RQ09032 - Business Analyst - Senior

About the job RQ09032 - Business Analyst - Senior

Description

Description Section for Assignment in VMS (Flextrack):

The Ministry is seeking the services of one (1) Business Analyst, Level 3, 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, implementation and testing phases of the project.

Report progress of assignment on a regular basis to Project Management, raise any issue and concerns and propose mitigation strategies.

Lead and/or participate in teams developing solutions within MTO's Transportation Safety (TS) Division.

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.

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 milestone.

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.

Deliverables include (but are not limited to):

• Business Cases and Request for Bids
• Business requirements / rules
• Business process models
• System Requirements specifications
• Business / Data Glossary
• Business and System use cases
• User epics, stories and themes / Product backlog and sprint plans
• Functional and Non-functional requirements
• Requirements Traceability Matrices
• User Interface specifications, low and high fidelity prototypes
• Report specifications
• Test plan/strategies, test cases
• Risks and Issues
• 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
• Defining the integration test plan
• Defining the user acceptance test
• 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.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements for Assignment in VMS (Flextrack):

Skill Set Requirements

Knowledge with Solutions Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and structured methodologies including agile, waterfall and iterative

Demonstrable experience with Business Object Oriented Modeling, UML tools and techniques.

Demonstrable skills and experience with documenting deliverables outlined in Deliverables section

Work Experience in investigating, analyzing, estimating system applications in a large integrated mainframe and mid-tier environment

Proven experience with all stages of automated system implementation in complex mainframe, with online and batch transactions

Proven experience with sprint facilitation, interpretation of business needs to technical requirements, facilitation of project meetings for reviews

Experience with the Public Sector architecture.

Demonstrable knowledge of Public Sector applications, databases and systems; demonstrated experience working with legacy infrastructure hosting environments such as mainframe with complex applications; Experience with supporting legacy applications and transformation of legacy solutions using COTS products such as Oracle Siebel

Demonstrable knowledge and experience working in accordance with policies and procedures of Public Service Sector

Demonstrable knowledge of Project Management framework in the Public Sector and Architecture Checkpoint requirements

Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.

Experience in conducting feasibility analysis, project scoping and providing project work estimates

Experience with requirements development involving requirements elicitation, analysis, specification and validation

Experience with documenting user stories, planning