Sr. Business Analyst Resume Chicago, IL - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

8 years of professional experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) developing technical solutions tobusinessproblems, defining, analyzing and documenting requirements; in multiple industries including banking, financial, healthcare, information technology, insurance, pharmaceutical and real estate.
Agile software development expertise including Product Backlog Lists, Epics, User Stories, daily stand up/scrum meetings, sprints, iterations, acceptance criteria, grooming, refinement, review and retrospectives
Complete SDLC experience from inception to roll out including requirements, design, development, testing, implementation, end - user training and production support
Expertise in requirements gathering and documentation including Functional Requirements, Process Workflows, Prototypes, Gap Analysis, Wireframes, Mock-ups and Detailed Design Specifications

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

Authoring an Enterprise Roadmap with timelines, goal, current/future data flow maps for enterprise systems and high-level breakdown of projects presented to teh executives and board of directors for an overview.
Gathering detailed requirements, creating user stories, acceptance criteria, wireframes, and workflows; documenting and attaching them to teh appropriate Product Backlog Items (PBIs) as required.
Maintaining teh product backlog, refining and grooming teh PBIs, assisting teh PO prioritize teh PBIs, confirming that teh backlog TEMPhas groomed PBIs to be worked on for teh next 2-3 sprints,
Facilitating Scrum ceremonies including Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, Refinement, Backlog and Sprint Grooming, Sprint Review, Retrospective, JAD sessions with stakeholders and teh Scrum team as needed.
Preparing and presenting a project and Scrum overview to department heads, managers, project managers and business systems analysts, for knowledge sharing and training purposes.
Reengineering of teh business rules engine, data flow across enterprise applications, straight-through processing of wires, which decreased manual processes by 50%.

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Successfully delivering a marketing campaign; creating and maintaining teh PBIs, epics, user stories, current & proposed processes, wireframes and mockups, effectively bringing down teh delivery time by 15%.
Gathering and documenting detailed business needs for a mobile proof-of-concept (POC) app called Stacks which allows clients to view and edit commercial real estate data in real-time
Re-engineering of timesheet process for a client by creating and implementing an online timesheet system that decreased teh client’s processing time from 3-5 days to real time.
Mentoring new and junior business analysts on teh processes and industry best practices for eliciting requirements, coordinating and overseeing their work in all phases of SDLC.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Naperville IL

Responsibilities:

Facilitating teh identification & prioritization of enhancements, design modifications and defects for projects including a time-tracking system, an underwriting system and a tool to gather high-tech medical information.
Conducting JAD sessions with business stakeholders, senior management, SMEs and technical architects and to elicit requirements and conceptualize new products and processes.
Documenting re-engineered workflows and procedures to improve teh user experience of existing tools and applications with an emphasis on automation and efficiency.
Performing validation and user acceptance testing (UAT) of in-house developed applications. Successfully delivered teh applications uncovering most critical bugs, with 96% accuracy.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

Creating user stories, product backlog items, wireframes and UI mockups for a lease comp tablet app, allowing tenant brokers teh ability to instantly compare lease data in buildings across major U.S. cities.
Defining detailed business requirements by meeting with business owners, product managers, SMEs, user experience designers and developers to ensure business needs were translated into proper specifications.
Managing project enhancements & scope for ongoing releases by identifying and prioritizing project needs from business and technical teams.
Successfully creating an array of documents, including workflows, business requirements, functional specifications, detailed design specifications, use cases, wireframes, mockups and GUI prototypes.