RFS-1017202 - Intermediate SAP Business Analyst

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Job Title:
RFS Intermediate SAP Business Analyst – 2 Resources

Working Status:
Preference is for onsite.

Location:
Regina, SK

Planned Start date: 11/03/2025

Planned End date: 06/30/2028

Desired Education/Certifications:

• Post-secondary education in computer technology (BSc, MSc)

Desired 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.

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 to

stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• 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 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 approved SaskPower users in requirements definition (functional and nonfunctional) activities for proposed enhancements and business process redesign.
• Collect demand for enhancements.
• Contribute to forecasting enhancement development requirements (functional and nonfunctional) 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 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 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.