Requirements Analyst | Test lead

Position: Agile coach and Functional Requirements Analyst Lead. 

Type: Consultant assignment. 

Key competence: Public Procurrement. (RFP), Plan and Lead Team, Impact maps, Process maps, Backlog refinements, Personas, Requirements specifikation, Workshop facilitator, User stories, Epics, Held courses in Agile methods, onsite/remote coordinator of team work, stakeholder management, Backlog renfinements, create agile Way-of-working, Monitor Progress, daily updates of Team progress to steering group, Writing UAT-tests according to Requirements. 

Tools/Area: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Slack, Public procurrements, FP, Agile methods, Workshops, Trade Union.

Assignment tasks: 

Frida succesfully lead the team in a pedagogical, analytic and structured way as agile coach and functional requirements analyst Lead and got excellent feedback many times from the team and steering group. Frida reached the deadline with a tight schedule for the RFP that had been postponed many times before Frida started her assignment. 

Created the Project Requirements Specification document (User stories, Epis, Effects, process-relationships) with associated impact- and process maps. 

Backlog Refinements &änd prioritization, wrote UAT-tests.

Held educational courses/sessions about agile methods and thinking and different prioritization techniques.

With entusiasm Frida continously and pedagogical coached the team how to think in an agile way and dear trusting the agile-ways-of-working (operational level). Coordinated and monitored the progress the teams everydary work both remote and onsite in parallell working groups consisting of stakeholders/Product owners.

After some weeks The team went from working waterfall merhod, to understading and appreachiating the agile way or working. The Team soon learned about agile way of working and in the end I had successfully reached a level were the team could conduct the work more indepedently and according to given instructions and using me as an expert in the area for guidance.  

-Much appreaciated Workshop facilitator using creative, fun and effective ways to involve the Team under the Requirements gathering process and with great results were Frida got excellent feedback from the team and the steering group. 

Position: Data and process Analyst, UAT and functional Tester. 

Type: Consultant assignment. 

Key competence: Process improvements report, Analysis of current situation (as-is), GAP-analys, Data handling improvements, identify Metadata, Identify doubble storage and redundance of the same data, write Improvements report, Plan, Docucument and Execute UAT- and Functional tests. 

Tools/Area:   Data and Process analysis, process mapping, identify Metadata, GAP-analysis, Plan, execute and document UAT- and Functional tests, Process Improvements, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft excel Tools.

Assignment tasks: 

Deliver a Report consisting of project management processes improvements, operational processes improvements, suggest effective and more productive data handling to avoid multiple storage of identical data, cut out unnessecary Project management and opreational (development team) Ways of working. Frida got excellent feedback on her work.

Plan, execute, suggest solutions, follow up and document testresults on Fuctional tests and UAT-tests. 

 Analyze current situation (as-is), GAP-analysis, analyze Projekt management and development team ways of working, analyze handling of Data and identify Metadata. 

Frida carried out the work by interviews with employees and VD, going through documents and observe how they were working both operational (development team) and Project management process. 

Position: Application/system Portfolio Manager, Governance APM responsible, Lead of Licence audit, Scrum Master

Type: Consultant assignment. 

Key competence: Portfolio Management, Built up Portfolio management processes and governance model, responsible for Governance model, Communication Strategy, Coordinate governance process work with stakeholders/vendors/CIO etc for all applications and systems in the bank Coordinate all departments, collect data, budgets, TCOs, business value, provide templates for System responsibles, summarize total costs (equipments, licenses and employees costs), identify technical and security risks, creation of structured identical processes per Application/system and templates, Merge all factors per application in APM excel tool for prognosis, Total costs, value of Application for the bank indicating future plans within the next 5 years, Scrum master, Leader of License audit. 

Tools/Area:   Microsoft Excel plug-in with reporting/analysis, License management program, APM management, Governance models, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Work templates to interviews, Splunk, Jira and confluence, Banking and finance.   

