Isuru Nipun Hewamanna

Business Analyst
Summary
• Over all 5 years of Business Analyst experience.
• Strong interpersonal and documentation skills.
• Strong Communication Skill.
• Experience in Agile, Waterfall methodologies.
• Responsible for JAD (Joint Application Design) facilitation with project stakeholders to gather, synthesize and
prioritize requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirement workshops, site visits and surveys for new
applications along with re-engineering the existing applications.
• Experienced in the analysis and design of applications.
• Excellent technical writing skills to create Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirement
Document (FRD), Nonfunctional Requirements Document and Use Cases Specifications.
• Excellent experience using various SDLC methodologies such as: Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
• Expert at conducting interviews with SMEs and Stakeholders to get a better understanding of
client business processes and gather business requirements, and translate business needs into data and process
flows.
• Exceptional Documentation Skills for writing Use Cases and Functional Requirement Documents.
• Facilitated Detailed Design Walk through to the Business and External Team.
• Worked in Agile - SCRUM environments and capable of communicating its policies and procedures to clients,
teammates and partners
• Highly skilled in dealing with diverging perspectives, and mitigating risks.
• Proficient in conducting User Acceptance testing extensively with onsite and overseas users.
• Expertise in assisting Testing teams with Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scenarios, and manage defects using
various Defect Tracking Systems.
• Good understanding of Change management and Release management. 

Education
University of Mississippi, Mississippi - B.A. in Accounting and B.A. in Multidisciplinary Studies (Math, Biology, Chemistry)
with a Minor in Finance

Technical Skills
Business Analysis Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, Draw.IO, Lucid Chart, Blasmiq Mockups

Experience
Client: Vergent LMS, Inc. Ridgeland, MS Sep 2019 – Till Date
Employer: CodersData LLC, Cheyenne, WY
Role: Administrative Analyst
Description: Content creation, digital marketing, PR and communications, advertising, events, and go-to-market, analyzed
open-source datasets and advanced marketing strategies using SQL to identify target customers based on current market
trends and collaborated with teams in project schedule, assigning tasks, and tracking progress of projects using MS project.
Responsibilities:
• Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD).
• Interacted with the executives and development team to liaison the business requirements to ensure that the
proposed upgraded application complies with the business requirements.
• Dedicated Business Intelligent resource for re-architecting existing production databases.
• Conducted JAD sessions with SME including business owners, sponsors and analysts.
• Created and analyzed the Functional specification document, UI Design Document and prepared the test cases 
• Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and SDLC.
• Interact with the web designers and assist in developing the wireframes, mockups and develop the entire UI Design.
• Involved in UI, Functional, Integration, Database, System, Acceptance, UAT and Regression Testing.
• Documented and reported various bugs during the Testing process.
 • Assigned responsibilities of developing agile testing scripts and conducting defect root cause analysis.
• Involved in preparing test data/ Test script for UAT and participated in UAT signoff.
• Research, recommend and ensure team compliance to STLC standards and methodologies.
• Created UML-based use case models and activity diagrams, and usability analysis/user interface.
• Created manual and automated tests for several different modules.
• Responsible for running agile test validations, developing testing plans, and estimating project resource.

Environment: Agile/Scrum, waterfall, Draw. IO, Lucid Chart, Blasmiq mockup

Client: Change HealthCare, (Remote), MS Jul 2016 – Aug 2019

Role: Operations Business Analyst
Description: As an Operations Business Analyst, I facilitated the analysis of business problems and issues using data provided
and give insight to decision-makers by identifying variance and trends, providing recommendations and strategic/tactical
planning based on business data and operational knowledge. Created specifications for reports and analysis based on business
needs and required or available data elements. Participated in management reviews, including interpreting analysis results,
and summarizing conclusions
Responsibilities:
• Liaised with stakeholders to understand business requirements and documented them into business and
designed documents. Developed use cases, flow charts, and user scenarios.
• Coordinated testing of the newly developed or enhanced features in the application. Worked with product
andmarketingbusinessunits to build outreporting inTableau.
• Monitoredthe progressofprojectschedule toensure completionofoverallprojectdeliveryina timelymanner.
• Gathered business, system, and functional requirements by conducting detailed meetings with business users,
stakeholders, and Subject Matter Experts (SME's).
• Conducted story mapping and story boarding session to elicit high level features and goals from the Product owners.
• Developed user stories and grooming them with product owners throughout the agile lifecycle.
• Served as a liaison between product owner and scrum team for communicating well developed user stories.
• Created the Gap analysis document by analyzing the as is process and understanding the future need.
• Significant contribution to stories development in product backlog, sprint backlog and release backlog meetings.
• Been an active participant in Sprint planning, Sprint retrospective, Sprint review and Product review meetings.
• Utilized Sprint retrospective Meetings to understand the impediments and improve the productivity of the team.
• Involved users actively in User Acceptance Tests (UAT) between development team and the end users from the
business team.
• Participated in daily stand-up meetings and sprint review meetings.

Environment: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Draw.IO, Lucid Chart, Blasmiq Mockups