SABRINA MENDOZA CESAR

Sabrina.MendozaCesar@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Sr. Business Analyst/ Business System Analyst with experience in banking, financial, education and government
contracting industries. Experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including interpreting
business needs, developing business requirements and System Requirements, writing functional specifications, use cases,
product backlog refinement, and developing testing artifacts. Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the
ability to interact effectively with peers, product owner, project managers, testing team, and management.

CORE COMPETENCIES

▪ Solid understanding of Agile-SCRUM, Hybrid, and waterfall Development Methodologies.

▪ Excellent technical writing and communication skills needed to create Business Requirements Document (BRD),
Functional Specifications Document (FSD), and Use Cases Specifications.
▪ Strong Knowledge in Agile and Atlassian tool sets to manage backlog including epics, features, and stories.
▪ Experience in writing detailed system use cases, developing business test cases and working with QA team during
testing phase, thereby facilitating user acceptance testing with stakeholders and business users.
▪ Expertise in creating Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix, and Test Summary
Report.
▪ Experience in working with Salesforce CRM, Cloud features, and AWS platform.
▪ Excellent team player to work in conjunction with testers (QA), developers and other team members in validation and
testing of complex project scenarios, and in the maintenance of quality standards of projects.
▪ Detail oriented, strong interpersonal and communications skills, and comfortable working with diverse teams and
environments.

TOOLS AND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Business Modeling Tools/ Requirement MS Visio, DrawIO, JIRA

Management Tools
Requirement Management Tools SharePoint, JIRA, Confluence
Change Management Tools Git, Github, Jenkins
Databases/ Database Tools SQL Server, SQL, Oracle, SQL Plus, SQL Developer
Languages SQL, JAVA

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Marketing (Cont), George Mason University, VA

Associates in Business Administration, Northern Virginia Community College, VA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Leidos Vienna, VA 07/2019- Present

Senior Agile Business Analyst /Consultant

 Lead product backlog grooming sessions with Product Owner, and team to prioritize user story in the product
backlog and add technical details for development for upcoming sprint.
 Ensure that all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.
 Interact with Product Owner, SME, and end user to define solutions to business needs including eliciting,
analyzing product features, epic and user stories in the product backlog and develop detail acceptance criteria.
  Analyze the business acceptance criteria of a User Story and determine/translate them to tasks to meet the criteria
 Work with Product Owner with user story prioritization before the sprint planning meeting.
 Interact with business owners, SMEs, and management team to identify the scope of the project and to prepare a
Business Requirement Document, Use Case, User Story, and Activity Diagrams to further develop technical
requirements and/or Functional Specifications.
 Use JIRA and Confluence to manage Agile projects artifacts, tasks, and documentation.
 Provide guidance to Project Managers, Business Owners, Development Team and Subject Matter Experts to
resolve the outstanding issue and action items are taken in the review meeting.
 Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with Business Owners, Business System Owners, Development Team,
Testing Team, and Process Control Team.
 Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severity and set priorities
as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and fulfillment to deadlines.
 Conduct defect review meetings with Developer and QA Tester to ensure functional requirements were accurately
executed. 
 Support the test cases preparation and support integration, and UAT testing

Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C. 12/2016-07/2019

Business Analyst II

 Performed gap analysis by identifying existing technologies and documenting the enhancements to meet the end-
state requirements.
 Developed traceability matrix for business requirements as they relate to test plans.
 Performed basic analysis and developed charts, graphs, and other instruments of presentation of required data.
 Prepared and consolidated Reports/Deliverables information as requested
 Lead requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent,
traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and testable.
 Gathered customer requirements from various stakeholders through interviews and JAD sessions and translated
them into functional/non-functional requirements. 
 Conducted process reviews/gap analysis and added new perspectives to produce solutions.
 Tracked bugs and ensured issues are resolved before going to production.
 Collaborated with Business and Technology Leads to identify the appropriate data for testing and prepare that
data for the test cases.
 Identified, assessed, and analyzed document system requirements recommending system priorities.
 Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with stakeholders throughout SDLC to resolve open
issues.
 Worked with the QA and Testing team to help with reviews on Test Plans and Test Cases for functional and
integration testing.
 Maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix to track requirements coverage.

K12 Inc., Herndon Virginia 05/2015-12/2016

Requirement Analyst/ Test Associate

 Developed detailed functional and technical requirements from the high-level business requirements.
 Facilitated requirement sessions with stakeholders, properly prioritized features, and created comprehensive
requirements for delivery team. 
 Involved in the understanding of functionality and design of different applications based on the Requirement
Specification Document.
 Investigated system bugs and interfaced with Developers to resolve technical issues and reporting the bugs to all
concerned.
 Investigated requirements and interfaced with Developers to resolve issues and reporting the issues to all
concerned. Outstanding issues are documented and managed through JIRA.
 Maintained Requirement Traceably Matrix (RTM) after developing and updating Test Cases.
 Analyzed and identified defects and logged defects with detailed specification into JIRA as they relate to Test
Cases.
 Worked extensively with SQL queries for database integrity and data validation.
 Used JIRA as the test repository and used it for executing the Test Cases and Scripts and logging & generated
various reports and graphs for further analysis.
 Actively participated in Review Meetings and walkthroughs and prepared the Defect Progress Reports during
Defect Meetings.