Business Analyst II

Assurity is a Certified B Corporation dedicated to helping people through difficult times. They are seeking a Business Analyst II to elicit requirements, manage projects, develop test plans, and provide system support while fostering innovation and professional development.

Responsibilities:

• 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 flow charts and documentation as needed to ensure effective 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
• Logging activity and communicating status to both managers and end users
• 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
• Coordination of user testing
• System support and troubleshooting:
• Supporting systems by reviewing and solving user questions and requests
• Innovation and Professional Development, 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

Requirements:

• Two or more years of business analyst experience required
• Professional oral and written communication skills required
• Effective planning, organizational, analytical, and critical thinking skills required
• Analysis, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills required
• Experience with Agile Development and Project management with SCRUM methodologies
• Experience with MS SQL databases and Mongo
• Experience in testing, managing teams develop RESTFul APIs, windows services, and database integrations
• Experience using tools to evaluate/validate such as Postman, Swagger, Browserstack, Playwright or other automated test scripting
• Experience in creating and maintaining test suites/beds
• Experience creating project charters or work summaries and workflows using Lucid or other similar workflow tools
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience required
• Knowledge of AI and low code solutioning is a plus
• Industry standard certifications are beneficial
• Talent required in values, work intensity, achiever, positivity, relationship, resourcefulness, and exactness