Michael Apebo

• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
• Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
• Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
• Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
•  Translate and document functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring requirements are
  specific, testable and in alignment to business goals.
   Interpret and define business needs and features; translate them into requirements that
  development team can use to design and build the system.
   Analyze and prioritize software requirements and decompose them into features, epics, user
  stories and acceptance criteria.
   Experience leading joint application development (JAD) sessions with the end users.
   Work across variety of business groups and resolving contradictory requirements through
  extensive collaboration and communication with stakeholders.
   Partner and collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to deliver solutions to meet business
  needs with quality and within the defined timeline.
   Document business requirements in the form of Business Requirement Document (BRD),
  Functional Requirements Document (FRD), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), business
  cases and user stories.
   Create process maps, flow charts and diagrams to support the full software development
  lifecycle (SDLC) using Microsoft Visio and Lucid Chart.
   Performed GAP analysis to gain clear understanding of the AS IS and TO BE state of the
  application services and processes.
   Engage with the AGILE Scrum team in by participating release, sprint planning, sprint
  review/demo and stand ups and retrospectives.
   Extensively use JIRA and Confluence tools to create, manage and track requirements/user
  stories.
   Create test plans, test scripts and/or scenarios, and participate in user acceptance testing (UAT).

Participated across the project lifecycle team to ensure requirements have been met to
stakeholder specifications.
 Analyzed and validated project requirements that result in new applications or enhancements to
existing application.
 Worked with business and technical staff to elicit requirements and support the development
and maintenance of the requirements traceability matrix (RTM).
 Worked closely with other developers, testers, and development team through each stage of
the software development life-cycle (SDLC) and demonstrate both existing and new
functionality to the customer stakeholders.
 Led efforts to produce documentation relating to system information and processes which
included: technical requirements, functional specifications, process flow diagrams and high-level
test cases.
 Participate and identify potential gaps in solutions by assessing the current and future state of
the business processes.
 Worked with the AGILE Scrum team through Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review,
Sprint Retrospective and backlog grooming /refinement.
 Maintained product backlog, epics, user stories and acceptance criteria.
 Worked with QA team to conduct user acceptance testing (UAT)and resolved issues discovered
during testing and ensure the system is ready for production release.
 Facilitated requirements sessions, design meetings, developed agendas, and produced meeting
notes.