Joshua Adenekan

JOSHUA ADENEKAN Business Analyst // Quality Assurance Analyst Yaba, Lagos-|- |https://www.linkedin.com/in/adejay01 PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Highly motivated information Technology professional, with 2+ years’ experience, detailed oriented and competent in developing systems), using adaptive frameworks (Agile Scrum and waterfall), to solve organisations business problems. A self-starter, team player, technology-enthusiast with proven ability to lead cross-functional teams through the complete SDLC, from requirements gathering to implementation. I have strong communication skills (both verbal and written) with a focus on translating technical concepts into business-friendly language, helping clients build solutions, aligned to their business goals/objectives. CORE COMPETENCIES Business Analysis Planning and Organizing Agile – Scrum Team Building Risk Management SDLC Problem Resolution Attention to details Reliable and Trustworthy Microsoft Office suite Requirement Gathering Quality Assurance Testing Waterfall Methodologies UAT Stakeholder Management TECHNICAL SKILLS Jira, Confluence, MS Office, MySQL, MsVisio, SaaS, Balsamiq, API Integration, XML, HTML, Retro #2, KANBAN,Gap analysis, traceability matrix, draw.io WORK EXPERIENCE Infotech Impact Inc Houston Texas April2023 – Date Business Analyst (Volunteer) ● ● ● ● ● ● Facilitate meetings to understand stakeholder needs and adequately document their requirements. Map current and future state processes using Ms Visio for better understanding of the business processes by stakeholders. Support Scrum ceremonies; Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective. Collaborate with the QA team in documenting test cases from the user stories I documented Support QA team in manual testing of the software. This reduced defect leakage by 75%. Collaborate with Product Owner to define Sprint goals, clarify these goals with the Dev team and ensure the goals are achieved through constant interactions to meet the objective. ADEFEB Ventures, Feedmill Depot Junior Business Analyst ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Ibadan, Oyo state Sept 2022 – April 2023 Elicited and documented business requirements from stakeholders through various methodologies (Interview sessions, Questionnaire). Identified and analysed business processes and procedures. Backlog grooming to ensure there are enough user stories for the team to work on. Gathered Business and Functional requirements, compiled needs from multiple stakeholders into a single set of prioritised requirements. Coordinated with multiple teams lead to understand and map process flows ‘As-Is’ (Current) and ‘To-Be’(Future) using draw.io. Collaborated with the developers to bridge the gap (if any) while understanding the requirement. Assisted in aligning scope and sequencing recommendations with business stakeholders. Conducted user acceptance testing with external and internal users, with the documented Acceptance Criteria Ardis Farm & Hatchery Intern Business Analyst ● ● ● ● ● Ibadan, Oyo state May 2019 – Dec 2019 Performed duties as planned under the leadership of the Senior Analyst. Participated as a key member of the scrum team, attended daily stand-up meetings, backlog grooming and Quality Assurance Testing. Assisted in writing user stories and Acceptance Criteria. Documented requirements through One on One meetings with stakeholders to get feedback and ideas from them to enhanced the effectiveness of the farm Operations Performed various types of testing including Manual testing, Regression testing, Functional testing. Additional Experience: Enhancement of feature in SaaS solutions (Church Marshal): This project involved configuration of new requirements and implementation of new features to meet clients specification. PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS ✔ Certified Scrum Master EDUCATION Business Analysis/Quality Assurance Tester Training First Leadersoft.Org Bachelor of Technology – Animal Production & Health Ladoke Akintola University of Technology