Business Analyst

Opportunity

Key responsibilities

• Understand client needs and capture business decisions and requirements in detail.
• Analyze processes to identify pain points, gaps, and improvement opportunities; learn the employment journey’s processes and systems.
• Conduct workshops to elicit business requirements and refine system solutions.
• Demonstrate system functions and features to business stakeholders.
• Facilitate and coordinate user acceptance testing; contribute to test-case creation, execution, and issue resolution.
• Support cross-functional programs and projects.
• Follow BPM practices, help improve guidelines, assist with operational issues, and adhere to Stantec policies and practices.

Required capabilities

• Strong verbal and written communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Self-directed and motivated, able to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Team-oriented experience and ability to work across countries and time zones in a decentralized business model.

Education and experience

• Post-secondary degree, ideally in Business or Management Information Systems.
• At least three years of related experience.
• Business Analyst experience in a large organization is preferred.

Preferred tools and methods

• Experience with Confluence, Jira, and Microsoft Office is preferred.
• Experience building test cases and performing testing with tools such as QTest is preferred.
• Experience with waterfall and agile development practices is preferred.

Pay and benefits information

• Compensation depends on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location; certain roles may be bonus eligible.
• The posting describes benefits for eligible regular full-time and part-time employees, including health and retirement plans, insurance, wellness programs, tuition reimbursement, and paid time off.
• Temporary or casual employees have access to specified savings and stock-purchase programs; union benefits may be governed by collective agreements.

Schedule and status

• The posting lists the schedule as full time and employee status as regular.
• The role is an individual contributor position with no travel indicated.

Locations

• Primary location: Edmonton, Alberta; other location: Manitoba, Canada.