Analyst Management

Mehran Gharibnavaz

**** – ** Greenview Ave, Toronto, ON. M2M 0A5

Res: 416-***-****

Email: ******.***********@*******.***

CAREER Objective

Looking for a Business Analyst position, utilizing my experience and knowledge in a progressive environment, to make a significant contribution in the execution of business goals

SKILLS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTSHighly knowledgeable, has worked within every phase of SDLC: assessment, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and support.Skilled at Presentations, Joint Application, Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions, Prototyping, Training, Gap Analysis, Business Application Support, Use Case Development.A strong problem-solver who can design solutions and communicate clearly to assist developers with issues.Able to translate requirements into Requirement Documents - High Level Requirements Documents and Detailed Requirements Documents.Follows Requirements Management Practices, inline with the CMMI guidelines and standards.Strong ability to understand new concepts with an extensive experience in requirement management.Demonstrated experience in Assessing, researching and analyzing sponsor/stakeholder’s needs.Organized and analytical with the ability to spot and resolve problems quickly and effectively.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst Consultant

York University Mar 2012 - PresentTrained and helped university students with their projects (University Enrolment System) and analysis.Practiced applications relationship with database and servers. Provided Business Analyst requirement documents (Exp. Business Case, Use case, Test case, Functional Requirements and non-Functional Requirements Developed class diagrams, Data Flow diagram, and Business and System context diagram for students and help them to understand the concept of business requirements.

IT Portfolio Lead / Senior BA/BSA

RBC(Infrastructure / Document Workflow Application) Mar 2008 – Dec 2011

Roles and Resposisibilities: Led a team of 5 RBC employees on site and off-shore.Managed, prioritized, scheduled and implemented all the raised issues for a portfolio of business units (BU) that use customized Pega workflows.Monitored and controlled the cost against approved budget to each supported business unit.Developed and presented status and executive summary reports to the Business Sponsors, LSA and Development Lead.Coordinated with local and off-shore/external development and testing vendors.Managed, prioritized, scheduled and implemented all the raised issues to the Incident, Problem and Change Management flows.Assigned to write Software Requirement Specification (SRS), master test plan and test cases for ECOM application.Developed use case models for ECOM, HR and RBC applications of Peregrine Service Centre.Provided data mapping for ECOM, HR and RBC applications of Peregrine Service Centre.Provided BRD, business scope and business process models for ECOM and HR applications.Participated in UAT testing for HR application as a Business Analyst. Developed critical documentation problem fixes and SCR's, including BRD, SRS, flow diagrams, test cases, functional and regression test plans and supporting documentation. Acted as Key resource for off-shore developers and testers, technical writers and business stakeholders. Conducted Defect management using HP Quality Center.

Business System Analyst / Business Analyst

Ministry of Children and Youth Services Jun – Oct 2007

Roles and Resposisibilities:

Developed Business Requirements and Software Requirements specification (SRS) for SCRs.Identified, tracked and resolved business systems issues.Developed test cases related to ISCIS application with the detailed test plan, and ensure that all

developed test cases are part of a regression test bed.Illustrated the functionality of ISCIS application using Rational Rose in UML2.0 frame work.Developed use case models for eParkyn application.Provided BRD and business process models for eParkyn and ISCIS applications.Participated in UAT testing for eParkyn application as a Business Analyst. Performed Software verification and validation including test script development and user acceptance testing, ensuring that the software meets client’s needs.

Business System Analyst / Business Analyst

CIBC Sep - Dec 2006

Roles and Resposisibilities:

Gathered business requirements, analyzing and documenting stakeholders’ needs.Promoted/implemented changes to Production environments.Implemented developments for automated reports and elimination of manual intervention to production. Assisted in Business Acceptance Testing/User Acceptance Testing of new development or changes for Sign-off prior to implementation into Production.Developed use case, BRD and business process models for eclipse application. Participated in UAT testing for eclipse application as a Business Analyst.Updated use cases as specified by change requests.Created and executed unit and integrated test cases.

Business System Analyst / Business Analyst

Toronto Hydro Sep 2005- Jun 2006

Roles and Resposisibilities:

Developed Business Requirement document.Provided BRD document for Ellipse application.Created related Use Cases for Ellipse application.Illustrated the functionality of Ellipse application using Rational Rose.Created and executed unit test cases.Updated use cases as specified by change requests.Application (Ellipse) test in staging and user acceptance test (UAT) environment.Converted of Data verification from Access database to Oracle 9i and using Software tool such as Toad to run some scripts for quality purposes.Developed documentation and reviewed test results in all QA test phases such as requirements validation, Business and Operational Acceptance Testing.Acted as Business Analyst for UAT testing of Ellipse application.Automated Test Script Ellipse modules with TestPartner Application using VB.

Business System Analyst / Business Analyst

Central Bank of Iran Jan 1996 –Apr 2002

Roles and Resposisibilities:

Produced detailed business specifications that accurately address the business requirements, according to expected deliverables, and properly managed changing requirements.Worked as a productive Analyst by leading medium to large scale Financial System projects using Water Fall methodology.Described the goals, resources, rules (laws, business strategies and policies), and the actual work in the business using UML 1.0.Developed test cases with the detailed test plan, and ensured that all developed test cases are part of a Regression test. Provided support for the Integration, Business Acceptance, User Acceptance Test phases of the project.Provided computer training and development for over 100 new and 500 existing staff.Developed and submitted activity reports to executive management on a regular basis.

EDUCATION

BAS. Administrative studies specialized in information technology. 2002-2007

York University, Canada

B.Sc. Computer Science (Specialized in software). 1992-1996

University of Tehran, Iran

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Foundations of Project Management U of T Present

Introduction to Project Management for RBC McMaster University 2010

Object Oriented Analysis and Design IBM (Canada) 2009

Mastering Requirements Management with Use Cases IBM (Canada) 2009

Use Case Modeling McMaster University 2008

Oracle Adminstrative. Seneca College 2008

Object Oriented Programming, Java. Seneca College 2002

COMPUTER SKILLS

Methodologies: PMLC, SDLC, Waterfall and Iterative Project Management, RUP, Agile, UML2.0, Structured Analysis and Design, Use Case modelling,

Tools: MS Project, MS Office 2003, Visio, PowerPoint, Rational Suite (Rational Rose, RSA), Crystal Report, Visual Studio 6, SharePoint Services, Automation and Web Services, MS Live Meeting, TestPartner, HP Quality Centre

Languages: VB.Net, Java, C#, VBA

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle8i/9i, db2, Access

REFERENCES

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