BUSINESS ANALYST - 9 MONTH CONTRACT - OUTSIDE IR35

One of Loriens leading Public Sector clients is looking to bring on a highly experienced Business Analyst on an initial 9 month contract working hybrid in Edinburgh.

Assignment Deliverables

• 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 additional skills and experience

• 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.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.