Islam Alaa, Senior Business Analyst

Islam Alaa

Senior Business Analyst

Executive Sky

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accounting
Experience
16 years, 0 Months

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Senior Business Analyst at Executive Sky
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since December 2016

Supply Product / Solution requirements according to stakeholder’s needs, line-of-
business study, business domain research, market study for alternate solutions.
• Conduct requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification,
organization and simplification.
• Produce Business Requirement Document, Business Process Document, Use
cases / User stories, Requirement traceability matrix, System Requirement
Specification.
• Capture business needs and elicit high level requirements to define system scope
through working with business entities.
• Design and Model “To-Be” maturity business processes
• Studying market for existing products and prepare competitors reports about
similar systems
• Develop prototypes/wireframes to insure feature proposal approval before
delivery to development team, and suggest new methods to produce high level of
service model.
• Participate in preparation of ‘long-range’ systems plan, and keep an eye on
possible changes to business objectives and goals, considering planned time, cost,
and quality
• Create and implement system stakeholder feedback mechanisms.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the business
vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
• Participate in Test cases preparation & Performing the test for critical problems
National System Research (NSR)-Appnetics

MIS Analyst at Appnetics - NSR
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2009 to September 2016

Generate and distribute management reports in accurate and timely manner
• Generate both periodic and ad hoc reports as needed
• Perform data analysis for generating reports on periodic basis
• Provide strong reporting and analytical information support to management team
• Analyze business information to identify process improvements for increasing
business efficiency and effectiveness
• Develops MIS documentation to allow for smooth operations and easy system
maintenance
• Provide recommendations to update current MIS to improve reporting efficiency
and consistency

Senior Business Analyst at Appnetics - NSR
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2014 to September 2016

Interact with users & analyze their problems to define business requirements.
• Prepare business requirements documents & then convert these requirements into
functional & technical specifications.
• Interact with the development & testing teams to collaborate resource allocation
& project completion.
• Develop comprehensive training programs & prepare user acceptance testing
(UAT) plan.
• Participate in various testing related review meetings.

Payroll Officer at Appnetics - NSR
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2011 to June 2015

Checking people's hours
• Making the monthly payments on time
• Working out tax and national insurance deductions
• Setting up new members of staff
• Calculating overtime
• Issuing tax forms
• Managing special situations like maternity or sickness pay
• Updating and maintaining payroll records
• Calculation and processing of termination payments
• Payroll reporting to meet internal and statutory obligations

Business Analyst at Appnetics - NSR
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2008 to January 2014

Maintaining the technical support channel with the vendor of the banking solution
in order to resolve the outstanding problems:
o Raising problems
o Following up problems
o Closing problems
• Maintaining the QA Testing plans/Procedures for core banking applications:
o Troubleshooting problems
o Test cases preparation
o Performing the test for critical problems
o Report test results
o Discover system bugs before discovered by system users
o Improve the system performance
o Ensure that the reports to be delivered to customer in appropriate format
o Reviewing ATM Reconciliation Reports to verify the accuracy of the
ATM operations.
• Version control of test/production environment
• Applying fixes:
o Promoting fixes to test & production environment.
• Maintaining the QA Testing plans/Procedures for Data Migration Projects:
o Test cases preparation
o Performing the test for critical problems
o Report test results
o Ensure that the reports to be delivered to customer in appropriate format

Change Management Officer at Appnetics - NSR
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2009 to March 2013

Planning how to implement the change to the bank server & Leading the
execution team and the change committee responsible for change approval
• Complete change management assessments
• Track and report issues
• Responsible for managing Change processes involving:
o system software
o 'live' applications software
o All documentation and procedures associated with the running, support,
and maintenance of live systems.
TRAINEE
Summer of 2006 Perfect design company

Education

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at Ain-Shams University
  • May 2007

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Specialties & Skills

MS Office tools
Bizagi Modeler
BUSINESS PROCESS
DELIVERY
DOCUMENTATION
MANAGEMENT
MARKETING
PROPOSAL WRITING
QUALITY
REPORTS
REQUIREMENTS
RESEARCH

Languages

Arabic
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English
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