Business Analyst II

About the role

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.

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.
• Log activity and communicate status to both managers and end users.
• Develop and execute 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.
• Coordinate user testing.
• Support systems by reviewing and solving user questions and requests.
• Incorporate new computer industry developments into future Company systems.
• Keep abreast of industry developments that could provide solutions to our business goals; and maintain 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.
• Knowledge of AI and low code solutioning is a plus.
• Talent required in values, work intensity, achiever, positivity, relationship, resourcefulness, and exactness.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience required.
• Industry standard certifications are beneficial.
• 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.