Xpert: Business Analyst; QA focus

Role: Business Analyst (with strong testing exposure)

Type: Independent Contract

Start: Immediate (6 months, with potential to extend or become perm)

Location: Edinburgh (hybrid)

Summary

We’re adding two BAs to support a busy test organisation delivering digital banking capabilities. The BA(s) will free up senior test analysts and automation engineers by owning requirements, documentation, and test readiness across several work streams.
Ideal for a BA with hands‑on testing experience or a senior test analyst with a BA background. You’ll work across testing function, embedded with within various squads, collaboration with both BAU and a parallel project stream. You will have close interaction with automation/manual testers daily.

What you’ll do

• Lead requirements elicitation, clarification and documentation for testable acceptance criteria.
• Produce and maintain clear, structured test artefacts: test cases, scenarios, feature files, traceability.
• Make recommendations, unblock decisions, ensure the team is ready for execution.
• Partner with TAs and automation engineers to align manual and automated coverage.
• Participate in reviews where requirements/test impacts are relevant.
• Manage stakeholders, keeping scope, risk and dependencies visible.
• Drive continuous improvement of BA/test processes in a multi-team setup.

What you’ll bring

• At least 5–6+ years in BA with strong exposure to Quality Assurance.
• Proven hybrid BA testing capability (either BA with strong testing, or tester with strong BA fundamentals).
• Solid grasp of test design, Gherkin/feature files, and how automation frameworks consume requirements.
• Comfort working around pull requests and collaborating with engineers (Git literacy a plus).
• Experience across payments, accounts, or access control is highly advantageous.
• Self-starter who brings structure when others are execution-focused; able to own outcomes.
• Communication and documentation excellence: concise, unambiguous, and client-ready.

Soft skills

• Confidence and ownership, with the gravitas to hold the line on test readiness.
• Pragmatic, delivery-centred, and comfortable in a hybrid BA/test remit.
• Collaborative, clear communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Why this role exists

Current testers are being pulled into documentation and readiness tasks that should sit with a BA. You’ll take back that space, enabling the test team to focus on execution and automation while you ensure clarity, traceability and readiness.