OMO IJIEKHUAMHEN

BUSINESS ANALYST

647-***-**** – aczj17@r.postjobfree.com

Career Objective- To take a challenging post for understanding business change needs, assessing the impact of those changes, capturing, analyzing and documenting requirements and then supporting the communication and delivery of those requirements with relevant parties

Background:

Analytical, enthusiastic and innovative Business Analyst with over 6 years of Information Technology experience in business analysis, deployment and web development developing business processes and system solutions for Banking, Retail, Consumer Lending, Mortgage (LOS), Auto and Web Application.

Comprehensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.

Extensive experience in gathering, managing and documenting business and functional requirements, communicating effectively with upper management, developers and QA engineers.

Adept at creating and transforming business requirements into functional requirements and designing business models using UML diagrams - Context, Use Case, Sequence, Activity diagrams in Enterprise Architect, MS Visio and Rational Rose.

Excellent facilitation skills in conducting walkthroughs, surveys, questionnaires, interviews, brainstorming and JAD and JAR sessions.

Comprehensive knowledge of RUP, Waterfall, Agile and Six Sigma methodology.

Strong experience in conducting UAT and documentation of test cases. Familiar in designing and developing manual and automation test cases and test scripts using Test Ms Excel,HP ALM (old version HPQC)

Exceptional problem solving and sound decision making capabilities, recognized by alternative solutions, and confident, accurate, decision-making coupled with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Excellent track record for meeting deadlines and submitting deliverables on time.

Well versed in different management scenarios like Change Control, Quality Assurance, Defect Tracking, System Integration, and Scheduling.

Have exposure in educating internal customers on business systems and procedures and working with other analysts and QA team to set priorities and schedules.

Technical Skills:

Management Tools: MS Office tools-MS Visio, MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint,MS-Office Tools, SQL,MS Visual studio

Tools: MS Office tools

Testing/Reporting Tools: HP ALM (HP QC), TFS, EXCEL

Languages: SQL, XML, Html, CSS

Other Tools and Technical skills: VI, SQL*PLUS, Microsoft BizTalk 2010/2013, an asset MS FrontPage, Outlook, service development tools e.g. Web API, XML, JSON, SOAP, REST)SharePoint, Lotus Notes, Shaw, Falcon, XML Spy, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) (Data Types and Data Conversion),identity Access Management (IAM)

Project Methodologies : Waterfall, Agile

OTHER SKILLS:

Facilitation skill (JAD session),

wealth management

User stories

use cases

Refining Epic to develop Product back log and sprint back log(AGILE)

Business requirement document(BRD),

Current State (Visio), ITIL, UML, business case,

RFI, RFP, Vendor applications,

vlookups, excel pivot tables, testing

(UAT, BAT, SIT), HPQC, TESTING WITH MS EXCEL

Capital Market Product, Cost-Benefit analysis, ROI analysis, budgeting & estimation, business case development and change control.

SOFT SKILLS:

Excellent time management and communication skill

Ability to convince dificult stakeholders,

Inspiring team leader,

Proactive in seeking responsibility,

Effective analytical,

interpersonal and people skills

excellent communication and presentation skill

An analyst with self motivated attitude

Great attention to detail,

Strong client focus and multi tasking,

Familiarity with issue and scope management

Experience

BUSINESS ANALYST: Scotia Bank (Toronto, ON), 2016 – present

Develop Business cases to examine the various business needs, create options, alternatives and make recommandations on initiatives to be implemented.

Coordinate and facilitate extensive user interviews and workshops to gather and analyze requirements.

Develop crucial functional requirement specifications, creating detailed use cases and process flow diagrams to support functional specifications

Works with the business units in the organization to clarify, refine, validate and document business, functional and technical requirements. Working to Baseline and obtaining sign-off of user requirements.

Create Product Back log, Sprint Back log and manage User stories.

Lead daily stand-up meetings.

Work with Product Owner to transition Customer Requirements into User Stories and Tasks within the corresponding backlogs.

Test user stories for accuracy and compliance to ensure undisputed acceptance and validation of stories

Develop and maintain strong relationships with Capital Markets Information Technology, Technology and Operations and external vendors/SLA's

Collaborate with colleagues across the organization to get things done Knowledge / Experience - Production Support / Operations

RFI and RFP documentation

BUSINESS ANALYST: Fidelity Investment (Toronto, ON)AP 2015-JN 2016 (14mnth)

Worked closely with the business and IT to understand project requirements.

responsible for creation and documentations of all system and business requirements and converting them into User Stories

Facilitated Backlog Grooming sessions to refine User Stories in preparation for the next Sprint

Facilitated JAD sessions, Requirements sessions and walk through with project team until requirements were baseline

Responsible for documenting User Acceptance Test scenarios for end users. Supported and Trained users during UAT testing

Created project Change Orders and presented changes at Change Board Reviews.

Worked closely with internal groups and vendors to implement release schedules using global best practices and to constantly improve the quality of annual implementation processes.

Organized, coordinated and documented post-implementation lessons learned.

Contributed to knowledge sharing through updates to SharePoint

BUSINESS ANALYST: Meridian - (Toronto, ON) FEB 2014-MAR 2015 (13mnth)

Conducted JAD session with stakeholders and defined objectives, generated functional specifications, which later were translated to technical specifications.

Worked with business stakeholders to understand their business needs and translate those business needs into a systems design specification thereby provided clients with a clear picture of how the solution will solve their unique business needs

Performed JAD, workshops, focus groups and brainstorming sessions for eliciting requirements, defining objectives and finding optimum solution to new functionalities for an application.

Researched, document, configure and test all functional elements involving rules and policies.

Developed and document testing scenarios in partnership with the testing team

Collaborated with the system integrator and other project team members to ensure the functional specifications identified have been met

Gathered requirements for business definition and facilitated JAD sessions with stakeholders to refine functional requirement

Worked with application developers to create functional specifications and build mock-ups for proposed solutions

Strong capital Market Product knowledge

BUSINESS ANALYST: Citi Financial - (Toronto, ON) FEB 2012-DEC 2013 (22mnths)

Worked with Project teams as a business analyst to elicit, define, analyze and document requirements to ensure solutions effectively meet the specified business needs.

Prepared data mapping and performed testing on application

Analyze, document, and improve systems and processes

Reviewed, analyzed and evaluated detailed business and functional requirements, documentation, process flows and data models to contribute to the development of project plans including project charter, project deliverables, cost/benefits analysis, time line estimates, scope and control.

Developed use cases, defining and documenting user procedures and workflows.

Participated in the systems implementation process by developing test cases, performing testing, defining user procedures and workflows and providing post-implementation support.

Coordinated JAD sessions and seek signoffs on requirements.

Conducted pre and post implementation reviews to ensure all technical solutions meets business requirements.

PROJECTS

(POS)PCI COMPLIANCE :

Single Signons

System Integration and CRM-Microsoft Dynamx(DX)

Gap Analysis & Customer Online View Functional Specification

Identity Access Management deployment

REFERENCES

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