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Yordanos Katz

Lorton,VA

Summary

Accomplish, and result oriented Business Systems Analyst/Business Analyst with five plus comprehensive experience in various domains including financial, government solutions and insurance industries. Expertise in validating and eliciting requirements, identify business problems, initiate change, implement new processes, quality control of Functional Requirement Specification, Use Cases, Backlog documents, and User Story documents. Experience in backlog grooming, prioritizing product backlog based on business needs and requirements. Experience in translating business requirements and user expectations into detailed specifications employing Unified Modeling Language (UML) techniques like Use Case diagrams & Process Flow diagrams. Expertise in facilitating and coordinating Joint Application Development (JAD), Joint Application Requirement sessions (JAR) with exceptional inter-personal and conflict resolving skills. Strong experience in product backlog grooming, sprint planning, and sprint demo. Experience in Risk Assessment, Business Rule Analysis/Gap Analysis. Excellent team player to work in conjunction with testers (QA), developers and other team members in validation and testing of complex project scenarios and in the maintenance of quality standards of projects. Proficient at creating test plan, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts and executing functional testing, system testing, regression testing and user acceptance testing. Strong communication and technical writing skills. A result oriented individual with exceptional communication and relationship building skills – excelling in progressive roles requiring superior strategic planning, client management, and team leadership talents.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages

Work History

Business System Analyst/ Consultant

CGI
05.2018 - 12.2020
  • Elicit client requirements using various techniques including interviews, document analysis, business process analysis, and use cases scenarios
  • Work directly with product managers and product owner to understand the current business process and perform Gap Analysis on existing software
  • Involve in Product Backlog grooming and prioritized product backlog based on the business priorities and develop detail user story acceptance criteria
  • Elaborate Software Requirements Specifications and Software Design Specifications for new, enhanced and retired applications
  • Perform task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using JIRA
  • Interact with business owners, SMEs, and management team to identify the scope of the project and to prepare a Business Requirement Document, Use Case, User Story, and Activity Diagrams to further develop Technical requirements and/or Functional Specifications
  • Ensure that all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines
  • Provide guidance to project managers, product owner, business owners, development team and subject matter experts to resolve the outstanding issue and action items are taken in the review meeting
  • Facilitate and manage meeting sessions with business owners, business system owners, development team, testing team, and process control team
  • Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severity and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conform to deadlines
  • Participate in the development of training materials for new technology and organizing User Training
  • Coordinate the development, design and execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Assist in Sprint Planning Meetings with the scrum master, product owner, and the team.
  • Assisted in the selection of appropriate technology solutions by conducting thorough research and feasibility analysis based on organizational goals.

Business System Analyst

Cardinal Health
10.2016 - 05.2018
  • Assists project manager and project resources to coordinate projects; prepares business requirements documents, and communicates changes and project status.
  • Prepared Business Requirement documents and communicated with client for a sign-off or changes to the document
  • Performed Gap Analysis of existing system to identify drawbacks, bottlenecks and improvements
  • Created and verified user stories and use case specifications with activity and state diagrams
  • Supported software upgrades and installation of projects including facilitation of meetings, task scheduling, status, issues, escalations and Change Management
  • Worked closely with the QA team and Developers to clarify and understand functionality, resolve issues and provide feedback to identify defects
  • 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
  • Facilitated resolution and communication of cross-functional team on issues and decisions
  • Participated in peer reviews of functional specifications, application previews, and test plans/test cases.
  • Developed test cases for section 508 compliance testing
  • Coordinated with end-users to schedule and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Used Quality Center for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status
  • Extensively performed Functional Testing and End-to-End Testing
  • Assisted Project Manager along with Clients in UAT to log any issues or help/guide in any testing efforts
  • Performed Maintenance testing for clients that needed changes in Production Environment
  • Prepared Daily and Weekly status reports by summarizing activities on the project.
  • Assisted in the selection of appropriate technology solutions by conducting thorough research and feasibility analysis based on organizational goals.
  • Supported the integration of new software applications by liaising between development teams and end users throughout all stages of the project lifecycle.

Requirement Analyst/ QA Test Associate

Broad Street Financial
09.2014 - 10.2016
  • Reviewed and analyzed requirements to make sure every requirement is clear, precise, unambiguous, bounded and testable.
  • Developed Business Requirements, Use cases, and Business Rules
  • Designed and developed test scenarios and test cases based on business requirements, technical specifications, and use cases.
  • Prepared the Traceability Matrix for mapping requirements with the Test Cases through Quality Center
  • Performed Backend testing by extensively using SQL queries to verify the integrity of the database.
  • Participated in weekly meetings with the management team and walkthrough's.
  • Validated results and performed quality assurance to assess accuracy of data.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for process improvement and increased efficiency.
  • Developed and maintained project timelines with necessary project objectives documented
  • Assisted with User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Developed & executed Test Scenarios for User Acceptance Testing
  • Interacted with the QA managers for the regular update of the project
  • Created test cases executed and recorded results of test cases using Quality Center
  • Developed Test Result Metrics for Test Execution Phase
  • Worked closely with Software Developers to isolate, track, and troubleshoot defects.

Education

Some College (No Degree) - International Relations And Affairs

Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH

Skills

  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile – SCRUM, Waterfall model
  • SQL, JAVA
  • V- development model
  • BRS, FRS, SRS
  • Use Case documentation, User Story, Test Plans, Test Cases
  • Product backlog
  • Traceability Matrix
  • Test Summary Report
  • Gap Analysis
  • Windows, Mac
  • Oracle
  • Functional specifications
  • Data Modeling
  • Business process modeling
  • Data Visualization and Presentations
  • Data Analysis
  • Python Programming, Excel Functions, Tableau

Work Availability

monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Additional Information

Finishing up my Data Analysis course online. Which I will gain more knowledge and use that to help gain more experience in the real world. I am also in a path take my AWS cloud practitioner and AWS Architect exam in a couple of weeks.

Timeline

Business System Analyst/ Consultant

CGI
05.2018 - 12.2020

Business System Analyst

Cardinal Health
10.2016 - 05.2018

Requirement Analyst/ QA Test Associate

Broad Street Financial
09.2014 - 10.2016

Some College (No Degree) - International Relations And Affairs

Ohio Wesleyan University

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