07/08/2024 - Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Company: Our Client

Location: Regina, SK (On site)

Our client is looking for a Business Analyst (BA) who specializes in understanding business needs and ensuring the solution addresses them. They play a key role in bridging the gap between IT and the business stakeholders and are responsible for assessing business processes, identifying needs, and ensuring solutions deliver value to stakeholders.

RESPONSIBILITIES (included But Not Limited To)

• To elicit requirements from our client internal users and develop detailed requirements for system acquisition, development, or enhancement projects / work orders.
• Work closely with the Business, Project Managers, Solution Architects, Developers and other IT&S resources and 3rd party representatives as applicable to develop the Deliverables listed below.
• Write and maintain test Approach (strategy/plan for functional, integration and user acceptance testing)
• Create complete set of test scenarios and prioritize test scenarios to ensure proper test coverage.
• Create/identify/review and execute manual test scripts.
• Lead test data requirements and test data creation.
• Lead test team and defect meetings (confirm that problems are tracked and addressed)
• Produce status reports and final test phase reports.
• Includes activities such as:
• Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
• Elicitation
• Requirements Management and Communication
• Enterprise Analysis
• Requirements Analysis
• Solution Assessment and Validation
• Testing (General) – not in the BABOK
• Test Case Development (not in the BABOK)
• Business Process Analysis and Modeling
• User Acceptance
• Organizational Change Management
• Analysis
• Identify enhancement requirements from a business perspective.
• Facilitate with our client approved users in requirements definition (functional and non-functional) activities for proposed enhancements and business process redesign.
• Collect demand for enhancements.
• Contribute to forecasting enhancement development requirements (functional and non-functional) and identify implementation priorities with established funding limits.
• Analyze and refine business requirements provided by our client users.
• Provide suggestions to enhance those business requirements that have been received and offer options and provide project documentation for approval as per the T&S process.
• Coordinate agreement on a single requirements definition for applications shared by multiple groups.
• Awareness of business best practices to leverage and enhance business operations.
• Develop/update benefits document that supports the new or enhanced solutions.
• Detailed Requirements Definition (design)
• Prepare detailed application, data conversion, Interface design and technical software application requirements, as required.
• Perform peer review of design documents.
• Define the criteria for acceptance of the requirements.
• Identify any negative impacts on existing operations, maintenance, and service levels.
• Ensure that all data processing, all output requirements (e.g. restart and reprocessing needs) as well as backup and restoration are maintained.
• Test Case Development
• Development and documentation of system integration test cases and user acceptance test cases.
• Facilitate User Acceptance testing including defect management.
• Where applicable, work with other parties (e.g. our client’s users, 3rd Parties) to develop test cases.
• Traceability to requirements
• Application Build or Procurement
• Identify opportunities to enhance existing functionality in accordance with design specifications, development and documentation standards and quality requirements.
• Warranty Support
• Establish warranty expectation and agreement.
• Identify and initiate remedial actions based on warranty agreement and performance monitoring, assessment, and reporting. This includes follow-up of all monitoring, reporting and assessments with: Assignment of responsibility for remediation.
• Test Planning
• Write and maintain testing approach (strategy/plan for functional, integration and user acceptance testing)
• Provide testing task estimates.
• Create complete set of test scenarios and prioritize test scenarios to ensure proper test coverage.
• Test Preparation
• Create/identify/review manual test scripts.
• Lead test data requirements and test data creation.
• Create test schedules.
• Test Execution
• Execute manual test scripts.
• Log defects and enhancements.
• Lead test team and defect meetings.
• Produce status reports and final test phase reports.
• Monitor test progress and resolve or escalate issues as appropriate.
• Testing Transition to Operations
• Identify regression test sets.
• Send any open defects and supporting documentation to operational support teams.
• Provide knowledge transfer to operation support teams.
  

Qualifications & Experience

Education & Certifications

• PROCI certified.
• CBAP certified or equivalent
  
  

General

• Working knowledge of PM best practices
• Ability to understand complex processes and complex business rules.
• Ability to translate technical processes into business language.
• Possesses general understanding in the areas of application programming, database, and system design.
• Proven testing skills and techniques
• Proven documentation skills
• Proven communication and facilitation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with SDLC best practices.
• Able to function within a high level of activity (working with deadlines on several concurrent initiatives).
• Experience writing and maintaining test strategies and test plans.
• Experience creating and prioritizing test scenarios to ensure proper test coverage.
• Experience creating/identifying/reviewing and executing manual test scripts.
• Experience logging defects and enhancements.
• Procurement Document Experience