Business System Analyst

Business System Analyst
Location Address: WFH – (Toronto)
Contract Duration: From Hire Date until Oct 31st, 2022
Start Date: 03/07/22
Number of Positions: 1
Scheduled Hours: 9am-5pm (7.5 Hrs/Day), Mon – Fri
Extension: Possible
FTE: Possible

Story Behind the Need:
We are Cash Management Onboarding team part of the Commercial Bank Engineering group. Our application aims to streamline and automate complex processes that exist today involved in onboarding a client with cash management products today.
The successful BSA will help us analyze and document software development features in order to support for an upcoming project related to debit block functionalities.

Candidate Value Proposition:
Candidates will get a close look at how new products are brought into the bank, and how the technology teamwork with business group to bring the product to life. Candidates will also get a chance to learn about payment technologies as our team work closely with the payments team.

Typical Day in the Role:
• Facilitates collaborative solution discovery sessions using lightweight techniques such as Story Mapping
• Decomposes the solution into small increments of value (stories) that can be independently built and validated
• Works closely with architects and engineers to ensure a flow of stories are specified, engineered and validated
• Collaborates with team to detail acceptance criteria on stories using practices such as specification by example
• Collaborates with business stakeholders to accept built and tested stories
• Collaborates with team and business representatives to define value and guide priority
• Collaborates with the delivery team to define the overall testing approach and perform acceptance testing to validate business requirements in rapid iterations
• Performs exploratory testing and regression testing as necessary, using a risk-based approach
• Extends story specifications to align with automation testing strategies while including real world data, edge cases etc.
• Provide guidance to Product System Specialist I and Associate Product System Specialist
• Facilitates root cause analysis of defects with the team and ensures that they acts as a catalyst for continuous improvement

Candidates Requirements/Must Haves
• 5+ years as a BSA dealing with enterprise systems
• Working experience with SQL and related technologies such as DB2, MySQL
• Experienced with running discovery and story mapping sessions
• 3+ years of experience Ability to maintain good documentation such as user stories and centralized documentation
• 3+ years of experience Comfortable working with flow diagrams, generating UI mockups, and sequence diagrams
• 3+ years of experience Understands how a software application should be quality assured

Nice to Haves:
• Have a good understanding of what is Debit Block, and how pre-authorized debit payments block mean
• Familiar with how software development projects typically are like within Canadian banks

Soft Skills:
• Excellent communication skills, ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements and vice versa
• Great team player, understands the importance of collaboration over individual heroism, help others when able to, and ask for help when needed
• Positive attitude, understands that there are always challenges and work environment is not always at an ideal state
• Ability to prioritize tasks, and ask for help when not able to do so
• Organizational skills, ability to keep documentation artifacts in a well-organized format according to team standards
• Continuous improvement, raise idea for improvement on how the team can better perform when observed, either seek to understand why a task is being performed or should eliminate unnecessary tasks
• Excellent analytical skills, motivated to understand the business software systems, including its technical aspects

Education/Experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business, or similar programs (not important for experienced candidates)
Candidate Review & Selection
• 1 round panel interview, 1 hr – with senior BSAs on the team
• 2nd round of interviews in special cases only