Senior Business Analyst
Current● Participated in the Inception Phase, crafting the vision statement and initial data models, including Business Requirement Documents and supporting materials that delineate essential business elements and their detailed definitions.● Oversaw all Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning.● Served as the intermediary between developers and project stakeholders, enhancing the quality ofcommunication among technical disciplines.● Allocated tasks within the development team and collaborated with clients to understand their requirements, proposing solutions through a structured SDLC framework.● Engaged in collecting user and business needs through discussions, brainstorming, and role-play, thendocumented, analyzed, and prioritized these into system requirements for software development.● Defined and illustrated Use Cases, creating diagrams, scenarios, and narratives employing UML methodologies.● Designed mock-up forms in MS Word to clarify and visualize the proposed software solution.● Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with management, the development team, users, and other stakeholders to fine-tune functional requirements.● Identified key modules and peak usage times within the application to guide load testing.● Utilized MS Visio for process modeling, mapping, and creating business process flow diagrams.● Collaborated with various project teams across technical disciplines throughout the SDLC, incorporating tools and technologies like Erwin, Data Stage, Data Warehousing, WebSphere, and Cognos.● Conducted extensive data modeling to distinguish between OLTP and Data Warehouse models.● Developed high-level, logical, and physical designs for databases, data warehousing, and various distributed IT systems.● Performed data mapping, logical data modeling, created class and ER diagrams, and utilized SQL queries for data filtration within databases.