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

50% 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;
• Managing scope, cost, and schedule of small to mid-sized 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 coordinate 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% 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% Performs other functions, which include:

• Incorporating new computer industry developments into future Company systems;
• Keeping abreast of industry developments that could provide solutions to our business goals; and
• Maintaining skills through ongoing training and study.

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

EXPERIENCE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS

• Two 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.
• Experience with Directus preferred.
• Experience in testing, managing teams develop RESTFul APIs, windows services, and database integrations, preferred
• Experience using tools to test/validate such as postman, swagger, katalon, readyAPI, preferred
• Experience in creating and maintaining test suits/beds preferred
• Talent required in values, work intensity, achiever, positivity, relationship, resourceful, and exactness.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience required.
• 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.
• Note: We are not currently considering applicants in CA, CO, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, MN, NJ, NY, VT, WA, for this position.