Hamza Amadu-Salifu

Results-driven professional with over 8 years of experience in the Information Technology industry, specializing in Business Analysis, Requirements Management, and Financial systems, alongside 2 years of auditing and accounting expertise. Skilled in use case and business process modeling, data analysis, and systems testing across client-server and web-based applications. Proven track record in driving process improvements, with a strong foundation in Agile, RUP, and Waterfall methodologies. • Excellent experience to work with stakeholders to define & document requirements, perform data/system/impact analysis, develop test plans and execute and/or support UAT. • Extensive knowledge in business process reengineering of Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange FX, Settlement, Accounting and Clearing of Securities. • Good knowledge and experience with SAFe Scaled Agile Framework. • Excellent knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), iterative Software Development Life Cycle Process (Agile, Kanban, Waterfall and RUP). • Have a good experience to conducted one-on-one meetings with the project SMEs (in person or by phone) to gather the requirements. • Experienced in writing business user stories. • Excellent knowledge to Assisted Project Manager in developing sprint plan during sprint planning meetings. • Extensive use of JIRA and Confluence to track user stories. • Good knowledge to build integrated solution between SharePoint and Microsoft Access, SharePoint Excel Services to aggregate budget and distribution data for dashboard reporting. • Hands on experience with the waterfall framework artifacts such as BRD, FRD, and use case and use case diagrams. • Strong knowledge with the business requirements and document them appropriately in the form of user stories in Jira and/or Azure DevOps. • Hands on experience on the data model and reporting requirements for the Data warehouse/ETL and reporting team. • Experienced in conducting Joint Application Development JAD sessions, SMEs and stakeholders and Rapid application development RAD sessions. • Experienced in Managing Data modeling project from Logical design and implementation of Sybase Database. • Experienced in data analysis with solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Data