Business Analyst / QA at RIT Solutions, Inc. in Arlington, VA

Job description

• Job Description

Responsibilities

• Define and own the end-to-end QA test strategy, partnering with business stakeholders to translate requirements into clear, business-driven test plans and acceptance criteria.
• Lead functional, business acceptance, and regression testing efforts, with a primary focus on validating financial calculations, data outputs, and business logic against expected outcomes.
• Manage defect lifecycle, root cause analysis, and communication of business impact.
• Document and maintain comprehensive test cases and test scripts.
• Use of strong SQL skills to independently investigate data discrepancies and validate key figures; a dedicated data analyst will execute more complex queries and build automated DBT tests based on your recommended test strategy.
• Validating Power BI reports against underlying data.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for business stakeholders during testing cycles, communicating defect status, risks, and quality metrics in clear, non-technical terms.
• Review data lineage and business workflows to ensure end-to-end traceability of financial data from source systems to reporting outputs.
• Identify patterns in recurring bugs to drive long-term solutions.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, developers and analysts to ensure requirements are met.
• Recommend business/functional test cases that are required to attest to data quality based on business requirements; partner with the dedicated data analyst to ensure these are implemented and automated correctly

Requirements

• Define and own the end-to-end QA test strategy, partnering with business stakeholders to translate requirements into clear, business-driven test plans and acceptance criteria.
• Lead functional, business acceptance, and regression testing efforts, with a primary focus on validating financial calculations, data outputs, and business logic against expected outcomes.
• Manage defect lifecycle, root cause analysis, and communication of business impact.
• Document and maintain comprehensive test cases and test scripts.
• Use of strong SQL skills to independently investigate data discrepancies and validate key figures; a dedicated data analyst will execute more complex queries and build automated DBT tests based on your recommended test strategy.
• Validating Power BI reports against underlying data.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for business stakeholders during testing cycles, communicating defect status, risks, and quality metrics in clear, non-technical terms.
• Review data lineage and business workflows to ensure end-to-end traceability of financial data from source systems to reporting outputs.
• Identify patterns in recurring bugs to drive long-term solutions.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, developers and analysts to ensure requirements are met.
• Recommend business/functional test cases that are required to attest to data quality based on business requirements; partner with the dedicated data analyst to ensure these are implemented and automated correctly

Skills

Required

• QA test strategy
• Functional testing
• Business acceptance testing
• Regression testing
• Defect lifecycle management
• Root cause analysis
• Test case documentation
• SQL
• Power BI
• Data validation
• Communication with stakeholders