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MARY CYNTHIA UGWA

Business Analysis
HOUSTON,TX

Summary

Im a well experienced Business/ system Analyst with five plus working year experience; im well in-depth experiences in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), software testing life (STLC), project lifecycle , including requirement gathering, analysis, implementation, testing, deployment and Agile and waterfall development environment. I take my role as a business analysis very serious and professional. From project management to analyzing business needs and executing quality testing. Diligent professional possessing hands-on experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and fulfilling complex functional and business requirements of stakeholders and business users through interviews and JAD sessions. I develop procedures for implementing changes to production including risk analysis/ mitigation, technical documentation, and communication plans. I seek the best communication for myself, team and stakeholders in other to always have the best understanding in functional requirement. I have worked with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints I have worked with various methodologies such as waterfall, spiral and Agile. I possess excellent analytical skills in understanding and identifying the business processes and conducting feasibility studies to develop scope and vision documents. i demonstrate high level of leadership, outstanding communication skills, working with product owner, stakeholders, and team members. Lead the effort to effectively communicate and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders to analyze information needs and functional requirements and then deliver the following artifacts as needed: functional requirements document, Business requirements document, use cases, process flow diagrams, GUI interface designs. I work hard, late and a team player; my team never lack my support. i interact with all in order to accomplish our common goal. Detail-oriented, organized; Works at fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Developer

Hadexx Solution., MD, USA
Maryland, NY
08.2020 - 01.2023
  • Assisted in the planning and execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) including communicating outcomes and integrating feedback into the agile sprint process.
  • Analyzed and evaluated stakeholder requirements and convert these requirements into business need statements, system specifications and integration technical specifications.
  • collaborated with architects, developers, and QAs to ensure that solutions meet business and technical needs.
  • Plan, elicit, capture, analyze and validate business, functional and technical requirements.
  • Conduct and facilitated user acceptance testing to include developing and executing test cases, communication with project teams, validating and documenting results.
  • Applied knowledge of system development lifecycle (SDLC) processes to include system process flows, team reviews of analysis, design,code, testing, and deployment, as well as relevant Agile ceremonies for all assigned products.
  • Developed and overseen project plans and roadmaps that outline preventative and corrective actions necessary to remediate control deficiencies, maximizing effectiveness and mitigating future exposure.
  • Involved in Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospective and demos.
  • Performed gap analysis on our solutions to recommend consolidation, increased adoption, updates, additions to simplify the technology footprint for our team.
  • Identified and helped mitigate program and team level risks/ impediments.
  • Tracked and monitored teams' progress toward program and sprint objectives via Agile progress reporting charts and deliver input to status reports as required by Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Release Train Engineer (RTE), and Project manager (PMO).
  • Advanced in high level of analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Researches, understand and document external and organizational requirements for the clients; anything from organizational security requirements to section 508 and accessibility guidelines.

Information Technology Analyst

Exploride Incorporation
03.2018 - 06.2020
  • Performs, elicits, analyzes and document requirements in support of system, business, stakeholder, and user requirements.
  • Work with business owners and team leads to decompose/ digress large epics into manageable user stories.
  • Manages backlog, roadmap and priorities and engages product,stakeholder, and team to move towards a common/ aligned vision.
  • Develop mock-ups, use cases, system requirements specification documents, user guides, and other functional documents to support reviews and software release deliveries.
  • Creates business analysis documentation including use cases, process flowchart, swimlane chart, and requirements traceability matrices.
  • identifies, tracks, monitors and communicates project-related issues, scope changes, variances and contingencies that may arise during the implementation of projects.
  • Educated stakeholders on data protection tactics to reduce breaches.
  • Analyzed existing systems and databases and recommended enhancements to solve business needs
  • Communicate and explain business requirements to team members to understand and implement functional demands.
  • Take responsibility for development of ongoing enhancements, create and prioritize user stories with the agile team.
  • Take priority in being the voice of the customer and providing a business perspective on value during day to day development.
  • Working directly with other stakeholders, system engineers, program managers, developers, testers and customers to define and capture priority/and standard features and user stories.
  • Applies proven communication and analytical and problem-solving skills to support subject matter experts in decisions regarding process optimization and technological solutions.

Education

Radiology

College of Healthcare Profession
01.2023

Computer And Information Sciences

Houston Community College
Houston, TX
10.2020

Computer Science And Programming

Basel Evangelical Mission School
10.2016

High School Diploma -

William B Travis High School
Richmond, TX
06.2014

Skills

  • Agile - software development methodologies
  • Sprint planning (goal & how to achieve it)
  • Sprint RETROSPECTIVE
  • drawio
  • snagit
  • Backlog glooming
  • Risk Analysis
  • As-is analysis and To-be analysis
  • GAP analysis
  • requirement gathering - (features, sources, stakeholder, elicitation techniques, project environment)
  • Requirement management planning
  • user story expertise
  • Acceptance criteria
  • Problem-solving
  • communication and active listening
  • Data visualization
  • microsoft Excel
  • swimlane flowchart
  • Process flowchart
  • Documentation
  • functional and nonfunctional gathering
  • SDLC
  • roadmap
  • product backlog & Sprint backlog
  • Use case Diagram
  • mock-up for team to get the ideal image of the project before beginning
  • Traceability matrix- constantly tracking requirement throughout project lifecycle
  • Test summary Report

TOOLS:

  • VISIO
  • JIRA CONFLUENCE
  • JAWS
  • WINDOWS
  • JAVA
  • SHAREPOINT
  • DRAW.IO
  • MICROSOFT AZURE
  • MICROSOFT OFFICE
  • MICROSOFT WORD
  • EXCEL
  • POWERPOINT
  • SNAGIT
  • JIRA SOFTWARE
  • OUTLOOK
  • MOCK-UP
  • SWIMLANE FLOWCHART
  • PROCESS FLOWCHART
  • PRODUCT & SPRINT BACKLOG
  • UML USE CASE
  • BURNDOWN CHARTS ETC.


Timeline

Software Developer

Hadexx Solution., MD, USA
08.2020 - 01.2023

Information Technology Analyst

Exploride Incorporation
03.2018 - 06.2020

Radiology

College of Healthcare Profession

Computer And Information Sciences

Houston Community College

Computer Science And Programming

Basel Evangelical Mission School

High School Diploma -

William B Travis High School
MARY CYNTHIA UGWABusiness Analysis