Business Analyst Scrum Master

Mohammad Newaz McLean, VA

Qualifications Summary

Relevant Experience

Software Development

Requirements Management

Waterfall Methodology

Agile Methodology

Project Management

Information Security

I have accumulated and amassed over ten years of experience in both the public and private sectors. My knowledge and experience encompass all phases of Information Systems including requirements management, analysis, design, testing, documentation, and training, in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. I have acquired progressive Project Management and Scrum Master experience using Microsoft Office Suite, and JIRA.

Employment History

Vibrantech Solutions Inc, Senior Business Analyst 01/2025 - 04/2025

Leesburg, VA

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., Scrum Master and Business Analyst 05/2019 – 01/2025

McLean, VA

NTT Data, Business Analyst/Scrum Master/Lead QA Analyst 01/2016 – 05/2019

McLean, VA

FireTrail, Business Analyst 09/2015 – 01/2016

Washington D.C.

AcuSys, inc, Business Analyst/QA Analyst 01/2015 – 05/2015

Alexandria, VA

Relevant Experience

Vibrantech Solutions Inc, 01/2025 – 04/2025, Senior Business Analyst

Enterprise Case Management, Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

●Supported the analysis, development, and testing of IRS applications within Corporate Data, Compliance, Submissions, Enterprise Operations and Data Delivery Services Domains, including associated interfaces.

●Work closely with stakeholders to gather and document requirements, ensuring alignment with IRS policies and procedures.

●Document IRS forms in Thomson Reuters as well as all data that are being saved and retrieved in integration with the Enterprise Case Management system.

●Documented and created payloads of IRS form in Thomson Reuters.

Booz Allen Hamilton, 05/2019 – 01/2025, Scrum Master and Business Analyst

Enterprise Case Management, Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

●Performed as an application development analyst role in a multi-team program in system integrations and delivering software systems to Production using Agile, and Scrum processes.

●Quickly understand IRS business processes to create wireframes, scenario scenes, and requirement documents in ELM (Engineering Lifecycle Management).

●Used requirements management tool ELM (Engineering Lifecycle Management) to manage the evolution of the user story, defects, and backlog items, including breaking down the stories.

●Worked in an Agile environment which involves scrum processes. Participated in daily stand-up and sprint planning.

Advance Provider Screening, Center for Medicare-Medicaid Services (CMS)

●Coordinate and cooperate with a team of developers, testers, and business analysts to identify clients’ business needs, gather user requirements, and develop user stories.

●Understood the overall direction and nuanced user needs clearly, and led the team as we fulfilled the user needs by creating deplorable features.

●Facilitated team-level or ART (Agile Release Train) level workshops, including Scrum ceremonies, backlog refinement, sprint planning, mid-sprint reviews, sprint demos, and retrospectives.

●Conducted daily stand as Scrum Master and performed requirements analyst duties in a multi-team program in system integrations and delivering software systems to Production using SAFe, Agile, and Scrum processes.

●Used requirements management tools Jira and Confluence to manage the evolution of the user story and backlog items, including breaking down the stories, eliciting conversations, and facilitating story refinement sessions.

Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM), Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

●Analyze information technology requirements in business processes, through requirements elicitation, solutions identification, and collaboration across (IT) teams.

●Documented business rules and impacted processes or systems as well as functional and technical specifications.

●Maintain and update Requirement Traceability Matrix of current and new system requirements using MS Excel.

●Gather and document technical and operational requirements.

●Review functional design documents and translate the business requirements into system requirements.

NTT Data, 01/2016 – 05/2019, Business Analyst/Scrum Master/Lead QA Analyst

U.S. Parole Commission (USPC), Department of Justice (DOJ)

●Quickly understood client business processes, gathered, and analyzed functional requirements, and maintained close and continual client contact.

●Understand and develop requirements and use cases for web-based system development.

●Evaluated existing technology to propose changes in To-be documentation.

●Organized meetings with clients to discuss the features and the functionalities of an existing as well as a To-Be system.

●Worked in an Agile environment which involves scrum processes. Conducted daily stand-up and sprint planning.

●Created Process Flow Diagrams, Business Process Diagrams, and Activity diagrams using UML.

●Planned and defined system requirements through Use Case, Use Case Scenario, and Use Case Narrative using the UML (Unified Modeling Language) methodologies

●Interviewed business users to gather requirements and analyze their needs' feasibility by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead.

●Evaluated existing technology to propose changes in To-be documentation.

●Communicate with stakeholders on technical issues in non-technical versions.

●Perform System, Integration, Smoke, Functional, Regression, and User-Acceptance Testing.

●Testing activities: designed test scenarios, test plans, and test cases as well as executed test cases, analyzed and prepared test summary reports, and created UAT documents.

FireTrail, 09/2015 – 01/2016, Business Analyst

Department of Commerce

●To meet ITA’s evolving Knowledge Management needs, performed activities such as working with ITA business lines and offices identified by the client to document current Knowledge Management capabilities and future Knowledge Management and collaboration needs and goals.

●Quickly understood client business processes, gathered, and analyzed user functional requirements, and maintained close and continual client contact.

●Organized meetings with clients to discuss the features and the functionalities of an existing as well as a To-Be system.

●Research existing implementation solutions at the business unit and enterprise levels and evaluate their status against ITA’s Knowledge Management and collaboration goals.

●Review and document ITA’s existing KM capabilities and provide recommendations to support ITA’s efforts to document a common understanding of KM and collaboration goals

●Support ITA in developing an implementation plan to address the gaps between ITA’s existing KM and collaboration solution implementations and goals.

●Provide scenario-driven use cases and establish a framework to demonstrate those use cases in a KM pilot plan.

●Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analyzed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead.

●Introduced Agile methodologies to reflect the liquid nature of front-office improving time-to-market

AcuSys, Inc, 01/2015 – 05/2015, Business Analyst/QA Analyst

Federal Housing Finance Agency

●Understand and develop requirements and use cases for web-based system development.

●Evaluated existing technology to propose changes in To-be documentation.

●Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) after the collection of Functional Requirements from System users that provided an appropriate scope of work for the technical team to develop a prototype and overall system.

●Conducted documentation peer reviews and worked with project managers to define project processes.

●Used knowledge of system development methodologies and automated tools to gather and manage user requirements.

●Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analyzed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead.

●Organized meetings with clients to discuss the features and the functionalities of an existing as well as a To-Be system.

●Developed a Traceability Matrix for maintaining/updating current and new system requirements using MS Excel.

●Translate software requirements and models into physical specifications and details for developers. Created and maintained requirements documents.

●Led and conducted JAD sessions for requirements gathering, analysis, and design of the system.

●Communicated with stakeholders on technical issues in non-technical versions.

●Developed strategies with the Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Telerik Test Studio for Black box testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).

Education and Certifications

Education:

-Bachelor of Arts in Economics,

Queens College, City University of New York, New York City

Certifications:

• Certified Scrum Master

• Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner/Product Manager

• Certified SAFe 5 Practitioner

• Security+

• CySA+

• ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP) Certification

-Currently have an active clearance (Public Trust) with IRS

-1 of 5 board member at the Gates of McLean

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