Omais Shameem Syed, Business Analyst

Omais Shameem Syed

Business Analyst

Saudi Specialized Laboratories Company (MOTABAQAH)

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Marketing
Experience
10 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :10 years, 7 Months

Business Analyst at Saudi Specialized Laboratories Company (MOTABAQAH)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since May 2016

CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES:
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Planning & Monitoring:
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✔ Plans business analysis approach, activities, and communication roadmap.
✔ Recommends approaches by defining problems, complexity, assumptions, and constraints
✔ Identifies all concerned stakeholders, their roles, relationship, and expected deliverables.
✔ Copes with complex bottlenecks through risk assessment, forecasting, and deliberate analysis.
✔ Complies with, upholds organizational policies, standards, and promotes process improvements.

Requirements Elicitation:
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✔ Facilitates requirements elicitation using a variety of appropriate techniques.
✔ Skilled in extracting requirements using brainstorming, interviews, focus groups, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, observations, use cases, scenarios, and prototypes.
✔ Documents clear, consistent, consistent business requirements and 'as-is' processes.
✔ Collaboration with stakeholders towards the delivery of the solution, to meet the client's business requirements.

Requirements Management and Communication:
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✔ Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, resolve conflicts, and decompose high-level information into details.
✔ Prepares and documents requirements package.
✔ Manages requirements facilitation to ensure all involved stakeholders are part of the communication process.
✔ Delivers clear, complete, accurate, consistent, and reliable work.
✔ Meet with the project team and other stakeholders regularly to review project deliverables and deadlines.

Strategic Analysis:
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✔ Assesses and defines the business needs and identifies the client organization's strengths and weaknesses and suggests areas of improvement by articulating an action plan/ project road map.
✔ Consults with senior management, SME’s to identify, define and document business needs and objectives,
✔ Defines the new capabilities that the project, iteration or work effort will deliver
✔ Captures results, roadblocks, discrepancies, and suggests solutions.
✔ Assist the sales team in business development activities, proposals bid estimation, and preparation of RFP responses

Requirements Analysis:
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✔ Determines priority, relative importance, and dependencies of requirements.
✔ Organizes & synthesizes requirements by process mapping and process modeling techniques
✔ Conducts sessions and walkthroughs to validate requirements and gain concurrence.

Solution Assessment and Validation:
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✔ Defines test scenarios, creates UAT test cases and prepares automated UAT test scripts.
✔ Engages with the QA team to ensure the testing is in line with the accepted requirements.
✔ Assesses value delivered by proposed solutions to identify associated effectiveness
✔ Validates solution quality and recommend controls by defining proper acceptance criteria’s
✔ Develops user guides and walkthroughs UAT with clients to ensure aligned expectations and fulfillment of testing strategy.

Agile Management:
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✔ Defining functional specifications, MVP’s, Sprints and Scrum deliverables with necessary prioritization backlogs
✔ Promoting collaboration and interactions to adjusts at regular intervals and ensure that the customer is always satisfied
✔ Driving Daily scrums, Stand-ups, DevOps and RAD session to ensure timely rollouts and deployments

Management and Leadership:
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✔ Excellent written and verbal communication skills
✔ Establishing deadlines and effectively monitoring KPI’s, progress, and milestone completion.
✔ Regular engagements with CEO, CTO, Project Manager, Product Owner, Architects, Domain Consultant, Tech Lead & Solution Team
✔ Performs research, gap analysis to identify roadblocks between the current state and desired future state.
✔ Mentors those with less experience and leads in training and coaching team members on BABOK specified frameworks.
✔ Develops the needed management reports and presentations

Business Analyst at KTree Computer Solutions
  • India - Hyderabad
  • April 2013 to September 2015

Key Accountabilities:

► Collaborate closely with stakeholders to understand business needs, gathering the requirements of the project, and interpreting in IT Business sense.
► Creating, analyzing, and validating detailed functional specifications
► Delivering elements of systems design, including data migration rules, business rules, wireframes, or other detailed deliverables.
► Support and drive multiple projects to ensure successful delivery on time
► Managing user acceptance testing and production verification testing across a range of applications
► Participating in user acceptance testing and production verification testing
► Responsible for change management process within enhancement/project
► Engagement and alignment with Application Owner, Solution Architect, Middleware Specialist, IT Security & UX teams.

Education

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at Osmania University
  • July 2015
Bachelor's degree, Electronics & Communications Engineering
  • at Osmania University
  • July 2012

• B.E in Electronics & Communications Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India with an aggregate of 72.12% (2008-2012).

High school or equivalent, Intermediate Public Examination
  • at Board of Intermediate Education
  • January 2008

• 12th (Intermediate), Intermediate Public Examination from Board of Intermediate Education, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, India with an aggregate of 92 % ( 2006-2008)

High school or equivalent, SSC
  • at Board of Secondary Education
  • January 2006

• S.S.C. Secondary School Certificate from Board of Secondary Education, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, India with a score of 85% (2006)

Specialties & Skills

Business Architecture
Business Process Analysis and Design
Business Strategy
Business Development
Business Analysis
Digital Business Analysis
Engagement manager
Stakeholder Analysis
Process Mapping
Program management
Product Management
Collaboration
Agile Management
Business Strategy
Business Process
Business reporting
Problem Solving
Requirement Gathering
Requirement Management
Communication
Documentation
Critical Thinking
Team management
Relation Building
Process Modelling
eCommerce
QA Testing
Proposal Writing
MS Visio
eLearning
Change Management
Presentations
Project Management
MS Office
Requirement Documentation
Requirement Analysis
Requirement Communication
Business Analysis
Elicitation
CBAP Trained
Communication Manager
User Stories
Digital Business Analyst
Consulting
Knowledge Management
Digital Transformation
Process Design
Business Analytics
Process Engineering
Digital Marketing
Executive Presentations
Strategy
Marketing Plans
Management Consulting
Business Plans
Marketing
Advisory
Functional Flows
Business Models
Training
Wireframing
Document Analysis
Sharepoint
Technical Writing
Scrum Management
Decision Making
Interface Analysis
Process Flow Diagrams
Content Marketing
Stakeholder Management
Brainstorming
Financial Analysis
Agile Project Management
Flowcharts
Analytical Thinking
MVP Development
Cognitive Thinking
Structured Walk throughs
Balsamiq
Business Development

Social Profiles

Languages

Hindi
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert
English
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
  • Commuinty Coordinator
  • February 2015

Training and Certifications

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) (Training)
Training Institute:
CBAP Training To Decompose BABOK
Date Attended:
January 2015
Duration:
60 hours
ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
Certification of Competency in Business Analysis™ (CCBA®) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2015
Valid Until:
July 2018

Hobbies

  • Presentations
    Best Seminar Award, 2012 at Deccan College Of Engineering & Tech. Best Orator Award, 2012 at Deccan College Of Engineering & Tech.