BOLANLE OLAITAN
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647-***-**** / **************@*****.***
Business Analyst
Highlights of Qualifications
Over 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst in application development projects with comprehensive understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Experienced in developing project plans, business case, risk management & disaster recovery plan and consolidated requirement documentation
Experts in requirements organization, translating, simplifying, management and communication
Experienced in Business/Data Modeling, flow diagrams (DFDs), entity relationship diagrams (ERDs) to complement stakeholder understanding
A very reliable, highly organized and self-motivated individual. Flexible and versatile - able to maintain a sense of humor under pressure, an excellent team player with solid understanding of software testing life cycle
Motivated, diligent business professional with a successful track record of supporting and implementing major projects and enhancements within large organizations
Expertised in MS Visio, Paint, to generate screens mock-ups and specify system input/output parameters
Assists business and development support teams to perform functional and non- functional testing including, black box testing, white box testing, users’ acceptance testing, retest, regression testing and supports quality assurance testing. Highly experienced in facilitating bug triage meeting
Very strong analytical skills in Business Analysis and Project Management Methodologies
Ability to negotiate effective resolution of conflicting business priorities with corporate business clients through organized and results oriented meetings
Ability to effectively work with individuals at all levels of the organization including senior level management. A proven ability of mentoring, coaching and training skills
Technical Skills
MS Visio, MS Outlook, Axure, Blueworks Live, SharePoint, Microsoft Office suites, SQL
HP Quality Center, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Test Manager, Excel, Quality Manager, Jira
Work Experience
Business Process and System Release Manager May2017 –Till Present
LexisNexis.ca. Toronto, Ontario (Data Migration & E-Invoice Enhancement Project)
Gathers and documents communication requirements for the e-contracts projects
Develops and executes User Acceptance Testing (UAT), test cases and plans for 4 sub-projects
Updates various business processes based on changes implemented on the project
Conducts working sessions and meetings with major stakeholders – Subject Matter Experts, Project Managers, Senior Managers and IT Team to gather and understand various business requirements and needs
Conducts requirement review and walkthrough sessions with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and other Stakeholders
Develops the Business Requirement Document for Reporting and Continuous Improvement on processes
Provides mentorship for other business analysts on documenting requirements in use-cases for projects
Uses MS Visio, documents Business Processes and Business Requirements in UML Models such as Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams & Class Diagrams
Uses MS Visio, developed Work Flow Diagrams, Swim lanes, Use-case diagrams, Process Flow Diagrams
Delivers regular progress reports and weekly status reports to the Program Manager
Monitored project performance against the project plan and implementing corrective actions where necessary
Controls and documents all changes to the project plan based on decisions during meetings
Documents detailed business requirements and reviews/builds business design documents, and conducts formal walkthroughs with other project team members
Conducts and facilitates walkthrough sessions with stakeholders to validate requirements and obtained sign-offs on the requirements
Business Analyst Jun 2016 – DEC 2016
Crossmark Canada.Toronto, Ontario (Data Migration, Data Modeling)
Supported business initiatives through data analysis, identification of implementation barriers and user acceptance testing of new systems
Identified and analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to improve existing processes
Performed detailed analysis on assigned projects, recommends potential business solutions and assists with implementation
Performed and participates in analysis and documentation of data mapping between legacy and future business system.
Gathered, reviewed, analyzed, validated, evaluated and mapped business systems, processes and user needs in order to support data mapping and migration.
Coordinated with testing team and assists with creating test scripts to ensure data migration requirements and balancing are fulfilled
Works closely with functional streams to ensure all requirements are collected and fulfilled
Business Analyst July 2015 – Nov. 2016
Aicetec Ltd.
Facilitated Requirement workshops, Joint Application Development sessions (JAD) and Use-Case Design sessions with business users and other stakeholders to gather business requirements
Constantly met with Major Stakeholders – including Senior Management, Subject Matter Expert (SME) and other members of the project team to review the progress of all the work packages within the project
Abled to model future state end to end hiring process to capture requirements, business rules, translated them into detailed requirements specifications and test scenarios
Conducted Walkthrough sessions with stakeholders to validate requirements and to obtain sign-offs on the requirements
Developed business, Functional and non-Functional Requirement Documents as well as forward Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
Completed business process analysis, mapping and re-engineering to automate existing processes including undocumented and manual processes
Business Analyst/Project Lead Jan 2013 –May 2015
Target Canada - Toronto Ontario (Project: E-App Project – Electronic Application for Employment purposes)
Facilitated Requirement workshops, Joint Application Development sessions (JAD) and Use-Case Design sessions with business users and other stakeholders to gather business requirements
Abled to model future state end to end hiring process to capture requirements, business rules, translated them into detailed requirements specifications and test scenarios
Updated various business processes based on changes implemented on the project, and delivered regular progress Documented all changes, putting a good change control processes in place to the project plan based on decisions
Conducted Walkthrough sessions with stakeholders to validate requirements and to obtain sign-offs on the requirements
Assisted the Project Manager to facilitate workshops with the business and systems teams to identify and complete business analysis and requirements
Developed business, Functional and non-Functional Requirement Documents
Ensured documentation is being maintained according to evolving business requirements
Completed business process analysis, mapping and re-engineering to automate existing processes
Bridged communications between Business Stakeholders and Off-shore development team
Performed User Acceptance Testing: Black Box testing, Test plan, Test strategy,,unit integration and regression testing
Education And Professional Development
Business Analysis and Software Testing (Certificate)
BSC (honors)(Mathematics)