BA QA

Client: SEI Investments

Title: QA/BA

Location: Oaks, PA (must sit on-site 2 days' per week)

Duration: Long-Term Contact (multi-year)

Interview Process: 2 steps with client (both via video)

Manager Notes

• BA QA on the special assets team. Loans, stocks, hedge fund. This team owns a ton of code.
• Must have a financial services BG
• Responsible for talking with the product manager and client.
• Must have experience with PL/SQL to query database
• 66% testing 33% BA
• Long term this person could grow into a PO.
• Can come from a QA background and learn some of the BA work if they have strong communication skills

Responsibilities include:

• Active participation on a Scrum Team following all facets of the Agile Delivery Process.
• Establish relationships within the internal and external business community.
• Work with development project teams with to user stories, quality assurance acceptance criteria, and product rollout.
• Both independently and as a member of design team complete assignments of moderate to high complexity and risk.
• Proactively recommend innovations and modifications that are in compliance with industry requirements and are consistent with corporate objectives and goals to improve operational processes, systems, policies and procedures.
• Interaction with prospects, clients and industry representatives in gathering business requirements and ensure that end deliverables meet original client needs.
• Review, analyze, evaluate and recommend business systems, component applications and user needs.
• Document/communicate key decisions, open issues, case studies, workflow and functional requirements.
• Support scrum masters, product owners and senior level analysts on various projects.
• Drive quality assurance with creation and execution of acceptance tests as needed.

Required:

• Ability to work comfortably with a wide range of people and skill sets, including architects, project managers, analysts, designers and developers
• Knowledgeable in business domain (desirable to have a background in Business Analysis)
• Detail oriented with the ability to organize and prioritize tasks to ensure timely delivery of the Sprints/PSI's.
• Strong Process orientation
• Understanding of Agile principals and the ability to learn the foundations of SAFe.
• Experience with iterative development processes, quality and testing best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Grasp of good user experience design principles and business trade-offs
• Direct experience eliciting and articulating business requirements, writing and executing user based test cases in the context of agile development.
• Experience interfacing with management and external clients
• Desire to work collaboratively with the all Agile teams and their stakeholders
• Ability to be decisive and say "no" when protecting committed Objectives
• Understand overall vision and how Product fits with that vision
• Proven decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills, including understanding of technical writing requirements