Afternoon Folks,
I have recently been offered a new role as a Technical Business Analyst, this is. big step up from general service desk work I have been doing over the last five years. I was a Business Analyst (including Technical) for over 15 years and just fell away from the industry. I have been wanting to get back into the role since 2019, so this is a great opportunity for me to shine and get my teeth stuck into a new role at a well established company.
Having been away from this kind of work for quite some time I am rather nervous about the role and how I will adapt to the change in pace and complexity of the work that is expected of me. So I thought I would ask for advice from other Technical BAs who are doing a similar job right now.
I am not 100% sure what exactly I will be doing, but from the interview I was able to get an understanding that the guy who I will be working under is currently writing all the user stories and doing lots of field mapping, so I think I will be taking the work load from him to allow him to crack on with other things. Having worked in previous roles I explained how I had done a ,to of field mapping work and making Restful API calls using SoapUi etc to get an understanding of how a database works for example.
I want to get some personal practice in before the role begins and was just looking for resources and online links to where I should start, for example is there anywhere I can get my head back into using SoapUI?
Also I feel my Excel skills may have dwindled a bit, so any decent resources for that aka V LOOKUP tables used to be a thing. I guess I am just after a bit of a head start and looking for how any other BAs would approach this?
Thanks
I have recently been offered a new role as a Technical Business Analyst, this is. big step up from general service desk work I have been doing over the last five years. I was a Business Analyst (including Technical) for over 15 years and just fell away from the industry. I have been wanting to get back into the role since 2019, so this is a great opportunity for me to shine and get my teeth stuck into a new role at a well established company.
Having been away from this kind of work for quite some time I am rather nervous about the role and how I will adapt to the change in pace and complexity of the work that is expected of me. So I thought I would ask for advice from other Technical BAs who are doing a similar job right now.
I am not 100% sure what exactly I will be doing, but from the interview I was able to get an understanding that the guy who I will be working under is currently writing all the user stories and doing lots of field mapping, so I think I will be taking the work load from him to allow him to crack on with other things. Having worked in previous roles I explained how I had done a ,to of field mapping work and making Restful API calls using SoapUi etc to get an understanding of how a database works for example.
I want to get some personal practice in before the role begins and was just looking for resources and online links to where I should start, for example is there anywhere I can get my head back into using SoapUI?
Also I feel my Excel skills may have dwindled a bit, so any decent resources for that aka V LOOKUP tables used to be a thing. I guess I am just after a bit of a head start and looking for how any other BAs would approach this?
Thanks