Scrum Master Business Analyst

OLA AKANBI

Newark, New Jersey 862-***-**** *********@*****.*** www.LinkedIn

A devoted Solution-oriented, strategic Business Analyst with 5 years of experience with insight for analysis and passion for visualizing data processing and hands on experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and fulfilling complex functional and business requirements of stakeholders and business users through interviews and JAD sessions.

Effectively communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and utilize the following artefacts: Functional Requirement Documents, Use Cases, Process Flow Diagrams, Business Requirements Document.

Technical Skills &Tools

Software development Life Cycle(SDLC)

Project documentation

User Acceptance Testing

Microsoft Visio

Requirement Management Plan

Requirement Gathering

Cloud Computing

Microsoft office Suites

JIRA/confluence

Stakeholder Management

Business Artefacts documentation

Business Process Mapping

Agile/Waterfall Methodologies

Kanban Board

Professional Experience

Altimetric: Southfield, Michigan

IT Business Systems Analyst/Scrum Master (Remote) June 2019-present

Eliciting Business and technical requirements

Monitoring projects through the Software development Life Cycle (SDLC) process using agile/Scrum Methodologies

Serving as liaison between the business and the technical resources to gather and communicate requirements, which help define and verify product design

Facilitating meetings, workshops, and discussions with project teams and clients to find a balance between user needs, client needs, technical level of efforts and timelines

Perform requirement management Plan for Agile and Waterfall Projects

Facilitating meetings with users on elicitation and review of requirements, user stories, Acceptance Criteria and other artifacts and clearly communicate requirements to the technical team members.

Understanding the business needs of users and multiple stakeholders, interpret the business needs and translate them into functional and Non-functional requirements, user Stories, Process Flows chart.

Facilitating requirement gathering sessions with SMEs, and system owners to capture business rules, processes, and system requirements for various projects

Gathering business requirements through elicitations, and provide support to the Scrum Master in completing the sprint activities

Collaborating with the development teams in different domains; healthcare, real estate, Rideshare, Finance, Hospitality, E-commerce etc.

Collaborating between testing teams, cross functional teams, and the customer

Using different tools: Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SnagiT, draw.io to design Flowcharts.

Writing of User stories/Acceptance Criteria in JIRA, creating other artifacts like workflow charts and diagrams, write solution requirements specifications in agile environments

Preparing mockups to help facilitate communication of different processes/concepts to stakeholders.

Supporting implementation of the project lifecycle process by following the SDLC, including defining objectives and scope, status reporting, and documentation

Collaborating with project teams and business Partners during project planning, incremental software delivery reviews, and user acceptance testing to ensure the software has been implemented based on the specifications.

Facilitating meetings with stakeholders to gather requirements validation and maintain process flows, use cases, information needs and test cases.

Altimetric: Southfield, Michigan

Associate Business Analyst March 2017- May 2019

Facilitate Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, Sprint Review Meetings, Daily Scrum Calls, and Sprint Planning Meetings.

Engage clients to gather requirements and ensure alignment with the development team.

Translate stakeholder requirements into different deliverables such as Functional

Requirement Document, User Cases, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Mock-ups, and Process Flow Diagrams.

Prioritize and manage Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog.

Assist the team to increase their velocity, resolve team conflicts, and remove team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables while adhering to Scrum principles, practices, and theories. Up to 15% in efficiency gains.

Analyze the as-is and to-be state of a project and perform various analysis (Gap, Impact).

Create and execute test plans, test cases. Manage different stages of testing, particularly Pre-UAT and UAT sessions.

Conduct end-user and employee training sessions.

Design and implement basic SQL queries for QA testing and report.

Track the project life cycle and issues using JIRA and CONFLUENCE.

Utilize MS Visio to create various Flow Charts, Use Cases, and Sequence diagrams.

Other Skills & Competencies

Analytical skills, Training/Facilitating, Agile Methodologies, Requirement Analysis, Business Requirements, Technical documentation, Functional Requirements, User Journey, Retrospective, Use Case Diagram, Business System Analysis, User Journey, Sprint Planning, JIRA etc.

Education and Certification

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Bachelors of Sci (BSc) Statistics

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