Quality Assurance Analyst - Advanced

Quality Assurance Analyst - Advanced

Location: Columbia, SC - Onsite 

Scope of the Project

Client is seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst to assist with implementing small to large projects.

Position Summary

This position is for a Quality Assurance resource on the Systems Applications Integration and Development team, serving as a system testing specialist on the Client's enrollment and eligibility systems, including document management and workflows. Serves as a technical resource for agency projects regarding Medicaid enrollment, eligibility, and claims processing and their related sub-systems. Uses expertise to evaluate proposed and implemented solutions as well as recommend improvements.

Responsibilities

• Develop test plans, QA and/or User Acceptance Testing processes and test cases for product management and software development teams.

• Design and support user interface testing application and regression testing software.
• Test software applications for reliability and stability.
• Implement testing programs to perform quality assurance on technical applications, including negative testing and usability.
• Perform Smoke Test, System Integration Test, and End-to-End test on various systems/applications.
• Proactively identify issues and action items leading to possible solutions by planned due dates, or report impediments to finding a timely solution; coordinate with leadership and technical resources at all levels.
• Participate in projects to perform quality assessments that expose security flaws, reveal defects, and identify areas of optimization.
• Define, implement, and evangelize best practices, processes, and policies established internally and by applying industry best practices.
• Ensure projects adhere to software testing governance policies, best practices, and guidelines, and recommend improvements.
• Maintain a database of product defects, user reviews, survey information, and functional improvements.
• Coordinate with product development teams and software engineers to recommend solutions that maximize performance and efficiency.
• Advise on best practices regarding industry standards. Maintain issues in the defect database and participate in collaborative efforts to resolve issues, coordinating with leadership and technical resources at all levels.
• Perform reviews, walkthroughs, or inspections and adhere to established governance standards.
• Provide oversight/approval of vendor unit/system integrated test plans and test results.
• Provide guidance on the preparation/review of test plans, test scripts/scenarios, and test reports.
• Check progress against targets, report as necessary, and take action to resolve exceptions.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and technicians at all levels; document feedback and testing outcome reports to management. Work with architects, technicians, and management on project testing and complete assigned tasks in a timely fashion.

Required Skills (in order of importance)

1. 5+ years' experience in Quality Assurance & Quality Control.

2. 5+ years translating business requirements or policy documentation into test cases and scenarios; building test cases and scenarios into test systems.
3. 3+ years' experience in Sahi Pro/Selenium Automation Framework.
4. Design and develop test automation scripts using Test Automation Guidelines.
5. Working knowledge of ONE of the following: SPICE, TPI, TMMI, CMMI OPF, OPD, and PPQA process areas.
6. Direct hands-on experience with formal test design techniques like Equivalence Class Partitioning and Pairwise Analysis.
7. Experience with test design tools like PICT or equivalent orthogonal-based tools.

Preferred Skills (in order of importance)

1. 5+ years large enterprise or e-business systems experience.

2. 3 years Medicaid or healthcare experience; deep knowledge of healthcare operations (preferably Medicaid), business processes.
3. Experience with X.12 Standards and HIPAA EDI Transactions.
4. Proficient in the Atlassian tool suite, including JIRA and Confluence.
5. Prior experience working in a standard SDLC (waterfall methodology) and in an Agile delivery environment.

Required Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field. Or 5+ years of equivalent experience in Quality Assurance.

Additional Skills/Duties

• Superb written and oral communication skills, including the ability to write requirements and use cases. Very strong proficiency in English is required.

• Document and support development of test scenarios/cases and the execution of testing activities.
• Should be able to communicate and publish status reports of all open issues and gaps found during the test phase, and articulate the details to the development teams.