Assurety Consulting, Inc.

Assurety wishes you a wonderful holiday season and a New Year of Health & Happiness!

May the gifts of the season... peace, hope, love, health, and happiness be yours throughout the New Year.

Leverage The Power of Informed Delivery!

Assurety conducted a workshop at the NPF, 2022 on how MSPS and Mail Owners can leverage IV and ID Data to Improve ROI on their Marketing Budgets. Learn about Business Intelligence and Visualization in non-technical terms for commercial mailers and shippers.

View Presentation: https://bit.ly/3GGVDUC

Take Advantage of Informed Delivery® Package Campaigns!

Assurety presented a session at NPF, 2022 on creating your new Digital Marketing channel with Informed Delivery® Package Campaigns. Learn about how Package Campaigns provide a new opportunity for personalized customer engagement to merchants shipping with the Postal Service.

Click here to access the workshop: https://bit.ly/3Mdoxgj

Assurety is proud to participate at NPF 2022 and brings you an informative workshop on Sunday, May 15 at 1:30 PM - 2: 30 PM, where you would get a chance to learn How MSPs and Mail Owners can Utilize IV and ID Data to Improve ROI on their Marketing Budgets. Visit our Booth 918 to learn more.

Want to learn more about Informed Delivery?

Attend our session on Creating Your New Digital Marketing Channel with Informed Delivery Package Campaigns on Sunday, May 15 at 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM, and learn more about the specifications of package campaigns, and data resulting campaigns. Visit our Booth 918 for more information.

Assurety wishes you Happy Holidays and Seasons Greetings!

May the special joys of the Season be yours today and always and may the new year bring peace, health, prosperity, and wisdom to us all.

Sharick Mirza, CEO and Rex Bull, CMO at Assurety Consulting and Solutions, joins Ian Kerr from Postal Hub to talk about the cost and benefits of implementing a data analytics strategy for postal, delivery, and e-commerce companies:

Listen to the podcast here: https://www.assuretyconsulting.com/cost-and-benefits-of-implementing-a-data-analytics-strategy/

Sharick Mirza, CEO at Assurety Consulting, and Rex Bull, CMO at Assurety Consulting, joins Ian Kerr from Postal Hub to talk about using data to improve the customer experience in delivery and reverse logistics.

Listen to the full podcast here: https://www.assuretyconsulting.com/improving-the-customer-experience-in-delivery-and-reverse-logistics/

All employees of Assurety share one job description which is to keep its customers and help grow the company.

Hours: Full Time
Location: On Site (Washington DC)
Department: Professional Services
Reports to: QA Manager / Program Manager

Job Description:

Performs planning and reporting of their own testing activities tied to major, minor releases and patches.
Develops planning, documentation, and communication, and reporting for their testing activities.
Performs development and ex*****on of automation scripts and automation modules (VB Scripting).
Performs activities related to data driven and functional testing.
Prepares and executes test cases using and preparing Mail.dat, Mail.XML and SSF file data.
Conducts data analysis and writes QA plans and scripts focused on data and functional testing.
Authors test cases and performs smoke, functional, negative, regression and cross-browser testing of our signature product and our core products.
Interprets, analyzes and understands the Requirement/Specification documentation provided for new and existing functionality.
Writes and executes test plans, test scenarios and test cases.
Assists Development with research of reported issues.
Maintains records of test progress and documenting test results.
Strong attention to detail for data analysis; Excellent Communication skills Verbal and written; Will/can get it done attitude; Time management skills can manage multiple projects tasks and priorities.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology related field or comparable experience.
Must be a S. citizen and/or authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer.
Must be able to obtain a Public Trust US government clearance (Must have lived in the US for consecutive 5 years without being out of the country for more than total 180 days).
Must have at least 5-6 years of total experience as QA Analyst.
Must be mid-level in UFT Automation testing with 1+ years of Automation experience.
Must have 5+ years of progressive Quality Assurance and testing experience.
Must have practical experience with all stages of the software development life cycle (SDLC) as well as the software testing life cycle (STLC).
Needs to understand and be comfortable with Enterprise Level Application (Front End, Middleware and Backend).
Strong in Microsoft Excel especially in excel formulas – Must have used Excel formulas to lookup values, and string functions Experience in Excel Macros Excel data import of various types of files and data manipulation.
Experience with SoapUI/Ready API for WebAPI testing and Automation (Must Have).
ETL Tools experience.
Experience with SQL queries.
Experience with Linux/Unix commands Experience with HP ALM.
ALM integration with different tool such as UFT and SoapUI Pro.
Experience with Automation with UFT Version 12 and above.
Must have worked on different QA Automation frameworks i.e. BPT, Lean AFT and Hybrid Experience in descriptive programming in UFT.
Formatting of different types of files and data analyze.
You should have strong written and verbal communication skills.
You should have strong leadership and management skills.
Knowledge of and past experience with B2B systems is a plus.
Good interpersonal skills are also required.
Knowledge of Internet technologies and web applications is useful including Web 2.0 and XML.
Excellent client presence and facilitation/communication skills.
Proficient in MS Office Suite (Visio, Word, PPT etc.), MS Project.
Must be well trained in technical writing skills.

