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Oscar Wilson
Senior Business Analyst with experience in requirements discovery, process modeling, acceptance criteria, and business controls. Practical work includes Requirements analysis, SQL, UAT, Process mapping.
Experience
Amazon
Austin · United States
Senior Business Analyst
Jan 2021 - now
- As workstream lead, translated claims-workflow requirements into a user story and acceptance criteria in Jira; documented exception rules and obtained business review before developers estimated the change.
- With responsibility for the review standard, used SQL to reconcile migrated records and identify duplicate identifiers before Agile acceptance testing; attached failing examples to the acceptance criteria so the business owner could make a traceable sign-off decision.
- As workstream lead, automated SQL reconciliation with Python against a de-identified AWS staging extract. Grouped differences by business rule and attached reproducible exceptions to Jira; resolved the disputed acceptance criteria with the business owner before migration sign-off.
- Mapped business rules to data fields and acceptance tests, reconciled contradictory stakeholder requests, and walked users through exception scenarios before sign-off.
- Owned a requirements review using SQL metric reconciliation, resolved conflicting business definitions and completed Agile acceptance criteria with the process owner.
- Built a Python validation notebook using an approved AWS data extract, reduced reconciliation preparation from 85 to 35 minutes and published the metric assumptions.
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington · United States
Business Analyst
Mar 2016 - Dec 2020
- Coordinated UAT with business users using scenario-based test cases, a defect triage log, and explicit sign-off owners; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, kept unresolved control failures visible instead of treating every completed test as a pass.
- Reviewed a delivered feature against acceptance criteria with design and engineering, documented the unresolved usability issue, and agreed whether it should block release or enter the next iteration.
- Traced a late scope request to the underlying user need, compared it with the agreed release goal, and worked with delivery partners to split required behavior from a follow-up enhancement. Updated acceptance criteria before development continued.
Selected project
Business Analyst — independent case study
Cross-functional project lead
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
- Used SQL to reconcile source transactions against the proposed reporting model, testing null values, duplicate invoices, and currency conversion dates; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
- Used a public product workflow to map the user problem, decision points and acceptance criteria; marked assumptions separately from observed behavior and prioritized an experiment before specifying a complete redesign.
- Prepared a decision log showing alternatives, dependencies and the metric that would reverse the recommendation; walked through an exception path and updated the acceptance criteria when ownership was unclear.
- Owned the independent prototype review using task-based acceptance criteria, resolved an ambiguous exception path and completed a test plan with an explicit stopping rule.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Business Administration
Sep 2008 - Jun 2012
Relevant coursework: Financial accounting, statistics, operations management, organizational behavior
Skills
Role expertise
Requirements analysis · SQL · UAT · Process mapping · Stakeholder management
Certifications
IIBA Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA)
IIBA
Nov 2023
Publications
- Published a personal product case study using the project decision log, explaining rejected alternatives, testable assumptions and the evidence needed before a production launch.


