Business Analyst 7660

Job title:

Business Analyst 7660

Company

Foilcon

Job description

Job Description:HM Note: This hybrid role is three (3) days onsite.Description:Provides a comprehensive range of I&IT business analysis services for clients with diverse business and technological needs. Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements. Prepares and advises on business analysis policies, processes, best practices and standards to promote a comprehensive and consistent business analysis practice within the organization.Business Analyst, Senior, to work as part of the Project Management & Program Delivery project team in collaboration with the core project team, solution delivery vendor(s) and other stakeholders as required.

• Provide support during the design, analysis, implementation and testing phases of the project.
• Conduct data analysis to determine existing and new data rules and create business mapping documents.
• Writes and maintains ETL transformation rules using tools such as source-target-mappings.
• Experience in quality assurance.
• Knowledge and experience in the use of test tools and methodologies (Waterfall/Agile/Iterative)
• Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle
• Report progress of assignment on a regular basis to Project Management, raise any issue and concerns and propose mitigation strategies.
• Conduct feasibility analysis, project scoping and provide project work estimates.
• Conduct Joint Requirements Planning and Joint Application Design sessions.
• Analyze and map processes / data for current state and future state.
• Requirements development involving requirements elicitation, elaboration, analysis, specification and validation.
• Write, refine, and maintain the user stories, groom the product, and sprint backlog
• Analyse and document the accessibility requirements
• Plan and support the user acceptance testing
• Use of ministry mandated requirement management tools and templates for requirements
• Review and feedback of technical design documents.
• Conduct and/or participate in walkthroughs at each project milestones plan
• Work with Development team and Testing team to resolve issues reported by clients.
• Knowledge transfer to TS and I&IT Cluster at all stages of the assignment.
• Report status to, and follow overall direction from the Project Manager and/or Lead Business Analyst.

The Deliverables include (but are not limited to):

• Business Cases and Request for Bids
• Business requirements / rules
• Business process models
• System Requirements specifications
• User epics, stories and themes / Product backlog and sprint plans
• Business and data mapping documents
• Writes and maintains ETL mapping documents
• Business / Data Glossary
• Business and System use cases
• Data requirements / models (conceptual / logical)
• Functional and Non-functional requirements
• Requirements Traceability Matrices
• User Interface specifications, low and high fidelity prototypes
• Report specifications
• Test plan/strategies, test cases, test reports
• Risks and Issues
• Status reports
• Work plans, e.g. requirements management plan
• Artefacts/documents required for enterprise architecture development from a business needs point-of-view (contextual and conceptual), as required for the Architecture Governance Point review process
• Other artefacts as determined by the project

Support to Development and Test teams in following areas (but are not limited to):

• Building and testing support to development team
• Reviewing test strategy, test plan and cases
• Management of defect logs
• Perform quality assurance and system integration testing
• Supporting end-user inquiries
• Defining the integration test plan
• Defining the user acceptance test plan
• Oversee and collaborate in the tasks for user acceptance testing
• Identification and resolution of problems/issues
• Document and manage risks and liaise with other project teams to coordinate project interdependencies.
• Documentation of all artefacts in a shared project library and devOps

SkillsExperience and Skill Set RequirementsGeneral Skills:

• Experience in managing user stories with Agile, SCRUM, Lean, DevOps methodologies
• Proficiently uses SQL queries to analyze data requirements and application business rules
• Knowledge and understanding of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
• Experience in business analysis for the development of applications using but not limited to Java, Siebel, ETL (pl/sql and Informatica), etc.
• Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess client’s business problems/opportunities and documents the business requirements in such a way that I&IT solutions can be determined
• Applies re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost effective service delivery approaches
• Leads and conducts business analysis at varying levels of detail appropriate to the project and phases of project, aligning with OPS Unified Project Management Methodology, Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process, and OPS Standard Systems Development Methodologies
• Develops strategies, prepares business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives
• Develops sound processes for requirements gathering including but not limited to JAD sessions, interviews, mockups, etc.
• Conducts business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for assigned projects
• Monitors progress, resolves problems and reports regularly to I&IT management and stakeholders
• Develops performance measures and traceability matrices for business analysis evaluation and conducts follow-up
• Experience developing strategies, preparing business cases and cost-benefit analysis
• Experience conducting requirements gathering, developing documentation, including presentations and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement
• Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to document conceptual requirements and scope
• Awareness of emerging I&IT trends and technologies
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in the use of information retrieval packages
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
• Ability to translate business and data requirements into specifications sufficient for designing appropriate technology solutions
• Experience with a wide range of methods, tools and techniques for business analysis such as: business functional modelling, business event modelling, business process mapping
• Experience in structured, object oriented and agile methodologies for user requirements
• Experience developing performance measures for business analysis evaluation and subsequent follow-up
• Provides a comprehensive range of I&IT business analysis services for clients with diverse
• business and technological needs. Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject
• Subject matter experts in order to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.
• Strong communicator who is able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, with the team members and across business lines.

Knowledge Transfer Requirements:

• Knowledge transfer is expected to occur throughout the duration of the assignment through regular meetings, touchpoints, and working sessions with LRC staff
• All design, development, artefacts, and source code, including all relevant and complete documents must be transferred to the ministry in the designated repositories provided
• Dedicated knowledge transfer sessions will be scheduled during the close-out phase of the project to ensure completeness of knowledge transfer and all documentation is shared, and allow LRC staff to ask clarification and/or follow up questions

Evaluation Criteria * Business Analysis including SQL – 40%

• Client and technical team Interaction – 20%
• Documentation – 20%
• Communication Skills – 10%
• Agile/DevOps experience – 10%

Nice to havePublic Service Experience

Expected salary

Location

Toronto, ON

Job date

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 03:25:33 GMT

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