Elijah Abiola

Results-driven Business Analyst with over 3 years of progressive experience delivering IT and business transformation initiatives across financial services, real estate and able to function in any sectors. Proven expertise in full SDLC engagement, Agile and Waterfall methodologies, requirements elicitation, UAT coordination, and stakeholder management.

Certified Business Analysis

Professional (CBAP) with a strong ability to bridge business and technology teams, translating complex requirements into actionable specifications, process flows, and solution designs that drive measurable outcomes.

Business Analyst - Colliers International - Toronto, ON

(2022-12 - 2026-04)

• Elicited, analysed, and documented functional and non-functional requirements from cross-functional business stakeholders to understand the business gaps, (AS and TO-BE).
• Created documents such as BRDs, traceability matrices, and benefit realization plans, test cases, tests plans, and accelerated stakeholder sign-off cycles.
• Created user stories, tasks, features, Epics and acceptance criteria using Azure Devops and Jira in Agile setup of software development.
• Contributed to backlog refinement activities with business owners, developers, and QA. Coordinate dependencies, clarify scope, support estimating activities, and contribute to release readiness under the guidance of the Program Delivery Manager.
• Performed data mapping of source system to a target system ensuring data fields and data base attributes are well mapped.
• Reviewed and validated Lo-, Mid-, and Hi-fidelity mobile application prototypes, providing structured UI/UX design feedback that contributed to improvement in feature usability scores prior to release.
• Designed and implemented gap analysis templates and procedures, training team members on conducting application gap assessments — reducing analysis cycle time by 10% and standardizing the approach across the portfolio.
• Collaborated with architects and developers to propose and design business solutions for system change initiatives, following the change control process to manage scope and protect baselined deliverables.
• Reviewed QA test strategies, test plans, and test cases for alignment with business requirements, guiding testers during the QA process and supervising UAT activities that achieved go-live with zero critical defects across releases.
• Participated in daily Agile scrum ceremonies — including sprint planning, refinement, and retrospectives, ensuring user stories were groomed, estimated, and development-ready, contributing to consistent on-time sprint delivery.
• Gathered, documented, and prioritized business requirements for product and platform initiatives, creating user stories in JIRA and maintaining sprint-ready backlogs that improved Agile team velocity by.
• Produced business process flow diagrams, use cases, and swim lane diagrams using Microsoft Visio for operational workflows, enabling clearer communication between business and technology partners and reducing development misalignment.
• Contributed to JAD sessions and information-gathering workshops, preparing pre-work documentation, agendas, and RACI matrices that improved decision-making clarity and reduced workshop rework.
• Liaised with a third-party vendor for the evaluation and procurement of a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution, documenting functional fit assessments and requirements comparisons that supported a cost-effective selection decision.
• Participated in wireframe and mock-up reviews for application features, ensuring functional and system specifications were consistently reflected in UI design prior to development handoff.
• Engaged across the full SDLC — including Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile projects — contributing to new builds, enhancements, integrations, and maintenance initiatives simultaneously without impact to delivery timelines.

Bachelor of Science - Environmental Management

Diploma - Mechanical Engineering