IT Quality Assurance Analyst jobs in Minnesota

Title: Business Analyst

Duration: 9 months

Location: St Paul Minnesota 55101

Position Notes:

This is a contract only position for Project Basin. This is a higher level role that will lead and own pieces, some similarities to a business analyst role. Collaboration with other stakeholders is a critical part of the job, communication is key.

May require some early 7:30 meetings due to other team members working in other time zones.

Job Description:

• We are seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst with experience in the life insurance and financial industry to assist with a program that is transferring closed blocks of life insurance business to another insurer. This is a three -party transaction.
• The candidate will be working with both internal and external stakeholders, including testers, business analysts, operations business users, project managers and developers.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Build positive, productive relationships with the business stakeholders, subject matter experts, testers and others who will be the source of the test deliverables for the program.
• Validate that the converted life insurance data is accurate, reliable, and usable by all functional areas.
• Analyze business requirements for accuracy and consistency across functional areas.
• Write high level use cases based on business requirements for both financial and non-financial activities.
• Develop end-to-end test scenarios for cross-functional workstreams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders (testers, business analysts, business users, project managers, developers) in the defect triage process.
• Manage and triage defects based on expected results provided by vendor.
• Assess the impact of defects on critical business processes and customer experience.
• Review defects for patterns and trends to identify gaps in test coverage and regression testing needs.
• Ensure that user expectations are met during the testing process.
• Effectively communicate the impact, priority, and severity of defects on the overall conversion project.
• Ensure timely escalation of critical defects or regulatory issues to prevent project delays.
• Support testing team with execution of test cases and verify expected results.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Life Insurance products, policies, and procedures.
• Experience with financial reporting, compliance, and regulatory guidelines.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into test strategy and test cases.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence, collaborate, and build solid relationships with project team members.

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