POSITION DESCRIPTION
A Business Analyst (BA) 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 t stakeholders.
MANDATORY EXPERIENCE:
Demonstrated senior level IT project delivery experience with over 8 years of business analysis including end-to-end requirements management; workshop and presentation facilitation; business process modeling; Azure DevOps; Project administration;
Seniority
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Seniority |
Relevant Years of Experience |
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Junior |
3-5 |
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Intermediate |
6-7 |
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Senior |
8+ |
DESIRED EXPERIENCE:
Understanding of user-centered design, agile delivery, and principles of business architecture. Previous vendor management experience, including procurement (RFP) activities and coordination between external parties; Previous experience with highly secure IT solutions is an asset
DELIVERABLES:
Requirements Management
Requirements elicitation
User Story documentation
Business Process Workflow Modeling
Test Planning
Requirements Traceability
Technical and non technical documentation
Workshop facilitation
Journey Mapping
Capability Mapping
Product support design
Other tasks as assigned by the Nuclear Business Technology team
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:
Education & Certifications
PROCI certified.
CBAP certified or equivalent
Bachelor's in Business Admin, Engineering, Computer Science;
CBAP; PMP; Agile certifications;
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 a general understanding of 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
Each proposed resource has no disqualifying criminal history
RESPONSIBILITIES (included but not limited to):
To elicit requirements from SaskPower 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 a test Approach (strategy/plan for functional, integrati,on and user acceptance testing)
Create a 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 approved SaskPower 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 SaskPower 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 the 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. SaskPower’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 a 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 Operations
Identify regression test sets.
Send any open defects and supporting documentation to operational support teams. Provide knowledge transfer to operation support teams.