Data Analyst Business

Nazym Satybaldiyeva

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

● Worked as a Data Analyst with over 3+ years of experience.

● Expertise in diverse software engineering practices such as System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

and Agile Method in delivering artifacts pertaining to requirement analysis.

● Solid background in Agile methodology and processes, specifically around writing and grooming

stories as well as sprint planning.

● Experience in creating User Stories (Functional Stories, Logic User Stories, Service User Stories)

from Product Backlog and facilitated Sprint Planning meetings and prepared Sprint Backlog.

● Experience in conducting Gap Analysis between “as is” and “to be” systems and identifying

existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end-state requirements.

● Experience in integration of various data sources with Multiple Relational Databases like SQL

Server, MS Excel, MS Access and Flat Files.

● Experience in creating Ad-hoc reports, data driven subscription reports by using SQL.

● Strong knowledge of data mapping, data verification, data integrity, data dictionary, SQL queries

for data analysis and data validation.

● Proficient in creating detailed test plans, test scenarios and its corresponding test cases, and

creating the test matrices as needed.

● Expert in creating Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Sequence Flows using MS Visio

and UML concepts.

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

● Experience in managing Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and assisted Project Manager.

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES:

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, RUP

Requirement management tools: Jira/ Confluence

Defect Tracking Tools ALM, JIRA

Project management tools: MS Project

Business Modeling: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Jira, office 365, SharePoint, Web technologies/languages: SQL

Front-End tools: Microsoft Excel, Word, Power Point, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

GM Insurance - HQ Office Business Analyst Los Angeles, CA May 2020 – July 2022

Analyze the entire system and the impact with the other backend and front-end systems.

Worked with internal stakeholders creating, prioritizing, and monitoring application feature/issue

backlog.

Attended daily stand ups, biweekly sprint planning/grooming meetings, and actively participated in

release planning meetings.

Performed business process and systems analysis with a focus on data, analysis models and diagrams

in support of building out current state and future state views.

Wrote user stories breaking down as per business/technical needs using Jira.

Maintained the Traceability Matrix Table to uniquely trace the identified business requirements to

general design to testing as proof that requirements requested have been developed into a solution

and that it has been tested and tracked.

Involved in creating Business Process Documentation. Identified Use Cases from the requirements.

Created UML Diagrams including Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and

Collaboration Diagrams using MS-Visio.

Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions for communicating and managing

expectations.

Documented the UAT Plan for the project and worked with the UAT Team to ensure every acceptance

criterion for the requirements has been included in the UAT task plan.

Performed Data verification and validation against the user requirements.

Participated and coordinated the efforts for Testing and designing of the flow and the logic for the

Data warehouse project.

Performed Back-End Testing to check database integrity by writing SQL queries.

Worked on Data mapping, logical data modeling used SQL queries to filter data within the Oracle

database tables.

Checked the data flow through the front end to backend and used SQL queries to extract the data

from the database.

Create and maintain spreadsheets for record management. Perform further data validation and

analysis using pivot tables, formulas like vlookup, sum, sum if, etc.

Develop weekly/monthly reports for revenue, expenses, and profitability

Air Astana Business Analyst Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan January 2015 – June 2018

Involved in meetings with Business process owners, SME (subject matter experts) and IT professionals

for requirements gathering and definition.

Prepared high level and detailed system requirements documents for the application.

Analyzed existing and planned business processes. Documented workflows and created functional

specifications for development.

Participate in all Iteration, Scrum, Daily stand-ups, and Iteration review meetings working in an Agile

development methodology; wrote and groomed stories.

Actively participated in sprint grooming sessions and retrospective meetings.

Identified the requirements that go in each sprint, collect them in the sprint backlog and collecting

and managing the requirements that are not part of the current sprint into the product backlog.

Translated the requirements prepared for SDLC methodology to User Stories and implementing Agile

methodology as a standard for the ongoing project.

Responsible for defining the functional requirement documents for each source to target interface.

Worked directly with software engineers to ensure clear communications on requirements and defect

reports.

Performed Gap analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet

the end state requirements.

Created UML Diagrams including Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and

Collaboration Diagrams using MS-Visio.

Clarified QA team issues and reviewed Test Plans and Test Scripts developed by Development team

and QA team to make sure all requirements have been covered in scripts and tested properly.

Was involved in Functional System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, and User

Acceptance Test using the test cases given by the client before releasing the application.

Conducted interviews and brainstorming sessions for requirement analysis and defined business and

functional specifications

Fashion retail Kazakhstan Sales manager Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan December 2013 – October 2014

Managing organizational sales by developing a business plan that covers sales, revenue, and

expense controls.

Present sales, revenue and expenses reports and realistic forecasts to the management team

Setting individual sales targets with the sales team.

Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing

professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional

societies.

Maintain national sales staff work results by counseling employees in planning, monitoring, and

appraising job results.

EDUCATION:

Karaganda State University Bachelor of Engineering Professional Equipment

GPA 3.96 Karaganda, Kazakhstan 2014

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