Business Analyst
Edmonton, Alberta
Contract
Posted 2 months ago
Business Analyst
Position is available as primarily remote, with occasional requirements on site. Work days are minimum 7 hours per day.
Role Description
The ideal candidate will be providing Business Analysis Services on an inflight agile, cloud software development project as well as several projects. The Business Analyst is responsible for gaining comprehensive knowledge of a new Educational Platform and related applications, gathering requirements for new functionality, and bridging the gap between the technical team and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Provide business analysis services in support of new educational platform and related applications in an agile environment.
- Elicit business requirements from business users and subject matter experts.
- Gather, analyze, document and validate new and existing business processes.
- Provide user mockups and low-fidelity designs.
- Facilitate workshops and meetings and capture documentation and minutes.
- Review business analysts’ deliverables to ensure quality.
- Write user stories and manage product backlogs.
- Assist in operational rollout and support.
- Lead and conduct user acceptance testing.
- Lead or assist in the development of business cases and other technical documents as needed.
- Escalate issues and risks, as appropriate.
- Provide stakeholder training.
- Engage and interact with the technical team.
Required Skills and Experience
- University degree or two-year diploma in computer science or a related discipline from an accredited post-secondary institution and five (5) years of experience as a business analyst on software development projects OR One-year certificate in computer science or a related discipline from an accredited post-secondary institution and seven (7) years of experience as a business analyst on software development projects.
- Experience with agile web-based software development projects.
- Experience eliciting and documenting requirements in the form of user stories with acceptance criteria.
- Previous experience leading stakeholder requirements meetings and facilitating agile ceremonies (e.g. story breakdown, backlog refinement, sprint planning) in remote or hybrid work environments.
- Previous experience using collaboration tools such as Miro (or equivalent) and task management tools such as Azure DevOps (or equivalent).
- Previous experience as a business analyst working on large-scale, web-based educational platforms.
Please note that while all applications are appreciated, only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.
InSync Systems Inc. is a privately-owned boutique Canadian Resourcing and Consulting Services Company that works closely with a range of corporate clients across multiple industries to bring them solutions that effectively address their business needs.
