For over fifty years Synergie  has stood out from the competition by attracting the most talented individuals. We are looking to meet motivated people who are ready to make a difference by supporting our client partners meet and exceed their business goals.

Synergie Canada is seeking of one Business Analyst for our Toronto office.

You will work as part of the Project Management & Program Delivery project team in collaboration with the core project team, solution delivery vendor(s) and other stakeholders as required.

•               Provide support during the design, implementation and testing phases of the project.

•               Report progress of assignment on a regular basis to Project Management, raise any issue and concerns and propose mitigation strategies.

•               Conduct feasibility analysis, project scoping and provide project work estimates.

•               Conduct Joint Requirements Planning and Joint Application Design sessions.

•               Analyze and map processes / data for current state and future state.

•               Requirements development involving requirements elicitation, elaboration, analysis, specification and validation.

•               Use of ministry mandated requirement management tools and templates for requirements

•               Review and feedback of technical design documents.

•               Conduct and/or participate in walkthroughs at each project milestone.

•               Knowledge transfer to TS and I&IT Cluster at all stages of the assignment.

•               Report status to, and follow overall direction from the Project Manager and/or Lead Business Analyst.

 The Deliverables include (but are not limited to):

•               Business Cases and Request for Bids

•               Business requirements / rules

•               Business process models

•               System Requirements specifications

•               Business / Data Glossary

•               Business and System use cases

•               User epics, stories and themes / Product backlog and sprints plans

•               Data requirements / models (conceptual / logical)

•               Functional and Non-functional requirements

•               Requirements Traceability Matrices

•               User Interface specifications, low and high fidelity prototypes

•               Report specifications

•               Test plan/strategies, test cases

•               Risks and Issues

 Support to Development and Test teams in following areas (but are not limited to):

•        Building and testing support to development team

•        Reviewing test strategy, test plan and cases

•        Management of defect logs

•        Supporting end-user inquiries

•        Defining the integration test plan

•        Defining the user acceptance test plan

•        Identification and resolution of problems/issues

•        Document and manage risks and liaise with other project teams to coordinate project interdependencies.

•        Documentation of all artefacts in a shared project library.

  Skill Set Requirements

•        Knowledge with Solutions Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and structured methodologies including agile, waterfall and iterative

•        Demonstrable experience with Business Object Oriented Modeling, UML tools and techniques.

•        Demonstrable skills and experience with documenting deliverables outlined in Deliverables section

•        Work Experience in investigating, analyzing, estimating system applications in a large integrated mainframe and mid-tier environment

•        Proven experience with all stages of automated system implementation in complex mainframe, with online and batch transactions

•        Experience with the Public Sector architecture.

•        Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.

•        Experience in conducting feasibility analysis, project scoping and providing project work estimates

•        Experience with documenting user stories, planning and managing product backlog, planning and managing sprints, and implementing in an iterative manner

•        Experience in reporting progress of assignment(s) on a regular basis to Project Management and raise any issues / concerns and propose mitigation strategies.

•        Can work effectively independently and in a team environment.

•        Strong communication, interpersonal, collaboration, and negotiation skills to work seamlessly in an agile cross-functional team, with clients, vendor(s) and other stakeholders.

•        Strong leadership skills to provide advice and guidance on all aspects of user experience and design, assessing user characteristics, needs, goals, and opportunities.

•        Creative, innovative, and can think outside the box to visualize solutions that meet business needs.

•        Thrive on feedback and comfortable transforming ideas generated through user research and analysis to create elegant, effective designs for diverse audiences.

•        Understand business metrics and able to translate business goals and objectives into digital experiences.

•        Able to prioritize change requests from clients and guide the team in determining how best to address them.

•        Knowledge to ensure compliance with requirements for accessibility and user centric design including Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and Simpler, Better, Faster Services Act

•        Strong research skills to perform industry research, provide options and make recommendations for solution improvements.

At Synergie, we are attentive to the professional development of our candidates. We respect your goals and guide you to a role that is best suited to your expectations. - Your professional development is our passion!

Each application we receive is carefully reviewed to meet the requirements of the position we are recruiting for. Even if you are not selected for this position, we will evaluate your application for other roles.