Business Analyst

CHINYERE PATTERSON

Atlanta, GA ***** 978-***-**** **************@*****.***

Professional Summary

Business Analyst with over 3 years of experience with a diversified experience in agile and waterfall development methodologies, team player and client engagement. Skilled at Facilitating, interview, observation, workshop, focus group in order to document artifacts such as BRDs, FRDs, use cases, activity diagrams, user stories, acceptance criteria, test scenarios, test cases, test plans for software development. Creative thinker with strong analytical skills to create solutions to business needs in order to achieve business goals. Result oriented, self-driven, highly motivated, ability to learn new technologies, methodologies, strategies and processes.

Skills

Requirements Gathering & Analysis

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Business Process Improvement

Risk Analysis & Decision Making

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)

Change Management, Software development

Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office Suite

Python, JavaScript, Agile, Scrum, Confluence, Jira

Work History

IT Business Analyst, 03/2019 to 12/2020

First Leadersoft – Houston, TX

Collaborated with stakeholders and key leaders by communicating business requirements and offering solutions.

Saved company $8K+ through evaluating risks related to testing processes and project communication.

Managed project through status meetings, weekly reports, identifying risks, and tracking issues.

Improved timeframes for more than 30% of projects by successfully maintaining change management process.

Created presentations in concise & well-researched manner on new product feature ideas & opportunities by collaborating with product owners.

Collaborated with Product Owner to identity document and discuss user stories and assist in splitting large user stories (EPIC) to smaller stories in Jira.

Conducted/participated in SCRUM ceremonies such as product backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand up, sprint review and sprint retrospective meeting.

Conducted different levels of testing, including unit testing, smoke testing, acceptance testing, exploratory testing, negative testing, usability testing, regression testing, user acceptance test to verify that clients' requirements are met.

Junior Business Analyst, 09/2017 to 02/2019

Nyerhos Systems LLC – Atlanta, GA

Collaborated with senior Business Analyst in requirements gathering and documentation.

Integrated business solutions with organizational goals while reaching consensus of stakeholders.

Translated stakeholder requirements into functional specifications, use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, created process diagrams using Microsoft Visio and mockups using Balsamiq.

Collaborated with QA team to design test plans and test cases and used SQL queries for data manipulations to validate testing.

Created use case scenarios with process tools for better visualization of application.

Education

Bachelor of Science: Economics, 06/2016

University of Abuja

Certifications

Scrum Master Certificate

AWS Solutions Architect

Key Points

End-to end Project Accountability, Pivot tables, Requirement Elicitation, Process Modeling, Stakeholder Analysis, Gap Analysis, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Root Cause Analysis, Costs Benefit Analysis, Story Mapping, SCRUM, Product Backlog, Gap analysis, Workflow Analysis, HTML, SQL, Tableplus, Data analysis, Strategic Planning, QA Manual Testing.

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