Assurity is looking for enthusiastic, driven and collaborative people to join our team. We’re a company of vibrant and passionate people who work every day to advance our mission of helping people through difficult times – and who truly want to make a difference. As a Certified B Corporation, we have a verified commitment to our people, community and planet, and we work every day to make the world a better place.
 
Ample opportunities for growth, a thriving culture and coworkers who care as much as you do are just the beginning. Come work with purpose. Learn more: www.assurity.com/careers 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

40% Elicit requirements and manage projects, which includes:

• Working with business area users to understand and document project/business requirements and proposing system solutions.
• Analyzing impacts of potential technical difficulties on product design or system requirements.
• Creating mockups and documentation as needed to ensure good communication and a shared understanding of the project between users and developers.
• Developing project plans and schedules for small to large-scale projects. 
• Managing scope, cost, and schedule of small to large-scale projects for on-time and on-budget delivery, 
• Estimating and logging time daily, providing project status information, and presenting demonstrations of project functionality to stakeholders; and
• Translating functional specifications to software development requirements and coordinating solutions delivery.

30% Develops and executes test plans for software projects, which includes: 

• Identifying and creating test cases, which can include ad-hoc querying of SQL databases.
• Analyzing test outcomes to ensure compliance with plan and resolve differences.
• Ensuring project objectives are met.
• Creating automated tests to ensure high quality and rapid regression testing, which can include test scripting; and
• Reviewing test results of others as required.

10%  Serves as lead on small to mid-sized solution teams:

• Responsible for maintaining solution integrity.
• Provides leadership, guidance, and coaching to other team resources.
• Responsible for the technical design, creation of, and assignment of development tasks
• Responsible for developing and following project schedules, plans, status reporting and timelines.
• Design and conduct IT support training plans (SDEV and I&O)
• Design and conduct training plans for end-users.
  

10% Provides communication on project status, which includes:

• Logging activity and communicating status to both managers and end users.
• Composing professional responses to project inquires; and
• Actively participating in meetings.

10%  Provides user support, which includes:

• Reviewing production issues and facilitating error resolution.
• Monitoring and responding to new requests for functionality or enhancements; and
• Identifying training needs and providing user training as appropriate.

The list of essential functions is not exhaustive and may be substituted as necessary.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS

• Four or more years business analyst experience required.
• Professional oral and written communication skills required.
• Effective planning, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills required.
• Analysis, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills required.
• Experience with Agile Development and Project management with SCRUM, KANBAN methodologies preferred.
• Experience with MS SQL databases and Selenium or other automated test scripting preferred.
• Talent required in values, work intensity, achiever, positivity, relationship, resourceful, and exactness.
• Experience in testing, managing teams develop RESTFul APIs, windows services, database integrations, etc.
• Experience using tools to test/validate such as postman, swagger, katalon, readyAPI, etc.
• Experience in creating and maintaining test suits/beds.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience required.
• Certified Scrum Master preferred.
• Industry standard certifications beneficial.

PHYSICAL AND WORK SCHEDULE REQUIREMENTS

• May require work over 40 hours a week to complete functions and expectations of the position.
• May require availability to participate in night & weekend "on-call" rotations for production-level system and application outages.