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Korede Ajileye

St. Albans,NY

Summary

An established Business Analyst with over 8+ years’ experience. Full understanding of Agile, Enterprise Lifecycle, Collaborative Lifecycle, Waterfall Methodologies. Extensive experience in Software Development Methodologies including Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Iterative Development Methodologies while using various Rational Tool to manage projects. Experience in creating Project Charter, Project Scope, Project Plan, Project Schedule, Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specifications Document (FSD), Nonfunctional Requirements Document, Systems Design Documents, Use Cases, Test Cases and Test Scripts to utilize during User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Experience in business requirements elicitation, development, and documentation. Experience in creating user stories and EPIC. Proficient in writing Simple to Complex SQL Queries against different databases and data models for new systems and system enhancements. Proficient in creating UML Diagrams – Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and ER diagrams using Rational Rose and MS Visio. Ability to prepare RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) & performance requirements analysis & design. Experience in Financial and Wealth management such as FX, Equities, Fixed Income, Options, Margin, Money Market. Mutual fund, Managed Account, Alternative Investment, Futures, Trust Services, Commodities, Mortgage and Real Estate. Experience in payment networks and organizations (e.g., SWIFT, NACHA, FEDWIRE).

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

UBA America
10.2020 - Current
  • Project 1: Worked with the development team to support the anti- money laundering and compliance team to build and upgrade software applications to flag and detect suspicious transactions. This effort involved coordinating with several teams within the compliance department, gathering appropriate approvals and aligning the schedules of several stakeholder. I served as the business analyst to gather requirements necessary to complete the upgrade and build new applications.
  • Project 2: Severed as a Document Specialist to capture the as-is functionality of the system. The project developed high-level system design documents related to sub-modules with an application. I was responsible for documenting the application workflow within modules
  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • · Worked with senior management, project sponsors, key stakeholders, and SMEs to create business cases for multiple projects.
  • · Documented current and future process flows on Visio
  • · Created Project Scope, Project Charter, Project Schedule, and Project Management Plan based on customer demands
  • · Authored Business Requirements Document with project teams using ALM and VersionOne
  • · Decomposed high level requirements into lower-level requirements
  • · Created Epics and decompose into user Stories
  • · Elicited and gathered requirements from the Stakeholders
  • · Authored Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and Business Requirement Documents (BRD)
  • · Analyzed business requirements, functional specs and develop UAT scripts
  • · Created Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
  • · Facilitated Daily Scrum Calls, Sprint Planning Meeting, Sprint Retrospectives, Product Backlog Grooming, and other related agile ceremonies
  • · Documented and maintained RTM to ensure that all requirements are traceable from top to bottom and to provide a basis for the test plan
  • · Conducted JAD Sessions with the SME, stakeholders, and other management teams in the finalization of the User Requirement Documentation
  • · Involved in User Acceptance Testing and training of end users
  • · Participated in the planning and execution of the User Acceptance Testing effort. Conducted extensive User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • · Created test cases and test plans for SIT testing
  • · Assisted in the planning, creation and control of the test environment(s)
  • · Facilitated and participated in structured walk-throughs, and peer reviews
  • · Determine and detail time estimates, and schedules for testing efforts
  • · Ensuring healthy product backlog depth by working with Product Owner, scrum team members, and other subject matter experts as needed
  • · Working with Product Owner in prioritizing product backlog
  • · Collection of metrics and initiating process improvement
  • · Ability to work cohesively with scrum team members that are globally distributed with different time zone
  • · Defining the expectations of the users for an application that is to be built or modified by identifying the needs of different stakeholders.
  • · Ensure requirement are analyzed, documented, validated, and are documented, actionable, measurable, testable, traceable as well as helping to identify business opportunities to a facilitate system design.
  • · Conduct requirements gathering, specification, modeling, review, and retrospective using techniques such as Business process modeling notation (BPMN), UML (Unified Modeling Language), Flowchart technique, Data flow diagram and Gap Analysis.

Business Analyst

Robust Inc
12.2018 - 09.2020
  • Project 1: Worked as Business Process Analyst on development of a Sales Order Processing System application. The system was designed to increase the efficiency of the sales order process of the company and reduce the number of returns due to orders not being fulfilled properly. This initiative comprised documenting the entire Sales order process requirements from placement of the order to the fulfillment of the order. The system was designed and divided it into several modules. These modules include Customer information, Product Information, Product received, Product returned, Suppliers and Inventory.
  • Project 2: Served as a business analyst to capture requirements necessary to migrate from conventional packages to ERP system as it integrates the entire functioning of the organization to make it work as a unit and eliminate the need for different tools to manage the requirements of different departments. The project entailed the upgrade from multiple software packages to integrated packages, its Production, Testing, Development, and Disaster Recovery Environments to the new system.
  • Roles and Responsibilities:
  • · Develop the As-Is process flow map and documented Future State process flow map by interviewing lead stakeholders and reviewing documentation.
  • · Identified gaps within the current state process flow map and the future state process flow map
  • · Created requirements based up the gap identified between the process flow maps
  • · Lead requirements walk through meeting
  • · Meet with the customer to gain approval of product deliverables and/or change requests
  • · Proved customer with impact analysis on change requests
  • · Evaluated the impact of changes in process and information flows in collaboration with the stakeholders and Data Modelers
  • · Identified business and functional requirements, and actively participated in project planning, assessment and design phases producing the associated customer deliverables
  • · Supported deployment and implementation of the product
  • · Performed technical writing to create User Manual
  • · Authored process documents and aided Process Owners with improvements to existing Plans, Processes, and Work Procedures
  • · Used quality models such as IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) to aid process design.
  • · Worked closely with SMEs in Service Management/Delivery, IT Operations, Project Management
  • · Facilitated cross-organizational meetings with process participants to define and document core business processes and workflows
  • · Tested and executed business processes to ensure correct results achieved
  • · Updated SOPs and process flows per feedback from end-to-end UAT sessions

