Olushola

About Me

Result-driven Business Analyst with a proven track record in translating complex business requirements into effective technical solutions within dynamic environments. Adept at bridging the gap between stakeholders, technical teams, and end-users to ensure seamless project execution. Expertise in requirements elicitation, process optimization, and comprehensive documentation. Accomplished in delivering concise business analysis artifacts, driving QA testing, and contributing to Agile ceremonies. Instrumental in driving successful system implementations and fostering enhanced user experiences.

Work & Experience

Business Analsyt

SPIDIT DISTRIBUTIONS LIMITED

04/03/2022

• Partnering with stakeholders to elicit and document business requirements, translating them into functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring alignment between technical teams and business objectives. • Acted as a liaison between technical teams, project managers, and business stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and timely issue resolution. • Conducting comprehensive Gap Analysis to identify discrepancies between the existing system and desired system, identifying bottlenecks, inefficiencies and proposing effective solutions for seamless implementation. • Liaising with the PO in creating and maintaining the product backlog, ensuring stories are well-defined, estimated, and prioritized according to business value and dependencies. • Depicting the features of the system by expertly leveraging proficiency in Balsamiq, Lucid Charts, and Visio and collaborating with software developers and UI/UX designers to create prototypes, mock-ups, and wireframes. • Spearheading the production of concise business analysis artifacts, including the BRD, Business Case and Process Flows, Functional Requirements Documents, Feature Maps, Use cases diagrams, Epics, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria • Collaborating with the QA team in conducting functional testing and User Acceptance Testing activities, ensuring that test scripts, scenarios, and cases are executed in line with the project requirements. • Performing as a conduit between technical and non-technical teams, business stakeholders, and end-users, coordinating quality and timely RAG status updates and progress reports. • Participating in Scrum ceremonies and Agile development environments, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Retrospective sessions, and Backlog grooming, to ensure project progress and effective team collaboration.

IT Business Analyst

ONECENTRALPAY LIMITED

01/14/2018 - 06/23/2022

• Spearheaded the gathering of requirements and tool responsibility for strategically designing and translating business needs into functional and non-functional requirements. • Identified, researched, analysed, and meticulously documented business processes using Use Cases, Feature Maps and Process Flows to demonstrate the functionalities of systems. Proficiently applied BPMN 2.0 standards to illustrate system functionalities. • Conducted Gap Analysis, assessed existing process flows, and collaborated closely with the technical team to create mock-ups using Balsamiq, enhancing comprehension of future processes. • Led the development of the Target Operating Model (TOM) to highlight the value brought by new features and functionalities. • Provided guidance to UI/UX Designers in creating user-friendly functionalities, encompassing user administration, multi-system integrations, system configuration, testing, and issue resolution. • Facilitated effective collaboration between technical and CX teams, ensuring the translation of design concepts into functional systems that align with customer journeys and touchpoint integration. • Collaborated with compliance teams to ensure adherence to financial regulations and data security standards. • Successfully led the end-to-end project lifecycle and led the business analysis functions including the design, development, integration, and go-live support; contributed to completing Web and App Project by 10% below budget. • Strategically completed ‘as is’ & ‘to be’ blueprint process design analysis (BPMN) and process mapping which ensured alignment to the organization’s business strategy and reduction in delivery time by 25%.