Yusuf Abimbola

*** * ********** ***,

Covington, GA 30016

347-***-****

ad0vo8@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

4+ years' experience and expertise in the fields of Business Analyst.

Worked in various Business Domains including – IT, Retail, Healthcare and Travel (Airline)

Strong interpersonal skills and highly experienced in leading large cross functional teams of diverse backgrounds to make sound business decisions based on analysis of business needs

Skilled at comprehending user requirements and converting them into User Stories, analyzing and preparing business models, UML diagrams, Wireframes and Project deliverables such as Business Requirement Documentation (BRD), Functional Requirement Documentation (FRD), System Requirement Documentation (SRD) and Project Charter

Experience handling multiple tasks/projects at the same time and expertise in handling JIRA with hands on experience in using the search the filter feature to find and navigate through the Jira tickets, track team progress and extracting reports.

Experience working with Development teams, QA testing teams while interacting with Business Users to develop test plans and test cases and conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure the requirements have been met.

Experience in change management and on-call production support

SKILLS

Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Python, HTML5, CSS, XML, R

Databases: MS SQL server, Oracle, MySQL, Neo4j (NoSQL)

Software & Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Jira, Rally, Balsamiq, Axure RP, Splunk, ERP–SAP, Tableau, AWS, Postman, MS Power BI

Operating Systems: OS X, Windows, Linux, Familiar with UNIX commands and shell scripting

EDUCATION

ASA College, Brooklyn, NY June 2021 to February 2023.

Associate degree in Health Information Managemen

Bachelor of Science in Business Management January 2009 to May 2014

WORK EXPERIENCE

Client: Caterpillar Inc, Mossville, IL Jan 2022 to July 2023

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Analyzed the current payroll system and existing time-clock functionality to better understand and map out requirements for the new time-clock integration

Conducted interview sessions with the Time & Attendance team and key stakeholders to gather information on the business processes and user requirements.

Acting as a liaison among the product and IT team to understand the customer demand for new features and new potential markets to move into

Working with the development team on technical requirements and UI/UX team to build on the in-vision designs and further getting them reviewed with the stakeholders with suggestions and approvals

Assigned tasks to associates, presented the current workflow to the team and updated all the involved parties to enhance the business work flow.

Assisting the Product Owner in planning the product backlog for upcoming sprints and creating road-map documents for the release

Working closely with the quality assurance team and development team at offshore to make sure the stories are completed within the sprint as well as communicating with the Business managers and stakeholders on the current status of tasks.

Conducting the user acceptance testing along with the key stakeholders, writing test scripts and creating reports based on the feedback from the sessions.

Working with the offshore team to get all the help documentation reviewed by the stakeholders based on the new features that are released

Environment: Agile-SCRUM, MS Office Suite, Azure DevOps, Lucid Chart, Confluence

Client: Walmart, AR (Remote) June 2020 – Dec 2021

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Analyzed the high-level Business Requirements Document (BRD) and documented the Functional Requirements Document (FRD) with the help of the development team to enhance the legacy system.

Gathering functional and technical requirements, creating high level business documents and assisting in facilitating mapping of “to-be” processes.

Work with the team on Agile/Scrum Framework, deploying scrum practices, conducting scrum ceremonies including the Daily Scrum Call and Sprint Retrospective with on-site and offshore teams.

Facilitating the Sprint Planning session, refining the user stories and their acceptance criteria, prioritizing the backlog and facilitating the Sprint demos after every Sprint

Tracking the team’s progress through Jira, ensuring all the dependencies/issues are resolved and presenting detailed reports on regular basis to the management team based on the project and team’s overall progress.

Weekly meetings with the business stakeholders to capture and validate the business requirements, creating process flow diagrams for all the integrations involved and working on the gaps of “as-is” to “to-be” processes.

Creating and validating test case scenarios for all the integrations, testing the API calls using Postman and ensuring all bugs raised by the QA are resolved.

Conducting JAD sessions to develop architectural solutions to ensure application meets the business requirements, resolve the open issues and change requests.

Developing detailed and summary reports including line and pie charts, trend analysis reports and sub reports according to the business requirements

Working with the Quality Management team to ensure the requirements documentation can be easily translated to test plans and ensuring end-to-end test coverage is maintained.

Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions and trained users on the product.

Environment: MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS SQL Server, Azure Cloud, Blue works, JIRA, Confluence, Postman, Java Spring boot.

Client: ZAPPOS.COM, NY Jan 2019 – May 2020

Role: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Facilitated requirements gathering sessions with the business group for gathering, analyzing and documenting the requirements and business rules. Created the Business Requirement Document (BRD) with user stories, UML diagrams, prototypes and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)

Interacting with clients and stakeholders to create business case, process workflow using Visio, creating wireframes and mock-up UI along with the architect to communicate visual data flow to end users

Assisted in writing the user stories in Jira, estimating the story points using estimation techniques like Planning Poker, prioritizing the product backlog and facilitating various SCRUM ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, etc. along with the Product Owner

Facilitating the Daily Scrum Call (stand-up meetings), planning future sprints and ensuring the team’s planned velocity and current velocity are in close proximity at all times. Managing defects and monitoring the team performance using the Burndown Chart in Jira

Created dashboards and reports in MS Power BI to track the trends and provide meaningful insights throughout the lifecycle of the project, educating the clients and stakeholders on the benefits and risks associated with the project

Assisting in creation of test plans, test cases and test scripts for Unit, System, Regression and Load testing by creating Feature Files and conducted User Acceptance Testing to check if all the requirements are met

Environment: Agile-SCRUM, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS SQL Server, Tableau, Balsamiq, JIRA, Confluence, Cucumber, Android Studio, iOS X-Code, MS Power BI.

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