Faizan Tariq

**** *. ******** ***** #****, Scottsdale, Arizona 85255

Phone: 480-***-**** E-Mail: acqsgp@r.postjobfree.com Summary

Highly motived individual applying for the position of Business Analyst. I have over 6 years of progressive experience in Business Analysis and exposure to nearly all phases of software development cycle, I posses multiple skills covering from Business Development, Project Management, Community Management, Marketing, Sales and Quality Assurance. I have strong problem solving skills and believe in being a team player.

Experience

Geniteam (Nov 2008 to Mar 2015)

Business Analyst at Geniteam Oct 2013-Mar 2015

o Acted as a liaison and point-of-contact between Clients, Sales Teams, Developers, QA and Mangers to ensure smooth development execution.

o Led negotiations, coordinated complex decision-making, and handled objections to capture new business opportunities.

o Analyzed data from user interaction identified trends and increased retention. o Managed marketing related events, seminars, mailings campaigns to increase brand awareness and sales.

o Gathered requirements, created use cases, prepared proposals, contracts and other documentation.

o Managed Clients and Development teams located at different time zones and geo locations.

o Delegated tasks and responsibilities using Scrum for Agile project management. o Managed priorities, Change Management, User feedback and Backlog. Growth Hacker at Tapinator Inc. (Strategic Alliance with Geniteam) Jun 2012 - Oct 2013 o Worked closely with Marketing and Engineering teams. o Analyze data, identifying opportunity areas, and managing prioritization and execution of key growth initiatives.

o Designed game play, game mechanism, game economy, game flow, monetization strategy and Ran A/B testing.

Product Manager at The Game Boss (division of Geniteam) Jun 2010 – Jun 2012 o Managed online game community and social media presence. o Chalked out development plans based on user insights/community feedback. o Worked with the business to develop and implement appropriate incentive and engagement programs, such as gamification, badging, and other recognition. o Moderate questions, comments, and general feedback within the community. Quality Assurance Engineer at Geniteam Nov 2008 – Jun 2010 o Tested business apps and games for bugs and errors. o Reported bugs, issues and crashes on bug tracker system (Bugzilla). o Analyze and gather business requirements. White box, Black box (Functional), Gray box, Gorilla, Agile, web service testing, manual testing of apps and web software. Education

Faizan Tariq

7900 E. Princess drive #1240, Scottsdale, Arizona 85255 Phone: 480-***-**** E-Mail: acqsgp@r.postjobfree.com 2

University Of Central Punjab 2004-2007

Bachelors in Computer Science

(Completed 60 Credits towards a Bachelor’s degree.) Superior College of Information technology (Lahore, Pakistan) 2002-2004 High school diploma in computer programming.

Skills

Business Analysis: Documentation, Identifying Use cases, requirement gathering, Proposal writing, Wire framing, User Stories, Prototyping and Good Communication Skills. Project Management: Scrum, Agile development, Jira, Assambla, Change Management,WBS and Daily Standups.

Programming: Java, C++, Php, Html5, Css3, JavaScript and Joomla. Quality Assurance: Test case, documentation, White box, Black box, Gorilla, A/B testing, Cross browser compatibility and UAT.

App and Game development: Gamification, InApp currency, Game Mechanics, Game Analytics Game Economy, App monetization, AdMob, Flurry, Inapp advertising, Cross promotion, Online Education, Cloud based solutions, B2B2C and Software as service (Saas). Marketing: Community Management, managing Social media accounts, Email newsletter, Landing pages, Customer Relationship Management (Sugar CRM), Google AdSense and Adword. MISC: Excel, Word, Visio, PowerPoint, Windows, Mac and Linux installation support/repair, and computer networking.