Assignment tasks: 

Responsible and Lead of introducting/built up APM (Application Portfolio Management) in the bank. Set up a new governance model and align it with current working methods,finance and law departments, other departments, IT and Business strategies, decision making and plans under yearly basis. Structure and coordinate the collection of f.ex. business values with interviews and system responsibles, TCOs, Vendor/Supplier information, License costs in collaboration with Vendor manager, Employees costs, equipment costs, identy risks. Summarized all factors in an excel-plug in tool used for strategical decision-making from indicator of Application/System value within the next coming 5 years. Identify Vendors/suppliers and db etc. per application and built up an architectural model with dependencies and vendor/suppliers management.

Create communication plans and templates and Coordinate the work of APM governance process per application/system in the bank.
Extra effort where made to clearly, transparent and continuosly communicate Why (goals), How (to reach it), When (timeline process),effects (measurables), expectations and preparation work from Application/system owners in Confluence.

Created a APM page in Confluence with explanations on How-to do, How the governance models works, vizualized (not confident) data per application, shared Microsoft Word and excel- Templates prepared for yearly interviews and analysis. 

Close collaboration with CIO, Product owners, IT department, Law-department, finance-department, Development Teams, Vendors/suppliers, controllers and my team of management consultants.

I also succesfully led a license audit for the bank. The audit had been running for 12 months with no results when I became responsible. After 3 months of negotiations and data analyzis sources we provided the evidence required to proof our cause and saved the bank millions in fines.

Position: IT Tech Team Lead, Backlog Owner and Scrum master. Machine learning-department.

Type: Consultant assignment. 

Key competence: Leadership (operational and strategic level), Plan and strategy, Maintenance plans, responsible for incidents and support handling, single-point of- contact (IT-responsible) to Head of Robotics implementation, Sgile Crossfunctional teams, vendors and suppliers- management, Negotiating, KPIs, Release-trains, Scrum of Scrums, IT-responsible member of management board, Backlog Refinements, Report KPIs and progress, stakeholder/vendor management and purchases, Resposible for Team members/IT Consultants and resource planning, Scrum Master, Create Ways of working aligned with crossfunctional Teams, Excellent user of Jira and Confluence,  coordinator and responsible for collaborations with vendors/suppliers. 

Tools/Area:   Machine Learning projects and management, Jira and Confluence, TLF, Bitbucket, Microsoft Powerpoint presentations, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Words, System integrations modeling in complexed IT-landscape (finance and banking), KPIs., agile crossfunctional development Teams, Scrum och Scrums, Weekly presentations (powerpoint, white boards) for all department, Weight technical depts towards development in backlog, Workshop facilitator.  

Assignment tasks: 

Responsible for IT Platform Tech Team and Backlog owner refinements (operational and strategy),. Responsible for IT-related issues and member of the management group (RPA).

Plan and Lead the Teams operational everyday work as Scrum Master. 

Handle and Prioritize backlog. Balance the workload between Technical depts, development tasks, incident handling and support.

Continously improvements work for Tech and crossfunctional Teams everyday work using Jira and Confluence.

Weekly updates of IT Tech Team progress and Backlog prioritization and progress.

Responsible for IT related goals, strategy, maintenance plan, Incident and support handling/Plan, communications plan and road maps. 

Responsible for reports, KPIs and leading the Machine learning IT-dep.

Establish transparent processes and develop the RPA- department to be more effective, collaborative and agile for all departments cross functional teams.

Lead the long-term planning/prioritization of global- and national RPA Platform activities in collaboration with management group, central architect department and international contacts.

Responsible for resource-planning, Team members and consultants, progress monitoring and budget.

Position: Scrum master, Backlog handling and Business Requirements security Analyst 

Type: Consultant assignment. 

Key competence: Requirements Security Analysis, Scrum master, Built up agile way of working, Coordinate Vendor pitch/meetings and documentation, Coordinate meetings with international representatitves, Backlog refinements and prioritization, evaluate solutions aligned with Laws and IT-security directives.

Tools/Area:   Microsoft Words, Microsoft Excel för planning and backlog handling, Microsoft Powerpoint, Trello-board, Comparison calculator built in Excel, Coordinate meetings/video meetings, Scan the market for possible ID sec. solutions, Banking and Finance.

