ABBAS ZAIDI
Bartlett,IL
Summary
Five years experience working as a Business Analyst in Finance and Insurance domains. Can utilize tools such as Azure DevOps and Jira to create and maintain requirement backlogs while proactively working with SMEs and Product Owners to define requirements. Experience working in Agile/ Scrum and Waterfall methodologies, leading teams to success by acting as a liaison between development teams and the business.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Analyst
BMO
11.2022 - 07.2024
- Worked on developing enhanced application features for onboarding of clients and maintenance of client information
- Participated in analyzing business requirements and analyzing necessary changes needed to be made to technology applications
- Maintained, refined, and prioritized product backlog for the team using Azure DevOps
- Held deep dive sessions with Subject Matter experts, stakeholders, and Product owner to perform detailed analysis and create user stories
- Led team meetings while actively working with off shore teams to answer any requirement related questions and ensuring the requirements are being understood, met, and delivered on time by the development teams
- Participated in all sessions related to software development, including user story grooming, backlog prioritization & grooming, sprint retrospectives and any long-term planning sessions
- Led UAT sessions with end users, created detailed training documents and videos for UAT testers and end user teams
Business Analyst
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD
09.2019 - 11.2022
- Worked with project manager and key stakeholders to elicit requirements and create user stories in Jira
- Assisted Product Owner with backlog grooming, user story development, mapping dependencies, and managing risks
- Collaborated with Product Management and Business Stakeholders to understand project vision and deliver requirements to the team
- Facilitated and led team meetings, performed product demos and prepared and led design presentations for product management teams
- Helped resolve any issues, roadblocks, and dependencies for the team
- Analyzed existing processes to identify opportunities for optimization and product enhancement
Quality Assurance Analyst
UIC
12.2018 - 08.2019
- Analyzed user stories and created test data and test cases
- Ensured test cases are aligned to the requirements and have a detailed coverage of the Acceptance Criteria for each User Story
- Executed test cases in all QA, UAT, and Production environments
- Performed Smoke testing, UAT, Integration, Functional, and Regression testing
- Created bugs and ensured product is bug free and the requirements are being met
- Tested reports and mapping of data in the reports
- Owned overall quality of the product by playing an active role in each phase of testing
- Participated in deployments and performed Production testing
Education
Bachelor of Science -
University of Illinois At Chicago
Chicago, IL01-2022
Skills
- JIRA
- Azure DevOps
- Confluence
- Requirement Gathering & Analysis
- User Acceptance Testing
- Client Relationship Management
- Data Analysis
- Miro board
- Visio
- Power Point
- Test planning
- Requirements management
- Team lead
Timeline
Business Analyst
BMO
11.2022 - 07.2024
Business Analyst
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD
09.2019 - 11.2022
Quality Assurance Analyst
UIC
12.2018 - 08.2019
Bachelor of Science -
University of Illinois At Chicago
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