Remote Insurance BA — Testing & Requirements Lead

Eliassen Group; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 90,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Business Analyst to support a NexGen / Guidewire program in a remote, W2 environment. The role focuses on two parallel tracks: testing and translating product requirements into clear, testable specifications for development.

You will partner with product and engineering teams to validate requirements, ensure traceability to tests, and improve quality through root-cause analysis, with emphasis on personal lines insurance domain.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of personal lines P&C insurance experience across auto, homeowners, renters, property, or umbrella.
• Understanding of product rules, rating logic, coverage structures, underwriting workflows, billing, and claims implications.
• 3+ years as a BA, business systems analyst, QA analyst, or similar role focused on requirements and testing.
• Proficiency with traceability and documentation tools such as Jira, SmartSheets, or Excel.
• Ability to convert business intent into clear, unambiguous, and testable specifications.
• Strong written and verbal communication with a collaborative approach across product, engineering, and QA.
• Guidewire experience is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Support R1 SIT/UAT by developing and executing test cases, validating business rules, and triaging defects.
• Perform defect root-cause analysis to determine development errors versus specification gaps or misunderstood requirements.
• Map business requirements to test cases and ensure comprehensive requirements traceability and coverage.
• Collaborate with product owners to clarify ambiguous requirements and document complete, testable specifications.
• Translate R2 product specifications into development-ready requirements including mandatory fields, rules, and edge cases.
• Partner with Guidewire delivery teams to review requirements, designs, and testing sign-offs.
• Contribute to pricing validation and Earnix testing in partnership with the Pricing/Earnings SME.
• Continuously improve specification quality based on lessons learned from R1 defects to reduce issues in R2.

Skills

P&C insurance

Requirements elicitation

Test case development

SIT/UAT testing

Jira/SmartSheets/Excel

Traceability

Communication

Guidewire experience

Tools

Jira

SmartSheets

Excel

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Business Analyst to support a NexGen / Guidewire program in a remote, W2 environment. The role focuses on two parallel tracks: testing and translating product requirements into clear, testable specifications for development.

You will partner with product and engineering teams to validate requirements, ensure traceability to tests, and improve quality through root-cause analysis, with emphasis on personal lines insurance domain.