All employees of Assurety share one job description which is to keep its customers and help grow the company.
Assurety Consulting & Solutions, Inc. is looking for a senior mailing industry analyst to help with problem solving, planning, ex*****on and communications planning and customer management activities for a large program. You will be part of a technical team responsible for technical analysis, requirements management, client and customer management and communications and helping with planning testing activities. The key role is to help develop, expand, implement the programs focused on parcel and mailing products, successful implementation of the systems and applications, and providing oversite on IT resources to make sure all the high level and detail level requirements are implemented successfully.

Location: On Site (Washington DC) Some telework may be allowed.
Department: Professional Services
Reports to: Director of Professional Services
Technical Analyst – IV
Experience Required: 15 Years

Requirements:
•Must have excellent communication and presentation skills and experience
•Must have excellent soft skills and consulting skills in managing the client and their customers’ needs
•Must have technology and technology management experience to help develop new digital products, services, and solutions and provide guidance on managing them.
•Must have communications planning and management experience and be able to present solutions to the industry.
•Must have excellent project management and risk management skills and experience.
•Must have Technical Writing skills
•Must have customer service, communications management experience in managing customer expectations.
•Must have minimum fourteen years of professional experience analyzing data needs, business needs, performing business process engineering, proposing business solutions and documenting requirements and project management.
•Must have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information systems or science related field or related experience, Master’s degree in related field is a plus
•Must be a U.S. citizen and/or authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer
•Must be able to get cleared with public trust US government clearance
•Must have at least 15 years of experience.

Responsibilities:
•Manages projects, tasks and documents status and reports the status to the manager and client.
•Must be able to lead and direct the activities of technical, functional analysis, and data design activities of a project.

• Must be able to plan, execute and manage project, requirements, QA, and R&D activities.
• Must be able to work with customer management and provide technical and functional guidance to customers regarding their software readiness to participate in client’s programs and help solve technical and business problems.
• Must be able to think about products, services, functionality in terms of data.
• Must be able to understand data modeling from past experience.
• Elicits B2B data and functional requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis.
• Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconciles conflicts, decomposes high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguishes user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Proactively communicates and collaborates with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and delivers the following artifacts as needed: (Technical Requirements /Functional requirements (Software Requirements Document), Process Flow, work flow and data flow documents, Use Cases, GUI, (Screen and Interface designs), training guides and materials, user guides, technical guides, Data specific modeling design
• Utilizes his/her experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies
• Successfully engages in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Works independently with users to define concepts and under direction of project managers
• Serves as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow
• Develops requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language
• Collaborates with developers and as a subject matter expert help lead and direct the technical team members to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
• Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.
• Will be tasked to help with the QA process and training material development

All employees of Assurety share one job description which is to keep its customers and help grow the company.

Assurety Consulting & Solutions, Inc. is looking for a Technical Analyst that can exhibit superior technical knowledge and key computer competencies.

