Yasmin Shawky

• Managed stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
• Created detailed user stories for system enhancements, leading to improved functionality and user satisfaction.
• Facilitated requirement gathering workshops, resulting in clear project objectives and deliverables.
• Improved project efficiency by analyzing business processes and identifying areas for improvement.
• Supported leadership team with reporting, analysis, and business presentations to inform divisional strategies.
• Streamlined workflow for better productivity with the implementation of new software solutions.
• Implemented Agile methodologies within project teams, increasing overall adaptability and responsiveness.
• Facilitated effective communication and problem-solving among cross-functional teams, ensuring timely decision-making and issue resolution.
• Performed analyses while engaging with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), project managers, and developers through the SDLC to address outstanding issues.
• Executed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure solutions aligned with business requirements.

Environment: SharePoint, MS Office, Business Objects, Tableau, JIRA

• Collaborated with the financial aid department to transition from manual reporting to automated reporting in Tableau, enhancing the efficiency and accuracy.
• Conducted requirement gathering meetings to understand stakeholder needs and establish clear project objectives.
• Performed current state assessments and data analyses to identify existing reporting processes and pinpoint areas for improvement.
• Executed gap analyses to determine discrepancies between current capabilities and desired outcomes, informing the automation strategy.
• Developed wireframes to visualize the proposed reporting solutions, facilitating stakeholder feedback and iterative enhancements.
• Created strategic recommendations that were presented to report owners, ensuring alignment with departmental goals and user requirements.
• Ensured successful implementation of Tableau dashboards, providing training and support to end-user for seamless adoption.

Environment: MS Azure, MS Office, SharePoint, JIRA, Tableau, Smartsheet

• Work with clients, stakeholders, and business owners to produce requirements, determine feasibility, analyze requirements, and recommend design solution options on health care related projects.
• Define detailed stories with applicable acceptance criteria in collaboration with the Product Owners and technology team.
• Assist with product backlog grooming and Sprint Planning.
• Elaborate Software Requirements Specifications and Software Design Specifications for new, enhanced, and retired applications.
• Assist the Product Owner with user story prioritization before the sprint planning meeting.
• Perform demos for the stakeholders of new functionality that was created in the current sprint.
• Ensure that all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.
• Provide guidance to project managers, business owners, development team and subject matter experts to resolve the outstanding issue and action items are taken in the review meeting.
• Conduct sprint planning based on new and backlogged requirements.
• Perform task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using HP ALM.
• Perform sprint demo to clients.

Environment: SharePoint, Visio, HP ALM, JIRA, Oracle, SQL server, J2EE, JAVA, SVN, MS Windows

• Assisted documentation of system and business requirements, specifications, design and development of use-cases and test cases scenario and helped in developing test plans for user acceptance testing.
• Created and verified user stories and use case specifications with activity and state diagrams
• Wrote SQL queries to extract data from the database for Backend Testing.
• Involved proactively to communicate 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).
• Extensively performed Functional Testing and End-to-End Testing.
• Managed and executed test cases and logged defects in defect reporting tool Quality Center.
• Work with the QA Manager in developing test coverage matrix for the Team Members periodically.

Environment: MS Visio, Quality Center, JIRA, SQL Developer, Oracle, Windows, SQL, .Net

• Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and walk in interview with the business users to gather requirements.
• Gathered requirements through document analysis, individual and group interview.
• Maintained requirements to requirement traceability matrix to rapidly assess the effect of changes in requirements.
• Involved in conducting UAT sessions to gain user confidence and approval.
• Worked closely with the QA Team to review and enhance the Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Associated with the QA team to detect the defect and take necessary actions to resolve the issue.
• Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project.
• Used Quality Center to write, execute and management of test cases and defect tracking.
• Created Test cases and automated them for the purpose of regression testing.

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows