Quality Assurance Analyst

About the Position

The Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst role at AdvicePay owns testing across features and integrations, using tools and data to validate results, identify risks, and ensure smooth, high-quality releases. QA Analysts collaborate closely with developers and product owners and improve test efficiency, coverage, and consistency across the team.

This position with our AdvisorBOB product is a great fit for a QA professional who loves numbers and embraces a good mathematical challenge. Because AdvisorBOB manages intricate advisor compensation structures, you’ll regularly work with complex, multi-step calculations. If you enjoy digging into the "why" behind the numbers and ensuring every decimal place is exact, you’ll love this role.

What You’ll Be Doing

Test Strategy & Planning

• Design test cases for moderately complex features with minimal guidance.
• Ensure test documentation is clear, accurate, and reusable for the team.

Test Execution & Release Readiness

• Execute exploratory testing to uncover edge cases, and usability issues.
• Balance thoroughness with efficiency to ensure sprint commitments are met.
• Align test coverage with specific sprint and release objectives.

Bug Management & Quality Investigation

• Write detailed, reproducible bug reports with strong supporting evidence.
• Independently triage bugs and collaborate with the team on high-impact or complex cases.
• Identify and proactively communicate recurring issues or defect patterns.
• Validate fixes and confirm appropriate regression coverage.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Participate in refinement and story pointing to anticipate edge cases and identify missing requirements early.
• Communicate test results and blockers clearly to the team.
• Collaborate with developers and product owners to align expectations for acceptance criteria and testing scope.

Process Improvement

• Maintain and refine QA workflows to increase team consistency.
• Other duties as assigned

Measurables for this Position

• Bug escape rate (defects found post-release).
• Test case coverage

What You’ll Bring to the Table (If you think, “I only meet 80% of these qualifications”, still apply!)

• 2 years of experience in manual software QA including ownership of web application testing for complex systems or large features (required).
• Demonstrated comfort working with complex data and numerical logic; ability to manually trace and validate multi-step calculations to ensure system accuracy (required).
• Solid understanding of QA methodologies, testing strategy, and risk-based testing.
• Experience working in an Agile environment, including active participation in sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Proficiency with debugging tools such as Postman, browser dev tools, SQL queries, and log analysis.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• High sense of personal responsibility and integrity. (required)
• An understanding of and strong alignment with our core values (required).
• Legally authorized to live and work in the United States (required) (AdvicePay participates in E-Verify to confirm the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires.)

What Will Make You Stand Out From the Crowd

• Experience in fintech or other compliance-heavy environments
• Background or education in mathematics, statistics, or another quantitative field

The Deets

• Start Date: August 2026
• Status: Full-time, exempt
• Location: Bozeman, MT
• Department: Product Development - AdvisorBOB
• Reports to: Engineering Manager

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $84,405-$92,846/year (please note that this wage is inclusive of all expected compensation. As with all roles at AdvicePay, we do not have a commission or bonus structure)
• Flexible paid time off days to maintain work-life harmony (we encourage and support that you take at least 3 weeks off per year!)
• 11 paid holidays when the office is closed
• 401(k) with match - you put in 6% and we put in 4.5%
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for the birth or adoption of a child
• Health benefits package provided of up to $550/month for an individual, $1260/month for families
• Dental, Vision, Voluntary Life and AD&D, and Accident insurance options
• Employer-paid life insurance
• Employer-paid long-term disability coverage
• Up to $1800/year to cover the cost of working with a financial planner, plus up to $500 toward the one-time upfront fee
• $250/quarter to spend on yourself specific to our core value of “Be Well Being You”
• $500 donated to a non-profit organization of your choice when you volunteer 40 hours/year
• $2,000/year in Professional Development funds
• A sabbatical program that includes a cash bonus and extra time off at 5, 10, and 15 years
• Subsidized employer-sponsored childcare through our partner daycare program for Bozeman area Team Members
• Pet insurance
• Company-owned laptop provided

Please see our Team Member Handbook to learn more about the benefits and perks we offer!