Assignment tasks: 

Investigate the possibilities of a new international ID security solution in Banking and Finance for the corporate and private markets. Scrum master and agile coach in the project team. Built up of the teams Scrum Ways-of-working.

 Lead the IT/Business requirements work for the project and scan the market for relevant new security solutions. 

Coordinate the work and activities with national and international representatives.

 Set goals and scopes for the requirements work and the backlog. Propose relevant solutions that is aligned with IT-security laws and goals/objectives in the bank. 

Position: Agile Test Manager, requirements analyst and Project coordinator for  implementation of new trading system.

Type: Consultant assignment. 

Key competence: Agile Test manager, Test coordinator, est/Requirements work for Implementations, Test Strategy and Plan, Coordinate/execute UAT-, Integration-, Function-, Regression- and system Testing, create test-templates for the testers for documentation, Create visual summary of test-progress and monitoring, Report to PLT, support testers in writing system dependencies testcases.

Tools/Area: Test strategy and Plan, QA-management and planning, Workshop facilitator, test-templates and dokument/present testprogress, Microsoft Words, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visio, Jira, Trello-board, Back-office system for trading, analyze/create maps of system dependencies, visualize Integrational dependencies, Bloomberg, Reuters, Capital Market, Trading,Planning and coordinator of UAT-, Integration-, Funktion-, Regression and system-dependencies Testing. 

Assignment tasks: 

Agile Test Manager & Test coordinator and Implementation of a new trading system.

Responsible for the Test work in a project that were implementinga new trading system.

Responsible for creating the Test strategy and Test plan.

Coordinated and suppor with testing/execution of Acceptance (UAT)-, Integration-, Function-, Regression- and system dependencies Tests with relevant stakeholders, back-office and testers.

Support testers and other relevant stakeholders to write different types of test cases by facilitating workshops, creation of test templates and analyze architectural dependencies.

Position: IT/Business Requirements Analys, Project impl. coordinator & Tester

Type: Consultant assignment. 

Key competence: Requirements Analysis, Requirements specifications, Execute UAT and acceptance Tests, Collaboration with departments in Denmark, Norway and Finland, Link between IT and Business, Responsible for Test- and requirements plan/execution with customers/Vendors for implementation of corporate action system, Monitoring progresss, communicator, 

Tools/Area: Microsoft Words, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visio, Gant-schedule, Planning tools, communication plan, Requirements, Test strategy and plan, System Brokerway. Sub-and global system. Finance and banking, Trading.  

Assignment tasks: 

The project aimed to improve the bank's sub-, and global custody system through new development and implementation of a new Corporate Action system. The duties of my assignment included business analysis, writing and documenting business/technical requirements an collaborate with Denmark, Norway and Finland. I was the link between   business & product/system owners/other stakeholders, I executed acceptance/usability tests and were a driving force for the business analysis work from idea to final.

Analyze and write requirements specifications for sub- and global custody system.

Drive the Test- and Requirements work for implementing a new Corporate action system.

Write system-, functional-, dependencies and acceptance (UAT) tests and coordinate the test execution with vendors for the implementation of the new corporate action system.

Monitor, document and communicate progress of executed test cases.

Analyze, drive and write IT/Business requirements specifications in collaboration with stakeholders/back- office/departments in Denmark, Norway and Finland.

Coordinate the work remote and onsight with relevant stakeholders/involved and hand-over specifications to Product owners, System owners and system responsible.

Create Plans and communicate progress with relevant stakeholders.

Improve the existing sub-, and global custody system and implementation of a new Corporate Action system in the bank.

Position: Junior Sharepoint Developer consultant during university studies and Scrum master for the team 

Type: Talent academy intership. Consultant and education. 

key competence: Sharepoint development, Scrum master, Backlog handling. 

Tools/area: Sharepoint, C#, Java,  .NET 4.5

Developer and responsible for requirements, backlog handling/prioritizations.