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Telford, United Kingdom

Business Analyst working within the Public sector delivering digital and Agile projects transforming public services onto digital platforms together with designing automated (robotic) solutions for existing Systems. I am currently engaged on multiple projects for HMRC which are candidates for automation using NICE software; my role involves interviewing clients analysing the ‘As-Is’ and ‘To-Be’ models to provide automated solutions via quality gates and phases (Pre-Discover, Discovery and Go Live). The outcome is full or partial automation (attended and unattended) deployed via NICE software, the role also includes creating business cases, gathering key metrics, estimating the benefits and providing project costs and estimates.

Walsall, United Kingdom

Senior Business Analyst delivering IT Systems for home based insurance products via enterprise and digital solutions, responsible for all requirements engineering activities and reporting directly to the programme manager, working collaboratively with scrum teams to deliver incremental software. Managing and facilitating workshops across a wide community of stakeholders including business SME’s, technical architects, developers and testes. Solutions include new home insurance products for web and enterprise systems, focusing on the ‘customer journey’, compliance, regulatory and security factors. In addition the role also requires creating ‘process flows’, As Is / To Be gap analysis, financial transaction analysis and non-functional requirements. In addition requirements activities also integrate closely with the QA discipline ensuring traceability, input and support around business test threads.

Telford, United Kingdom

Business/Systems Analyst working in the Capgemini Digital Delivery Group undertaking analysis for Application Programming Interfaces (API’s) that are required to interface between the HMRC Multi-channel Digital Tax Platform or Third Party software products and HMRC’s Head of Duty corporate systems. The role includes attendance at Discovery workshops, capturing project requirements, creating User Stories and documenting Confluence pages in addition to writing API specification using JSON and HTTP protocols. The role also involves supporting project scrum teams through Agile delivery sprints for all aspects of requirements.

Telford, United Kingdom

Certified Business Architect working on a variety of projects using Pega technologies and platforms including 6.3 and 7.1 versions (often working in partnership with Pegasystems Inc). As a BA within a scrum team I was working closely with the product owner to elicit, capture and document requirements using the Pega toolset, participating in Sprint retrospectives, ‘show and tell’ sessions, Sprint planning and Sprint reviews. Requirements were elaborated and prioritised then managed via the product backlog; the functionality was delivered using Agile delivery methods, techniques and tools supported by Confluence and JIRA boards. I have also acted as proxy product owner writing Epics and User Stories on behalf of the product owner prioritising and refining the product backlog, estimating the work using the Pega estimating tool and defining the Minimum Viable Product for the first release in association with the project architect.In addition to my BA role I have also taken part in various leadership initiatives for estimating project work, Lean thinking, Communications, SharePoint, and representing the role of BA in defining the Delivery Group’s Software Engineering process and blueprint.

Telford, United Kingdom

Working as the sole Requirements Manager responsible for all requirement activities and deliverables on a number of projects and studies (one of which achieved the highest possible feedback rating from the client). The project work involved a wide variety of workflow applications and systems facilitating compliance work and financial accounting including back-end financial Systems deployed on a SAP platform. The role and responsibilities included requirements planning, scope definition and change, workshop planning, facilitation, requirements elicitation, capture and documentation (Use Cases), traceability, Non Functional Requirements and business test threads. In this capacity I have also managed a small team of other BA’s and mentored junior BA’s. I have also been an active participant in strategic organisation initiatives such as continuous improvement and Lean thinking.

Telford, United Kingdom

Senior application developer utilising IEF, Composer, Advantage:Gen and Cool:Gen technologies to design, build and test client-server applications for a new flagship Tax System (New Tax Credits) enabling HMRC to make payments to qualifying customers; main skills and technologies included Cool:Gen, Oracle, SQL and UNIX.

London, United Kingdom

Junior consultant role working for Sterling Software and Computer Associates advising and supporting CA clients on a number of projects within the UK and Europe (Netherlands and Belgium) using CASE tools and technologies.