Justine Omota
New Britain, CT ***** • 860-***-**** • ady76y@r.postjobfree.com
Professional Summary
Senior Business Analyst with advanced knowledge in multiple domains and skill in driving positive outcomes with over 5 years of experience. Exceptional organizational, project management, and leadership skills. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Strong requirements gathering, scope development, and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.
Skills/Tools
Agile/Scrum Framework
Sprint Planning
Requirements Elicitation
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Scrum Framework
Functional and Business Requirements
Critical Thinking
Team Leadership
Project Team Coordination
User Stories
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Training
Waterfall Methodology
Collaborative skills
Spreadsheet Development
JIRA
SAFe Agile
Confluence
Kanban
Slack
MS Office
Balsamiq Wireframes
MS Excel
UAT Testing
Time Management
Problem-Solving
SQL
Data Mapping and Modeling
Project Management
Change Impact Analysis
Microsoft Azure
SAP
CRM Systems
Staff Training
Professional Experience
SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST/SCRUM MASTER, 09/2022 to Current Bayada Home Healthcare – Pennsauken, NJ
Guided teams and refined Agile techniques throughout journey and evolution of delivery cycles, establishing documentation framework to support Agile methodology implementation with Waterfall-centric delivery team.
Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis, and business presentations to inform divisional strategies.
Managed team performance by implementing measurable metrics to track delivery of supporting requirement artifacts.
Prioritize requirements from various stakeholders. Supported Agile team collaboration, accountability and visibility through thoughtful orchestration of team dynamics, goal setting and talent recruitment. Develop a working knowledge of BAYADA's mission, services, people, organization, policies, and procedures.
Supported IT product owners in product backlog compilation and maintenance, addressing recurring concerns and recommending improvements based on user feedback. Work with diverse stakeholders to elicit goals and requirements and translate them into high-quality deliverables including analysis of alternatives, use cases, user journeys, business context diagrams, and process flows.
Prioritize development backlog, planning releases, planning sprints, and driving requirements/user stories.
Solely responsible for eliciting requirements using interviews, documents analysis, requirements workshops and Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions, business process descriptions, and workflow analysis
Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
Assist in developing test plans, and test cases and performed User acceptance testing (UAT) Create a workflow diagram using Microsoft Visio to clearly demonstrate the processes and timelines.
Demonstrate the ability to build trust and cohesion with the development team. Manage requirements and provide analysis on home health care nurse/aid visit verification. Electronic capture of staff clock in/out at client residence. Work with the architecture and development team to ensure that they understand the specifications.
Directed business analysts in executing and delivering various tactical and strategic plans. Executed analysis of risks and identified risk mitigation strategies. BUSINESS ANALYST/SCRUM MASTER, 10/2017 to 09/2022
Solulab Inc – Los Angeles, CA
Support team using servant leadership style and leading by example. Work with diverse stakeholders to elicit goals and requirements and translate them into high-quality deliverables including analysis of alternatives, use cases, user journeys, business context diagrams, and process flows.
Prioritize development backlog, planning releases, planning sprints, and driving requirements/user stories.
Solely responsible for eliciting requirements using interviews, documents analysis, requirements workshops and Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions, business process descriptions, and workflow analysis
Guide and coached Scrum team and organized Agile and Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitments.
Monitor projects through the SDLC process using the Agile/SCRUM methodology. Work independently with users to define concepts and clarify Functional and Non-functional requirements daily.
Work with the development team to drive team velocity. Facilitate Joint Application Development (JAD), and Requirements Gathering sessions with Stakeholders, SME's and System Owners in order to capture business rules, processes, and system requirements for various projects.
Create a workflow diagram using Microsoft Visio to clearly demonstrate the processes and timelines.
Assist with internal and external communication resulting in improved transparency. Apply agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins. Facilitate Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
Traces the functional requirements through the stages of the SDLC to ensure that the requirements were fully implemented.
Demonstrate the ability to build trust and cohesion with the development team(s). Assist in developing test plans, and test cases and performed User acceptance testing (UAT) Demonstrate the ability to build trust and cohesion with the development team. Identify training needs and develop training plans Facilitate daily standup scrum meetings to debrief progress, troubleshoot snags, remove impediments, and establish goals for the following day. Removed impediments to product success, leveraging cross-functional Scrum team talent to provide targeted solutions to unprecedented program errors. Supported IT product owners in product backlog compilation and maintenance, addressing recurring concerns and recommending improvements based on user feedback. Education
Bachelor of Science
University of Benin
Certifications
Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master, Scaled Agile - Agile Framework Certificate ID; 928*****-****