If you’re looking for a position with a company that values innovation in all that we do, value-orientation in all choices and decisions, and has an employee-centric company focus, you’ve come to the right place. Simple Technology Solutions’ motivated team members deliver remarkable solutions to our Federal Government clients every day. We are lifelong learners, value outcomes over busy-ness and cultivate collaboration over individual contributions.
Our in-depth experience helping government agencies in their installation, configuration, and optimization of leading Agile Software Development, DevOps, and Cloud Migration tools has led to rapid growth and an increased demand for our services. This growing team has an exciting startup feel, but we are not new to the game. As experienced government contractors, we are mentors, coaches, and thought leaders, who pride ourselves in sharing our knowledge and expertise with those growing within our organization.
A Little More About STS
You don’t get named a “Best Place to Work” by the Washington Business Journal, receive the Washington Technology magazine’s FAST50 status, and achieve Inc Magazine’s “Inc 500” status just by ‘talking the talk’. Our vision of excellence is aligned to our 'Techquity' (Tech-Equity) focus and drive. We understand that disparities and gaps in opportunities and earning potential exist for marginalized groups, such as people of color and women, in the IT industry. By leveraging the power, passion, and talent from this group we are able to deliver innovative GovCon IT solutions that exceed our customer’s expectations.
Our team members are not just ‘employees’; they’re parents, friends, volunteers, artists, students, athletes, and all of the other things that make them whole people. The flexibility that STS offers allows them to balance their personal lives while providing the top-notch services our customers have come to depend on.
Additionally, the team benefits from our partnerships with AWS, Google, Microsoft and CloudBees – with access to improved knowledge and the opportunity to become a SME with one or more of our above partners. At Simple Technology Solutions, we don't see Team Member benefits as 'perks'. Taking care of the people who take care of us is the standard. Click our benefits infographic to learn more about our industry-leading options that attract and retain top talent. But don’t just take our word for it, see what our current team members say about us on Glassdoor.
Simple Technology Solutions is a 8(a) HUBZone Company and we offer an annual $5,000 HUBZone bonus to team members that live in a qualified HUBZone and provide the required supporting documentation. To see if you could qualify for an annual HUBZone bonus, check out the HUBZone map HERE.
Simple Technology Solutions is looking for a Salesforce Business Analyst/Tester that helps guide businesses to improve business processes and efficiency in Salesforce. They elicit, document, and analyze requirements around business challenges, and then produce data-driven solutions. The Salesforce Business Analyst should be able to communication between IT and business stakeholders to ensure all involved work together to attain the best results. This is an integral role as it requires actively working with all parts of the delivery team and is customer-facing. The Tester role is a methodical and results-driven person who can identify and apply test procedures to ensure product quality. They assess the functionality and feasibility of software applications to ensure that any flaws in the system are identified and addressed in the software development lifecycle. They are able to detect and solve problems and have an eagle-eye for detail along with the ability to see the overall picture. They have in-depth knowledge of software development, superb analytical skills, and the ability to foresee technical problems.
Quick Position Overview:
- US Citizenship is required
- Bachelor's Degree is required
- Minimum of 3 years position related experience is required
- Certification: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900 or higher)
The Role:
The Salesforce Business Analyst/Tester at STS will:
- Work with clients to elicit, understand, and document requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Translate and shape client needs to the backlog items that meet those needs.
- Ensure user stories are “ready” for development (e.g. per Definition of Ready) with accompanying acceptance criteria.
- Ensure close collaboration and communication with the delivery team.
- Create, manage, organize, link, and prioritize the product backlog.
- Support client Product Owners, including overarching product vision and product roadmap activities.
- Actively drive and support planning activities.
- Actively manage scope, expectations, dependencies, and commitments.
- Actively participate and support high-level acceptance test activities.
Tester responsibilities:
- Assessing use cases, processes, flows, user stories, requirements, and acceptance criteria
- Defining the appropriate test cases and test scripts to be carried out including the test data to be used.
- Managing the test data by documenting the results of each test cycle to identify flaws.
- Liaising with the software development team, including the scrum master, developers, analysts, other testers, etc.
- Executing functional and non-functional testing, including positive/negative tests, manual tests, exploratory tests, and regression tests, as well as documenting and communicating the results to fellow team members.
- Interacting with and coordinating the development and validation team and ensuring that effective communication takes place.
- Identifying and eliminating redundant functions and components.
- Improving knowledge of business applications and user needs and expectations.
- Understanding and implementing industry standards, protocols, and testing tools, as well as keeping up-to-date on Salesforce technologies.
- Actively supporting planning and estimation activities.
- Actively supporting break/fix/enhancement, defect triage, and root cause analysis.
- Actively supporting documentation activities (e.g. work products, artifacts, and deliverables).
Education and Experience:
Required
- Bachelor’s degree
- US Citizenship
- 3 years experience as a Microsoft Power Platform Business Analyst
- Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900 or higher)
- Must be able to work the hours of 8am-5pm Eastern Time regardless of your home location
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What We Do
Simple Technology Solutions (STS) has in-depth experience helping federal & state government agencies in their Agile/DevOps/Cloud adoption & transformation. We understand how people, process, and technology work together to dramatically transform how government IT organizations improve their ability to deliver quality software & cloud-enable IT services to their end-users. In addition to being experienced government contractors, we are experienced coaches and thought-leaders guiding government IT leaders through the Agile/DevOps/Cloud mental, skill & organizational shifts. To our government customers, we are a small business with a big knowledge of the DHS mission and technology landscape.
To our industry customers, we are a deeply connected, knowledgeable partner that you can trust as a services provider or strategic guide. STS is transforming complex into simple. KEEP I.T. SIMPLE!
