SAM FOWODE

Washington DC – Maryland ● 240-***-**** ● adu4im@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A Business Analyst with over 5 years of experience with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, working independently or in a team and deal effectively with confidential information. I also possess vast experience in elicitation and translation of requirements obtained from Stakeholders and documenting the requirements into the respective artifacts. I’m well knowledgeable in front-end development and enhancement of applications. I have extensive experience in analyzing various functional specifications and writing detailed Test Plans, Test Procedures, execution of Test Scenarios, as well as carrying out GAP Analysis. SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IT Business Analyst 2019 - Present

Jade Global Philadelphia, PA

Business Analyst

• Responsible for requirement elicitation and documentation

• Effectively collaborate with supervisor, SME’s, Product managers to find the best approaches to address the client’s requirements

• Highly proficient in facilitating and conducting Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions, focus group and brainstorming sessions, reviews and walkthroughs and customer interviews for various business processes

• Adequate documentation of detailed business requirements to create user stories using an agile approach in order to gain formal approval from product owner.

• Project management

• Product Ownership

• Software Methodology (Agile,

Waterfall, Software Development

Lifecycle (SDLC)

• Business Process mapping

• Requirement Analysis

• Tools (Confluence, Jira, Azure Dev

(TFS), Visio, Draw.IO, Snagit,

Balsamiq, Apigee)

• Data collection

• User Stories

• Backlog Management

• Quality assurance

• Computer Proficiency - Microsoft Office

(Advanced Word, Excel + Financial, MS Visio,

PowerPoint, and Outlook)

• Team Building and Management

• Workshops Facilitation skills

• Analytical and problem-solving skills

• SQL knowledge

• Responsible for creating and redesigning of new and current processes using Visio to capture any process deviations from current state and to ensure business processes are lean to improve efficiency.

• Responsible for designing and supporting in Test cases, Test plan creation and Companion Guide from development stage to production, including both internal and external requirements

• Responsible for documenting highly functional requirements into the respective artifacts

• Analyze business processes and effectively communicate feedback to other Dev. team members and management

• Assists in the adequate documentation of workflows, policies, procedures, processes, report specifications and other material, as needed

• Keeps abreast of technological system changes and innovations by maintaining a knowledge base consisting of release notes, system manuals & software enhancements

• Serve as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external) and the software development team through which requirements flow

• Participate in all the scrum event and ceremonies such as Sprint refinement meeting, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, etc.

• Research and present to stakeholders, obtaining approvals for requirements and changes

Scrum Master/Business Analyst 2017-2019

• Good knowledge with Agile, Scrum, Kanban etc.

• Ensured that the Scrum Team adhered to the Agile principles.

• Maintained understanding of the business goal and technology environment

• Served as a liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders

• Facilitated all the sprint events in an agile environment and collaboratively working with the development team

• Utilized JIRA, to track assigned tickets and triage the bugs for product releases.

• Demonstrated commitment to providing customer-focused quality service.

• Ensured the efficient prioritization and schedules work assignments based on the project plan, handling multiple tasks across project phases

• Ensured unique customer needs were properly translated into business terms and communicated across all applicable domains

• Participated in development and grooming of Project Backlog Stories with business and technology partners.

• Collaborated with developers and QA to ensure deliverables meet the client’s performance needs and expectations

• Managed the product backlog by ensuring that the backlog items are appropriately prioritized, estimated, and ensure that the team fully understands what needs to be delivered.

• Ensured that the sprint goal is met at the end of sprint EDUCATION

• Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Amity University, Mauritius

September, 2021

• B.Sc. in Economics

Redeemers University, Ede

February, 2013

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SAFe CSM)

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

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