Analyst Test

Mikiyas Yilma

*****.********@*****.***

Phone: 571-***-****

Business Analyst/ Business System Analyst

Professional Summary of Experiences

Five plus years of experience as a Business Analyst/ Business System Analyst with Demonstrated experience with project and change management approaches, tools and all phases of Software development life cycle (SDLC).

Experience in various business domains including mortgage, healthcare, and government Solutions industries

Extensive hands-on experience in eliciting, defining, documenting business functional and non-functional requirements, and decomposing high-level information into detailed documents

Expertise in working with users and stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements using Joint Application Development (JAD) and Joint Application Requirement (JAR) sessions

Proficient in executing test plans, providing test data, conducting unit test, documenting test cases and in Manual Testing - Functional, Database, Black Box, and in performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Experience with various Software Development Life Cycle Methodologies such as AGILE (Scrum), Waterfall and V-Model

Strong technical skills in defining concise documentation including product business requirements, system requirements, technical specifications, user stories, use cases, test plans, test scripts and requirement traceability matrix (RTM)

Experience implementing Gap Analysis & Defect Root Cause Analysis

Strong experience in creating Use Cases and Activity Diagrams

Strong Knowledge in CMMI, GDP, and Quality Assurance (QA) standards

Expert in writing detailed system use cases, developing business test cases and working with QA team during testing phase, thereby facilitating user acceptance testing with stakeholders and business users

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration Finance, Radford, Virginia

Technical Expertise

Business Modeling Tools/ Requirement Management Tools

JIRA, MS VISIO, Draw IO

Applications

MS Office Suite, SharePoint, AWS

508 Compliance Tools

JAWS, WAVE

Databases

SQL Server, SQL, Oracle

Operating System

Windows, UNIX

Languages

JAVA, SQL

Professional Experiences

11/2018- Present Accenture Washington, DC.

Business Analyst II

Work closely with client Product Owners and other stakeholders to develop and validate user stories and priorities

Maintaining requirements traceability and document change requests

Participate in Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Scrum Meetings and other agile activities

Document business processes when needed to clarify requirements and/or facilitate decision making.

Provide accurate, well-written documentation such as workshop minutes, training materials, business requirements, functional specifications, technical specifications, QA test plans and status reports.

Ensure that all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.

Interface with end-users and project business sponsors to determine, document, and obtain signoff on business requirements.

Provide input to test plans. Develop and execute test cases to validate system functionality.

Report tracked defects with reference to severity and types using JIRA

Involved in Regression testing, System testing and User Acceptance Testing.

Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severity and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conform to deadlines.

Conduct sprint planning based on new and backlogged requirements.

Conduct surveys, interviews and facilitate Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with the Business Users and SME’s.

Conduct JAD sessions for communicating with the project leads and stakeholders and proposed process workflows, functional specifications and project initiation parameters.

Create workflow diagrams to validate the Basic and Alternate flows in the various Business and Technical Use Cases.

Participate in development of training materials for the new technology and organizing User Training.

Supporting the Quality Assurance Specialist to ensure thoroughness of test strategies and scenarios

10/2016- 11/2018 Merrill Lynch, Fairfax, VA

Business System Analyst

Responsible for writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS)

Managed and documented risks, changed requests and issues and escalated when required

Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line and the technical areas throughout the project cycle

Assisted in capturing and defining new requirements and updating existing requirements

Performed Gap Analysis by identifying existing technologies documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements

Created and verified user stories and use case specifications with activity diagrams

Facilitated resolution and communication of cross-functional team on issues and decisions

Participated in peer reviews of functional specifications, application previews, and test plans/test cases

Performed Gap Analysis of existing system to identify drawbacks and improvements

Worked closely with the QA team and Developers to clarify and understand functionality, resolve issues, and provide feedback to identify defects

Wrote SQL queries to extract data from the database for back end testing

Proactively communicated with development team regarding the status and potential impacts on the delivery date and/or expected quality of the tasks and/or the projects

Used JIRA for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bugs

Coordinated with end-users to schedule and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

02/2015- 10/2016 All State Insurance, Arlington, VA

Requirement Analyst/ QA Tester

Analyzed system requirements and developed Test Scripts for manual testing.

Created test cases and test scenarios

Identified and documented all the defects and root-cause analysis to ensure application software functionality for present as well as future builds.

Interacted with developers to resolve technical issues and investigated the bugs in the application.

Worked with Users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data.

Validated test cases to ensure that scripts will evaluate the business function being performed

Worked closely with the stakeholders to analyze complex business processes and business requirements

Translated technical concepts to business audience and business information to a technical audience

Designed and developed test scenarios and test cases based on business requirements, technical specifications, and use cases

Involved in preparation of the test data required for executing test cases

Enhanced the existing or default test scripts by adding programming for custom testing and debugging the scripts

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