Florence Hennessey
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Over 20 years' experience in the Business Analysis/Quality Analyst roles leading system modernization projects
Certified Scrum Master
Experience in both Waterfall and Agile
Work closely with business groups for modernization of numerous systems including mainframe, Desktop, Laptops, Mobile devices and Windows Support, Web and Client Server.
Work with business groups to translate business documents into functional test documents, create test strategies/test plans to verify software functionality/adherence to business requirements
Experience in Desktop and Windows platforms.
Experience in writing functional business documentation, test plans, test case scenarios, postmortems
Adept at working with business groups (in-house and off-shore) to collect business requirements
High degree of attention to detail when executing test cases, documenting issues, retesting
Able to work in fast paced team environment as well as focusing on individual projects
Technical Experience
HP ALM Jira Quality Center Windows NT DB Visualizer
PowerPoint RTC Windows XP MS Project Access
Excel Visio Siebel CICS CSW
TSO OCR IBM Imaging Salesforce Mobile Testing
PMP Training Six Sigma-Green Training Scrum Master Certification
Experience
Business Systems Analyst
Liberty Mutual - Portsmouth, NH
June 2013 to present
Worked on the set up of the online procession site for Liberty Mutual Auto Insurance. This was a new process, involved from the beginning, meetings with the product owners, writing functional documents, test cases, testing, working with developers and bug resolution, all leading to site moving to a live environment. Involved with the same process for Liberty Mutual Mobile site as well as the Mobil App for online processing of Auto and Home Policies Work with business groups to translate business documents into functional test documents, create test strategies/test plans to verify software functionality/adherence to business requirements, execute manual test cases, validate results, document/update testing defects as needed, validate results with inputs from upstream and downstream systems, coordinate testing and implementation of multiple projects with in-house staff as well as an off-shore group, identify and communicate to business units any system modifications that may impact existing workflow procedures
Business Analyst/Quality Analyst
IDEA Consulting - Nashua, NH
June 2010 to June 2013
Work focused on working with the product owners for QVC, the home shopping network, gathering requirements, writing functional specs, working with developers to ensure the QVC website would be successfully implemented customer use Create test strategies/test plans to verify software functionality/adherence to business requirements, create/execute manual test cases, validate results, document/update testing defects as needed, validate results with inputs from upstream and downstream systems
Business Analyst
Liberty Mutual - Dover, NH
January 2008 to September 2008
Developed plans to verify software functionality/adherence to business requirements, execute manual test cases, validate results, document/update testing defects as needed, validate results with inputs from upstream and downstream systems for different in-house business groups
Business Analyst
JPMorgan Chase & Co - Lowell, MA
April 2007 to December 2007
Lead on an in-house project involving working closely with outside vendor on system patches to bring the Morgan systems into compliance Create test strategies/test plans to verify software functionality/adherence to business requirements, execute manual test cases, validate results, document/update testing defects as needed, validate results with inputs from upstream and downstream systems
Project Analyst
MetLife - Boston, MA
January 2006 to February 2007
Create test strategies/test plans to verify software functionality/adherence to business requirements, execute manual test cases, validate results, document/update testing defects as needed, validate results with inputs from upstream and downstream systems for MetLife Payment systems
Project/Business Analyst
Putnam Investments - Andover, MA
December 1996 to May 2005
Initially started on the Y2K project for Putnam, ensuring that all system screens were date/year compliant, that customers did not run in to any issues when the date/year fields were expanded from 2 to 4 characters. Moved on to be the Business Analyst for the Putman 529 product for the state of Ohio. Involved in working with the state, conference calls to gather requirements, wrote functional specs, worked with developers both in-house and those from Ohio to ensure a valid online processing system for customers to use when setting up their 529 plan accounts Create test strategies/test plans to verify software functionality/adherence to business requirements, execute manual test cases, validate results, document/update testing defects as needed, validate results with inputs from upstream and downstream systems Coordinate testing and implementation of multiple projects with in-house staff as well as an off-shore group, identify and communicate to business units any system modifications that may impact existing workflow procedures, facilitate discussions with the Documentation and Training Departments to ensure completeness of user documentation and training plans, train and evaluate Software Analysts and Software Testers
Education
B. S. in Criminal Justice
Northeastern University - Boston, MA
Certifications/Licenses
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
October 2017