Business Analyst Scrum Master

TOLU ADEKOYA

Baltimore-Washington D.C Area 240-***-**** ad5vv2@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tolu-adekoya-

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

An accomplished business analyst with experience working in an agile environment that spans many industries can also assume the roles of a scrum, product owner, and quality assurance tester. Capable of communication well with corporate, SMEs, and technical stakeholders while leading a workshop for system and functional impact analysis. A self-starter with writing short, unambiguous user stories and acceptance criteria. Outstanding interpersonal, multitasking, prioritizing, taking initiative, communication, planning, and technical abilities are required. In addition to having a solid capacity to communicate clearly between IT and business teams to ensure that deliverables fulfill organizational goals, also skilled at documenting both present and future process flows to comprehend and analyze business processes. SKILLS AND TOOLS

• Requirement Gathering

• Wireframes

• Agile Methodologies

• Jira

• Confluence

• Snag It

• Slack

• Gap Analysis

• Process Improvement

• Process Flow Diagrams

• Team Leadership

• Meeting Facilitation

• Microsoft Office Suite

• Power BI

• Stakeholder Management

• Software development life cycle

(SDLC)

• User Stories

• Scrum

• Project Management

• Business Intelligence

• Business Operations

• Mockups

• Excel

• Non-functional requirements

• Business Management

• SQL

• Crystal ball

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ansira Marketing Technologies – Detroit MI Feb 2023 – Till Date BUSINESSS ANALYST

• Stakeholder Management

• Software development life cycle (SLDC)

• User Stories

• Scrum Master

• Project Management

• Business Intelligence

• Business Operations

• Mockups

• Excel

• Non-functional requirements

• Business Management

• SQL

• Crystal Ball

The Arc of Howard County-Rockville MD May 2017- Dec 2022 IT BUSINESS ANALYST/SCRUM MASTER

• Manages expectations with clients via in-person and written communication.

• Provides information to users in response to functional/process questions.

• Collaborates with business owners/stakeholders to understand business needs, processes project specifications and data sources.

• Translates business needs into clearly defined user stories.

• Liaises between stakeholders, product owners, and development teams to facilitate reaching a consensus on the scope and design decisions.

• Provides improved End-users training for new feature/service adoption

• Serves as product Subject Matter Expert to the client and internal operations, (To my team, testers, and developers).

• Identifies and removes impediments for the development team.

• Assumes the scrum master role occasionally in the absence of the scrum master.

• Utilizes features from Jira to track team’s progress on burndown chart and velocity report.

• Supports full life cycle for new projects (analysis, design, development, manual testing, implementation, maintenance) as well as helping in resolution of production problems.

• Creates artefacts such as Use cases, Process flow diagrams, Swimlane, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams

• Develops technical documentation like Functional Requirement Document, Migration Plan etc.

• Works with product owner to ensure we continually use efficient product backlog practices.

• Manages project scopes to ensure delivery is compliant with scope commitment.

• Follows Software development life cycle methodology utilizing standard templates and deliverable documents.

• Hands on experience with requirements management tools like Jira and Confluence.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including experience working directly with customers to discuss their requirements and objectives.

• Conducts interviews with SMEs and Stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements and translates business needs into data and process flows.

• Develops methods, procedures, and quality objectives including metrics for assessing progress and utilizing established project standards, procedures, and quality objectives.

• Agile technical business analyst on a self-managing team of six, focused on defining business value, building functional and technical requirements, creating user stories, acceptance criteria, and user personas, refining backlogs for a new cloud-based enterprise data warehouse.

• Experience in working under deadlines and pressure. INCLUSION SERVICES Sept 2015 – April 2017

BUSINESS ANALYST

• Facilitates Interview and requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders, SMEs, and system owners to capture business rules, processes, and system requirements for various project.

• Gather critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and produce a useful report.

• Creates user stories and process flow diagram.

• Coordinates and leads review sessions both with peers and business executives.

• Utilized tools like MS Visio and Draw io to draw a swim lane and process flow diagram to provide detailed information about the design and show end-to-end communication between the system and the actor.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Lagos State University

B.Sc. Banking & Finance

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified SAFe Scrum Master

Certified Scrum Product Owner

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