Business Analyst Resume New York - Hire IT People

PROFILE:

Up to 5 years industry experience as a Business Analyst Consultant for both web - based platforms, mobile and software application implementation projects in Finance, Insurance and E-Commerce (Advertisement and Retail) industries within Africa
England and America. Areas of expertise include requirements management of entire SDLC from inception to deployment using Waterfall, RUP or Agile methodologies.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Business Analyst

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

Initiated and defined project scope by conducting several JAD sessions with business/SMEs and IT teams to elicit business requirements, which truly reflects the goals & objectives of the to-be system.
Effectively managed project backlog in Jira and conducted monthly business prioritization meeting with SMEs to identify scope of future releases.
Gathered business rules, functional and UI requirements and translated these into sets of user stories supported with well-annotated wireframes/screen mock-ups using Axure RP to aid development team.
Actively involved in scrum sprint planning/review sessions, assigning story points using planning poker approach, daily stand ups, UATs and documentation of release notes and end-user manuals.
Employed the use of SQL queries in retrieving data from database and in creating some test data needed for UAT.
Constantly identified improvement areas for the agile process as well as future releases by conducting regular sprint retrospective meetings with development and QA teams.
Managed scope-creep and change requests by carrying out impact and feasibility analyses of proposed changes while communicating this in a requirement change request (RCR) to the change control board.

Business Analyst

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

Spearheaded efforts to propose business solutions by conducting industry research on loyalty benefit packages used by competitors. Identified solutions and documented a BRD using Rational RequistePro.
Actively engaged in translating BRD into FRD and the creation of use cases using Enterprise Architect. Supported all documentation with well-annotated wireframes and UML diagrams created in Visio.
Progressed project to the next phase by identifying features for Agile environment based on user experience, feedback from users and announcement requests from prior releases.
Facilitated adherence to project schedule by eliminating possible time loss due to invalid defects. Conducted Defect Validation using Test Director to screen illegitimate defects raised by QA team.
Supported a bottlenecked QA team by writing test cases, carrying out manual black box testing in TRAC and conducting test case walk-throughs for adequate understanding of test case documents.
Coordinated and ensured the smooth run of UATs by setting up test environment, documenting test cases, providing test data and remaining accessible to SMEs during UATs.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Gathered requirements via JAD sessions, one on one interviews and questionnaires and analyzed feasibility of business needs by consulting with project manager and technical team.
Created BRDs by analyzing business requirements, meeting minutes, responses to questionnaires and got approval of the documents from the client in the form of sign-offs.
Prepared documentation including FRDs, use cases, use case narratives, activity diagrams and charts in an effort to identify and realize the processes and flows involved in the system.
Supported the implementation effort by conducting requirement and use-case walkthroughs with developers, making sure requirements are well understood.
Maintained requirement traceability matrix (RTM) in Excel to track changes. Provided end-user manuals, and go-live assistance to users.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Retired the legacy system and translated existing user workflows into business requirements, use cases, design documents and project plans by leading discovery sessions/requirements workshops.
Documented UI specifications using Visio to create well-annotated wireframes supported with UML diagrams including use case, activity and state diagrams for ease of understanding by developers.
Introduced the Bug Triage Sessions with developers and testers as a means of validating defects and assigned priority levels in view of ensuring a smooth progression of the testing phase.
Prepared project progress reports on an ongoing basis. Conducted weekly status meetings with IT team & project manager to provide status updates, discuss challenges & identify potential future roadblocks.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Worked under the supervision of senior BA as a scribe to document all feasible and agreed upon ideas discussed at the JAD session and documented them into meeting minutes.
Actively involved in creation of use case, use case flows, wireframes and activity diagrams.