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Beniam Ado

Washington,DC

Summary

Accomplished, result-oriented Sr. Business System Analyst/ Business with/ Functional Consultant with experience in various business domains including real estate, financial, and government consulting. Strong skills in identifying business requirements, eliciting, and documenting technical requirements, and providing insight to ensure requirements are traceable to and translated into workable solutions. Experience in utilizing various methodologies and SDLCs, including Waterfall, Hybrid and Agile-SCRUM. Experience with Agile development approach and tools like Confluence, Jira, Trello. Strong expertise in writing and maintaining Business Requirements (BRD) and Functional Requirements (FRD), Use Cases and UML diagrams, Planning and developing test plans, test cases and test scenarios to meet business and requirement solute. Exhibit strong analytical ability during Functional testing, Regression testing and UAT testing. Knowledge of CMMI and Quality Assurance (QA) standards. Strong ability to communicate effectively at all levels and to all functional groups.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Agile Business System Analyst/ Sr. Consultant

CACI Inc
Washington, DC
08.2020 - Current
  • Facilitate product backlog grooming and estimation of user stories for development.
  • Work closely with the Product Owner to ensure that user stories were properly written, groomed and prioritized the backlog.
  • Ensure end-to-end requirements traceability, mapping user stories to software test cases, applicable business processes.
  • Enforcing technical design reviews, with a focus on hard technical artifacts such as ER diagrams, time-sequence diagrams.
  • Interact with the Product Owners, QA Testers, and Development team members to document and groom product features, user stories and acceptance criteria in an agile development environment.
  • Partner with the Product Owner to prioritize the Product Backlog and/or removing User Stories to maintain alignment to the product/project vision and roadmap.
  • Involved in Regression testing, System testing, and User Acceptance Testing
  • Write and execute SQL statement to analyze data and write detail acceptance criteria for user story.
  • Facilitate defect review meetings involving all Stakeholders to review defects, identify severity, and set priorities as per client requirement.
  • Create workflow diagrams to validate the basic and alternate flows in the various Business and Technical Use Cases.
  • Provide support to the QA and Technical Writing resources to write test scripts and provide content review for necessary training and user manuals.
  • Use JIRA and Confluence to manage Agile projects artifacts, tasks, and documentation.

Sr. Business Analyst

WELLS FARGO Mortgage
Washington, DC
05.2017 - 08.2020
  • Collaborated with Project Manager to track and manage project development process.
  • Elicited and gathered requirements using JAD sessions, meetings, document analysis, prototyping and business process descriptions.
  • Responsible for requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, traceable, feasible, and unambiguous.
  • Gathered requirements from stakeholders and acted as bridge between stakeholders, mangers, and developers.
  • Maintaining UML documentation and similar artifacts (class diagrams, API documentation, sequence diagrams, ER diagrams, etc.)
  • Analyze and interpret business requirements into functional requirements and specifications that have an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by the technology teams.
  • Worked with the QA to develop Test Plans and Test Cases for functional and integration testing.
  • Maintained the requirements traceability matrix to track requirements coverage.
  • Worked closely with the stakeholders to analyze complex business processes and business requirements.
  • Designed and developed test scenarios and test cases based on business requirements, technical specifications, and use cases
  • Worked closely with project manager, stakeholders, and business analyst to define test scope, gap analysis, risk analysis, and test dependency.

Functional Analyst/Tester

Coldwell Banker
WASHINGTON, DC
12.2015 - 05.2017
  • Managed and documented changes to requirements throughout the project
  • Analyzed high level business needs and develop details technical requirements
  • Facilitated resolution and communication of cross-functional team on issues and decisions
  • Participated in peer reviews of functional specifications, application previews, and test plans/test cases
  • Worked closely with the QA team and Developers to clarify and understand functionality, resolve issues, and provide feedback to identify defects
  • Configured HCM system with focus on time, benefits and organizational management.
  • Wrote SQL queries to extract data from the database for back-end testing
  • Proactively communicated with development team regarding the status and potential impacts on the delivery date and/or expected quality of the tasks and/or the projects
  • Coordinated with end-users to schedule and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Used JIRA for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status


Education

Bachelor’s - Information Technology

HiLCoE School of Computer Science And Technology
Addis Ababa Ethiopia
05.2005

Skills

  • Customer Communication
  • Strategic Planning
  • Business Process Mapping
  • Documentation Management
  • Client Requirements
  • Agile and Scrum Environments
  • Process Flow Diagram Creation
  • Capital and Resource Allocation
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Independence and Initiative

Certification

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification

Affiliations

  • Community of Hope Board Member, Chair of DEI committee since 2017

Timeline

Agile Business System Analyst/ Sr. Consultant

CACI Inc
08.2020 - Current

Sr. Business Analyst

WELLS FARGO Mortgage
05.2017 - 08.2020

Functional Analyst/Tester

Coldwell Banker
12.2015 - 05.2017

Bachelor’s - Information Technology

HiLCoE School of Computer Science And Technology

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