Farooq Awan

Experience

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  Business Beam Limited

  Dec 2005 - Mar 2007

  Business Analyst

  Responsible for assisting organization’s client on compliance frameworks including Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning, CMMI and Information Security Management System ISMS27001. Have worked on projects from conception, feasibility, planning, and scheduling. Involved in entire spectrum of Business Impact Analysis. Key tasks include:Business Analysis, Risk Analysis, and Business Process ImprovementInvolved in designing training programs for IT professionals including Requirements Management, Quality Assurance & Project Managemento Conducting BA activities i.e. requirements elicitation, analysis, models and business processeso Writing and managing organization documents and process assets via version & change control o Implementing Information systems and preparing for audits and other complianceso Process simulation using, Business flows and prototyping. Measuring AS-IS and TO-BE process o Requirements elicitation using interviews, questionnaire and documents analysiso Writing business requirements specification and reviewing clients BAU flows for improvements Show less

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  PixSense

  Sept 2009 - Mar 2010

  Software Quality Assurance Engineer/Analyst

  Devised Test/QA plans and run requirements gap analysis process.Analyzed requirements and formulate test cases, scenarios from specifications. Run functional, regressions, UAT and BAT testing. Took quality culture initiative and defined testing process and test case writing/executing good practices.Test web based and mobile based software specification against requirements specifications. Formulated database migration test strategy, test case writing and execution.

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  Institute of Business Administration

  Apr 2010 - Aug 2011

  IS

  Facilitated with Lab work and lectured undergrad & grad students of computer science and business administration of courses including System Analysis & Design, Software Project & Quality Management, Software Architecture, Requirements Engineering, and E-Business Management. Lead the development of curriculum for bachelor program in software engineering. Strategic liaison between academia and software industry. Advising and supervising grad students in capstone and thesis. Consulting government agencies in RFP, RFQ, Vendor shortlisting & selection strategy, and Requirements Engineering. Show less

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  Freelancing

  Jun 2011 - Jan 2012

  Independent Consultant

  Working with off-shore clients to provide business analysis and quality assurance services. Assisting clients in achieving product quality through system/business analysis, process quality, testing strategy and project plans.

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  Mobilink

  Jan 2012 - Jul 2015

  Worked under the capacity of ERP & BPM Analyst. Responsibilities include analyze, design, manage and test enterprise business processes and their operations using SharePoint, Ultimus BPM suite and Hummingbird. Ensure project quality in terms of time and conformance to defined requirements and IT governance policies. Ensure smooth transition from AS-IS to TO-BE through trainings and change management. Responsible for end to end IT enabled business process and software solutions projects while managing internal project teams, vendors, and stakeholders.- Business and Functional Requirements development and management - Developing Epics, features and user stories for agile projects- Designing, developing and optimizing enterprise business processes. - Ensuring continuous business process improvement through capturing and analyzing process data. - Workflow designing and automation. - Eliciting, analyzing, specifying and verifying stakeholder, solution, and transition requirements. - Formulating and documenting functional and non-functional requirements.- Managing stakeholder’s requirements through change request process. - Change management, end user training, UAT for smooth business process transition. - Planning, scheduling, and execution of project tasks. - Responsible for project’s upstream phases, analysis, design and testing. - Requirements simulation through prototypes, user stories and wire-frames.- Ensure continuous IT services delivery to support day to day business operations. SP Server Administrator- Designing agile business process to cater changing business. Show less

  • Sr. Business Analyst

    Dec 2013 - Jul 2015

  • Business Analyst - ERP and BPM

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2014
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  Carter Holt Harvey

  Aug 2015 - Sept 2017

  Business Analyst