Frederick Wiredu
Woodbridge,VA
Summary
Sr. Business Analyst with 6 plus years of experience in various development methodologies, and projects, including healthcare, insurance and government consulting. Excellent track record of following best practices for performing business analysis and design in the support of core organizational functions and business processes to meet challenging business needs—that includes gathering requirements, identifying business problems, developing Functional Requirement Specification, System Requirement Specification, Use Cases, backlog documents, user story documents, Test plan, Test Cases, and Requirement Traceability Matrix.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
SR. BUSINESS ANALYST
ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICE
RESTON, VA
06.2015 - Current
- Work with business owners, SMEs, and management team to identify scope and to prepare Business Requirement Document, Use Case, User Story, and Activity Diagrams to further develop technical requirements and/or Functional Specifications
- Conduct interviews with business owners and with different levels of management to identify requirements
- Communicate enhancements and modifications of business requirements—verbally or through written documentation—to project teams, project managers, and stakeholders
- Participates in change management activities including troubleshooting, and investigation
- Develops use cases, functional requirement specifications
- Use cases diagrams, and process flow diagrams to define system functionalities as per business requirements
- Involved in developing and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix
- Performs Gap analysis on the present system and document the enhancements to meet the end state requirements of the system
- Manages the UAT process by performing test case validation and obtaining business approvals on UAT for scheduled deployments
- Actively liaise throughout the project between end users, development team, and QA team to address system issues and identify the appropriate solution
- Conducts QA testing to ensure product meets requirements
- Collaborates with business and technology leads to identify the appropriate data for testing, and prepared that data for the test cases
- Conducts peer reviews of business requirements and documentations to ensure that requirement specifications are accurately interpreted
- Ensures that all documentations meet client’s guidelines and further exhibits the use of good documentation practices
- Researches and review effectiveness of current processes and develop strategies for enhancements
- Perform task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using MS Project and HP ALM
- Capture quality attributes, external/internal constraints for functional/non-functional requirements
- Participate in development of training materials for new technology and organizing User Training
- Assisted in weekly status meetings with Development Team, QA Manager, and developed meeting-minutes.
BUSINESS ANALYST
MAGELLAN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Columbia, AL
11.2013 - 06.2015
- Worked with various end users to understand and document their current business operations, system requirements and workflows, and identify business process improvements
- Serve as liaison and/or subject matter expert regarding business functions and systems as well as manage others in the project
- Document product backlogs and user stories, guided by acceptance criteria and obtaining documentation sign off
- Provides accurate, well-written documentation such as workshop minutes, training materials, business requirements, functional specifications, technical specifications, QA test plans, and status reports
- Responsible for conducting retrospective meetings in agile environment
- Organized and facilitated the sprint planning meeting in the agile environment
- Establish effective and collaborative project teams, facilitate/coordinate project work within and across business units, partner with technical project lead as appropriate, ensure project deadlines are met and results are achieved as designed
- Interface with end-users and project business sponsors to determine, document, and obtain sign off on business requirements
- Report tracked defects with reference to severity and types using Quality Center
- Perform GAP Analysis and work with the Quality Assurance lead to develop detailed Test Plan and Test Cases to perform Smoke (Sanity) Testing to test the basic functionality of the application
- Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severity and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conform to deadlines
- Conduct sprint planning based on new and backlogged requirements
- Conduct surveys, interviews and facilitate Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with the Business Users and SME’s
- Conduct JAD sessions for communicating with the project leads and stakeholders and proposed process workflows, functional specifications and project initiation parameters
- Establish and maintain traceability matrix until all the business requirements are signed off.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Biology
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA08.2024
ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE - BIOLOGY
NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
09.2019
Skills
- Experience in Facilitating Joint Application Development (JAD sessions to expedite and streamline requirement gathering process
- Well versed knowledge with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and System Development Methodologies including Waterfall and Agile
- Strong experience in Agile/Scrum development projects and coaching and mentoring team members on process
- Solid experience creating Use Cases, User Stories, Business Requirements Specifications, Functional Specifications, and Process Flow Diagrams
- Proficient in writing detailed system Use Cases, developing business Test Cases and working with QA teams during testing phase, thereby facilitating acceptance testing with stakeholders and business users
- Experience in developing, maintaining, and reviewing Change
- Requests (CR) and related documents for CR
- Knowledge of CMMI, 508 Compliance, and Quality Assurance (QA) Standards
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Applications: Visio, Adobe Suite, MS Teams
- Methodologies: Agile – Scrum
- Databases: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server
- Management Tools: JIRA, MS Office Suite, SharePoint, ServiceNow, Confluence
- Programming Languages: JAVA, SQL
- Business Process Analysis
Working out, Soccer, Volleyball
I have been playing soccer my entire life. Initially, I wanted to become a professional soccer player, but injury and other personal reasons set me on a different career. Played for DC United academy for a year. I enjoy working out a lot and seems it has become my addiction. I also love volleyball and I enjoy playing with friends.
Timeline
SR. BUSINESS ANALYST
ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICE
06.2015 - Current
BUSINESS ANALYST
MAGELLAN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
11.2013 - 06.2015
Bachelor of Science - Biology
George Mason University
ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE - BIOLOGY
NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
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