Salesforce Consultant - Business Analyst-Quality Assurance

Title: Salesforce Consultant (Business Analyst-Quality Assurance Analyst)

Location: Remote – United States

Company Background

A P Ventures, LLC (APV) is an innovative Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) providing services to Government customers at the federal and state levels in three key focus areas: High-End IT Consulting, Emerging Technology and Training Solutions, and Human Capital Services. Established in 2007, APV has completed 70 prime contracts and currently oversees 25 task orders, consistently achieving high client satisfaction, CPARS, and customer accolades. Our success is fueled by our skilled and motivated workforce, reflected in our impressive employee retention rate exceeding 90%. APV has a wide portfolio of contracts and “Best-in-Class” contract vehicles, including GSA MAS, OASIS Small Business, and 8(A) Pool 1, CIO-SP3 SB & 8(a) across all functional areas, HCaTS, and several other industry-specific BPA and IDIQs.

APV is a mature company dedicated to quality and exceptional delivery to meet its clients’ missions. We understand personnel are an essential part of this. We hire the best and take care of the people who come to work for us. We continue to maintain employee satisfaction and have a high retention rate, well above the industry average for our small business peers. We do this through our corporate practice that emphasizes on employee satisfaction through the three “C’s” – Culture, Compensation, and Career Development.

Role:

As a Salesforce Consultant (Business Analyst)-Quality Assurance Analyst , you will work with our federal government customers to define and manage requirements for a new Salesforce project. The position will focus on documenting business processes and software requirements and performing testing on functionality developed by the team.

Duties:

The Salesforce Consultant Business Analyst responsibilities will include:

Elicit and document requirements from government stakeholders.

• Develop process flows based on business needs and identify areas for process improvement.
• Write comprehensive Agile user stories to guide development.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Developers, and team members to ensure clarity in requirements.
• Maintain a strong understanding of business processes and translate them into functional requirements.
• Assist testers in verifying that completed work meets established requirements.
• Highlight new development activities by leading product demonstrations to customers and team.
• Document overall project processes and adhere to security best practices.
• Understand relational databases and data structures.
• Perform dual role as business analyst and quality testing.
Other duties as assigned .

The Quality Assurance Analyst responsibilities will include:

• Assist the project team with peer review of deliverables to the customer. Compare deliverable to official template (if available) for compliance.
• Assess all development and documentation deliverables regarding Section 508 compliance. Edit/modify documents as needed to maintain Section 508 compliance.
• Define the manual test strategy and provide feedback for improvements.
• Work with developers to identify, record, track, and resolve product defects/bugs.
• Design, develop and maintain test plans and test cases.
• Create documentation for QA processes and provide feedback for improvements.
Other duties as assigned.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline or equivalent experience in related field

Certification:

Salesforce Certified Business Analyst is preferred

Required Skills:

• 3 years of Business Analyst experience creating/writing system requirements
• 2 years of Salesforce Platform experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills
• Experience with Salesforce configurations
• Experience in testing applications for functional and user acceptance
• Experience with a change management application such as JIRA
Must be able to pass a background check and obtain a government issued PIV card

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Preferred Skills:

• Experience with data migrations
• Experience with claims management processes
• Experience with an Application Development Team in an Agile environment
Experience with automation testing and automation test tools

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strong knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
Strong knowledge of QA strategies and methodologies (smoke testing, regression testing, functional and non-functional testing).

About A P Ventures

A P Ventures is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, or marital status. Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disability candidates are encouraged to apply. Qualified military veterans are encouraged to apply.