Nafis Altaf

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Business Analyst

Professional Summary:

●Over 4 years of professional experience as an IT Business Analyst in Finance/Insurance Domain.

●Strong experience in analyzing and requirements gathering and writing system functional specifications including use cases and user stories

●Excellent in Developing and evaluating business process Models and wireframes

●Proven success as a business analyst through the years, providing a well-balanced understanding of business relationships, business requirements and technical solutions.

●Experienced in UML diagrams, GAP Analysis, use case diagrams, work flow diagrams and activity diagrams

●Extensive experience in conducting Market Research, Feasibility Studies, Data Analyses, Data Mapping, Data Profiling, Gap Analysis, Risk Identification, Risk Assessment, Risks Analyses, and Risk management.

●Strong experience in conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and documentation of Test Cases.

●Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Scripts.

●Effective in Facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to gather, synthesize and prioritize requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshop, site visits, and surveys.

Education:

●Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Masters Degree

Professional Experience:

Business Analyst June 2021 - Present

Discover, New York, NY

●Act as a Primary Point-of-Contact between the client and technology team, gathered requirements from various end users and analyzed, evaluated, and implemented these requirements into appropriate Business and Technical solutions

●Perform gap analysis to identify opportunities for process improvement

●Gather and document Use Cases, Business Rules, created and maintained Requirements

●Assist in creating Project Plan, Project Tracking, Designed Requirements Planning and Management document, Project tracking & Project Reporting

●Interpret Business Process Flows and Reengineered Process to achieve maximum outputs

●Assess client needs utilizing a structured requirements process (gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing changes) to prioritize immediate business needs

●Interpret Business Process Flows and Reengineered Process to achieve maximum outputs

●Captured As-Is Process designed To-Be Process and performed GAP Analysis

●Work with Scrum Master, Product Manager and development teams throughout planning, design, development, testing, and implementation of feature product releases

●Support Product Owner with backlog creation, prioritization and communication of requirements as needed to various levels of the organization

●Efficiently manage working and coordinating tasks with the offshore team on a daily basis

●Participate in Scrum and Sprint Planning meetings, ensured successful and timely project implementation

●Utilizing Sprint retrospective Meetings to understand the impediments and improve the productivity of the team

●Analyze business and user needs, documented requirements in User Stories, Process Flows, Non-Functional Specifications and other supporting documentation as needed

●Create Use case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Work Flow diagrams, Dataflow diagrams using MS Visio

●Create Wireframes, UI Mock-ups, screenshots of the application using Axure

●Groom user stories and acceptance criteria for business rules, features that were made available to consumers.

●Working extensively in JIRA to upload Requirements, Test plans, Test Steps, Log defects and to follow up to fix.

●Extensively involved in defect resolution by interacting closely with the QA team.

●Actively involved in developing, executing and coordinating Regression Testing, Functional Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Business Analyst March 2019 – May 2021

Geico, New York, NY

●Created Business Requirements Gathering sessions in the form of questionnaires and business scenarios with the end users, subject matter experts (SME) and the developers. Gathered user and business requirements through interviews, surveys and prototyping.

●Worked with QA team in identifying test cases/test data and lead the business team for UAT.

●Interacted with technical team in allowing them to make a better navigational plan for the project flow which would further make a better user interactivity tool for the application.

●Signed off progress and completion report which were then submitted to senior management/leadership on a weekly basis.

●Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders to elicit requirements.

●Documented and created Business Requirement document (BRD) and Functional Requirement document (FRD).

●Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint planning, Daily Scrums or standups, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.

●Created and maintained Product Increment, Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog defining new systems operations for the project.

●Facilitated User story grooming sessions. Helped the team in breaking down the Epics into User Stories and tasks.

●Overviewed end to end defect management. bug fixes, retesting, break fixes, impact analysis and production assurance.

●Worked with multiple teams, both on site and offshore.

●Help in coordinating and managing various areas of the project and assist manager with the determination to finish the project on time and within budget.

●Worked closely with testers to create test cases and participated in UAT (User Acceptance Testing).

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