KENNY P. ADESOBA

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With over six plus years of experience in the field of business and systems analysis in various software development lifecycle environments, ranging from highly agile (Scrum) to pure waterfall. Rich experience in the field of business analysis and software requirements management across numerous business domains. As a solution provider, have worked extensively with business community in building business architecture, perform business process reengineering, business process modeling, as well as with implementation team to deliver high quality software requirements in the form of user stories, use cases, functional requirements document (FRD) etc. Have displayed strong analytical, logical thought process to deliver most optimal solutions to the customer along with excellent project management, communication and writing skills. SKILL SUMMARY

• Extensive knowledge and experience in Retails, Banking and Information Technology Management.

• Efficient in gathering, detailing, documenting and validating the requirements in a format that is useful to their business area experts and the technical developers using MS Access, Word and Excel.

• Extensive Business Analysis experience in all phases of the project life cycle from including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling & testing.

• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.

• Proficiency in transforming business requirements into functional specifications focusing on workflow analysis and design, business process reengineering, user interface design, and process flow modeling.

• Solid working knowledge on Scrum concepts like Scrum Team, Product Backlog, Spring Planning, User Stories, Daily Stand-up Meeting, Burn down Charts, and Pair Programming etc.

• Strong Analysis skills in Project Definition Document (PDD) and Requests for Proposal (RFP).

• Experience in design and documentation business documents like Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD), and utilizing Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).

• Adept at performing GAP analysis to identify system restrictions and potentials, and creating AS-IS and TO- BE documents and Process Maps.

• Identified and Created Business Process Flow using MS Visio.

• Strong Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) session with onsite and offsite team.

• Experience in dealing with different data sources ranging from SQL server, Oracle, My SQL, MS Access and Excel.

• Experience in Data analysis, Data mapping, Data modeling and development of Databases for business applications in client/server applications and Data warehouse environments.

• Competent in creating Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams for business process modeling like Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Flow Charts.

• Proficient in developing Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and Activity Diagrams, and Class Diagrams based on UML.

• Strong SQL background and in writing SQL query for identifying databases involved in the application development.

• Experience in creating User Manual and conducting User Training Workshops to the end users.

• Experience in Change Management and Conflict Resolution at various stages of the project life cycle.

• Managed users, workflow, groups and projects in JIRA.

• Experienced in writing Test Cases, Test Scripts and generating Test Data to help improve the testing process.

• Strong testing experience in Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, Progression Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Root Cause Analysis. EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Ado Ekiti

• Masters of Business Administration, Pittsburg State University PROJECT DETAILS

Skillcubator Herndon, VA

Skillcubator is an information technology organization working with Commerce Bank. Commerce Bank offers financial services including personal, business banking, commercial banking and wealth management. The Project was to build a credit card intelligence tool, to offer best credit card to the clients based on their usage and credibility.

Business Analyst/Scrum Master Dec 2016 – Apr 2017

Responsibilities:

• System is built based on Agile methodology.

• Worked with the product owner in prioritizing the Product Backlog Items (BPIs)

• Created User Stories along with the Product Owner.

• Gathered additional requirements for Prototype from the users in order to describe the business needs in terms of the system being created.

• Performed GAP analysis by identifying existing technologies and documenting and enhancing to meet end state requirement.

• Facilitated all scrum ceremonies, i.e. sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review meetings and sprint retrospectives.

• Wrote SQL scripts for creating performance evaluation reports.

• Prioritized change requests to determine feasibility in relation to existing technical requirements, processes, and data models.

• Developed prototypes and screen mock-ups using MS Visio to facilitate interactive discussions with stakeholders and developers. (This was done during the backlog grooming).

• Assisted testing team for drafting the test plan, test cases and test scenarios.

• Coached the end users and the stakeholders on the functionalities of the application.

• Created and maintained dashboards in JIRA and developed new Epics, User Stories and Sub-Tasks

• Involved with writing test cases and execution of tests phases especially UAT during sprint review.

