Senior Business Analyst

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