Senior Business Analyst – Agile, Stakeholder Lead

Softtest Pays Pty Ltd; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Softtest Pays Pty Ltd in Australia is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to understand business processes and determine system requirements. You will work within an Agile team to design and deliver iterative changes across 2-week sprints.

You will coordinate elicitation, manage stakeholder relationships across workstreams, ensure quality, and produce artefacts like process models, user stories, and diagrams to support risk assessment and governance.

Qualifications

• Cyber security knowledge and experience.
• PSPF, ISM, Essential 8 familiarity.
• NIST awareness.
• BSMO – Level 4, BPRE – Level 5, BUSA – Level 4, FEAS – Level 3, REQM – Level 4, RLMT – Level 5.

Responsibilities

• Work in an Agile multidisciplinary team to design and deliver iterative changes following a 2-week sprint cycle.
• Coordinate complex elicitation activities and adapt techniques to address incomplete information, low engagement, or conflicting inputs.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across workstreams, resolve competing needs, and ensure requirements meet agreed quality standards.
• Manage the requirements documentation lifecycle for a project, including prioritising requirements, identifying gaps, and confirming requirements are testable.
• Manage elicitation to identify business rules, constraints and pain points, and manage scope and change for medium-complexity initiatives.
• Produce analysis artefacts to communicate complex concepts, using models such as To-Be/AS-Is, Detailed User Stories, data flow diagrams, use case diagrams, and test cases.
• Coordinate the business analysis approach for medium complexity initiatives, including selecting methods and defining analysis deliverables.
• Conduct current state analysis to confirm business needs and improvement opportunities, and validate proposed solutions against outcomes.
• Contribute to change planning and identify complex cross-functional dependencies and advise on sequencing risks.
• Analyse and manage risks across complex projects and contribute to coordinated risk responses, escalating risks as required.
• Coordinate quality assurance and verification and validation activities to align business and technical teams, and assess defect priority.
• Analyze change requests and design decisions for complex initiatives, assess impacts, and prepare recommendations for approval.
• Act with integrity by promoting workplace practices aligned with the APS Values and the APS Code of Conduct.

Skills

Cyber security knowledge

Requirements management

Stakeholder management

Agile methods

Business process analysis

Risk assessment

Governance & compliance

Job description

Softtest Pays Pty Ltd in Australia is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to understand business processes and determine system requirements. You will work within an Agile team to design and deliver iterative changes across 2-week sprints.

You will coordinate elicitation, manage stakeholder relationships across workstreams, ensure quality, and produce artefacts like process models, user stories, and diagrams to support risk assessment and governance.