RQ09995 - Business Analyst - Senior

RQ Business Analyst - Senior

1 year and 4 months contract

ONSITE - Location options - 87 Sir William Hearst Ave., Toronto, Ontario M3M 0B4 or 301 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, Ontario L2R 7R4

1 Opening - 1 submission

Labour and Transportation Cluster - Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement

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.

Must-have's:

• 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.)
• 7 + years of experience