Posted on November 25, 2024.

Senior Business Analyst

Hybrid  Contract  Mid-Senior level

About the job

Must Haves:

  • Experience with documenting deliverables (Functional and Non-functional requirements, System Requirements Specifications, Business requirements / rules, Business Process Models, Data Requirements / Models (conceptual / logical), Risks and Issues, Business and System Use Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrices, Status Reports, Test Plan / Strategies, Test Cases etc.)

  • Demonstrated experience with JAD/Sprint session facilitation and the ability to interpret business needs to technical requirements


Nice to have:

  • Prior Ops experience / Public sector


Deliverables/Skill Set requirements:

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.

The 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

• 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

• 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

· Testing Applications

· Supporting end-user inquiries

· Defining the integration test plan

· Defining the user acceptance test plan

· 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.

Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Evaluation Project Requirements Evaluation Breakdown


Modeling and Methodologies - 25%

  • Demonstrated experience with the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and methodologies such as waterfall and Agile methods with a focus on iterative development and delivery with proven ability to lead sprints.

  • Demonstrated experience with Business Object Oriented Modelling, UML tools and techniques

  • Demonstrated experience with Public Sector Digital Service Standard and Digital assessment processes

  • Experience with the Zachman framework , Public Sector Architecture Governance Points and deliverables


Technical Skills - 15%

  • Proven experience in investigating, analyzing and estimating system applications in a large integrated mainframe and mid-tier environment

  • Experience with all stages of automated system implementation in complex mainframe, with online batch, and Financial reconciliation transactions

  • Experience working with legacy infrastructure hosting environments such as mainframe with complex applications; Experience with supporting legacy applications and modernizing

  • Demonstrated experience with implementation of business solutions using Custom off the Shelf solution implementations such as Oracle Siebel based systems and photo comparison technologies

  • Ability to document requirements using story boarding utilizing tools such as Azure DevOps and Jira

  • Demonstrated experience with HP ALM (Quality Center) to support test activities

  • Experience with prototyping tools to deliver high quality prototypes and mock-ups

  • Experience with submitting and managing project collateral (conceptual and logical) in repository tools such as PowerDesigner

  • Experience with reporting tools such as Microsoft Power BI


Business Analysis Skills - 25%

  • Experience with engaging business and IT stakeholders, understand requirements for new functionality or changes to existing ones and providing high level and detailed estimates

  • Ability to write high quality business cases, working with corporate governance bodies and navigating approvals

  • Experience with documenting deliverables (Functional and Non-functional requirements, System Requirements Specifications, Business requirements / rules, Business Process Models, Data Requirements / Models (conceptual / logical), Risks and Issues, Business and System Use Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrices, Status Reports, Test Plan / Strategies, Test Cases etc.)

  • Demonstrated experience with JAD/Sprint session facilitation and the ability to interpret business needs to technical requirements

  • Demonstrated ability in conducting feasibility analysis, project scoping and providing project work estimates

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

Communication Skills - 15%

  • Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Demonstrated experience in the facilitation of project meetings for reviews

  • Experience in reporting progress of assignment on a regular basis to Project Management and raise any issues / concerns and propose mitigation strategies

  • Experience with creating automated information and status reporting


Business Subject Matter Knowledge and Expertise - 15%

  • Good understanding of program & service concepts, general and best practices, business processes & rules, stakeholders & relationships, service delivery models (incl. self service / digital service), private & public partnership, etc in complex and high-impact critical Public services related to licensing, registration, permit, enforcement, safety inspection, photo identification and related fraud prevention line of businesses, services, or functional areas, in relation to I&IT application software delivery


Public Sector Experience - 5%

  • Experience with Public Sector I&IT Solutions architecture, application design, quality assurance standards, project delivery methodologies, and practices

  • Demonstrable knowledge of Public Sector applications, databases and systems while developing cross cluster, multi-year business solutions including knowledge of Custom off the Shelf product implementations with third party vendors

  • Experience working in accordance with Acts, Policies and Procedures of Public Sector Services

Azure DevOps Services - Business Requirements - Business Rules - Business Systems Analysis - Joint Application Design (JAD) - Microsoft Power BI - Object Oriented Modeling - Siebel - System Requirements - Zachman