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
- 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.
- 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.
- Supporting systems by reviewing and solving user questions and requests.
- 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.
- 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.
- Note: We are not currently considering applicants in CA, CO, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, MN, NJ, NY, VT, WA, for this position.
Skills Required
- Two or more years of business analyst experience
- Professional oral and written communication skills
- Planning, organizational, analytical, and critical-thinking skills
- Analysis, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills
- Experience with Agile development and Scrum project management methodologies
- Experience with MS SQL databases and MongoDB
- Experience testing and managing teams developing RESTful APIs, Windows Services, and database integrations
- Experience using Postman, Swagger, BrowserStack, Playwright, or similar automated test-scripting tools
- Experience creating and maintaining test suites and test beds
- Experience creating project charters, work summaries, and workflows using Lucid or similar workflow tools
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Industry-standard certifications
- Knowledge of AI and low-code solutions
What We Do
As a mutual organization, Assurity was founded on the simple concept of people coming together to support each other in moments of need. We continue our mission of helping people through difficult times by providing affordable insurance protection that is easy to understand and buy. Our financial stability has stood the test of time. It shows our commitment to be there when our customers need us. Owned by our policyholders, we conduct our business to serve only their best interests. Whether paying benefits, offering service with a human touch, giving back to our community, or practicing sustainable habits that provide for our planet, we embrace our capacity to improve lives. We all share in the future we create, and Assurity believes in using our business as a force for good.