Business Analyst

Optimum Technologies
01.2015 - 11.2018

Project: I was member of a team working on Online Access Management Systems for consumer accounts. It provides customer with capability of various online self-service functions, like bill checking, minutes/usages checking, pay bill, update profile, add rate plan, change rate plan, equipment upgrade etc. The system interacts with various other billing and customer care applications.

Project 2: Support the business requirements for a new consumer and business payments hub (including ACH, Wires, Real Time Payments, etc.) including pricing and overdraft capabilities. Perform research, financial analysis, and develop presentations with recommendations to support business decisions. Created supporting materials such as processes, procedures, decision trees to support strategic decisions. I defined and developed customer-level requirements, features, value propositions, and for Digital Banking product offerings in leading payment platforms within the wealth management space.

Roles and Responsibilities:

· Facilitated JAD sessions, conducted interviews, Q&A sessions with business users, SMEs to solicit business requirements relative to proposed functionality

  • Analyzed, collected, and prepared user requirements, definitions, scope, and expectations for deliverable plans.
  • Created Business Requirement Documents, System Requirement Specifications, and Use Cases and used Requisite Pro to maintain the requirements
  • Created Epic and User stories
  • Conducted Product backlog grooming sessions with Product owner
  • Facilitated various Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
  • Involved in writing the Test Plan, numerous Test Cases and Test Scripts using Quality Center
  • Tested strategies, reviewed the test cases using test director and signoffs, improvised processes, and incorporated user feedbacks to ensure a smooth scalable rollout

· Conducted Functional Requirements and User Requirements Specification reviews and walkthroughs with designers, developers, and stakeholders

· Helped write test cases and test scenario

  • Tracked issues, risks and change controls that impacted projects and Analysis team deliverables

· Led weekly meetings with developers and business units to discuss requirements and implementation issues

· Conducted Training Sessions for Testing Team and Business User’s involved in UAT and coordinated UAT effort before Production Roll-out

· Documented the defects and their trailing history in the Test Director and helped developers recreate defects by executing the related scenarios in order to identify the root cause of defect

· Actively participated in daily bug triage meetings, reviews and walkthroughs and interacted with developers to ensure high quality software

Education

MBA Finance -

Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma City, OK

Bachelor of Science Economics -

Olabisi Onabanjo University
Ogun NGN
11.2012

Associate Degree in Accounting -

Federal Polytechnic Offa
Offa NGN
09.2003

Skills

  • Agile
  • Waterfall
  • SDLC
  • Scrum
  • MS SQL Server
  • MS-Access
  • Oracle
  • My SQL
  • Test director
  • Rational Clear Quest
  • Rational Quality Manager
  • ALM
  • MS Project
  • Excel
  • Visio
  • Word
  • PowerPoint
  • Lucid Chart
  • HTML
  • XML
  • Java
  • SQL
  • Coldfusion
  • Business Definition Requirements
  • Business Process Analysis & Research Use Case Modeling & Analysis
  • JAD/RAD Sessions
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Gap Analysis and Impact analysis
  • MS Visio
  • Rational Requisite Pro
  • Test Manager
  • UML
  • Sequence Diagrams
  • Activity Diagrams
  • Wire Frame
  • Rational Tool Suite
  • JIRA/Confluence
  • VersionOne
  • Agile: Scrum
  • Gap Analysis
  • Use case
  • User Stories
  • Data Analysis
  • Backlog Grooming
  • Presentation and Facilitation
  • Workflow Analysis
  • DragonFly
  • Project Management
  • Risk Management
  • Jira/ Confluence
  • MS office suite
  • Software Project
  • ServiceNow
  • Forecasting and Planning
  • Business Process Mapping
  • Process Development
  • Data Mining
  • Data Mapping
  • Business Planning
  • Business Process Improvement
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • CRM Systems
  • Test Case Scenarios
  • User Acceptance Testing

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
  • Certified Anti- Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)
  • Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA)
  • Associate Strategic Manager (ASM)

Timeline

Senior Business Analyst

UBA America
10.2020 - Current

Business Analyst

Robust Inc
12.2018 - 09.2020

Business Analyst

Optimum Technologies
01.2015 - 11.2018

MBA Finance -

Southeastern Oklahoma State University

Bachelor of Science Economics -

Olabisi Onabanjo University

Associate Degree in Accounting -

Federal Polytechnic Offa
Korede Ajileye