Location: On Site (Washington DC) and Remote
Department: Professional Services
Reports to: Project Manager

Job Responsibilities:
• Supports processes such as ideation, business requirements, technical requirements, data modeling, data analysis and governance, API design, solutioning and architecture, quality assurance, quality control, and risk management.
• Provides integration management and oversight over IT design and development activities to make sure all business needs are met while developing state-of-the practice systems.
• Envisions business transactions and business reporting using ERD diagrams, data entities and elements.
• Elicits B2B and B2C data, systems, and functional requirements using interviews, document analysis, business analysis, and data and workflow analysis.
• Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconciles conflicts, decomposes high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguishes user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Proactively communicates and collaborates with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and delivers the following artifacts as needed: (Technical Requirements /Functional requirements (Software Requirements Document), Process Flow, work flow and data flow documents, Use Cases, GUI, (Screen and Interface designs), training guides and materials, user guides, technical guides, Data specific modeling design
• Utilizes his/her experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies
• Successfully engages in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Evaluates COTS solutions as an independent consultant and provides options to the customer for procurement.
• Performs design thinking activities to discover to-be state and supports iterative processes for successful innovative solutions development.
• Uses PMI project management techniques to enable successful outcomes.
• Helps with customer interaction, communication, and customer onboarding to newer software systems.
• Acts as a liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.

Minimum Requirements:
• Must have advanced requirements gathering skills (technical and business)
• Must have 10+ years of experience as a technical analyst.
• Must have excellent communication and presentation skills and experience
• Must have SQL Development skills and experience
• Must have development skills and experience in one or more languages
• Must have QA skills and automation experience
• Must have Business Analysis and requirements management skills
• Must have client management skills
• Must have Technical Writing skills
• Must have customer service, communications management experience in managing customer expectations.
• Must have minimum Six (6+) years of professional experience analyzing data needs, business needs, performing business process engineering, proposing business solutions and documenting requirements
• Must have prior QA and QA Automation experience writing scripts to automate testing processes.
• Must understand XML, Jason, and relational databases; Past database development, data analysis and programming experience is needed
• Must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information systems or science related field or relative experience, Master’s degree in related field is a plus
• Must be a U.S. citizen and/or authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer
• Must be able to get cleared with public trust US government clearance

Assurety Consulting & Solutions, Inc. is looking for a Sr. Business/Technical Analyst with extensive functional requirements, data related requirements management and technical testing experience.

Department: Professional Services
Reports to: Program Manager
Years of Experience Required: 6

Minimum Requirements:

• Must have excellent communication skills to lead activities and deliver quality deliverables.
• Must have 6 years of professional experience analyzing business needs, performing business process engineering, proposing business solutions and documenting requirements
• Must have 3-4 years of business analysis experience in a client facing role
• Must have served as a requirements analyst in 3-5 projects in the past as a team member and in a lead capacity on at least one project
• Must have a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Engineering, Economics, MIS or a related discipline. Bachelor’s in computer science or Information systems or science related field or related experience, Master’s degree in related field is a plus.
• Must have understanding of XML, and relational databases.
• Experience with Azure cloud or AWS is a plus.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and/or authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer
• Must be able to get cleared with public trust US government clearance (Must have lived consecutively in the US for the last five years without any long gaps in residency)

Responsibilities:

• Performs systems and application engineering through life cycle as an analyst, develops understanding of client's organization, develops user and system and data exchange requirements and ensures that business solutions are consistent with client’s strategic goals and investment decisions.
• Helps the PM with planning, scheduling, communication, and ex*****on activities.
• Reviews Business Needs Statements, collaborates with the customers (internal and external) and develops business, functional and technical requirements in agile methodologies.
• Develops training materials, business and technical guides, helps bring customers onboard.
• Self Manages tasks, schedules and hands-on writes requirements and after proving his/her abilities will be tasked with managing the client and client’s expectations, deliverables and schedules as part of the growth path.
• Elicits requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis.
• Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconciles conflicts, decomposes high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguishes user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Proactively communicates and collaborates with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional
• Utilizes his/her experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies
• Successfully engages in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Works independently with users to define concepts and under direction of project managers
• Serves as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow
• Develops requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language
• Collaborates with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
• May be tasked to help with the QA process and training material development as well as with Assurety’s product development activities or with other Assurety projects in a business analyst role.

