Yohannes G Yirsaw, PhD

ad5aqd@r.postjobfree.com 571-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Business Analyst

Sr. Business analyst with 10 plus years of diverse experience in working with various clients and projects including diagnostic, banking, healthcare, and, government projects.

Excellent track record of delivering cost effective and high-performance technology solutions to meet challenging business needs that includes gathering requirements, identifying business problems, developing functional, requirement specification, system requirement specification, use cases, backlog documents, user story documents, Test plan, test cases, requirement traceability matrix and Test Analysis Report.

Strong knowledge of Agile and Waterfall, V-model and SDLC processes

Excellent communications (verbal and written), problem solving and analytical skills

BA exposure with requirements documents writing.

Experience identifying testing scenarios and documenting test cases, executing tests, and leading UAT

Experience developing and maintaining Use Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, & User Stories

Expertise in facilitating and coordinating Joint Application Requirement (JAR) and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with excellent inter-personal and conflict resolving skills.

Strong experience in Agile/Scrum development projects, coaching and mentoring team members on the process.

Strong working experience creating use cases, user stories, business requirements specifications, functional specifications, and process flow diagrams.

Performs research, collects and analyzes information, and uses the data to problem solving and improve the decision-making and efficiency of the business

Experience in Warehousing Concepts, Dimensional Modeling, OLTP, and OLAP

Exhibit strong analytical ability during Functional Testing, Regression Testing, and UAT Testing.

Experience in developing and maintaining Review Change Requests (CR) and related documents for the CR.

Familiar with APIs and AWS

Familiar with DBMS

Knowledge of CMMI, GDP, 508 Compliance, and Quality Assurance(QA) Standards.

Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write concise and accurate technical documentation

Familiar with DevOps and CI/CD

Experience in web services and APIs

Familiar with BABOK

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration Management of Engineering and Technology

Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ. Completed in 2018.

Master and Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering Higher Chemical Technology & Metallurgy University.

Certification

Business Analyst Certified

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certified

Scrum Master Certification Training Completed

Technical Skills

Tech Operating System: Windows and Unix

Applications SharePoint, MS Office, MS Excel, SAP

Documentation

BRS, FRS, SRS, Use Case, Product Backlog, User Story, GAP Analysis

Test Plan, Test Scripts, RTM and Test Reports

Databases

Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server

CM/Requirement Tools:

MS Visio, HP ALM, Quality Center, SharePoint, PowerPoint,

Programming Language

JAVA, SQL, SPSS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

09/2021 – 08/26/2022 World Services LLC Business Analyst III, Alexandria VA

Client – FAA, Washington DC

Works in Agile environment

Assist in facilitating meetings and prepare/maintain meeting/stakeholder artifacts for all project meetings. Record and publish quick meeting summaries of Acquisition Executive Board (AEB), Enterprise Architecture Board (EAB), and Program Management Office/Program Management Review (PMO/PMR) meetings.

Create monthly Action Item Reports; Action Items from the meetings are tracked in Documentum.

Develop Briefings and Reports and continually monitor performance and risks for all project activities.

Prepare a consolidated project schedule that includes all projects milestones and reporting requirements. The schedule will identify work products and dependencies, detail and sequence the project activities, and provide estimates for the duration to complete the activities.

Perform business and data process mapping and provide business process reengineering to facilitate process modernization of the portfolio of applications.

Performs research, collects and analyzes information, and uses the data to problem solving and improve the decision-making and efficiency of the business

Support the development of Office and Management and Budget (OMB) Updates and Budget White Sheets.

Uses CRM workflow technology to automate business processes.

Works in Jira and follow the agile process. Work on the scrum cycles and the sprint ceremonies.

Writing SQL queries

Capture meeting minutes and follow-up on action items with appropriate stakeholders in a timely manner.

Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

Follows processes that support the Agile Center of Excellence and set the quality standards.

Communicates Quality Assurance (QA) approval (or non-approval) of a release to the broader team and stakeholders.

Applied the PMBOK framework throughout the project.

05/2021 – 09/2021 Unemployed

01 / 2017 – 05/2021 Unisys Corporation, Bethesda, MD

Sr. Business Analyst/ Consultant

Worked on a project CSB (Common Services for Borrowers)

Client: Dept of Education

Works in Agile environment.