• Coordinated the testing efforts in QA testing, UAT, regression and functional testing. Jakesfireworks Pittsburg, KS

Jakes fireworks is a fireworks company that imports and sells fireworks all over America. To support this mission effectively, the company needs to have a proper way of keeping their large inventory, allow payments via ATM cards and award points to customers as they purchase fireworks from all locations across the country. Furthermore, this project is to create a better web application by which staff can log various information technology and customer issues. The web application tracks the issues resolved and how long it takes to be resolved. The defined Service Level Agreement (SLA) is to bring urgency to the resolution of all staff and customers issues in the organization.

Sr. Business Analyst/Coach May 2016 - Dec 2016

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD sessions with various teams which aided in developing an architectural solution that the application meets, to resolve open issues, and accommodate change requests.

• Ensured all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC Policies and guidelines.

• Conducted interviews with clients to analyze their data.

• Performed GAP analysis of business rules, business and system process flows, user administration, and requirements.

• Implemented the entire waterfall methodology of application development with its various workflows, artifacts and activities.

• Extracted the business requirements from the stakeholders keeping in mind their need for the application and documented them using Rational Requisite Pro.

• Documented business functionality requirements in Business Requirement Document (BRD).

• Developed use case with UML for new product functionality.

• Gathered requirements and translated the business details into the Functional Specification Documents that described the different types of processes.

• Coordinate workshops and brain storming sessions.

• Created application supporting documents including Non-Functional Requirements, user manuals, training material etc.

• Document all Data Mapping and transformation processes in the Functional Design documents based on the business requirements.

• Worked closely with Business Users, Development Team, and QC Team on eliciting, analyzing, documenting and communicating Use Cases, GUI (Mock-up Screen and Interface designs/Prototypes), Business, Functional and Non-Functional Requirements.

• Developed Business Process Flow diagram for more than 200 functionalities for retail sale transaction, promotion, payment, and guest experience and cashier activities.

• Updated System Change Request (SCR) forms for Product Data Management (PDM).

• Prepared Test cases/Scenarios for the product during the Testing Phase

• Traced test cases and functional specifications using HP Quality Center.

• Conducted User Acceptance testing (UAT) and worked with users and vendor who build the system.

• Facilitate Defect triage meetings and prioritized outstanding defects, system problems, ensuring accuracy and deadlines were met.

United Bank for Africa Lagos, Nigeria

United Bank for Africa is one of the biggest banks in Africa and it has presence in London, New York and Tokyo. It’s Mobile Banking Systems (MBS), a sub division of the entire Electronic Banking Systems (EBS) group is designed to manage and implement all the bank’s MBS projects for Nigeria and the entire African continent. The objective of the Portfolio Management Systems (PMS) I coordinated was to include some other African countries on the current mobile banking infrastructure and incorporate other Nigerian banks on the same online application. This project was also an integrated with the bank’s core banking application called finacle. Sr. Business Analyst/Scrum Master/Coach Jan 2011 - Jan 2015 Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Product Manager and the Scrum Master to get a better understanding of Client Business Processes and elicit requirements in sync with the scope of the project.

• Established a business analysis using Agile methodology and broke down the epics

• Involved in all Scrum ceremonies and tracked velocity using Jira. sprint planning, schedule and drive SCRUMS to track progress, communicate periodic status to stakeholders and senior management.

• Collaborate with the Product Owner on project/roadmap planning, attend daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings

• Worked with Agile coaches, PMO Staff, and newly formed TPO team in developing process standards.

• Created User Stories during sprint planning.

• Prepared Work flows for existing system using MS Visio and re-engineer the design based on business requirements.

• Worked with SQL queries and responsible for data mapping

• Retrieved Data using SQL queries and did Data Mapping and Data analysis.

• Created the Data Mapping documents used by the Development & Testing team, worked very closely with them in order to ensure that the correct Data Elements were being passed across systems

• Involved in preparing test plan, test script and test cases based of functional requirements.

• Effectively communicated user acceptance test (UAT) results between users and development team and provided recommendations for Application change requests (ACR).

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