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SAZID R KURAWALA

Summary

Results-driven, detail-oriented Senior Business Analyst with extensive experience in bridging the gap between business and IT. Actively involved in the Essential Eight's Cyber Security Assessment project for NSW Health, successfully developing a comprehensive Procedure Guide. Excels in identifying scenarios and patterns through fine-tuning processes and facilitating Continuous Improvement workshops. Creates impactful documents and proposes changes that significantly impact statewide health entities. Expertise includes system and data migration, process optimization, and writing requirements.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Business Analyst

NSW eHealth
06.2022 - Current
  • Working on Essential Eight’s Cyber Security Assessment Project, documenting process 􀃮ow for penetration testing, Supplier Assessment methodology, Crown Jewel onboarding, building procedure guide for security consultants, conducting workshops with internal and external customers to gather pain points and new
  • requirements for privacy and security assessments, providing documents to knowledge team to build KB articles, automation of manual tasks, building playbooks on reporting controls
  • Turning vague Supply Chain business domain requests into meaningful business requirements to build Dashboards for Supplier Sales, Maintenance, Location, Nil Stock and Outstanding PO, Health Expenditure Watch report, Freight report and Inventory Analytics. With the help of these dashboards and reports, it is envisaged that
  • business would save approx $200,000 per year,
  • ●Performing Gap Analysis of two licensing tools: SNOW SLM and ServiceNow SAM Pro, understanding and documenting the AS IS and TO BE states, highlighting implications and making recommendations,
  • ● Working in an Enterprise Data Lake project, performing Enterprise Level form analysis for Workspace and Data Source, making recommendations, documenting the process for executive approvals, writing stories for the developers, preparing test cases and testing the changes in UAT,
  • ● Business Analysis Networking, Communication and Collaboration
  • activities.

Technical Business Analyst – Business Services

BSA Ltd
01.2020 - 05.2022

● Migrating legacy systems to SalesForce: analyzing client
requirements, developing process 􀃮ows, user stories, requirement documents, functional design, test processes and facilitating UAT,
● Conduct requirements elicitation sessions including workshops,
interviews and surveys to capture requirements,
● Follow the change management process, identify and manage the impacts of change on people, process and systems,
● Investigate and manage Business System problems, risks and recommend solutions and identify opportunities to improve system and process performance.
● Helping teams with developing relevant user training materials and deliver process walkthrough sessions occasionally,

Technical Business Analyst

Coles Ltd
07.2016 - 12.2020

● Requirement gathering for different integrated functional, technical, vendors and operational teams for the successful implementation of releases\upgrade projects,
● Identifying gaps in business processes and putting processes in place to minimize plant downtime, cost and issues,
● Played multiple roles in a project delivery\problem record: acted as a BA, con􀃭gurator, product owner, tester and technical support,
● Requirement gathering & documentation: BRD, SRS, Requirement Traceability Matrix, User Stories, Use Cases, Test Cases, Change Documents,
● Creating system test plans for business users to ensure acceptable quality and integrity of solutions,
● Assist in landing releases into relevant environments, via change management processes in an Agile environment,
● Coordinating and PVTing changes, working with endors to support business functions,
● Occasional on-site support: for Infrastructure\Server Rooms changes, Network troubleshooting, cable patching, Plant Hardware: PDAs, VCs (Vehicle Computer), BT Scanners, Timeclocks, Security
systems, Wired\Wireless Access Points,
● Automation of repetitive tasks, con􀃭guring system alerts in system monitoring tools,
● SME for applications and plant infrastructure.

Business Systems Analyst

Michael Page International, Australia
01.2011 - 06.2016

● Providing 2nd/3rd level support, RCA, Problem & Change Management for Vendor, internal applications and web sites across Asia Paci􀃭c, SaaS and Cloud applications with ITIL framework,
● Providing a high level of applications and web servers maintenance and administration,
● Service Delivery and Support, incident investigation, diagnosis and problem management,
● Regular performance check for systems, applications’ technical documentations,
● Escalations to Vendors, Service Providers and internal development team if an issue needs a bug 􀃭x or code change via Jira,
● Coordinating Applications and Website implementations with QA and dev teams, PVTing applications post deployment,
● Automation of server reboot, applications log rotation and log compression and monitoring via various system monitoring tools,
● Writing training manuals for users and internal stakeholders in Confluence,
● Creating test environment for QA team and frequent database refresh to maintain the QA environment,
● Website configuration via content management systems,
● Data quality analysis, data cleansing using Sybase and SQL,
● Applications SME.

Education

System Analysis & Design -

TAFE NSW
2009

Masters of Information Systems -

Charles Sturt University
2007

Bachelor of Information Technology -

Charles Sturt University
2005

Skills

  • Essential Eight Cyber Security Assessment,
  • Requirements gathering, Impact & Gap analysis,
  • Process improvement and mapping: AS IS & TO BE, MIRO, Figma, Visio, Drawio, LucidChart
  • Applications, DBs & Technical Support: SQL, Oracle, Sybase, Data Warehouse, Enterprise Data Lake, MS Power BI,
  • Stakeholder Management, CRM Systems
  • IT Operations, Vendor Management

Certification

  • Google Cybersecurity Certificate, Google - 2024
  • Cybersecurity: From Beginner to Expert, Udemy - 2023
  • ITIL v4 Foundation in IT Service Management, ITIL - 2023
  • Certificate in Business Analysis, IT Masters -2022
  • ISTQB – BCS Certi􀃭ed Tester Foundation Level (CTFL), ISTQB - 2014
  • CCNA, Cisco - 2008

Affiliations

  • Australian Computer Society (ACS)
  • Cisco Systems Inc.

Timeline

Senior Business Analyst

NSW eHealth
06.2022 - Current

Technical Business Analyst – Business Services

BSA Ltd
01.2020 - 05.2022

Technical Business Analyst

Coles Ltd
07.2016 - 12.2020

Business Systems Analyst

Michael Page International, Australia
01.2011 - 06.2016

System Analysis & Design -

TAFE NSW

Masters of Information Systems -

Charles Sturt University

Bachelor of Information Technology -

Charles Sturt University
SAZID R KURAWALA