Works with clients, stakeholders, and business owners to produce requirements, determine feasibility, analyze requirements, and recommend design solution options.

Define detailed user stories with applicable acceptance criteria in collaboration with the Product Owners and technology team.

Analyze and identify problems, research alternatives, create presentations, test to confirm, and implement solutions for defined business processes.

Assist with product backlog grooming and Sprint Planning

Elaborate Software Requirements Specifications and Software Design Specifications for new, enhanced, and retired applications

Assist the Product Owner with user story prioritization before the sprint planning meeting.

Perform demos for the stakeholders of new functionality that was created in the current sprint.

Interact with business owners, SMEs, and management team to identify scope and to prepare Business Requirement Document, Use Case, User Story, and Activity Diagrams to further develop Technical requirements and/or Functional Specifications.

Ensure that all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.

Provide guidance to project managers, business owners, development team and subject matter experts to resolve the outstanding issue and action items are taken in the review meeting.

Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severity and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conform to deadlines.

Conduct sprint planning based on new and backlogged requirements.

Perform task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using HP ALM.

Participate in development of training materials for the new technology and organizing User Training.

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Environment: Git, Github, Jenkins, SharePoint, Visio, HP ALM, JIRA, Oracle, SQL server, J2EE, JAVA, and MS Windows

06/2014–01/2017 Active Health Management (Aetna) - Chantilly, VA

Business Analyst II

Conducted process reviews/gap analysis and add new perspective to produce solution

Tracked bugs and ensure issues are resolved before going to production

Performed Gap Analysis of system using existing documentation to identify drawbacks and bridge the gap in between.

Collaborated with business and technology leads to identify the appropriate data for testing and prepare that data for the test cases.

Identify, assess, and document system requirements recommending system priorities

Document product backlogs and user stories guided by acceptance criteria and obtaining documentation signoff.

Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open issues.

Ensured that all documentations were complied with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.

Worked with the QA and Testing team to help with reviews on Test Plans and Test Cases for functional and integration testing.

Maintained the requirements traceability matrix to track requirements coverage.

Documented any issues or defects and eventually got the sign off from the right parties.

Manually verified the validity of the failed test cases. Performed Positive, Negative and Black Box testing on the application.

Assist in weekly status meetings with Development Team, QA Manager, clients and develop meeting-minutes

Designed and developed test scenarios and test cases based on business requirements, technical specifications, and use cases.

Maintained standard documentation to comply with CMMI Standards.

Environment: UML, Quality Center, Oracle, Office, SQL Server, UNIX, MS Visio, JIRA, HP ALM,

10/2012- 06/2014 SunTrust Bank - Baltimore, MD

Requirement Analyst/ Project Analyst

Communicated with the business owner and with different levels of management to identify requirements, use cases, and to develop functional specifications.

Analyzed the system from both the technical and business perspectives and prepare Business Requirement Document

Develop use cases, use cases diagrams, and activity diagrams, to define system functionalities as per business requirements.

Involved in developing and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix

Performed Gap analysis on the present system and documented the enhancements to meet the end state requirements of the system.

Conducted JAD sessions to communicate and manage expectations with the business users and the feature content team.

Used SQL to conduct data validation, and data analysis.

Actively liaised throughout the project between end users, development team, and QA team to address system issues, 508 testing, and identify the appropriate solution.

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle, MS Visio, UML, .NET, Jenkins, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, UNIX

September 05/2010 – 10/2012 Atlantic Casualty Insurance Company - Scottsdale, AZ

Data Analyst

Involved in understanding of functionality and design of the applications based on the Requirement Specification Document.

Created, Maintained and Executed Manual Test Scripts in Quality Center.

Maintained Requirement Traceably Matrix (RTM) after developing and updating Test Cases

Worked extensively with SQL queries for database integrity and data validation.

Worked as a Data Modeler/Analyst to generate Data Models using Erwin and developed a relational database system.

Analyzed the business requirements of the project by studying the Business Requirement Specification document.

Designed tables and implemented the naming conventions for Logical and Physical Data Models in Erwin

Developed and maintained data dictionary to create metadata reports for technical and business purpose.

Executed Test Cases using different testing techniques like Positive Testing, Negative Testing.

Environment: MS office, JIRA, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows

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