Senior Qa - Business Analyst

Title: Senior Business Analyst

Duration: 623 Business Days contract + extension

Location: Toronto/ Kingston, ON (Hybrid)

Description:

Responsibilities:

• Conduct use case review and design walk-through sessions with business stakeholders, developers and testers, update specifications as required and direct developers in the development of the application
• Provide interpretation, advice, and expertise to client groups and other stakeholders, including direction on how to transform analytics into actionable information and proactive insights that support decision making
• Coordinate production releases
• Develop supporting documentation required for the project
• Participate in an agile-based project developing user stories and use cases, collaborating on design and user feedback sessions
• Work with functional area experts, Data Architects, ETL Developers, Business Analysts, Operations and stakeholders to understand complex business issues and develop appropriate Business Intelligence solutions
• Escalate risks, issues and concerns to the DERB Senior Manager
• Conduct requirements focus groups with policy/business subject matter experts and stakeholder groups to obtain:
• Business requirements
• Work closely with client groups to assess current data analytics and reporting capabilities, gather future-state requirements and identify further opportunities for improvement
• Conduct form design, data analysis, workflow analysis and process design for automated and non-automated interfaces
• Work closely with subject matter experts to elicit business and system requirements and business process mapping
• Own the execution of analytic initiatives including end-to-end reporting and data set delivery
• Develop and document test suites and test cases to support user acceptance testing
• Provide business and policy analysis for business requirement development
• Analyze and document the as-is and to-be business processes/workflows
• Update business models including activity diagrams, conceptual and logical data models, process models, sequence diagrams, state charts, etc.
• Stakeholder requirements (defining how stakeholders will interact and use the business solutions) and
• Coordinate and conduct application demos to end-users, system partners and other stakeholders
• Develop robust statistical models and machine learning algorithms to model business scenarios and extract valid inferences
• Coordinate with the Delivery & Eligibility Review Branch (DERB) Senior Manager to ensure business scope and objectives are met
• Communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear and precise manner, providing useful visuals and summaries
• Support the development of I&IT business solutions by validating system design to ensure business requirements are met
• Conduct user acceptance testing and provide guidance and direction for the overall system implementation and rollout
• Document detailed business and/or system requirements, create use case model and use case specifications and associated UML diagrams, UI storyboard and specifications, and non-functional specifications
• Analyze business needs and make recommendations for solution requirements and/or process improvements
• Participate in the development and testing of system forms
• I&IT solution requirements (functional, non-functional and implementation)

Technical Skills

• Experience developing business models; use case models; conceptual and logical data models; process and data flow models; use case surveys; test cases; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for assigned projects
• Demonstrated experience in business analysis to support systems development using a rules engine or business process automation platform
• Demonstrated experience in projects using an agile development methodology

Business Analysis Skills

• Experience conducting policy and business analysis that can be accommodated within existing frameworks and IT solutions to minimize project time/cost implications
• Knowledge and understanding of policy development and analysis, business analysis and data analysis practices
• Demonstrated experience documenting requirements for business rule automation and workflow management solutions
• Experience developing project approval documents, policy approval documents and regulation change materials and other supporting documentation needed for the project
• Demonstrated experience applying business process transformation and re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative, cost effective service delivery approaches
• Demonstrated experience leading and conducting business analysis to assess client’s business problems/opportunities and documenting business requirements
• Demonstrated experience leading and conducting business analysis at varying levels of detail, appropriate to the project and phases of project, aligning with Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process
• Experience developing and providing input to QA, system and user acceptance testing strategies, plans and scenarios

Healthcare Experience

• Demonstrated experience supporting stakeholder engagement activities, particularly in a healthcare context
• Demonstrated experience with the privacy and security requirements of software development in a healthcare or clinical context
• Demonstrated experience in claim adjudication or pharmaceutical context
• Demonstrated experience in a health or clinical context