Business Analyst II

Assurity; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Assurity in Lincoln, NE is seeking an enthusiastic business analyst to join our team. You will work with business area users to understand requirements, propose system solutions, and document processes to ensure clear communication between users and developers.

You will develop and execute test plans, create automated tests, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to ongoing professional development and innovation within the company.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Elicit requirements and manage projects with business area users.
• Create flow charts and documentation to ensure effective communication and shared understanding between users and developers.
• Manage scope, cost, and schedule of small to mid-sized projects for on-time delivery.
• Estimate and log time daily, provide project status info, and present demonstrations to stakeholders.
• Translate functional specifications to software development requirements and coordinate solutions delivery.
• Log activity and communicate status to managers and end users.
• Develop and execute test plans for software projects, including test cases and SQL queries.
• Analyze test outcomes and ensure compliance with plan; resolve differences.
• Create automated tests to ensure high quality and rapid regression testing.
• Coordinate user testing.
• Identify and pursue new industry developments to improve systems.

Skills

Business analysis

Agile/Scrum

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

MS SQL

MongoDB

Postman

Swagger

BrowserStack

Playwright

Lucid

Job description

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 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.

40% 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.

10% System support and troubleshooting:

• Supporting systems by reviewing and solving user questions and requests.

10% 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.

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

EXPERIENCE AND SKILL 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.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience required.
• Industry standard certifications are 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