NEDA PAYDAR
Summary
Detail-oriented Business Analyst with more than 7 years of professional experience in developing innovative solutions to organizational problems across diverse industries. Demonstrated proficiency in translating business requirements into technical specifications, designing interactive prototypes, and ensuring the successful implementation of IT projects. Dedicated to driving process improvement and optimizing workflows to enhance operational efficiency. Skilled communicator and team player, with a proven ability to work closely with IT teams and stakeholders at all levels to understand business needs and deliver technical solutions.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Business Analyst
SRA Information Technology
08.2022 - Current
- Eliciting and gathering data and business requirements by conducting workshops with key stakeholders, document review, and maintained requirements traceability throughout the project's lifecycle
- Acting as a liaison between business and IT team to translate the business requirements into technical specification, writing functional and non-functional requirements and make sure that system will meet the desired outcome
- Involving customers in validating assumptions, pain points, and designs while translating business needs to technical rules using UML DFD, Class, and Use Case diagrams
- Documenting complex business requirements into Epics and User Stories, Process Workflows, and Use Cases Scenarios
- Working closely with solution architects and development teams to ensure the implemented solution meets the acceptance criteria
- Participating in Agile ceremonies and retrospective session to streamline implementation of the upcoming user stories
- Designing wireframes and mock-ups using Balsamiq and Visio to make sure the business requirement are aligned with designed application
- Collaborating with QA team in writing test cases and execution of regression and UAT testing based on documented business rules and acceptance criteria
- Managing change during the system development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Working with other BAs, Scrum Masters, Coaches, SDMs, Solution Architects, and UI/UX Experts to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams.
Senior Business Analyst
SRA Information Technology
08.2022 - Current
- Eliciting and gathering data and business requirements by conducting workshops with key stakeholders, document review, and maintained requirements traceability throughout the project's lifecycle
- Acting as a liaison between business and IT team to translate the business requirements into technical specification, writing functional and non-functional requirements and make sure that system will meet the desired outcome
- Involving customers in validating assumptions, pain points, and designs while translating business needs to technical rules using UML DFD, Class, and Use Case diagrams
- Documenting complex business requirements into Epics and User Stories, Process Workflows, and Use Cases Scenarios
- Working closely with solution architects and development teams to ensure the implemented solution meets the acceptance criteria
- Participating in Agile ceremonies and retrospective session to streamline implementation of the upcoming user stories
- Designing wireframes and mock-ups using Balsamiq and Visio to make sure the business requirement are aligned with designed application
- Collaborating with QA team in writing test cases and execution of regression and UAT testing based on documented business rules and acceptance criteria
- Managing change during the system development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Working with other BAs, Scrum Masters, Coaches, SDMs, Solution Architects, and UI/UX Experts to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams.
Senior HR Data Management
Falck Company
05.2022 - 07.2022
- Identifying system/business requirements in close collaboration with key stakeholders for process automation and improvement
- Modeling and mapping the current and future business process with BPMN standard
- Translating business requirements into technical specification for IT teams
- Defining the project plan and scope, leading the elaboration sessions, defining epics, user stories and managing system features prioritization
- Implementing data governance and validation framework for the global data reporting process
- Managing and leading the project to deliver high-quality solutions within time and scope
- Presenting the designed solution for all the organizational levels and gathering constructive feedback for continuous improvement
- Designing Power BI dashboards for monitoring different KPIs & supporting managers in decision-making process.
Business Analyst
Falck Company
06.2021 - 05.2022
- Analyzing business requirements in collaboration with key stakeholders and IT team
- Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements in the form of Stories
- Translating business requirements into technical specification for IT teams
- Writing test case scenarios & managing User Acceptance Testing processes to verify all client's need are met
- Designing the interactive UI prototype to make sure that the designed system will fulfill the stakeholders' needs
- Creating and publishing release note including written manuals and short video tutorial to ensure having smooth onboarding process
- Managing risks by identifying all the potential risks and providing viable solutions
- Managing and leading the project to deliver the high-quality solutions within time and scope.
Senior Business Analyst
Mellat Insurance Co
09.2017 - 01.2020
- Identifying system/business requirements in close collaboration with internal & external stakeholders
- Mapping the business process & translating requirements into technical specifications for IT teams
- Designing conceptual data models, ERD diagrams, and process models
- Designing interactive UI mockups to make sure all the client's needs are met
- Acting as a workshop facilitator to gather various ideas & find the best solution to develop/improve systems
- Breaking down backlog items into deliverable user stories that will evolve from MVP to a fully developed solution
- Collaborating with scrum master for sprint planning and prioritizing sprint backlog items
- Conducting functional & non-functional tests to ensure all requirements are met
- Performing various ad-hoc administrative tasks to deliver high-quality value within time and scope.
Business Analyst
Mellat Insurance Co
03.2016 - 09.2017
- Analyze and documents business requirements and operational processes
- Modeling and mapping the 'as-is' and 'to-be' process using BPMN standards
- Supporting the team in resolving issues, fixing bugs, and managing the project to deliver high-quality solutions within time
- Testing the solutions to verify that client requirements are incorporated into the system design
- Supporting system users by providing user manual, guidelines & training workshops
- Designing interactive UI prototypes to make sure all the client's need are met
- Managing change in the whole digitalization process during the system development lifecycle.
Education
Master of Information Technology Management -
ATU University
IranBachelor of Industrial Engineering and Management with specification in System & Business Analysis -
University of Science And Technology
IranManagerial & Business Analysis courses -
DTU university
Entry Certificate in Business Analyst (ECBA) -
IIBA
Project Management, ISO 21500-Danish Standard -
Denmark
PSPO I, Professional Scrum Product owner -
Scrum.org
Skills
- Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project delivery
- Internal and External Stakeholders Management
- Requirement Analysis by applying elicitation techniques
- Writing technical documents (Defining epics, user stories, writing functional & non-functional requirement, etc)
- Business Process Mapping (Using BPMN)
- Knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Data Modelling and Database Design
- Conducting various system Test Plans
- Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps
- Drawio, Bizagi, Microsoft Visio (Diagramming Tools)
- Axure RP 9, Balsamiq (Wireframing & Prototyping Tool)
- Power BI, Tableau (Data Visualization Tool)
- Microsoft SQL
- Power Designer (Data Modelling Tool)
- Familiar with Power App and Power Automate
Websites
References
Available upon request
Certification
Awarded for my master thesis in
B. Sc. Industrial Engineering, System analysis & design,
Iran University of Science & Technology, 2002-2007
introducing a new initiative for segmenting Auto Insurance customers based on their risks.
Languages
English
Full Professional
Persian
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Senior Business Analyst
SRA Information Technology
08.2022 - Current
Senior Business Analyst
SRA Information Technology
08.2022 - Current
Senior HR Data Management
Falck Company
05.2022 - 07.2022
Business Analyst
Falck Company
06.2021 - 05.2022
Senior Business Analyst
Mellat Insurance Co
09.2017 - 01.2020
Business Analyst
Mellat Insurance Co
03.2016 - 09.2017
Master of Information Technology Management -
ATU University
Bachelor of Industrial Engineering and Management with specification in System & Business Analysis -
University of Science And Technology
Managerial & Business Analysis courses -
DTU university
Entry Certificate in Business Analyst (ECBA) -
IIBA
Project Management, ISO 21500-Danish Standard -
Denmark
PSPO I, Professional Scrum Product owner -
Scrum.org
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