Emily Kelly

Emily Kelly

Recruitment Administrator

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  • About me

    Business Analyst

  • Education

    • University of Lincoln

      2014 - 2017
      Bachelor of Arts - BA Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General
  • Experience

    • Boots UK

      Apr 2018 - Sept 2018
      Recruitment Administrator

      Administration of end to end recruitment process, supporting candidates and Hiring Managers throughout the recruitment journey.

    • Pronto Paws Pet Services

      Sept 2018 - Mar 2020
      Canine Carer

      Developed, started and managed a canine care service.

    • Durham Hearing Specialists

      Sept 2020 - Aug 2021
      Personal Assistant
    • BJSS

      Aug 2021 - now

      - Emily was the primary BA for 1 of 2 feature teams within a government agency project, leading up one of the highest priority features within the service. The main tasks involved were: * Creation and maintenance of the development teams backlog, ensuring all user stories and bugs were refined, prioritised and sprint ready. * Facilitation of workshops, helping validate requirements and seek approval for solutions. * Demoing new features to users and stakeholders. * Regular backlog grooming sessions with the product owner, referring back to the product roadmap, ensuring the business needs are always aligned with development. * Would often create design mock-ups with HTML, with consideration of Government Design System. Show less - Emily has experienced back-end and front-end engineering while on two government agency projects, her primary focus was on front-end development with Angular and TypeScript.- She took ownership of a new feature: fleshing out requirements, wireframes, and more detailed designs. Emily saw this epic of work through until the end, completing 40–50% of the development work involved.- Regular interaction with the client, presented demos to the product steakholders and occasionally led ceremonies such as sprint reviews, stand-ups, and retrospectives.- She started picking up some business analyst tasks around August 2023, which included: * Confirming and refining requirements that had previously been gathered from the business and users. * Led 3 Amigos and Refinement sessions with the support of the lead BA on the project. * Participated in meetings with the client and users to scope out user and business needs, alongside the lead BA. Show less

      • Business Analyst

        Nov 2023 - now
      • Graduate Software Engineer

        Sept 2022 - Nov 2023
      • Service Support Analyst

        Aug 2021 - Sept 2022
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis

      BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
      Jun 2025
    • GitLab CI Fundamentals Learning Path

      GitLab
      Sept 2025
      View certificate certificate
    • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

      Microsoft
      Jul 2024
      View certificate certificate
    • ITIL Foundation Level

      PeopleCert
      Jun 2021
    • Green Software for Practitioners (LFC131)

      The Linux Foundation
      Jul 2024
      View certificate certificate
    • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Aug 2022
      View certificate certificate