RQ00702 - Business Analyst - Senior

Maarut•Toronto, ON

About The Position

The Business Analyst - Senior will provide business analysis support to the EWMS SWMS project and vendor teams during design workshops. This role is responsible for creating requirements traceability matrices and converting requirements into JIRA for testing and traceability. The analyst will participate in the creation of test plans and test cases, as well as test execution, defect triage and management, and test results reporting. They will also provide testing status, issues/risks, and other reporting as required. Key deliverables include eliciting, documenting, and obtaining approvals for Business Requirements Documents (BRD) from stakeholders, preparing test plans, test cases, scenarios, and results documents, and supporting/executing various technical tests. The role also involves analyzing results, creating reports for management, tracking problems, defects, and issues, and potentially other responsibilities such as Benefits Realization Planning.

Requirements

University degree in Business Administration or Information Systems or Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
Minimum ten (10) years of application systems experience performing requirements elicitation and analysis, facilitating workshops with business stakeholders, and documenting business requirements for large-scale technology implementation projects.
2+ years experience with Maximo (v9, v8 or v7), Technical/Functional Skills Strong Expertise in IBM Maximo Asset Management / IBM Maximo Application Suite
Extensive experience supporting the implementation and sustainment of large-scale IT solutions including analysis, architecture, design, testing and roll-out.
Minimum ten (10) years of experience evaluating, recommending, and documenting business workflow, procedures, roles & responsibilities and systems integration and conversion strategies.
Considerable experience documenting "as-is" and designing "to-be" business processes, utilizing Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard.
Experience to identify and implement opportunities for business improvement, collaborate effectively and productively with other department leaders without conflict or confusion.
Experience in QA and testing techniques, including planning, creating test data, and conducting functional testing, facilitating UAT and other types of testing in an enterprise environment; experience with HP ALM suite would be an asset.
Demonstrated experience in and knowledge of current and emerging information & technology concepts such as mobile computing, GUI design principles, document management, business/data modelling methodologies, information management, data analysis, business intelligence, Agile methodologies, multiple-platform, network centric computing environment.
Experience with Maximo implementation is an important requirement, most notably serving the areas of asset management, including planning, preventative maintenance, capital project delivery, contract/vendor management, service requests and work orders using web, geospatial and mobile technology.

Nice To Haves

Experience with HP ALM suite

Responsibilities

Provide business analysis support to EWMS SWMS project and vendor teams during the design workshops.
Responsible for creating requirements traceability matrix and conversion of requirements into JIRA for testing and traceability purposes.
Participate in the creation of test plans and test cases as well as test execution, defect triage and management and test results reporting.
Provide testing status, issues/risks and other reporting as required.
Elicit, document, and obtain approvals / signoffs on Business Requirements Document (BRD) from the stakeholders.
Prepare test plans, test cases, scenarios, and results documents.
Support / execute various types of technical tests (unit, functional, integration, system, regression, penetration, performance, and user acceptance testing).
Analyze results and creating reports for Management as needed.
Track problems, defects, and issues on the project.
Other responsibilities like Benefits Realization Planning that may be assigned.