Solutions Analyst

LSAC is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to advance law and justice by encouraging diverse, talented individuals to study law and by supporting their enrollment and learning journeys from prelaw through practice. LSAC provides products and services that support candidates and schools throughout the law school admission process, and innovative solutions to expand and diversify the range of prelaw students, enhance student outcomes in law school, and support legal professionals throughout their careers.

Summary of Position:

You will work as part of an autonomous agile team to develop features and applications to meet the needs of your product area. We are looking for a methodical professional that bring expertise in testing, DevOps, database manipulation and other task to help the product team move software to production with the highest quality and value. This role requires a strong agile mindset.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. The individual employed in this position will be required to:

Function as liaison between the SMEs, operations, and product team.
• Ensure the output from the team meets the quality standards defined by the team.
• Help the Product Manager gather requirements by managing relationships with stakeholders and contributing to those conversations.
• Providing guidance on what to build and when to release to obtain as much value as possible, as early as possible
• Help the Agile team to plan and improve their ways of working through retrospectives and coaching the team in Agile Practices
• Ensure the work done by the team aligns with the wider business strategy
• Develop test cases, test plans and test strategy for team use
• Configure Test Complete for long term manageability
• Review test cases with team Product Manager
• Test execution (manual/automated) as well as defect management.
• Provide frank observations and recommendations to development team
• Create effective and efficient testing protocols to be used across all product lines

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This role does not have people management responsibilities.

Position Type:

The LSAC standard business hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. ET. While these are the standard office hours for LSAC, as an exempt employee, the employee will be expected to work the hours necessary to satisfactorily complete their assignments in a responsible and professional manner.

Travel:

No travel is expected for this position.

Work Environment:

This job operates in a remote and professional office environment. Whether remote or in-office, this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

Additional Information:

Please note that this job description may not contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Job responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.

Except as otherwise provided by law, all terms of employment are subject on an at-will basis and can change at any time.

LSAC actively seeks to foster greater levels of diversity in our workforce and in our pipeline of future leaders. We are committed to attract and retain candidates who have a passion for their work and encourage all qualified individuals, including minorities, women, LGBTQIA , and individuals with a disability, to apply. LSAC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.