Business System Analyst

Scotiabank; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank in the Americas is seeking a Business System Analyst to join its Core Banking Engineering team. This role involves analyzing business needs, gathering requirements, conducting testing, and ensuring compliance with internal policies. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and experience in an Agile environment. The position offers a hybrid work model and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Diversity and Inclusion Programs

Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations

Upskilling Opportunities

Competitive Rewards Program

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Basic knowledge of BA and QA processes.
• Experience in Agile teams and automation testing tools.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and develop technical requirements.
• Facilitate requirements gathering from stakeholders.
• Perform manual and automated testing.

Skills

Analysis

Requirements Gathering

Testing Methodologies

Communication

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Selenium

Confluence

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Requisition ID: 228341

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Team

Contributes to the overall success of the Core Banking Engineering globally ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures

Is this role right for you?

• Analyze and develop technical requirements based on solution documentation.
• Facilitate requirements gathering and design sessions with multiple stakeholders to extract requirements, and turning them into use cases, user stories, sequence diagrams, etc, whatever is suitable – to meet development and stakeholder needs.
• Works closely with architects and engineers to ensure a flow of stories are specified, engineered and validated.
• Raise and maintain JIRA tickets for assigned work packages, keep team informed on progress, blockers and next steps.
• Participate in outcome-focused requirements discovery sessions, identify relevant contacts within the overall program to align on integration points, impact analysis and timelines.
• In conjunction with the development team, perform manual tests, develop test data, construct, and execute exploratory, system, regression, migration, back-end, and user acceptance tests.
• Assist in execute automated test cases and analyze test results.
• Facilitate root cause analysis of defects with the team and ensure that they act as a catalyst for continuous improvement.
• Bridge the gap between business and IT, ensuring common understanding and IT/Business alignment of both functional (for business needs) and non-functional requirements (such as reporting, performance, interfaces, and constraints.)
• Help improve and drive our engineering practices by providing valuable inputs and suggestions as to what works well and what can be done better.
  
  

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related area.
• Basic knowledge of BA and QA processes, agile delivery, story mapping processes & story grooming, testing processes, testing methodologies and procedures.
• Work with multiple software development groups to help them deliver on high-quality products.
• Possess the ability to work with technology focused peers and work on multiple projects concurrently
• Basic experience as a QA automation engineer and QA tester.
• Basic experience with one or more automation testing tools (e.g. Selenium, Robot framework, karate and Cucumber) is an asset.
• Experience doing deep analysis work in collaborative Agile software development teams
• Working knowledge of collaboration tools such as Confluence, Jira and Mural.
• Experience in writing user stories and criteria
• Experience working in an Agile environment is considered an asset.
• Strong communication in English (both written/verbal) and presentation skills
• Outcome-focused approach to work and problem-solving
• Core Baking Domain Knowledge is an asset.
  
  

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.
• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.
• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance.
• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.
• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community egagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons and much more!
  
  

Work conditions: Hybrid

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Banking

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