Business Analyst
Posted 1 week ago by Venesky-Brown on JobServe
£441 Per day
Outside
Onsite
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Business Analyst for an initial 9 month contract on a rate of 441/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.
Responsibilities:
- Work with in-house developers, to understand how the proposed technical approach supports the business requirements.
- Produce clearly defined Product Backlog Items and user stories which have detailed descriptions and testable acceptance criteria.
- Document business rules and ensure these are captured as part of the acceptance criteria.
- Produce models to support the customers' understanding of how the service will work.
- Deliver effective workshops to support the project
- Prepare and deliver 'Show and Tells' to project stakeholders.
- Deliver excellent services by working with stakeholders and in house developers to triage bugs
- Supporting users to undertake User Acceptance testing and providing feedback to developers and the project team as needed
- Keep stakeholders informed about project progress.
Essential Skills:
- Experience of SCRUM methodology
- Excellent communication skills, including experience of translating complex information through the facilitation of workshops, interviews, or reports
- Experience of working with in-house developers to deliver a new bespoke service or adding new functionality to enhance an existing (bespoke) service
- Extensive stakeholder management and facilitation skills to articulate business requirements and translate these into project deliverables
- Advanced Visio and PowerPoint skills, and similar Visual Tools to aid requirements gathering
- Functional and non-functional skills requirements definition
- Experience of contributing to the estimating of backlog items
- Experience of working with developers to identify impact of requirements on the service, ensure these are documented
- Good problem solving, facilitation and influencing skills to reach consensus
Desirable Skills:
- Writing Test Plans from Product Backlog Items ensuring that acceptance criteria are captured as part of the test plan.
- Methodical approach to testing using test plans and raising defects.
- Ability to support the launch and adoption of a new service through group meetings, writing user guides.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
- Work with in-house developers, to understand how the proposed technical approach supports the business requirements.
- Produce clearly defined Product Backlog Items and user stories which have detailed descriptions and testable acceptance criteria.
- Document business rules and ensure these are captured as part of the acceptance criteria.
- Produce models to support the customers' understanding of how the service will work.
- Deliver effective workshops to support the project
- Prepare and deliver 'Show and Tells' to project stakeholders.
- Deliver excellent services by working with stakeholders and in house developers to triage bugs
- Supporting users to undertake User Acceptance testing and providing feedback to developers and the project team as needed
- Keep stakeholders informed about project progress.
Essential Skills:
- Experience of SCRUM methodology
- Excellent communication skills, including experience of translating complex information through the facilitation of workshops, interviews, or reports
- Experience of working with in-house developers to deliver a new bespoke service or adding new functionality to enhance an existing (bespoke) service
- Extensive stakeholder management and facilitation skills to articulate business requirements and translate these into project deliverables
- Advanced Visio and PowerPoint skills, and similar Visual Tools to aid requirements gathering
- Functional and non-functional skills requirements definition
- Experience of contributing to the estimating of backlog items
- Experience of working with developers to identify impact of requirements on the service, ensure these are documented
- Good problem solving, facilitation and influencing skills to reach consensus
Desirable Skills:
- Writing Test Plans from Product Backlog Items ensuring that acceptance criteria are captured as part of the test plan.
- Methodical approach to testing using test plans and raising defects.
- Ability to support the launch and adoption of a new service through group meetings, writing user guides.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.