Asma Rana

- Conduct workshops to elicit, analyze, and refine functional and data requirements for enterprise systems, including data flow mapping, field-level analysis, and alignment with UN policies and reporting frameworks.

- Maintain and optimize project backlog according to UNFCCC standards, providing technical support to the UNFCCC Lead Program Officer in release planning following Agile methodologies.

- Collaborate with UNFCCC stakeholders, including business owners, UI/UX, Dev, and QA teams, to ensure requirements are comprehensively understood and aligned with evolving business needs and priorities.

- Prepare quantitative and qualitative analytical reports using structured data validation techniques, ensuring end-to-end requirement traceability and data integrity across interconnected systems.

- Assist the UNFCCC Engineering lead in planning future increments and developing official documentation for management levels. Contribute to the drafting of policy documents and guidance materials in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

- Play a key role in project planning and monitoring, ensuring the timely delivery of milestones and proactively mitigating project risks.

- Lead functional, regression, and UAT testing cycles, including data validation, reconciliation checks, and defect root cause analysis to ensure successful deployment of system enhancements.

- Provide operational support, perform data analysis (SQL-based validation where applicable), and implement system changes to enhance functionality and performance using JIRA, Confluence, Miro, and SharePoint.

- Facilitate effective communication between ICT and clients, cultivating positive client relationships and addressing client needs and concerns in a timely and efficient manner.

- Contribute to the development of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between clients and ICT, defining service expectations and performance metrics to ensure service quality and accountability.

Ø Hosted meetings with relevant stakeholders to gather, analyze, and refine requirements for Web and Mobile applications on distributed platforms.

Ø Collaborated with clients, Product Owners, and Technical Leads to define business, functional, and data migration requirements for distributed web and mobile platforms.

Ø Coordinated with User Experience (UX/UI) and Design Teams to develop user journeys, sitemaps, wireframes, and prototypes for websites and mobile applications, adhering to regional standards.

Ø Served as a liaison between Product Owners and development teams, ensuring a clear understanding of requirements from both business and technical perspectives.

Ø Managed and refined backlog, defining scope for product features, enhancements, and modifications.

Ø Structured Features, Epics, and Stories logically by breaking down complex problems into implementable and testable tasks in JIRA.

Ø Participated in Agile ceremonies such as daily scrums, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives, assisting Project/Product Managers with time and effort estimations for successful project delivery.

Ø Audited and maintained product requirements traceability matrix, ensuring data consistency between legacy systems and modern SaaS-based applications.

Ø Developed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) scripts, playbooks, and user guides following CMMI standards. Led UAT sessions and collaborated closely with clients and engineering teams for UAT sign-off.

- Coached over 50 individuals globally across North America, Europe, and the Middle East regions on agile values and principles, advocating for agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, DevOps, and Blockchain as Agile Advocate.

- Demonstrated expertise across SDLC phases including requirement engineering, data analysis, system integration planning, test management, and migration validation in large-scale enterprise programs, serving as a Scrum Master.

- Conducted requirement collection, writing, analysis, elicitation, classification, and traceability, culminating in stakeholder signoff/approval, utilizing automated and word/excel tools as a Business Analyst.

- Conducted technical reviews and quality assessments of organizational software and related work products, adhering to the CMMI V2.0 framework as a Quality Auditor.

- Developed, maintained, and version-controlled various software engineering documentation, including Business Requirement Definitions, Requirement Specifications, Functional Specifications, Designs & Data Models, Product Definition Documents, Technical Guides, and User Manuals, serving as a Technical Writer.

- Led cloud offerings pre-sales, technical assessment, and modernization roadmap, as a Pre-Sales Representative.

- Planned, estimated, and managed Software Quality Assurance Life Cycle activities, including test strategy definition, data migration testing, reconciliation validation, and defect governance, fulfilling the role of a QA Analyst.

- Automated security testing (Dynamic & Static) using IBM AppScan as a Security Test Lead.

- Managed and implemented IBM Rational tools (RRC, RTC, RQM, RTF, RPT, RTW) on numerous projects, both billable and non-billable, as an IBM Rational Consultant.

- Implemented end-to-end automation test lifecycle by conducting load/performance and functional/regressiontesting using various commercial (HP Mercury, IBM Rational) and open-source (Selenium Webdriver, JMeter)tools as a Test Automation Engineer.