Samuel Nimo

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Professional Qualifications Summary

Sr. Business Analyst/Business System Analyst experience in various industries including government solutions, insurance, and financial industries.

Strong experience in gathering and defining business requirements, facilitation of meetings, identifying risks, business process documentation, developing business requirement document (BRD), Functional/Software/User Requirement Specifications document, user story, user story acceptance criteria, use cases, Test Plans and Test Scripts.

Experience working with CRM Salesforce platform.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with in-depth knowledge of industry best practices.

Experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Strong analytical skills breaking down system and process problems and ability to partner with business users on recommend solutions.

Experience in conducting and leading business requirement gathering sessions, decomposing abstract ideas into details, and identifying and communicating risks.

Experience in facilitating group discussions to elicit requirements in Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions by communicating with internal users and stakeholders, documenting scope definition, and functional specifications document.

Solid knowledge in RDBMS, CMMI and GDP.

Expertise in working with developers and the QA team to ensure comprehension and feasibility of requirements.

Experience with recognized project management and software lifecycle tools including API, JIRA, and MS SharePoint.

Extensive knowledge of software testing methodologies and quality assurance principles, procedures, and standards.

Experience in Section 508 Compliance testing.

Involved in creating and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix and performing GAP analysis.

Strong communication and collaboration skills with the demonstrated ability to effectively communicate complex business problems, processes, and technical material to diverse audiences.

Tools and Technical Skills

Business Modeling Tools/ Requirement Management Tools

MS Visio, DrawIO, JIRA. Version one

Applications

SharePoint, Salesforce, TFS

508 Compliance Tools

NVDA, ANDI, JAWS, WAVE

Databases

SQL Server, SQL, Oracle, API

Operating System

Windows UNIX

Languages

SQL, JAVA

Professional Experiences

05/2019 – Current

Appteon Inc, Reston, VA

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Work with the product owners and business stakeholders to capture requirements using various techniques including JAD session, data analysis and workflow analysis.

Elaborate Software Requirements Specifications and Software Design Specifications for new, enhanced, and legacy applications.

Assist Product Owner with Backlog grooming, User Story development and prioritization.

Lead requirements discussions to document, analyze and translate functional and non-functional requirements into user stories and diagrams.

Interact with Business Owners, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and Management team to identify the scope of the project and to prepare a Business Requirement Document, Use Case, User Story, and Activity Diagrams to further develop Technical Requirements and/or Functional Specifications.

Assist QA team in reviewing the test cases and with story validation.

Assist in creating Excel sheets for client, Subjects Matter Experts (SMEs) reports.

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

Provide guidance to Project Managers, Business Owners, Development Team, and Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) to resolve the outstanding issue and action items are taken in the review meeting.

Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with Business Owners, Business System Owners, the Development team, Testing team, and Process Control.

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

Facilitated defect review meetings involving all Stakeholders to review defects, identify severity, and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conforming to deadlines.

Create workflow diagrams to validate the basic and alternate flows in the various Business and Technical Use Cases.

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

Coordinate the development, design team with execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Environment: Git, GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA, Oracle, API, MS SQL server, MS Windows, SharePoint, Visio.

08/2015 - 05/2019

CareFirst (BCBS), Washington, DC

Sr. Business Analyst

Ensured User Stories and supporting documents are substantially completed in time for development to begin.

Lead requirements discussions to document, analyze and translate functional and non-functional requirements into user stories, diagrams, and other deliverables.

Involved in translating the initial high-level visions into User Stories, Product Backlogs, and any other supporting artifacts required for planning.

Assisted with the documentation of system and business requirements, specifications, design and development of use-cases and test cases scenarios and helped in developing test plans for user acceptance testing.

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

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 Backend Testing.

Involved proactively in communicating with development team regarding the status and potential impacts on the delivery date and/or expected quality of the tasks and/or the projects.

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

Managed and executed test cases and logged defects in defect reporting tool Quality Center.

Work with the QA Manager in developing test coverage matrix for the Team Members periodically.

Environment: MS Visio, JIRA, SQL Developer, Oracle, Windows, SQL, .Net.

10/2013- 08/2015

JP Morgan Chase, Falls Church, VA

Business Analyst /QA Test Analyst

Analyzed existing Business units, Business process, System / Application and their Interfaces through open-ended discussions, brainstorming sessions, and prototyping.

Co-ordinated with documenting processes used agile methodology to write the Business Requirements documents and designed Functional specifications.

Served as a liaison between the internal/external business community and the IT organization to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.

Maintained requirements to requirement traceability matrix to rapidly assess the effect of changes in requirements.

Involved in conducting UAT sessions to gain user confidence and approval.

Worked closely with the QA Team to review and enhance the Test Plan and Test Cases.

Associated with the QA team to detect the defect and take necessary actions to resolve the issue. Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project.

Used JIRA to write, execute and management of test cases and defect tracking.

Created Test cases and automated them for regression testing.

Environment: Jira, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows.

Education and Certification

Radford University, Radford, VA

Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)

Active Through: 25 January 2024

Project Management Professional (PMP®)

Active Through: 11 April 2024

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