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Yasmin Shawky

Los Angeles,CA

Summary

Insightful Senior Business Analyst with more than 10 years of experience in optimizing business processes across diverse industries. Committed to maximizing the effectiveness of key performance metrics to refine and grow business operations. Recognized for utilizing both macro and micro-level analyses to create comprehensive insights into current business activities, ensuring actionable recommendations for improvement.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

Southern Glazers Wines And Spirits
04.2022 - Current
  • 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

Sr. Business Analyst

University of Southern California
11.2018 - 04.2022
  • 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

Sr. Business System Analyst

Unisys Corporation
10.2016 - 11.2018
  • 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

Business System Analyst II

Prudential Financial
11.2014 - 10.2016


  • 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

Business Analyst /QA Test Analyst

Amica Mutual Insurance
10.2012 - 11.2014
  • 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

Education

Bachelors Cont.

Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

Skills

  • Requirements Gathering
  • Agile Methodology
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Test case scenarios
  • Project Management
  • Gap analysis
  • Tableau Experience
  • Quality Assurance
  • Microsoft Office Suite

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Arabic
Professional Working

Interests

  • Volunteering for community initiatives to give back to local communities and make a positive impact
  • I participate in a variety of outdoor recreational activities
  • I enjoy helping others and giving back to the community
  • I enjoy cooking for friends and family gatherings

Timeline

Senior Business Analyst

Southern Glazers Wines And Spirits
04.2022 - Current

Sr. Business Analyst

University of Southern California
11.2018 - 04.2022

Sr. Business System Analyst

Unisys Corporation
10.2016 - 11.2018

Business System Analyst II

Prudential Financial
11.2014 - 10.2016

Business Analyst /QA Test Analyst

Amica Mutual Insurance
10.2012 - 11.2014

Bachelors Cont.

Rutgers University
Yasmin Shawky