Business Analyst, Job offer in Toronto, Ontario

PRIMARY DUTIES

As a Business Analyst, you will:

• Define, analyze and document business requirements in the form of process workflows, DFDs, BRDs, and tracking the ongoing changes of these documents
• Perform activities to better understand the constantly changing needs of the business, and assess the impact of those changes
• Support the communication and delivery of requirements through the complete system development life cycle (SDLC) with the relevant stakeholders
• Act as the key liaison between the business and IT for the assigned projects
• Ensure that requests align with the organization’s strategic goals and escalate, as needed, to the Product Managers and Owners if you see discrepancies in the requested changes.

QUALIFICATIONS

To take on the role of Business Analyst, you must have:

• Experience using various techniques for eliciting requirements;
• Understanding of project lifecycle and project approaches;
• Understanding of project definition and scoping principles;
• Experience with, and ability to be flexible filling, various roles throughout the project lifecycle;
• Experience documenting business, functional and non-functional stakeholder requirements as well as the tools (Visio, Word, other MS applications) and methodologies (DFD, data modelling techniques, Use Cases) used;
• Experience with, and understanding of, change control processes in relation to requirements documentation;
• Ability to effectively identify and document project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies;
• Experience using various requirement prioritizing techniques;
• Experience using application mockup tools such as Pencil, protoshare, Balsamiq, Adobe;
• Proven ability to work well in a team, having experience working with QAs, Developers, and Project Managers;
• Team Lead experience would be an asset for a potential move to Senior BA role.