QA Engineer

Only W2, No C2C

Senior Tester
Work Location: Hybrid 3 days onsite at Bloomfield, CT (Preferred) or Franklin, TN
Contract

Job Description
What this person will do or some project details:
We are seeking a Senior End-to-End Integration QA Engineer to support the CMS Burden Reduction / CMS Interoperability program.
This role is heavily focused on API testing and validation of HL7 FHIR-based healthcare APIs, ensuring regulatory compliance, data integrity, and high-quality end-to-end integrations across complex healthcare systems.

Key Responsibilities
- API-Focused End-to-End Testing
- Own and execute end-to-end API and integration testing for CMS Burden Reduction initiatives
- Validate HL7 FHIR-based REST APIs including payloads, schemas, headers, authentication, and error handling
- Perform deep API validation across upstream and downstream systems and integration partners
- Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and regulatory compliance across API workflows
- Agile & Program Enablement
- Participate in Pre-PI Planning, PI Planning & break-outs, Release retrospectives, and Technical Design walkthroughs
- Engage in Sprint Planning, daily stand-ups, and System Demos as part of System QA/QE
- Test Planning, Design & Execution
- Contribute to Test Strategy during PI Planning (scenarios, dependencies, risks, regression impact)
- Provide end-to-end test estimates for assigned features (story points)
- Define and review Acceptance Criteria using GIVEN-WHEN-THEN format
- Design, automate, and execute end-to-end test scenarios (positive, negative, integration)
- Identify test data needs and provide inputs for integrated test environment setup
- Execute tests based on business priority and critical paths
- Walk through test evidence and provide demos for feature acceptance
- Defect Management & Governance
- Collaborate with Product Owner, Architects, Developers, RTE, and QE Leads on defect management
- Support warranty and post-production validation
- Maintain daily Jira updates for features, test execution, and defects Required

Skills & Experience
- 8+ years of experience in End-to-End / Integration QA
- Strong hands-on API testing expertise (must-have)
- Extensive experience using Postman for API validation
- Strong knowledge of HL7 FHIR, Healthcare Interoperability, and CMS Burden Reduction
- Experience with Playwright for API and UI integration scenarios
- Strong experience with Jira for test and defect management
- Experience working in Agile / SAFe environments

Tools & Technologies:
- Postman (required)
- Playwright
- Jira
- REST APIs, HL7 FHIR
- CI/CD-aligned testing
- Nucural (preferred)

Key Stakeholders:
- Solution QE Lead, Product Owner, Developers, Solution Train Engineer (RTE) Architects

Qualifications
Required Skills:
- Api Testing
- Postman
- Hl7 Fhir
- Healthcare Interoperability
- Cms Burden Reduction

Additional Skills:
- Daily Stand-Ups
- System Demos
- Pre-Pi Planning
- Pi Planning
- Release Retrospectives
- Technical Design Walkthroughs
- Test Data Identification
- Playwright
- Jira
- Rest Apis
- Sprint Planning
- Integrated Test Environment Setup
- Data Integrity
- Feature Acceptance Demos
- Ci/Cd-Aligned Testing
- Nucural
- Agile
- Safe
- Test Strategy
- Acceptance Criteria Definition
- Test Automation
- Test Execution
- Defect Management
- Regulatory Compliance
- Data Accuracy