SUMMARY

• I am a dynamic IT Professional with over 4 years of experience in Business Analysis, quality assurance and information security. I am proficient in full SDLC, Quantitative Analysis and Relational database management. I possess excellent project management skills and is a dedicated team player Skilled at creating complex reports, implementing advanced Excel skills (spreadsheets, complex formulas, Pivot tables, VLOOKUP). Expert in writing complicated SQL Queries and database analysis for good performance.I have the desire to learn and adapt to new technologies as am currently seeking a role in a growing company. Career supported by a BACHELORS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.
• Over 4 years of professional experience as a Business Analyst.
• Strong background in SDLC such as Agile Methodology and Waterfall methodology
• Extensive experience in user requirements gathering, writing product briefs and specifications, Brain storming sessions and Data Analysis
• Expertise in being an intermediate to business users and technical teams by planning, facilitating, and directing the change and impact analysis of business problems to be solved with integrated systems.
• Expertise in creating project artifacts (PRD, SRD, BRD, RTM,UML)
• Experience in participating/Organizing JAD/RAD/Agile/Waterfall scrum sessions
• Experience working with large and complex data sets to aid business decision making
• Experience in working with SQL Queries.
• Experienced in performing data analysis by accessing the data using queries or reporting tools including mapping the business functions to the data and data models.
• Experienced in Regulatory Reporting.
• Strongly possess Project Management skills, keeping in mind the objectives of the project and working closely with QA for successful project delivery.
• Extensive hands - on experience with relational database management techniques with heavy exposure to MS SQL workbench.
• Very Good understanding and Working Knowledge of Object Oriented Programming (OOPS).
• Good presentation and customer facing ability.
• Strong interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills and ability to work well in a team environment.
• Fluent in English and French.

TECHNICAL SKILLS.

Applications: Excel, Word, SharePoint, Access, PowerPoint.

Tools: JIRA

Documentation: Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Design Document (FDD), User Manuals, Test Cases, Test Strategy, Master Test Plan (MTP), System Requirements Specifications (SRS), Help Documents.

Methodologies: Agile, waterfall.

Languages: SQL, Java, HTML

Business Modeling: MS Visio

RDBMS: MySQL Workbench.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master Certification Training Program

Confidential Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Worked in teams and followed progress using Jira, follow practices of Agile.
• Develop complex SQL queries for data-analysis and data extraction by utilizing knowledge of joins and understanding database landscape.
• Develop and maintain internal databases, ad-hoc queries and reports.
• Extract, scrub and manipulate real-time and warehouse data using SQL & Java.
• Importeddatafrom different sources to Hive.
• Loaded and extracted thedatausing Sqoop from MySQL RDBMS into HadoopHDFSfor data warehousing.
• Develop MapReduce jobs in Java for log analysis, analytics, and data cleaning.
• Perform big data processing using Hadoop, MapReduce, Sqoop and Oozie

IT Business Analyst

Confidential - Arlington, TX

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively with Finance team and Data Warehouse Team to understand the regulatory requirements and analyzed various phases of the reporting cycle and data models.
• Gathered and documented requirements, business needs and project objectives through feedback sessions and client meetings.
• Define/Create Use Cases; design Data Flow Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams for providing directions to the development team.
• Performed data analysis by accessing the data using queries or reporting tools including mapping the business functions to the data and data models.
• Designed and implemented user set-up, end user training materials and testing procedures.
• Performed data analysis by accessing the data using queries or reporting tools including mapping the business functions to the data and data models.
• Coordinated/participated in various agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, sprint retrospective and daily scrum meetings and reviewed various reports in JIRA for defect resolving.
• Assisted with the drafting of Business Justification, Requirement and Design documents.
• Participated in Scrum and Sprint Planning meetings, ensured successful and timely project implementation.

Associate Business Analyst /Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, CAMEROON

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between client area and technical organization by planning, conducting, and directing the analysis of highly complex business problems to be solved with automated systems.
• Experienced in creating various documentations, such as Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specifications (FSD), Systems Design Specification (SDS), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Use Cases, and testing documents from scratch and preparing reports on Capital Market projects.
• Organized SharePoint content and structure data into SharePoint data, lists and pages.
• Participated in creation of the Test Plan and Setting up the test environment, preparation and acquisition of test data.
• Performed analysis, review and assessment of user requirements, specifications and models for testability.
• Managed spreadsheets and maintain data currency to ensure accurate data availability for managers and decision-makers.
• Created and maintained SharePoint usernames, access rights and group permissions.
• Created of test cases tracing back to requirements and design, execution of test cases and defect management.