Business Analyst – Outside IR35
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 £456/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.
Responsibilities:
– Produce clearly defined Product Backlog Items and user stories which have detailed descriptions and testable acceptance criteria
– Document business rules and ensure that these are captured as part of the acceptance criteria
– Produce models to support the customers’ understanding of how the service will work
– Manage and maintain the product backlog to aid effective project delivery
– Deliver effective workshops to support the project
– Prepare and deliver ‘Show and Tells’ to project stakeholders.
– Deliver robust services by working with business, developers, and testers to triage bugs
– Keep Product Owner and other stakeholders informed about project progress.
– Highlight project risks and issues to the Project Manager
Essential Skills:
– Excellent communication skills, including experience of translating complex information through the facilitation of workshops, interviews, or reports
– 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 working with developers to refine backlog items to provide estimates of the work
– Experience of working with developers to identify impact of requirements on the service, both positive and negative and ensure these are documented
– Good problem solving, facilitation and influencing skills to reach consensus on the issue and potential options for a way forward
Desirable Skills:
Experience of testing:
– 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
– Facilitating user acceptance testing and support business users in the execution of user acceptance testing
Experience of UI/UX:
– Carrying out user research, user design and the development of mock ups in support of system development
– Experience with using one or more of the following techniques: Use Cases, User Stories, Wire Framing and Storyboards
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– Produce clearly defined Product Backlog Items and user stories which have detailed descriptions and testable acceptance criteria
– Document business rules and ensure that these are captured as part of the acceptance criteria
– Produce models to support the customers’ understanding of how the service will work
– Manage and maintain the product backlog to aid effective project delivery
– Deliver effective workshops to support the project
– Prepare and deliver ‘Show and Tells’ to project stakeholders.
– Deliver robust services by working with business, developers, and testers to triage bugs
– Keep Product Owner and other stakeholders informed about project progress.
– Highlight project risks and issues to the Project Manager
Essential Skills:
– Excellent communication skills, including experience of translating complex information through the facilitation of workshops, interviews, or reports
– 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 working with developers to refine backlog items to provide estimates of the work
– Experience of working with developers to identify impact of requirements on the service, both positive and negative and ensure these are documented
– Good problem solving, facilitation and influencing skills to reach consensus on the issue and potential options for a way forward
Desirable Skills:
Experience of testing:
– 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
– Facilitating user acceptance testing and support business users in the execution of user acceptance testing
Experience of UI/UX:
– Carrying out user research, user design and the development of mock ups in support of system development
– Experience with using one or more of the following techniques: Use Cases, User Stories, Wire Framing and Storyboards
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
