Manager Project

Rebie Kengne W.

Summary:

Over * years of experience as a functional business analyst in business requirements and functional requirements gathering, analyzing requirements, data analysis, data mapping, business process re-engineering, object-oriented designing, unified modeling language (UML), SDLC methodology (RUP, Agile, Scrum,Waterfall) and expertise in finance, insurance and sales.

Effectively interacted with CAM and Subject Matter Experts (SME) to gather business requirements across multiples business process areas.

High Proficient in Requirements Analysis techniques such as User Stories, Use Cases, Prototypes, survey, and storyboards with a strong ability to interpret GAP analysis, ROI analysis, SWOT analysis, and impact analysis on existing software.

Expert in writing very detailed functional approach, Use Cases structured Basic scenarios, UML Diagram, Process Flow Diagram, Data Flow Diagrams, and Activity diagrams using MS Visio.

Knowledge in creating RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) in on-going projects and provide recommendation for meeting gap between BR’s and FR’s.

Technical expertise using smoke testing, functional testing (positive, regression, integration, boundary testing).

Familiar with the quality environment, User Acceptance testing and production environment

Well –versed in data manipulation and analysis. Write queries and sample selected in large data sets from disparate data sources using SQL and others tools such as Tableau.

Ability to read and use SQL (Structured Query Language) in assigned projects and business applications.

Understanding of gap analysis, quality assurance testing and the components of the test plan strategy document.

Excellent Experience in MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS Visio, and gathering user requirements and technical documentation.

Strong experience in coordinating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and interviews to converge towards a design acceptable to the customer and feasible for the developers.

Interacted regularly with development team, Front door, database designer, system administrator and the senior management to meet deadlines of Projects milestones.

Experienced in working with the QA team and coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and developed test plan, Test cases, tracked results and resolved issues.

Skillset: GAP Analysis, Risk Analysis, UML, Microsoft Office tools (Visio, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook, Project) SDLC, SAP FICO, Rational Requisite Pro, Microsoft SQL Server (2008), Share Point.

Education: Bachelor in Engineering

NRG, Houston, TX 07/2013-05/2015

Business Analyst

NRG is a fortune 250 company, we create value through reliable and efficient conventional generation while driving innovation in solar and renewable power, electric vehicle ecosystems, and carbon capture technology and customer centric energy solutions. The project aimed to increase sales and customer satisfaction by switching the current vendor to a new vendor through validation of the implemented software to test in electrical products and offer better electricity plans and prices to customers.

Responsibilities:

Attended meetings with business sponsors and CAM (Customer Accounts manager) to understand the business needs.

Attended projects kickoff meetings and created all functional specifications approach.

Developed robust, data-driven analytics to solve strategic business issues and assess the viability and profitability of new products and operational initiatives.

Acted as appoint of contact to assist in issue resolution and determined feasibility of provided business requirements and IT implementations plan for development and QA teams.

Ensured the successful transition from development to operations including operations procedures and tools such as process control points, reports, and automated monitoring.

Regularly report status and raise issues/risks as appropriate.

Designed, developed and supported complex supply chain applications.

Have a good understanding of the related master data objects.

Have knowledge of the various s points with others SAP FICO core functions such as finance, controlling, human resources, plant maintenance.

Developed and confirmed project specifications and provide assistance to less experienced personnel.

Facilitated cross-functional meetings with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and concisely.

Worked with Operations teams to design, build and develop business performance metrics that will provide exception reporting, gap reporting and trend analysis.

Assessed, interpreted and documented internal/external customer needs and process requirements for improved operational efficiency.

Identified process and system optimization opportunities.

Effectively elevate large “road-block” issues to senior management to get resolution.

Reviewed business requirements and process flows to ensure detailed and accurate documentation.

Performed ad-hoc analysis and reporting of data.

Environment: Microsoft office tools(Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Visio, Project), Agile, Requisite Pro, SAP Fico, SQL Server, Wires Frames, UML, SDLC, SAP( Systems Applications and Products), Risk Analysis, Windows 8/7.

Deloitte Consulting, Houston, TX 02/2012-06/2013

Business Analyst

Deloitte Consulting LLP is one of the world’s leading management consulting firms for executable strategy, operations, technology, and human capital advisory services. The primary objectives of this project was to implement a document management system to replace their paper based systems in order to improve the efficiency of various processes to get a solid workflow engine to share and secure information with their Portfolio Management System (PMS) and Client Relationship Management (CRM) system.

Responsibilities:

Maintained a solid knowledge base of the functional capabilities and was a subject master expert for the products assigned.

Possessed overall understanding of applicable business processes and workflows.

Assisted in engagement Manager in leading, directing, and reviewing all activities associated with delivering technology products.

Responsible for product quality, project timeliness, and customer satisfaction.

Interfaced with clients to define and document requirements for a named set of custom developed or vendor software products.

Collaborated with the Engagement Manager in creating and presenting the appropriate project on-boarding processes and materials.

Actively participated in Design Thinking sessions to gain insights into end user and customer needs.

