Senior Business Analyst
- St. John's, NL, Canada
Compensation : $85.00-$105.00 per hour (depending on skills and experience) · Contract
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- Pay
- Compensation : $85.00-$105.00 per hour (depending on skills and experience)
- Job type
- Contract
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- Experience
- Minimum 7 years of experience working as a Business Analyst, preferably in complex enterprise or public-sector environments.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
StafinGo Is Hiring | Senior Business Analyst – Business Transformation & Modernization
Location: St.John, Newfoundland, Canada
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Duration : November 16th, 2026-March 31st, 2027
Option to extend: Yes
Work Model: Hybrid
Industry: Public Sector | Digital Transformation
Compensation : $85.00-$105.00 per hour (depending on skills and experience)
About the Opportunity :
StafinGo is hiring a Senior Business Analyst on behalf of our client for a business modernization initiative focused on improving operational processes, enhancing digital service delivery, and supporting technology-driven transformation.
The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, and project leadership to gather and validate requirements, analyze existing processes, support solution design, and facilitate testing activities to ensure successful project delivery.
Key Responsibilities :
- Lead business analysis activities throughout the project lifecycle, including discovery, requirements elicitation, documentation, validation, and stakeholder sign-off.
- Facilitate workshops, interviews, and working sessions with business stakeholders to identify business needs, functional requirements, and opportunities for process improvement.
- Translate business requirements into clear documentation, including business requirements documents (BRDs), functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process flows.
- Analyze existing business processes, identify gaps and inefficiencies, and recommend improvements that support operational effectiveness and digital modernization.
- Collaborate with business users, developers, quality assurance teams, and project managers to ensure requirements are clearly understood and solutions align with business objectives.
- Develop and maintain process maps, workflows, wireframes, and other visual artifacts to support solution design and stakeholder alignment.
- Prepare and support test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on approved business requirements.
- Coordinate and participate in functional, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT), including defect tracking, issue resolution, and validation of expected outcomes.
- Monitor testing progress, maintain requirements traceability, and support the resolution of gaps between business expectations and delivered solutions.
- Support change management activities, including stakeholder communications, process documentation, training materials, and implementation readiness.
- Maintain project documentation and provide clear updates to stakeholders on requirements, risks, issues, dependencies, and deliverables.
- Use business analysis and project collaboration tools to manage requirements, document workflows, track activities, and support delivery teams.
Required Qualifications :
- Minimum 7 years of experience working as a Business Analyst, preferably in complex enterprise or public-sector environments.
- Experience supporting large-scale business transformation, technology modernization, or digital service improvement initiatives.
- Strong expertise in business requirements gathering, analysis, documentation, validation, and stakeholder management.
- Demonstrated experience in business process analysis, process improvement, and change management.
- Hands-on experience developing test plans, test cases, test scripts, and supporting user acceptance testing.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders across business and technical teams.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, facilitate discussions, resolve requirement gaps, and deliver high-quality documentation.
- Post-secondary education in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline from a recognized institution.
Preferred Qualifications :
- Experience working on complex, large-scale modernization projects, ideally involving 3–6 years of relevant project experience.
- Familiarity with apprenticeship programs or other government-administered service delivery programs.
- Experience using Azure DevOps for requirements management, work-item tracking, defect management, or testing.
- Experience with wireframing and process-modelling tools.
- Professional certifications in business analysis, project management, or related disciplines.
What We're Looking For :
We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical professional who can bridge the gap between business needs and technology solutions. The ideal candidate brings strong stakeholder engagement skills, structured analytical thinking, and the ability to contribute to complex modernization initiatives from requirements discovery through testing and implementation.
Interested?
If you have strong business analysis experience and a background in enterprise modernization or digital transformation, we would love to hear from you.
Apply today or reach out directly to the StafinGo recruitment team to learn more about this opportunity.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Lead business analysis across the project lifecycle, gathering and documenting requirements, analyzing processes, and collaborating with business and technical teams to shape solutions. Support testing and implementation through test planning, UAT coordination, traceability, change management, and clear project documentation and stakeholder updates.
Requirements
Requires at least seven years of business analyst experience, preferably in complex enterprise or public-sector settings, along with experience in transformation or modernization initiatives. Candidates need strong requirements, process improvement, stakeholder engagement, and testing skills, plus post-secondary education in business, computer science, information technology, or a related discipline.
Skills
- Business Analysis
- Requirements Elicitation
- Requirements Documentation
- Stakeholder Management
- Business Process Analysis
- Process Improvement
- Change Management
- Workshop Facilitation
- Functional Specifications
- User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
- Process Mapping
- Wireframing
- Test Planning
- User Acceptance Testing
- Azure DevOps
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Categories
- Government & Public Sector
- Data & Analytics
- Technology
- Management & Leadership
- Consulting
Keywords
- Business Analysis
- Business Transformation
- Digital Transformation
- Technology Modernization
- Public Sector
- Requirements Elicitation
- Functional Specifications
- User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
- Process Flows
- Business Process Analysis
- Process Improvement
- Stakeholder Management
- Change Management
- Wireframes
- Process Modeling
- Test Strategies
- Test Plans
- Test Cases
- Test Scripts
- Functional Testing
- Integration Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- Defect Management
- Requirements Traceability
- Azure DevOps
- Apprenticeship Programs
- Digital Service Delivery