Abdullatif Balaa

Business Analyst at bankmed

• Lebanon - Beirut
• January 2015 to February 2021

Project Future - Core Banking Implementation - Requirements Stream:
• Elicitation of requirements through interviews and Brainstorming sessions.
• Transforming gaps identified by business members into clear mature requirement specifications
through focus group sessions.
• Tracking life cycle of Requirement Specification Documents and Functional Specification Documents
from identification of Gap to testing of customization.
• Planning and coordinating Sanity Check Sessions for Requirement Specification documents.
• Planning and coordinating Change Control Board sessions with Executive Management for Change
Requests.
• Maintaining a proper repository of requirement specification documents related to Core Banking
Implementation Project.
• Creating and maintaining requirement specification tracker for Core Banking Implementation
Project.
• Ensuring and qualifying criticality of requirements for Go Live.
• Proposing workaround and solutions to gaps identified by Business members in effort to minimize
customization.
Project Future - Core Banking Implementation - Testing Stream:
• Tracking of Issues and Bugs through Application Lifecycle Management tools.
• Following up with related members on closure of their defects.
• Resimulating defects detected by business members to ensure avoiding understanding issues.
• Planning and coordinating Test Case review sessions in preparation of test cycles.
Project Future - Core Banking Implementation - Reporting Stream:
• Collecting and developing reporting requirements in Focus groups for Core Banking Implementation
Project.
• Created a tool using VBA to automate creation of report requirement specification documents.
Project Future - Core Banking Implementation - Migration Stream:
• Proposed implementation of control reports to monitor quality of data in legacy systems which in
turn improved migration runs and reduced data cleansing issues.
Project Garnishing Taxes - Text File Interface:
• Collected regulatory requirements from tax department in Cyprus.
• Proposed and implemented an excel solution using VBA which automatically created text files to
cater for the requirements.