Business Analyst

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has a requirement for a Business Analyst to provide programming support and maintenance services for the Pacific Region’s Commercial, Recreational, and Indigenous Fisheries Information Management Systems.

Mandatory requirements

• experience in the following tasks:
  • analyzing business processes;
  • analyzing information needs; and
  • documenting statements of user requirements
• experience in the following:
  • preparing test cases in support of quality assurance; and
  • performing integration; and
  • performing acceptance testing for complex application development projects.
• sixty (60) months of experience in Information Technology (IT) as a Business Analyst for complex application development projects;
• sixty (60) months of experience in the following:
  • performing business analyses; and
  • documenting functional requirements.
• sixty (60) months of experience in the following:
  • evaluating existing procedures and methods; and
  • establishing acceptance test criteria with clients.

General tasks

• Develop and document statements of requirements for considered alternatives
• Perform business analyses of functional requirements to identify information, procedures, and decision flows.
• Evaluate existing procedures and methods, identify and document items such as database content, structure, application subsystems.
• Define and document interfaces of manual to automated operations within application subsystems, to external systems, and between new and existing systems.
• Establish acceptance test criteria with client.
• Support and use the selected departmental methodologies.