Created documentation including requirement User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Feature Description PowerPoint decks, Process Flows and Analysis Models, Personas, Journey Maps, Wireframes and User Guides.

Co -Managed the Product Backlog for a Product, working with the Lead BSA and Engagement Manager to prioritize requirements, defined and managed scope and sprints for a project.

Engaged business owners and other ITS resources to respond to requests for new applications and/or enhancements.

Assisted with Testing and QA activities within the project lifecycle. Worked with off-shore QA resources to develop and execute Test Plans, Test Scripts and all other deliverables and activities related to Quality Assurance of the Products.

Worked with the Engagement Manager and clients to plan user engagement activities and execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and/or facilitate continuous testing during agile projects

Participated in reviews of plans associated with project execution.

Responded proactively to both business and project issues and escalates appropriately.

Environment: Microsoft Office 2013 Suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Visio) SQL Server 2012, UML, Rational Requisite Pro, HP Quick Test Center

Tata Consultancy, San Antonio, TX 08/2010- 12/2011

Business data analyst

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a global leader in IT services, digital and business solutions that partners with its clients to simplify, strengthen and transform their businesses. The project was to develop global data warehouse for storing the report for Prime Brokerage, Swaps, Fixed Income, Equities and Direct Market Access. The data Warehouse includes an interactive web- based engine called the Assumption engine, allowed business users to customize the measures on regional basis. Business user could slice and dice the data and view it in different dimensions.

Responsibilities:

Performed the detailed Gap analysis to understand the existing system and futuristic system.

Prepared user stories and detailed backlog in accordance to the Agile SDLC Methodology.

Followed daily scrums meetings monthly iterations planning, meeting and story boarding.

Managed project scope, defined projects goals, planned roadmap, interacted with users to gather business requirements and identified technical specifications for developing new application

Facilitated JAD sessions to develop architectural solution and prioritize the requirements.

Extensively used UML diagrams –use cases, written use case, user interface prototypes, business workflows diagrams, process flows diagrams, activity diagrams, class diagrams, and state diagrams.

Assisted in developing data mapping document by identifying data source, target tables/columns, and transformation rules for loading data into targeted databases via ETL process.

Assisted database designers in creating ER models for database design.

Assisted QA team in developing test plans, test cases, test summary report and performed functional testing, integration testing, regression testing and system testing.

Conducting Automation, Performance testing using Selenium, and J Meter, Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by creating schedules and coordinating with technical teams.

Performed risk analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risk areas project and prioritized the application development and testing.

Environment: Oracle 2010, Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management, SAS 9.2, Test Director, MS Project, MS Office 2010, Cognos Business requirements, Windows/ Unix, J2EE( Java Platform Enterprise Edition), XML, AQT, .NET Framework 3.5

Aflac Company, Columbus, GA 05/2008-07/2010

Business Analyst

Aflac, a Fortune 500 company, is an industry leader in voluntary insurance products that pay cash directly to policyholders and one of America's best known brands. The project was involved in developing a web based system for quoting, maintaining and issuing auto and homeowner insurance policies.

Responsibilities:

Prepared documents that defined the primary goals, objectives and scope of the project.

Designed and worked on successfully developing web applications that allow independent sales agents and underwriters for quoting, rating, processing and tracking applications.

Developed the integrated development life cycle SDLC by integrating Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Quality Manager and Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) with Rational Team Concert.

Created screen-mockups using iRise to review the requirements and provide feedback on the screen design.

Created ad-hoc screen mock-up to review with the users using Microsoft Paint.

Responsible for Data Manipulation and Data Validation using SQL queries in a MS SQL Server 2008 environment.

Prepared business requirements Documents (BRD) and got sign off to be used by the developers.

Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams using Unified Modeling Language (UML), and Rational Rose.

Used the BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) in GAP Analysis to bridge the gap between business processes (BR’s and FR’s).

Created prototypes of the GUI (Graphical User Interface) environment using iRise to be used by the developers during the design phase.

Documented, analyzed and defined the user and system requirements and use Rational Requisite Pro to manage the requirements.

Developed as-is and to-Be business processes using BPMN standards.

Identified and established scope and parameters of requirements analysis in order to define impact, outcome criteria, and measure-taking actions through interface analysis, prototyping and JRP/JAD sessions with Focus group.

Documented business requirements for system issues and enhancements using Rational Requisite Pro.

Worked with the development team during the Design, Build and Test phase of system projects to clarify business requirements as required.

Used MS Project to manage schedules, deadlines and resources and collaborate on the project.

Acted as a liaison to the Training team to facilitate the deployment of the training.

Worked with the Policy and Procedure team as required to define new/updated policies and procedures.

Provided post production support/analysis and assisted in performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT), performance testing and validated test plans.

Environment: Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, SharePoint, HTML, MS Project 2008, MS Office 2008, Macromedia Flash, M.S. Visio, Dreamweaver, J2EE, SQL, UML, Test Director, Informatica, Java, XML, Load Runner.

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