Position: Middle+ Business / Systems Analyst / Product Owner
Category: Business Analyst
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 3

1. Certification. I am a certified Product Owner (PSPO).
2. Mentorship for newbies in the BA department. I conducted theory assessments and workshops for the employees before staffing on the project or upskilling for the new grade. 
3. Knowledge-sharing. I participated in the corporate internal BA meetups to share knowledge and insights with employees of our department. I also developed courses and presentations for the internal BA knowledge base (Moddle).
4. Marketing skills. I cooperated with the Sales department to develop business cases for the company's portfolio.
5. Management skills. I acted as a Resource Manager with a pool of 4 coordinates.
Business / Systems Analyst with 3+ years of experience in the Logistics and Media&Entertainment domains as well as Fintech solutions and WMS development. 

Certified Product Owner with experience in proxying POs in an IT outsourcing environment to accompany my extensive knowledge of Business Analysis.

I possess strong knowledge of requirements elicitation and management accompanied by modeling and prototyping skills that allow me to design efficient business processes. I pay special attention to the rigorous documentation of the requirements using multiple techniques and approaches to achieve a high level of detalization and consistency. I am a troubleshooter capable of solving complex issues and communicating the value of the solution to a team.

I perceive myself as a remarkable team player capable of cooperating efficiently with the product and engineering teams to ensure the quality and accuracy of the artifacts that I create. I always combine a diplomatic approach toward Stakeholders with a professional mindset of a responsible and hardworking person. I treat challenges as a way of self-improvement and demonstration of curiosity as well as the ability to apply gained knowledge and skills for providing high-quality business solutions.

Key responsibilities:
1. Conducting requirements elicitation workshops and brainstorming sessions with stakeholders.
2. Analyzing requirements and decomposing them to the level of tasks for development.
3. Documenting requirements (Vision&Scope; SRS; User Stories - incl. Gherkin; Use Cases; User Story Mapping; Diagrams - incl. BPMN, UML), developing Confluence space, Jira task management.
4. Managing scope of work by dealing with change requests and prioritizing PBIs.
5. Facilitating Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint planning activities, Demo presentations with stakeholders, backlog refinement sessions, defining the scope of an upcoming release, etc.
6. Establishing trust-worthy relations with customers and promoting efficient communication with stakeholders (Agenda, Follow-up, CRs, risk management, expectations management).
7. Supporting the development team by clarifying the requirements, facilitating quick onboarding of new team members (E2E diagrams), cooperating with designers to conduct UX/UI research, and prepare prototypes.
8. Performing benchmarking and market research.
9. Supporting healthy backlog within a multi-stakeholder approach (incl. inconsistency checks, traceability matrix).