Working for Aligned Technology, LLC


Employment Opportunities
We continue to push the boundaries of technology developing exciting and innovative products for the global market. We have a culture of innovation where our employees can make a difference and we are looking for like minded, dynamic individuals to come and join our rapidly expanding team.

Below is our current list of vacancies. If you wish to submit your application, please send it via e-mail. Thanks!

• Business Analyst

Acts as liaison between client area, technical organization, and other affected areas by planning, conducting, and directing the analysis of highly complex business problems to be solved through strategic eCommerce-based solutions (e.g., Intranet and Internet).

Functions as business systems analyst for large and complex projects. Responsible for eliciting and facilitating working sessions to gather requirements; analyzing information gathered to produce detailed business requirements/specifications; and conducting walkthroughs of the produced documents with impacted technical/system groups, testing groups, servicing groups, and business groups.

May act as an internal consultant within technology and business groups by evaluating current processes and recommending new e-commerce solutions that reduce costs or extend current capabilities. Tools used to evaluate current processes may be industry tools or self-developed. May act as an external consultant as a participant in consortia groups. May work directly with senior management and is considered a high-level expert.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

* Minimum 7-10 years experience as a business systems analyst or business analyst, ideally with experience in transactional web applications.
* Previous experience documenting functional requirements for a variety of software applications is required.
* Able to work and learn independently.
* Able to take complex problems, and decompose them into well organized, detailed descriptions to facilitate problem solving.
* Able to plan and facilitate requirement-gathering sessions.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Able to author detailed business requirements and functional requirements documents using a variety of structured techniques (e.g., business rules, decision tables, UML modeling).
* Experience writing Use Case Specifications is required.

PREFERRED SKILLS

* Expertise in the entire MS Office suite, including Word, Excel, and Visio.
* Experience writing business requirements in RUP methodology artifacts, e.g. detailed use cases, business rules, supplementary specifications, and UI screen specifications.
* Experience working with Rational RequisitePro and Enterprise Architect
* Financial services industry background
* Knowledge of UI paradigms is highly desirable

• Quality Assurance Analyst

We are looking for someone who:
* Is a talented, responsible, lead QA engineer who is passionate about product quality
* Loves QA methodology, best practices and test-driven development
* Is enough of a developer in multiple languages/platforms to be dangerous (or at least to test our products well)
* Thrives in an environment with lots of change, who is excited to learn and likes to test their mettle
* Can multi-task and *own* the QA process for all three of this company*s product suite
* Excels at picking up new languages and technologies as the product suite expands even further

The Opportunity:
* Work as the lead QA engineer at a company that already has traction in the market and (effectively) thousands of volunteer testers
* Establish process and best practices with the in-house support and resources to "do it right"
* Promote an environment where the entire team creates reliable, bug-free code - the first time around
* Help build a small, top-notch QA team and establish and refine QA best practices
* Collaborate with a team of productive, smart, energetic, passionate engineers

Responsibilities:
* Test multiple products on multiple operating systems and their integration
* Work directly with developers to author test cases
* Establish a rapport with our engineering team and create a QA process that they buy into and support
* Identify, report and track issues in a bug tracking system
* Perform manual testing as required
* Evaluate, select and integrate third party testing tools
* Author code to automate written test cases to aid in regression testing
* Realistically manage the tradeoffs between quality control and the need to ship product to hungry customers
* Find new ways to leverage our numerous users to identify bugs and improve product quality

Qualifications:
* Previous experience building a QA discipline at a startup from the ground up
* Strong work ethic
* Superlative analytical skills
* Take pride in your work
* Coding/testing experience with most of the following: HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript and Ruby on Rails, Python and various web technologies

Nice to have:
* Previous experience building a QA discipline at a startup from the ground up