Business Analyst Scrum Master

Betelhem Haileselassie

**** ********* **** ********, ** 20607 571-***-**** ***********@*****.*** PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY __ IT professional with experience in Business Analyst role with software development on web-based applications. Extensive experience leading and managing large groups of members of various backgrounds and skill sets. Strong knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning tools designed for Acquisitions Expertise includes gathering, documenting, analyzing, and communicating business and functional requirements. Performed risk, gap, and functional analysis for applications. Comprehension of different methodologies of the SDLC. In-depth understanding of UML diagrams to create Use Cases, Activity, and Sequence diagrams. Certified Scrum Master with Active Public Trust Clearance. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CGI Federal June 2021 – Present

Client: Veterans Affairs (VA)

Role: Senior Business Analyst/Lead

This project aims to provide a modern Integrated Financial and Acquisition Management Solutions (iFAMS) with transformative business processes and capabilities that enable the VA to meet its goals and objectives in compliance with financial management legislations and directives, ultimately enhancing service to those who serve our Veterans. Responsibilities:

• Lead, manage, assign, and oversee tasks for a team of 13 members.

• Gather requirements in workshop and office hours sessions with VA client.

• Design, develop, implement, and enhance secure and cost-effective solutions.

• Demo iFAMS system solutions to client.

• Create stories in JIRA and Agility, estimate the time required, and assign a number to reflect its relative difficulty.

• Calculate team capacity to determine the amount of work to be accomplished in future sprint

• Test backend system data in SQL Developer

• Prepare and assist with the execution of virtual UAT training classes.

• Facilitate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Integrated System Testing (IST)

• Create realistic datasheets to mimic real-life scenarios.

• Create and execute test scripts that reflect VA business process.

• Log and track all defects in JIRA.

• Map system fields to external procurement applications, System for Award Management (SAM.gov) and Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS)

• Create detailed Quick Reference Guides (QRGs) as an aid for end users to navigate and utilize iFAMS

• Support and assist Go-live activities on client site.

• Complete Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training to promote the initiative in creating a diverse work culture. Business Analyst June 2019 – 2021

• Analyzed client business processes and functional requirements, developed documentation, and presented reports and recommendations for continuous process improvement.

• Create user stories with description, Acceptance criteria and preconditions and detailed test scripts on Jira.

• Defined project scope, goals, milestones, deliverables, detailed tasks, and resource requirements from concept creation through implementation.

• Assessed the expected risks at each project stage and developed response strategies.

• Demonstrated the system configuration and Test scripts to VA clients based on their business process. Betelhem Haileselassie

1535 Shellford Lane Accokeek, MD 20607 571-***-**** ***********@*****.***

• Conducted successful end-to-end integration testing and assured the system delivered met requirements and expectation by the client.

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience, including Requirements Analysis, Design, and Development, including using different Methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall

• Adept in Requirement Gathering, Documenting, and validating the requirements in a format that is useful to the business users and the technical team.

• Work on Documentation for Business Modeling, such as Textual templates, Flowcharts, Use cases, and prototyping using MS Visio and ARIS

• Strong customer focus with an emphasis on delivering quality solutions.

• Successfully able to address team issues and implement resolutions as needed.

• Interview stakeholders to understand business processes and functionality required in an application.

• Define Business Process; identify the risk, methods, baseline acceptance criteria, and deliverables.

• Perform various types of testing like system testing, User acceptance testing, regression testing, functional testing, and performance testing.

• Work with other analysts to manage respective work schedules and delegate various duties amongst the group. TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agility

• Microsoft Office

• Microsoft Access,

• Momentum 7.9, Momentum 8.0,

• Microsoft Word

• Microsoft Excel,

• Microsoft PowerPoint,

CERTIFICATIONS __

• Certified Scrum Master

• SAFe® Scrum Master

EDUCATION_ __

• Bachelor of Science: Information Systems

Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA

o GPA 3.75

o Magna Cum Laude.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Strategic Growth Management

• Monitor Performance

• Plan Projects

• Project Management

• Process Reengineering

• Microsoft SharePoint,

• Microsoft Project,

• Visual Studio

• Microsoft Team Foundation

Server

• Jira

• Visio

• SQL Server

• Analytical Thinking

• Project Development

• Prepare Reports

• System Requirements and Integration

• Workflow Documentation

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