Project Quality Assurance

Soheil Ghahremani

** ******** # ****

Irvine, CA, 92620

Phone: 949-***-****

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

OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a position that will utilize my communication, technical,

analytical, and problem solving skills, with a successful company that will

offer learning opportunities and growth for my career.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

. Excellent verbal and written communication, requirements gathering, gap

analysis, and SWOT analysis

. Exceptional problem solving skills and the ability to research issues to

determine root cause.

. Ability to create strong relationships with project team members and

business owners

. Ability to track and report on change management, process volumes,

scheduling,

. Ensured project documentation (Requirements, Business Case, schedule)

were updated accordingly and present to all levels of the organization

. Ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines and project

deliverables.

. Strong analytical and project management skills as well as planning and

organizational skills.

. Superior communicator among key stakeholders including Subject Matter

Experts, Engineering, Business Teams, Sales and Marketing and end-users.

. Facilitator for business and technical decisions to move projects through

SLDC on time and budget.

. Expert in the areas of elicitation, analysis, validation, and

documentation of business, organizational and operational requirements

utilizing use case approach, UML modeling techniques and Agile

methodologies (RUP and SCRUM)

. Excellent communication, presentation, analytical, interpersonal and

organizational skills

. Personable and flexible, yet goal-focused and solutions-oriented.

. Creative and enthusiastic self-starter, capable of forming positive and

productive working relationships in internal, external, independent and

team environments

. Serve as an ideal interface between business and technical groups,

effectively translating complex information into clear, structured and

concise documentation

. Quick learner with the ability to rapidly gain an understanding of a

particular business and/or technology

COMPETENCIES:

Business Analysis System Analysis Rational Unified

Process RUP

Unified Modeling Language Use Case Analyzing and

UML Development documenting

workflows.

User Acceptance Testing Agile JAD Sessions

UAT

SDLC User Interface Data Analyst

Designer

WORK EXPERIENCE

Spotify

Business Analyst

June 2010 - Dec 2013

Responsible for requirements gathering, analyzing the information gathered,

documenting the functional and business requirements for several projects

. Gathered business user requirements during inception phase through JAD

sessions and follow-up SME interviews and participated in project

scope definition

. Gathers, analyzes, prepares and summarizes recommendations for

business plans, trended future requirements and operating forecasts

. Analyzed and translated collected business requirements into detailed

functional specifications using use case approach. Other requirements

deliverables included Business Rules Catalog, Data Dictionary, Error

and Message Catalog, Role Matrix, Screen Specifications

. Performed analysis of business processes and data that pertain to

system, products and network issues.

. Utilize data analysis to explain business issues and financial

implications, recommend workflow improvements, or to enable business

unit to improve workflow processes. Work with various business units

to accomplish Care objectives.

. Created Use Case, Activity and State Transition UML diagrams

. Develop and maintain metadata based on relational database tables.

. Maintained data integrity during extraction, manipulation, processing,

analysis and storage

. Prepared Data Mapping Documents

. Interfaced with QA to ensure test cases/scripts covered both positives

and negatives.

. Created User Acceptance Test scripts

. Coordinated UATs with Business Users for all releases, production

defects and application enhancements

. Resolved and documented change requests and production issues

. Worked with the Quality Assurance team to design test plans and test

cases that enabled the completion of highly effective product

. Performed evaluation of existing processes, identified gaps, and

proposed alternate solutions

. Performs technical analysis to determine present and future

business/financial results within a department outside of Finance

. Uses predictive modeling, statistics, trend analysis, and other data

analysis techniques to collect, explore and identify the right data to

be analyzed from internal and external sources

. Use data to make recommendations for business and profitability

improvements

. Provides in-depth analysis and reporting to management regarding

multiple facets of operations and finances.

. Successfully managed time between multiple projects concurrently.

Worked with Project Managers, other B.A.'s, and clients to distribute

work on open issues and provide insight on requirements.

. Assists in the annual business planning process and the development of

budget changes due to new business.

. Monitors and audits data for accuracy and completeness.

. Analysis of project performance metrics and reports.

. Performs overall project data management and maintenance of data

integrity.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Computer and System Science - Stockholm University

SKILLS:

. Business Analysis, Practical Interaction Design, User Interface

Designer, System analysis, Project work with Software Engineer,

Scientific Methodology and Communication in Computer and System

Science (Project Plan, Data Collect, Report), Computer

Architecture, Global Information System, System Theory and

Security.

. Proficient in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, SQL, MS

Project, MS Visio, HTML, Visual Studio, JIRA, Java, Rational Rose

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