What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Assurance Analyst position at Hexure?
Brief Description
Position Summary:
The Quality Assurance Analyst is an integral part to the success of Hexure’s products and company and is responsible for ensuring high quality and reliability of software deliveries to our clients across all platforms. The Quality Assurance Analyst will create and execute test plans and test cases to ensure adherence with specified requirements. The Quality Assurance Analyst will perform functional, regression, integration, and system testing using a combination of manual testing and automated tools to validate end to end system performance. The Quality Assurance Analyst supports external clients through their testing cycles by providing detailed release notes with every delivery, triaging issues reported, and engaging with clients to review system discrepancies as needed.
About Us
Join a team where we encourage creativity and innovation, champion teamwork and are committed to being the best. In this environment we strive to provide our clients best-in-class solutions that transform business processes and empower sales across all insurance, retirement and investment products.
Hexure, started with a simple goal: transform the insurance and financial services industry through powerful end-to-end sales solutions. For more than 25 years, carriers and distributors have depended on our commitment to innovation, speed to market delivery and deep domain expertise. Our solutions have been implemented within industry-leading insurance carriers and distribution firms. And our track record of empowering client success speaks for itself.
Together as a team, we strive to provide our clients best-in-class solutions that transform business processes and empower sales across all insurance, retirement and investment products. We endeavor to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better solutions for our clients.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
Standard working hours but this role may require that work outside of these hours for deployments and other business needs. This position is in-office Monday-Thursday with the flexibility to work remotely on Fridays.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee incumbent in this position. Employee will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties as requested.
A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the skills, aptitudes and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills or abilities.
This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
Position Summary:
The Quality Assurance Analyst is an integral part to the success of Hexure’s products and company and is responsible for ensuring high quality and reliability of software deliveries to our clients across all platforms. The Quality Assurance Analyst will create and execute test plans and test cases to ensure adherence with specified requirements. The Quality Assurance Analyst will perform functional, regression, integration, and system testing using a combination of manual testing and automated tools to validate end to end system performance. The Quality Assurance Analyst supports external clients through their testing cycles by providing detailed release notes with every delivery, triaging issues reported, and engaging with clients to review system discrepancies as needed.
About Us
Join a team where we encourage creativity and innovation, champion teamwork and are committed to being the best. In this environment we strive to provide our clients best-in-class solutions that transform business processes and empower sales across all insurance, retirement and investment products.
Hexure, started with a simple goal: transform the insurance and financial services industry through powerful end-to-end sales solutions. For more than 25 years, carriers and distributors have depended on our commitment to innovation, speed to market delivery and deep domain expertise. Our solutions have been implemented within industry-leading insurance carriers and distribution firms. And our track record of empowering client success speaks for itself.
Together as a team, we strive to provide our clients best-in-class solutions that transform business processes and empower sales across all insurance, retirement and investment products. We endeavor to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better solutions for our clients.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Generous benefit packages - We offer our employees competitive health insurance options, including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as long term and short-term disability insurance.
- Pre-tax savings programs including flexible spending accounts, and a 401K that is competitively matched!
- Lifestyle Spending Account. This provides an employee the flexibility to spend benefit dollars on the things that matter most to them.
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO). Work-life balance is a key part of our company culture here at Hexure, and we know that our employees do their best work when they can take the time they need to rest and recharge.
- Office Closures – Inclusion and Diversity are integral to enhancing our culture. In support of this, we offer 10 companywide office closures and encourage all employees to use flexible PTO to celebrate religious or cultural holidays, employee birthdays, or other state or federal holidays that bring personal meaning.
- In addition to all the standard PTO options, Hexure proudly offers a generous and progressive paid Modern Family Leave policy.
- Professional Development - Hexure supports you and your professional development with a LinkedIn learning account.
- We also have employee anniversary perks, health, and wellness programs, and much more!
- Most benefits are effective on date of hire!
- Collaborate with the database team to sync and update databases as required for deployments and testing.
- Execute production deployments in accordance with change management processes and ensure successful implementation.
- Provide accurate estimates for Change Management Requests (CMRs) and assess potential risks and impacts.
- Review requirement documentation to ensure understanding of the scope of the project and what needs to be tested.
- Create and maintain test plans and test cases designed to offer adequate test coverage and minimize escaped defects
- Create and maintain Quality Assurance matrices of test coverage and slippage ratios, and other pertinent quality metrics.
- Follow established quality control processes, test execution methods and standards to identify, analyze, and document issues, bugs, defects, and other problems.
- Complete full regression testing and analyze test results.
- Manage code and data migrations across multiple testing and production environments.
- Perform a thorough shakeout test after builds/installs are complete.
- Monitor defect tracking system daily and collaborate with the development team to ensure that any defects are fixed in a timely fashion.
- Actively participate in team meetings such as stand-up meetings and sprint retrospectives and provide testing status reporting on a regular basis.
- Familiarity with the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Experience with an automation platform nice to have.
- Ability to leverage AI is a plus.
- 1-3 years’ experience testing Software applications and or technology background
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Life Insurance and Annuities proficiency preferred.
- Courage: At Hexure we bravely tackle challenging tasks by speaking up and taking the first step. We are looking for candidates who are not afraid to take on new tasks and ask for help when needed.
- Accountable: We take ownership of our impact on colleagues, customers and community. We are looking for candidates who understand the impact of their words, work, and actions, striving to ensure that goals and objectives are met with integrity, while leveraging their influence to enhance the lives of colleagues and customers.
- Resilient: We swiftly recover from setbacks by maintaining a solution-oriented mindset, staying focused and continuously seeking improvement. We are searching for candidates who exhibit strong resilience, showing the ability to bounce back quickly from adversity, embrace challenges with a positive attitude, and consistently drive towards overcoming obstacles.
- Inquisitive: At Hexure we seek innovative solutions and constantly challenge the status quo. We are seeking candidates who demonstrate a natural curiosity, actively ask questions, pursue new knowledge, and eagerly explore uncharted territories to drive innovation
- Nimble: We are flexible and adaptable. We are seeking candidates who can quickly adjust to changing circumstances, embrace new challenges with ease, and effectively navigate dynamic environments
- Growth: At Hexure we commit to nurturing the growth and development of our employees, business and communities. We are seeking candidates who will match our enthusiasm for continued growth.
- Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
- Quality Engineer (requires automation scripting proficiency)
- Associate Solutions Consultant
- Project Coordinator
Standard working hours but this role may require that work outside of these hours for deployments and other business needs. This position is in-office Monday-Thursday with the flexibility to work remotely on Fridays.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee incumbent in this position. Employee will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties as requested.
A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the skills, aptitudes and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills or abilities.
This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
Salary : $57,000 - $64,000