Skills Required:

• You should have strong problem solving, consulting, requirements management, leadership, written and verbal communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills are also required.
• Basic Knowledge of Internet technologies, data exchange technologies and web applications Including XML, Jason, Cloud is critical to the role’s success.
• Familiarity with testing tools and government accessibility requirements is a plus.
• Working knowledge of Scrum is required
• Knowledge and experience developing UML use cases is a plus
• Prior experience eliciting requirements for web based and database systems
• Excellent client presence and facilitation/communication skills.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite (Visio, Word, PPT etc.)
• Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Must possess good understanding of business process engineering
• Must be well trained in technical writing skills.

Assurety Consulting Inc. has an opening for one of its federal agency contracts to manage professional services contracts with two to three teams that represent the business and functional side of IT systems development. The role does include communication, collaboration with IT but the role is not about implementation activities, rather the role is focused on definition, requirements, design, CAT activities, integration management, risk management, budgets and contracts management and people management activities. Assurety expects this person to also play the role of an account manager and help with business development activities, offering solutions to the clients. Program Manager will report directly to the VP of Professional Services and will be responsible for managing 3-4 project leads and their small teams.

Telework is allowed several days a week.
Department: Professional & Technical Services
Reports to: VP of Professional Services

Minimum Requirements:
Must have past experience in managing matrix-ed and functional teams.
Must have at least 4 years of Program management experience and at least 15+ years of IT experience.
Must have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information systems, or related fields.
Master’s degree in related field is a plus.
PMP is a plus.
Prior experience in working with either of the following areas such as: ecommerce, parcel, mail, postal, logistics, supply chain experience is required.
Must be a U.S. citizen and/or authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer.
Must be able to get cleared with public trust US government clearance.
The contract requires some experience with a supply chain related business activities where products are moved from one place to another, ecommerce, transportation, aviation, logistics, postal, parcel, customs or relative experience.
Responsibilities:
• The job responsibilities include participating in a program management capacity on:
• Project scope definition, and planning through delivery of assigned deliverables and releases.
• Provide customer input represented in both technical and business terms with descriptive requirements to ensure the value of the project is realized.
• Helps with account management and leading solutioning activities to help clients with current and future problems.
• Delivery, documentation and circulation of an end-to-end Plan, including activities, dependencies, timing and ownership. Follow up with specific owners to deliver components of the project on-time.
• Driving a unified message to all affected internal stakeholders and deliver quality feedback back to the teams responsible for deliverables such as requirements documents, technical and user guide documents, API and data specification development, training materials, change requests, QA plans and processes, User Group communications materials.
• Provide actionable detail on future obligations to the requirements management team, design team, guides and communications team, QA team, customer onboarding team.
• Present program status and issues to customer and company management on a regular and consistent basis in regular status reporting and status meetings.
• Understand and coach/teach others the customers on SDLC, business processes, templates, and systems.
• Works with Project managers and project leads and customer to refine planning and communication of deliverables.

Skills Required:
• Proven ability to drive large scale complex projects with high collaboration and leadership.
• Excellent written and oral communications
• Required business development and proposal writing skills to help increase revenues.
• Excellent judgment, decision making skills, and the ability to work under continual deadline pressure.
• Excellent presentation skills and experience of presenting to senior management.
• Good interpersonal skills are also required.
• Knowledge of Internet technologies and web applications is useful including Web 2.0 and XML.
• Familiarity with testing tools and government accessibility requirements is a plus.
• Prior experience eliciting requirements for web based, database and B2B systems.
• Excellent client presence and facilitation/communication skills.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite (Visio, Word, PPT etc.)
• Must possess good understanding of business process engineering.
• Must be well trained in technical writing skills.