Position Title: RFS 1019388- Senior Business Analyst
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan – Onsite
Mode: Contract
Client: SaskPower
Position Overview
Client is seeking a Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager to support the delivery of small to medium-sized Cybersecurity, IT, and Infrastructure projects.
A successful candidate will be responsible for performing a combination of Business Analysis, Project Management, Project Administration, Requirements Management, Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities. The role requires a strong understanding of IT environments, business processes, project delivery methodologies, and security/infrastructure initiatives.
The ideal candidate will act as a key liaison between business stakeholders, Project Managers, Solution Architects, Developers, IT&S resources, vendors, and third-party representatives to ensure that business requirements are clearly defined, solutions are appropriately validated, and projects are successfully transitioned into operations.
Key Responsibilities
Business Analysis & Requirements Management
- Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and manage business requirements for system acquisition, development, enhancement, and project work orders.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders and approved SaskPower users to define functional and non-functional requirements.
- Identify enhancement opportunities from a business and operational perspective.
- Analyze and refine business requirements and recommend appropriate options and solutions.
- Facilitate agreement on requirements across multiple business groups and stakeholders.
- Conduct business process analysis, modelling, and redesign.
- Identify business impacts associated with proposed solutions and enhancements.
- Develop and maintain business benefits documentation supporting new or enhanced solutions.
- Define requirements acceptance criteria and establish requirements traceability.
- Identify potential impacts to existing operations, maintenance activities, service levels, and business processes.
- Ensure requirements related to data processing, outputs, backup, restoration, restart, and reprocessing are appropriately documented.
- Perform peer reviews of requirements and design documentation.
Project Management & Coordination
- Support the planning and execution of small to medium-sized IT, Cybersecurity, and Infrastructure projects.
- Perform project planning, scope management, integration management, and project execution activities.
- Provide strong project administration and coordination support.
- Coordinate activities across Business, Project Management, Solution Architecture, Development, IT&S, Security, and third-party teams.
- Track project activities, dependencies, deliverables, risks, issues, and timelines.
- Prepare project status reports and other project documentation as required.
- Coordinate stakeholder meetings and facilitate discussions to achieve project objectives.
- Support forecasting of enhancement development requirements and implementation priorities within established funding constraints.
- Assist with application acquisition, development, enhancement, and procurement activities.
Testing & Quality Assurance
- Develop and maintain comprehensive testing strategies and test plans covering functional, integration, and User Acceptance Testing.
- Estimate testing tasks and testing effort.
- Develop complete test scenarios and prioritize them to ensure adequate test coverage.
- Create, identify, review, and execute manual test scripts.
- Develop and document System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) cases.
- Ensure test cases and scenarios are traceable to documented requirements.
- Identify and coordinate test data requirements and test data creation.
- Develop test schedules and coordinate testing activities.
- Facilitate UAT with business stakeholders and third-party representatives where applicable.
- Log, monitor, track, and coordinate resolution of defects and enhancements.
- Lead test team meetings and defect management meetings.
- Monitor testing progress and resolve or escalate issues as appropriate.
- Prepare testing status reports and final test phase reports.
- Identify regression test requirements and support regression testing.
Transition to Operations & Warranty Support
- Support the transition of tested solutions into operational environments.
- Identify and document outstanding defects and provide supporting information to operational support teams.
- Facilitate knowledge transfer to operations and support teams.
- Establish warranty expectations and support agreements.
- Monitor warranty performance and initiate remedial actions where required.
- Coordinate follow-up activities related to warranty monitoring, reporting, and assessment.
- Assign and track responsibility for remediation activities.
Required Skills & Experience
- 8+ years of relevant professional experience in Business Analysis, Project Management, or a combination of both.
- Strong experience working within IT environments.
- Experience supporting small to medium-sized projects.
- Experience with Cybersecurity and/or IT Infrastructure projects is highly preferred.
- Experience working within IT and Operational Technology (OT) environments is an asset.
- Strong requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and management experience.
- Strong understanding of business process analysis and modelling.
- Experience with functional and non-functional requirements.
- Proven experience developing test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, and test cases.
- Strong experience with manual testing, UAT, SIT, defect management, and regression testing.
- Experience working within Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies and best practices.
- Strong project coordination and project administration skills.
- Ability to understand complex business processes, rules, and technical environments.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business language.
- General understanding of application development, databases, interfaces, and system design.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, communication, and facilitation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and meet tight deadlines.
- Experience working with internal stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and third-party representatives.
- Experience with procurement documentation is an asset.
Preferred Certifications
The following certifications are considered assets:
- PROSCI Certification
- CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) or equivalent
- PMI-PBA
