APS6 Business Analyst - Agile, Stakeholder & Elicitation Lead

Softtest pays pty ltd; Canberra; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Softtest pays pty ltd in Canberra seeks Senior Business Analysts to understand business processes, determine system requirements, and lead complex analysis across workstreams. You will collaborate with stakeholders to clarify problems, explore opportunities, and support informed decision-making.

The role involves coordinating elicitation, maintaining traceability, and producing detailed analysis artefacts (To-Be/AS-Is models, user stories, data flows, use cases, and test cases).

Qualifications

• Knowledge of cyber security controls and policy implications for government systems.
• Familiarity with PSPF, ISM and Essential 8 strategies.
• Understanding of NIST guidance and standards in security and risk management.
• Experience modelling business processes and requirements in a regulated context.
• Ability to manage stakeholder relationships and requirements traceability across programs.
• Experience with risk management and governance activities in large initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Work in an Agile multidisciplinary team to design and deliver iterative changes following a 2-week sprint cycle.
• Coordinate elicitation activities and adapt methods to address incomplete information or conflicting inputs.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across workstreams and ensure requirements meet quality standards.
• Oversee requirements documentation lifecycle, prioritise needs, and verify testability.
• Elicit business rules, constraints and pain points; manage scope and change for medium complexity initiatives.
• Produce artefacts: To-Be/AS-Is models, detailed user stories, data flow diagrams, use case diagrams, and test cases.
• Coordinate the approach for medium complexity initiatives and define analysis deliverables.
• Conduct current state analysis to confirm needs and improvement opportunities.
• Support change planning and identify cross-functional dependencies and sequencing risks.
• Analyse risks and coordinate responses; escalate risks as required.
• Coordinate QA and verification activities to align business and tech teams and assess defects.
• Analyse change requests and provide recommendations for approval.
• Act with integrity and promote APS values and code of conduct.

Skills

Cyber security knowledge

PSPF

ISM

Essential 8

NIST

BSMO Level 4

BPRE Level 5

BUSA Level 5

REQM Level 4

RLMT Level 5

Job description

Softtest pays pty ltd in Canberra seeks Senior Business Analysts to understand business processes, determine system requirements, and lead complex analysis across workstreams. You will collaborate with stakeholders to clarify problems, explore opportunities, and support informed decision-making.

The role involves coordinating elicitation, maintaining traceability, and producing detailed analysis artefacts (To-Be/AS-Is models, user stories, data flows, use cases, and test cases).