Contract Sr. Business Analyst
Kreate Technology
Sr. Business/Engagement Analyst - Gather requirements, and implement custom workflow software solutions for the world's largest retailer , Walmart.Daily activities included:• Worked with C Level Management, Organizational SME's, Internal and client based Developers and Quality Management for Walmart Stores & Walmart.com (GeC).• Proactively communicated and collaborated with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and delivered artifacts, such as Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirements, Use Cases, Screen Mockups and Interface designs.• Served as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which the requirements flow. Acted as the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.• Developed requirements specifications according to standard templates, creating new ones when necessary, using natural language. Entering Stories in JIRA based on these documents that were uploaded to Confluence after acceptance.• Collaborated with Developers and SME's to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs, logging Defects and Future Functionality Requests in Jira. • Worked heavily with QA team to assist in the creation of test plans and test cases in JIRA for User Acceptance Testing (UAT). • Using Agile project methodologies, participated in Daily Scrums with client resources, to manage 2 week Sprints.• Tools used: RealTime, JIRA(User Stories, Bugs, & Feature Requests), Confluence,, MS Office Suite, MS Visio - Process Workflow/Wireframe, SQL, screencast.com, HandBrake, RealTime