Business Analyst

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Chicken Farmers of Ontario's (CFO) staff-associates are critical to CFO’s success in providing high quality, high impact solutions to Ontario’s chicken industry value chain stakeholders and Ontario consumers.

The Ontario chicken industry is one of the most successful supply managed industries in the country and accounts for over $3.7 billion in overall economic activity in the province.

CFO has a long-standing strategy of rewarding talent and experience which has been designed to attract, retain, and motivate high performers and strategic thinkers. At CFO, staff-associates work collaboratively in a modern _‘employer of choice’ _environment enjoying competitive wages and benefits while immersed in a sustainable culture that stimulates leadership, accountability, excellence, collaboration, and innovation. CFO’s business operations are enabled by information systems and technology.

CFO is leading positive change and building value as Canada’s premier provider of trusted, family-farmed, safe high-quality chicken. Representing over 1,300 family farmers in the province, CFO is responsible for a growing, profitable, and sustainable chicken industry.

**The chicken business is growing, and so is Chicken Farmers of Ontario**

**Business Analyst (Contract)**

The Chicken Farmers of Ontario (CFO) Business Analyst is responsible for reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating business systems and user needs that will enhance the user experience. Your main tasks will include performing detailed requirements analysis, documenting processes, and performing some user acceptance testing. You will work closely with system analysts, developers, infrastructure analyst and business analyst to not only build incredible Farmer-Member facing products, but also developer-facing tools.

This role must be leading business requirements, processes and have excellent organizational, leadership, and communication skills. You will have exposure to every aspect of the software development cycle, and you will be collaborating with business stakeholders to innovate on dynamic solutions to drive value for our stakeholders.

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**
- Participate in the consideration, planning, and execution of CFO Connects Platform (web and mobile components) initiatives designed to meet organization strategic objectives.
- Work alongside internal business counterparts to gather, define and review requirements, process flows and user specifications
- Facilitate workshops to gather business requirements and document existing business processes.
- Clearly document business processes to generate and define requirements as an active participant in both discovery and development process.
- Work with the IT solution leaders to develop wire-frame models and UI prototypes.
- Own and deliver BA artifacts including tracking and documenting changes from asset remediation, current and future state process flows, data flow diagrams etc. as needed.
- Plan, coordinate and participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle to ensure project goals and objectives are accomplished within the expected schedule, scope
- Work closely with Project Manager and/or leadership to provide regular updates on project status, including raising risks, issues, and impediments in a timely manner.

**Key Competencies**
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge of BA methodologies and best practices
- Strong leadership and facilitation competencies to drive requirements process
- Build trusted relationship with business units
- Demonstrates advanced writing and documentation skills
- Possesses advance level problem-solving and analytical skills
- Can communicate with varying stakeholders in different situations (e.g., one-on-one meetings, formal requirements gathering sessions, etc.)
- Possesses solid influencing and negotiating skill
- Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the business and the current IT environment
- Perform other duties as assigned

**System Quality Assurance**
- Develop QA and UAT test strategy and plan, and review test cases, test scripts and test suites to ensure optimum coverage of requirements to deliver a high-quality solution
- Lead the execution of QA and UAT test plan for the developed solution
- Assist in development and execution of training and change management
- Work with the business to use and ensure there are no defects upon implementation
- Tracks and manages defects and works with the team to prioritize and resolve them; acts as a catalyst for continuous improvement
- Monitor and measure key metrics across the various processes and solutions
- Good understanding of end-to-end defect tracking, communication and management of QA bugs found from the testing life cycle.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

**Education**:Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Engineering Information Systems, or equivalent

experience, and proven demonstrable skills and experienc