Operations (VIT) - Business Analyst

NVS Group; Malmesbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading veterinary wholesaler in the UK is seeking an Agile Business Analyst to liaise with stakeholders to elicit requirements, manage agile features, and facilitate development. The ideal candidate will have experience in an Agile environment, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in C# and .NET. This role offers competitive pay and comprehensive employee benefits, including a pension scheme and paid holidays.

Benefits

Competitive rates of pay

Paid holiday including bank holidays

Staff discounts

Life assurance benefit

Cycle to work Scheme

Free on-site parking and Wi-Fi

24/7 confidential employee assistance programme

Christmas vouchers

Eye-sight vouchers

Company pension scheme

Qualifications

• Experience working as a Business Analyst in an Agile environment.
• Strong ability to transform requirements into agile features and stories.
• Understanding of good UX and UI design principles.

Responsibilities

• Elicit requirements from customers and stakeholders.
• Facilitate agile meetings and workshops.
• Write acceptance criteria, features, and stories.
• Collaborate with developers for feature delivery.

Skills

Agile environment experience

Requirement analysis

Proficiency with MS Office

MS DevOps experience

Testing and test management

Knowledge of UX/UI design

Mobile experience

Tools

C#

.NET

SQL

Job description

This is a great opportunity to work for the UK's leading veterinary wholesaler.

Our business provides a next day supply and distribution service through our nationwide network of distribution depots, serving an average of 2750 customers every day.

Working for us you'll receive:

• Competitive rates of pay
• Paid holiday (including bank holidays) (Pro rata)
• Staff discounts
• Life assurance benefit
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Free on-site parking and Wi-Fi
• A 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme - offering a range of support services to help you to resolve difficulties in your home-life
• Christmas vouchers
• Eye-sight vouchers
• Company pension scheme

This role will require interaction with our customers as well as internal stakeholders, product owners, and existing applications to elicit new requirements and turn them into prioritised agile features and stories, lining them up for development and managing them through the pipeline to coordinate with our release schedules for both our online and mobile products.

The role will also include development tasks such as bug fixes, new functionality, unit testing, and code reviews.

Key Responsibilities

Typically activities will include:

• Liaising with customers and internal stakeholders to elicit requirements
• Meeting and workshop facilitation for requirements
• Managing and facilitating agile meetings
• Feature writing
• Story writing
• Creation of acceptance criteria
• Working closely with developers as part of an agile team to deliver features and stories.
• Test scripting and testing using agile techniques
• Maintaining agile backlogs
• Supporting our product owners
• Participating in Agile ceremonies
• Writing new code or updating and fixing existing code using C# and .NET
• Writing SQL queries and designing database tables
• Creating unit tests
• Using source control

Contributing to strategic decision making about the direction of our products.

Personal attributes:

Qualifications, experience, skills, knowledge, and competencies required to fulfill the role include:

• Experience working in an Agile environment as a Business Analyst
• Ability to understand and analyze requirements, transforming them into agile features and stories suitable for developers
• Proficiency with MS Office tools
• Experience with MS DevOps to manage features and stories
• Experience with testing and test management
• An understanding of good UX and UI design principles
• Mobile experience

Applicants should be aware that, in line with our Drugs and Alcohol policy, we reserve the right to conduct random drug and alcohol tests.

NVS Group is committed to equality of opportunity. We use objective, job-related criteria when making appointment decisions, based on skills, experience, qualifications, and ability to do the job.

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Locations include:

• Manchester, Bristol, Chester, Guildford, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Milton Keynes, Preston, Reading