Yagmur Pekoz

· Communicated with product owner for organization and prioritizing the back log in rally, lead spring planning sessions to control and update user stories.

· Documented business requirements, converted them into functional and non-functional requirements.

· Created and prioritized the back log in rally, coordinated planning sessions and maintained user stories and acceptance criteria.

· Implemented UML, Use Case diagrams by using MS Visio in order to conduct a more effective and healthy communication with stakeholders and clients.

· Conducted JAD sessions, group workshops, individual and small team meetings, and conference calls with Property Casualty FP&A teams, stake holders and developers to gather functional and nonfunctional requirements of the system including requirements and processes for life and annuity products.

· Involved in scrum sprint planning sessions, backlog grooming, sizing, spring retrospectives and reviews, daily stand ups, user stories and acceptance criteria.

· Performed on the ETL mappings, analysis and documentation of OLAP reports requirements.

· Formulated the ER diagrams of Property and Casualty data and data flow diagrams in order to interact with database developers.

· Involved annuity performance data process.

· Examined key Performance Indicators (KPI) for Property and Casualty such as Loss Ratio, General Operating Expense Ratio.

· Analyzed as-is and to-be systems to perform GAP Analysis and make recommendation for system enhancement.

· Extensively worked BI /BOBJ for multidimensional expenses (actual) reports.

· Extensively worked Cognos BI for international data.

· Documented report layouts and report mapping documents for ad hoc reporting based on Property Casualty FP&A team’s needs.

· Assisted and directly involved with QA team in creation of Test Cases and tests implementations.

· Provided training to users and involved in conducting UAT sessions to gain user confidence and approval.

Inception

· Defined project scope, risks and determined appropriate methodologies to apply based on Scope/Vision documents, and developed project time lines for on time delivery based on SDLC methodology.

· Executed discussions with stakeholders from both business side and IT side in order to elicit high level requirements and estimate project feasibility.

· Performed (JAD) Joint Application Development sessions to resolve conflicts between business requirements and technical design.

· Conducted surveys among different end users in order to gather detailed requirements, and documented business requirements.

· Carried out Order Management System (OMS) in order to make sure compliances with upgrade requirements.

· Determined the data warehouse business requirements as the foundation for database design, data extraction and analysis by working with the end users.

Elaboration

· Created detailed various UML models including use case diagram, activity diagram, and sequence diagram while working with software developers to make sure that the applications fit in to the requirements and worked on the business flow and account relationships in accordance to the specific databases and tables involved in progress.

· Created the design of the data warehousing snowflake schema logical database model.

· Established report specifications, cube and ETL by working with the Data Architects and used Six Sigma and tools for profiling, data mapping and monitoring data by tracking and improving enterprise data.

Construction

· Used Traceability Matrix intensively for the business processes and expected changes.

· Coordinated with QA in order to establish test plans and test scenarios for performance testing, system testing, integration testing.

· Worked with the business testing team to generate Test Plans, Test cases, Testing & Evaluation strategy and methods for user acceptance testing (UAT).

· Worked closely with the project manager to observe project progress and status using MS Project, delivered high level estimates for analysis, delivery schedule and resource allocation.

· Cooperated with the team members and the project manager in defect review meetings to find, track, identify, prioritize and remove bugs.

Transition

· Acquired user feedbacks, coordinated UAT, and used training materials for various end users and assisted in User Training for the system.

· Worked with the team to implement SCRUM methods for project implementation and development.

· Executed personal interviews, brainstorming sessions, JAD sessions, focus groups and personal interviews to be able to help the client with the business process.

· Documented and developed formulas for the calculation of premiums and losses statistics in the marts (Written Premium, Earned Premium, Unearned Premium)

· Prioritized functional and non-functional requirements via data analysis, interviews and different modeling tools.

· Generated business requirement documents, functional requirement documents and data mapping documentation.

· Generated automated scripts for Guidewire Quick Quote, Application and Policy Binding Processes.

· Conducted MS Project to report status and planning.

· Involved in migration process from Mainframe, policy legacy systems to Guidewire applications.

· Performed in depth data analysis identifying data issues in legacy system and worked with business to develop resolutions to those issues.

· Used MS Visio, designed Activity Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams

· Generated data mapping documents from production databases to the warehouse and from the warehouse to the policy and claims marts.

· Generated test data by using TestPatrner on Guidewire Policy Center.

· Created various tests for System Architects and Quality Assurance Analysts.

· Established Data Driven Automation Framework to be able to perform UI testing on Guidewire applications.

· Checked the compliances of corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.

· Involved in defect tracking to encounter specific requirements for a successful project implementation.

· Conducted UAT with business users.

· Used JAD sessions, brainstorming sessions and personal interviews to acquire business requirements from business users and stakeholders.

· Generated financial forecasts for the given project by using the scope of the system.

· Conducted Visio to develop use case model. Produced a development plan for the overall project and prototypes.

· Created UML diagrams including activity and sequence diagrams by using MS Visio.

· Determined the functional requirements, non-functional requirements and user stories.

· Created business requirements document and functional requirements document.

· Worked intensively on data warehouse and mart design sessions for both Logical and Physical design.

· Established ETL for Warehouse and Data Marts.

· Assisted developers to determine the purpose of database tables and attributes in their existing systems where documentation was lacking.

· Worked with developers in writing of complex SQL queries to resolve data issues in source system databases.

· Established and implemented test cases that verifies data transfer quality.

· Worked with offshore development team.

· Interacted with the client departments and the Information systems IT department to perform analysis, review, and estimation of client requests, prepared and reviewed requirements and client documentation for Personal Lines Property and Casualty business.

· Extracted the Business Requirements from the end users keeping in mind their need for the application and prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD) using Rational RequisitePro.

· Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using UML and Business Process Modeling.

· Performed Business Process Mapping and performed as is and to-be analysis

· Develop test plans in conjunction with team leads and business personnel and perform unit, integration, regression testing.

· Analyzed the business and functional requirements of the application and developed detailed test plans, test cases in Test Director.

· Reviewed Development Plans, Quality Assurance Test Plans and User Documentation to ensure correct interpretation of original specifications.

· Conducted Functional Walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers.