Emily Kelly

Experience

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  Boots UK

  Apr 2018 - Sept 2018

  Recruitment Administrator

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

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  Pronto Paws Pet Services

  Sept 2018 - Mar 2020

  Canine Carer

  Developed, started and managed a canine care service.

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  Durham Hearing Specialists

  Sept 2020 - Aug 2021

  Personal Assistant
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  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