing the test plan and test cases and provide sign off

Business Systems Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services(AXAUK Wealth Management)
02.2006 - 08.2009

Key Responsibilities

  • Capturing and analyzing the business requirements
  • Assist in the development of system test plan, test cases and System Integration Testing
  • Configure standing data for Wealth Management products
  • Authored complex SQL queries to verify the data accuracy of data configured

Key Accomplishments:

  • STAR of the quarter award for outstanding work across all projects in UK
  • Nominated for the STAR of the year and was in top 10
  • SME for Policy Admin System
  • Created Software specifications for integration of Policy Administration System with all the external interfaces which ensured AXA UK launch the products on time to the market (especially the individual pension e-application from the agent portals )

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Technology

Sri Venkateshwara Engineering College (JNTU)
Suryapet, India
04.2004

Skills

  • Requirements Gathering
  • Gap Analysis
  • Systems Analysis
  • Data Migration
  • Process improvement
  • Functional specifications
  • Root cause analysis
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Product Development
  • Agile methodologies

Languages

English
Full Professional

Timeline

Senior Business Systems Analyst/Product Owner

TELUS Health
10.2015 - 01.2024

Senior Business Systems Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services (Client- Canada Life)
08.2010 - 09.2015

Business Systems Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services (Client -Auto Insurance)
09.2009 - 07.2010

Business Systems Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services(AXAUK Wealth Management)
02.2006 - 08.2009

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Technology

Sri Venkateshwara Engineering College (JNTU)
KRISHNA TIRUNAGARI