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Alex CostaAC

Alex Costa

Product Owner / Business Analyst

€430/day
194 projects
Paris, FR
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Alex

I am an experienced project management professional, specializing in digital transformation and product management. Bilingual French 🇫🇷 - English 🇬🇧. My skills include:

  • **📝 Project Definition**: Needs identification, scope definition, initiative, epic, and feature definition.
  • **🔍 Business Needs Analysis**: Translation of business needs into user stories, DoD, DoR, acceptance criteria (GHERKIN), and test scenarios.
  • **🧭 Agile/SCRUM Methodologies**: Facilitation of Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retro) and mastery of backlog prioritization methodologies (MoSCoW, Poker Planning).
  • **🧪 Testing and Quality**: Execution of non-regression tests (NRT) and functional tests.
  • **📖 Change Management**: Writing user documentation and facilitating training workshops.
  • **🗣️ Communication**: Thanks to my knowledge of technical languages, I know how to work effectively with different stakeholders and identify the technical feasibility of a need during business meetings.

Technical Skills
**Tools**: Jira, Trello, Git, Figma (advanced), MongoDB, Postman (intermediate).

**Languages**: HTML/CSS/JS/SQL (advanced).

**Languages**: French and English (native).
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Sharekit - Startup SaaS
    Product Owner
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    December 2023 - December 2024 (1 year)
    • Development of a SaaS software to publish LinkedIn posts directly from Notion
    • Management and definition of schedules and budget
    • Transcription of business needs into user stories and definition of Epics
    • Writing of user story acceptance criteria (GHERKIN), definition of DoR and DoD, writing of test scenarios
    • Facilitation of Agile ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retro – 2-week sprints
    • Backlog prioritization (MoSCoW method) and Poker Planning
    • Execution of non-regression tests (NRT) and functional tests
  • Société Générale - Banque
    Business Analyst
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2020 - December 2023 (3 years and 11 months)
    • Development of a fraud risk monitoring platform
    • Collection of business needs and writing of user stories (As a, I want, So that) and preliminary definition of Epics and Initiatives
    • Writing of user story acceptance criteria (GHERKIN), definition of DoR and DoD, writing of test scenarios
    • Facilitation of Agile ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retro with various stakeholders (business, developers, and designers) – 2-week sprints
    • Backlog prioritization (MoSCoW method) and Poker Planning
    • Execution of non-regression tests (NRT) and functional tests
    • Change management, writing user documentation, facilitating workshops for tool preparation and onboarding
  • CCR Re
    Business Analyst
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2019 - January 2020 (1 year)
    • Development of a reinsurance treaty management tool
    • Analysis of business needs and writing of functional specifications in user stories, writing of test scenarios
    • Facilitation of Agile ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retro – 2-week sprints
    • Backlog prioritization (MoSCoW method) and Poker Planning
    • Execution of non-regression tests and functional tests
    • Change management, writing user documentation

Reviews

5.0

Out of 147 ratings

MargotM

Margot

SCIH

Reviewed on 6/12/2023

Simple and efficient, thank you Alex!
MargotM

Margot

SCIH

Reviewed on 6/6/2023

Alex is very fast and efficient, it's a pleasure, thank you!

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Education

  • Master in Digital Strategy
    Digital Campus, Bordeaux
    2017
  • Bachelor in Web Project Management
    Digital Campus, Bordeaux
    2015

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