Business Analyst — Testing & Data Migration Lead (Flexible)

StaffCV Limited; Whakatāne, Tauranga; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Insurance and discount schemes

Career development and training

Job summary

Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join our Digital team on a fixed-term basis until September 2028. The role coordinates testing and data migration within a major systems and process-change programme, collaborating with business users and technical teams in Whakatāne or Tauranga.

You will gather requirements, map data, and drive process improvements using digital tools to enhance customer experiences and community outcomes, while maintaining

Qualifications

• Proven Business Analyst experience delivering complex business and digital change.
• Experience coordinating testing activities across large or multi-functional initiatives.
• Experience supporting data migration, data quality and reconciliation activities.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation and requirements gathering skills.
• A track record of identifying and delivering business process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Take primary responsibility for coordinating testing across a major organisation-wide systems and process change programme, including developing the test approach and plan, coordinating test preparation and execution, supporting defect management, and providing clear reporting on test progress, risks, and readiness.
• Work closely with Business Analysts and subject matter experts to prepare, validate, and document data mappings, transformation rules, data quality requirements, and business decisions.
• Coordinate data migration activities between business teams and the technical team responsible for extracting, transforming, loading, and reconciling data.
• Support data cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and migration testing to help ensure data is complete, accurate, and fit for purpose.
• Maintain clear test and data migration plans, actions, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions, escalating matters where needed.
• Work across our organisation to engage with stakeholders to gather, analyse, and define business requirements, ensuring solutions meet business needs and deliver value.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, influence project decisions, assess the risks of various solutions, and prioritise competing business demands.
• Capture business needs, understand customer journeys, and define user requirements.
• Identify and drive business process improvement opportunities using digital tools, automation, and system enhancements to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities to deliver additional value using our existing technology and information assets.
• Continue to contribute to broader Business Analyst activities across strategic digital initiatives and organisational change programmes as priorities require.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Facilitation

Requirements gathering

Planning and analysis

Problem solving

Job description

Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join our Digital team on a fixed-term basis until September 2028. The role coordinates testing and data migration within a major systems and process-change programme, collaborating with business users and technical teams in Whakatāne or Tauranga.

You will gather requirements, map data, and drive process improvements using digital tools to enhance customer experiences and community outcomes, while maintaining