Job Description

Job Title: RQ05931 - Business Analyst - Senior

Client: Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services

Work Location: 5700 Yonge street, Toronto, Ontario, Hybrid

Estimated Start Date: 2023-09-18

Estimated End Date: 2024-03-31

#Business Days: 140.00

Extension: Probable after the initial mandate

Hours per day or Week: 7.25 hours per day

Security Level: CRJMC

Mandatory Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience with Agile project methodology leveraging Jira and/or DevOps
• 5+ years of experience transposing requirements into coherent user stories
• 5+ years of experience Strong communications, consultations and interpersonal skills to determine client needs
• 5+ years of experience working with both the business users and IT development teams
• 5+ years of experience in database concepts

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• Hands on experience with Curam

Description

Responsibilities:

• Work in partnership with clients, advising them on information technology in order to meet their business objectives or overcome problems, work to improve structure and efficiency of an organization\xe2\x80\x99s I&IT systems.
• Consult with clients on the changes/modifications, recommend and develop training plans,
• Facilitate and lead in-depth workshops to elicit, review and confirm business requirements, business models, business rules, user, interface design
• Uses requirements traceability matrix to link users\xe2\x80\x99 requirements, business rules and conditions to systems use cases and test cases
• Analyze user requirements, generation of prototypes for user consultation and the design, testing, documentation, implementation and maintenance of applications.
• Is able to identify constraints and assumptions and then documents and present them to project teams
• Responsible for, but not limited to ensuring the team is proactive in completing priorities and deliverables as well as ensuring requirements are well-understood, documented, and accurate.
• Participates in planning application development activities, provides direction, guidance and support to technical staff
• Establish the backlog as a source of truth from which the team can deliver
• Provide systems analysis and design expertise in the development and maintenance of the Ministry application systems
• Contributes to writing test cases for application, system, usability and user acceptance testing
• Provide guidance to organization with regard to information management & IT technology, IT infrastructures and the enablement of major business processes through enhancements to IT

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Core Skills - 35%

• Experience with Agile project methodology
• Experience assembling requirements into coherent user stories and use cases
• Experience in managing the Product Backlog Items, refining them and communicate changes to project manager/Team Lead
• Experience to feed work to the team and dedicated to looking ahead at upcoming work and grooming requirements so that they\xe2\x80\x99re well-understood, documented, and ready to go
• Breaks epics down into stories and defines acceptance criteria in each story
• Experience documenting requirements in the format of concise and clear user stories
• Meets with the Product Owner and end-users to understand the team\xe2\x80\x99s work
• Act as a proxy Product Owner for the team, where the BA answers questions or facilitates decisions on behalf of an absent Product Owner
• Explain and present very complex technical analyses, options, proposals, reports and recommendations to clients
• Experience with user acceptance testing; working with UI/UX designer and business analyst to plan usability and user acceptance testing sessions including screening and recruiting, facilitate user testing sessions, document and present research findings

Technical Knowledge and Expertise - 30%

• working knowledge of business system technologies to provide technical expertise and advice
• experience with design, develop, test and implement systems solutions, and evaluate software/ hardware
• knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle Methodologies and Agile project methodology
• experience with advanced application prototyping
• experience in the analysis and design of Microsoft Azure Cloud Based Applications and advanced workflows using Microsoft Flow & Logic Apps
• knowledge in Microsoft Power Platform App (
• experience with creating and managing user stories using Microsoft Team Foundation Server and DevOps and/or Jira
• knowledge of design methodologies in Internet-based and/or distributed environments
• knowledge with ITIL Processes for Change/Release, relational and hierarchical data base technologies, use of information retrieval packages using SQL and other query
• knowledge of front end, web-based technologies and data-mining/reporting-based COTS tools encompassing feasibility studies, requirements definition, analysis, prototyping, system design, implementation, testing and maintenance
• advanced technical knowledge of large hardware and software operations and utilities, productivity tools, client server architecture, online processing systems, web-based technologies, Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and database management systems
• knowledge of rules-based engines based in COTS applications like C\xc3\xbaram
• knowledge of emerging IT trends and technologies
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards

Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills - 15%

• you can gather information on client problems, services and business goals/objectives
• you can evaluate requirements and review options for solution, assess cost/benefit of options, evaluate alternative conceptual systems designs and potential impact of proposed system changes on existing service delivery
• you can recommend approaches and discuss with clients and project stakeholders

Project Management and Communication Skills - 20%

• Knowledge of project management and in-depth knowledge of task estimation, scheduling and control
• Can help plan, develop, manage, control projects and resolve complex technical design problems
• Can gather information, clarify needs and desired system changes, explain system development recommendations, explain and provide instruction on new/modified systems and technology
• Can prepare business cases, systems documentation, user manuals and guidelines
• Can clarify and discuss systems development options with clients
• Can solicit requirements from business end-users, partners and stakeholders and communicate them to project teams

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