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Ola Olayinka

Lagos, Nigeria +1-805-***-**** adzo83@r.postjobfree.com

Business Analyst

SUMMARY

A committed and efficient Business Analyst with 4years of proven track record and comprehensive knowledge in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including elicitation, design, development, testing and deployment, and releases both in Agile and Waterfall environment. Detailed team player with strong analytical, good communication and problems solving skills. Able to collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders to deliver needed artifacts such as require management plans, product backlog, sprint backlog, process flow diagrams and user interface designs. I am goal oriented, and comfortable in managing multiple projects simultaneously while rendering deliverables within reasonable timelines that meet client satisfaction. TOOLS & SKILLS

Jira

Confluence

SnagIT

Slack

Mockups

Analytical skills

Presentation/ Facilitation

Agile Methodology

Waterfall Methodology

Required Management

Plan

Process Flow diagram

Swim lane

Time Management

Microsoft Office

JAD

Scrum

Collaboration

Interpersonal skills

User Acceptance Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SunGard Data Systems

Business Analyst March 2019 - Present

Developing user stories and Acceptance criteria, assists product owners with managing and prioritizing backlogs, planning releases, while seeing product from inception to completion using the Agile and waterfall methodologies.

Serving as a conduit between the business team and the software development team in gathering all product documents requirement which help define product design

Conducting user interviews, gathering requirements and analyzing the requirement for existing applications

Assisting in developing test plan, test cases and performing user performing User Acceptance Test

(UAT) and the scrum team by creating the product deliverables agreed upon for the sprint and regularly updates

Collaborating with business owners to define scope, clarify functional and non-functional requirements and translate them into application and operational requirement

Monitoring projects through the SDLC process using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies

Ensures the products matches business owner’s specification through sprint demo with business leader and end users to validate and interpretation of requirements

Guiding the team’s operations by facilitating scrum ceremonies (e.g Daily Standup, sprint planning) and daily activities to ensure the smooth functioning of the delivery team

Elicit, refining and documenting requirements from end-users via interviews, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, documents analysis, user cases scenarios, and workflow analysis

Collaborating with Development and Quality Assurance team by timely responses to team questions during design and to create test plans, test scenarios, and test cases in anticipation of regression testing and product validation

Providing user support, leadership and team collaboration, create training materials and provide post implementation user support for software/product lunch

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Doubles as a Scrum master occasionally in the absence of the team’s dedicated scrum master and facilitates scrum ceremonies such as daily stand up, sprint planning, review, and retro meetings.

Translating business needs into application and operational requirements to ensure that the business requirements are understood by the team so that plan, build, and run can effectively deliver.

Working with stakeholders to understand their business needs and challenges, assists in aligning overall scope and sequencing recommendations with business stakeholders

Collaborating with development team by creating artifacts such as process flow diagrams, swim lanes, use case diagram, mockups to make further clarifications.

Collaborates with both internal/external stakeholders to create and revise functional requirements and acceptance criteria using JIRA and Confluence.

ACHIEVEMENT

Provided solution to identify business impediments which helped reduced time spent in scoping calls by 20% improved saving the company in revenue.

Organized and facilitated sprint ceremonies as daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint and created an environment in which enable team achieved 30% story completion rate due to effective planning, refinement, and better collaboration with the teams.

Successfully managed projects, from idea conception to successful delivery, achieving 100% stakeholder satisfactory

Performed a thorough data analysis to assess resource allocation and expenditures, which resulted in a 15% cost reduction and increased savings.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration

Federal University of Technology

Bachelor of Science in Economics

Usman Danfodiyo University

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