Business & Quality Analyst: Lead Analysis & QA Testing

Americo Financial Life and Annuity; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Americo Financial Life and Annuity seeks a combined Business and Quality Analyst to bridge business analysis and QA testing. You will split duties between analyzing requirements, designing test plans, and executing tests to ensure quality and speed to market.

You will collaborate with IT and business areas, review requirements, create test strategies, maintain test beds, and provide metrics on defects while enabling efficient project delivery.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of the life insurance and annuity industry.
• Proficiency with MS Office to chart, analyze, and document processes and business requirements (Excel, Word, Visio) and Azure DevOps.
• Strong leadership, facilitation, presentation skills.
• Very good interpersonal skills, particularly non-judgmental (active listening) skills.
• Very strong analytical, critical thinking, time management, and task management skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate (both written and verbal) and build trusting relationships with associates at all levels of the organization.
• Experienced in reading and creating technical specs and analyzing architecture to identify gaps.

Responsibilities

• Review requirements, specs and technical designs to provide detailed feedback to the project team during the requirements phase; reuse or create efficient test strategies and plans.
• Execute and maintain test bed for reusability and efficiency; provide metrics and feedback on defects.
• Collaborate with all areas of the business and IT to elicit, document, and manage business requirements during the lifecycle of a project, including traceability and testing.
• Split role between Business Analyst and QA Tester to improve speed to market and project efficiency.

Skills

Life insurance

MS Office

Azure DevOps

Leadership

Interpersonal skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Technical specs reading

Education

College Degree or Equivalent Experience

Tools

Excel

Word

Visio

Azure DevOps

Job description

Americo Financial Life and Annuity seeks a combined Business and Quality Analyst to bridge business analysis and QA testing. You will split duties between analyzing requirements, designing test plans, and executing tests to ensure quality and speed to market.

You will collaborate with IT and business areas, review requirements, create test strategies, maintain test beds, and provide metrics on defects while enabling efficient project delivery.