EMMANUEL NIMO

571-278-0151

Enimo992@gmail.com

Sr. Business Analyst/Business Systems Analyst with five plus years of experience in various domains including insurance, healthcare, financial and government service industries. Experience in all aspect of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including planning, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and release. Strong experience in delivering cost effective and high-performance technology solutions to meet challenging business needs that includes gathering requirements, identifying business problems, developing functional, requirement specification, system requirement specification, use cases, backlog documents, test plan, test Cases, and Requirement Traceability Matrix and user story documents. 

MARCH 2023 – PRESENT

SENIOR BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYST, GDIT

·       Create User stories and specify Acceptance Criterias based on Software/Application requirements.

·       Facilitate Refinement meetings to tailor stories to Technical Requirement for developement.

·       Facilitate Estimation meetings to determine story scope and size for development.

·       Create Change Request to assist with Change Management and Releases.

·       Assist QA with Test Peer Review and document /report any discrepencies between test cases and Acceptance Criteria.

·       Gather Software/ Application Reqirement Specification and Software Design Specifications for new and enhanced applications.

·       Act as a liaison and facilitator between customers and the software development team for requirement clarification.

·       Suggest measures and recommendations to improve the current application performance.

·       Documented detailed proposals, functional and data business requirements, process flows, use cases, information needs, test scenarios, and obtained functional design specification approvals.

·       Work with the business and technical teams to clarify functional requirements.

·       Facilitate Intake meetings to clarify requirements for Demanded changes to  Application features and functionalities.

JULY 2019 – MARCH 2023

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST, CGI

·       Guide the development team on how to integrate agile ceremonies and values into daily work.

·       Implement and promote use of agile methodology within the team.
Facilitate agile ceremonies including iteration planning, iteration review, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.

·       Act as a liaison and facilitator between customers and the software development team for requirement clarification.

·       Collaborate with business product owner/end user to define solutions to business needs including eliciting, analyzing and documenting business requirements.

·       Facilitate Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with Business Owner/ Client.

·       Work directly with Product Owners and Project Managers to understand the current business process and perform Gap Analysis on existing software.

·       Partner with the Product Owner to prioritize the product backlog and/or removing user stories to maintain alignment to the product/project vision and roadmap. 

·       Gather requirements for the purpose of modification and enhancement of the software.

·       Develop and gain cross-functional alignment on detailed functional requirements based on the business requirements.

·       Elaborate on Software Requirements Specifications and Software Design Specifications for new, enhanced, and retired applications. 

·       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. 

·       Involved in Regression testing, System testing, and User Acceptance Testing.

·       Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severity, and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conforming to deadlines. 

·       Work with the Quality Assurance Lead to develop detailed Test Plan and Test Cases.

·       Suggest measures and recommendations to improve the current application performance.

·       Assist QA team with reviews on Test Cases, test results and reported bugs/issues.

MAY 2016 – JULY 2019

BUSINESS ANALYST, HALFAKER AND ASSOCIATES

·       Reviewed, analyzed, and managed system and user requirements from business users.

·       Worked with the business and technical teams to clarify functional requirements.

·       Work with business owners, SMEs, and management team to identify scope and to prepare Business Requirement Document, Use Case, User Story, and Activity Diagrams to further develop technical requirements and/or Functional Specifications. 

·       Serve as liaison and/or subject matter expert regarding business functions and systems as well as manage others in the project.

·       Document product backlogs and user stories, guided by acceptance criteria and obtaining documentation signoff. 

·       Provides accurate, well-written documentation such as workshop minutes, training materials, business requirements, functional specifications, technical specifications, QA test plans, and status reports.

·       Documented detailed proposals, functional and data business requirements, process flows, use cases, information needs, test scenarios, and obtained functional design specification approvals.

·       Tracked bugs and ensured issues are resolved before going to production.

·       Identified, assessed, and documented system requirements and recommended system priorities.

·       Documented product backlogs and user stories guided by acceptance criteria and obtained documentation signoff. 

·       Ensured that all documentations were in compliance with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.

·       Documented any issues or defects and eventually got the sign off from the right parties.

·       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. 

·       Conduct sprint planning based on new and backlogged requirements.

·       Conduct surveys, interviews and facilitate Joint Requirement Planning (JRP) sessions with the Business Users and SME’s. 

·       Conduct JAD sessions for communicating with the project leads and stakeholders and proposed process workflows, functional specifications and project initiation parameters.

·       Establish and maintain traceability matrix until all the business requirements are signed off.

·       Perform task decomposition, delegated tasks and monitored project milestones using MS Project and HP ALM. 

·       Capture quality attributes, external/internal constraints for functional/non-functional requirements.

·       Participate in development of training materials for the new technology and organizing User Training.

FALL  2024

BACHELORS OF SCIENCE, OLD DOMINION UNIVERSIRTY

SPRING 2020

ASSOCIATE OF SCEINCE, NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

APRIL 2020

CERTIFIED COMPTIA SECURITY+ ANALYST

·      Help Desk Software:  SolarWinds Service Desk

·      Operating Systems:  Windows, MAC

·      Software:  MS Office, MS Teams

·      Applications/Management Tools: Jira, SharePoint, Confluence, ServiceNow

·      Methodologies:  Waterfall model, Scrum – Agile