Quality Assurance Analyst : Columbia, SC

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 Phone/Skype Hire. Onsite from day 1. Only SC residents

 Location: Columbia, SC

Duration: 12+ months

Responsibilities

·        This position is for a Quality Assurance resource on the Systems Applications Integration and Development team and serves as a system testing specialist on enrollment and eligibility systems, to include 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.

·        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 identifies issues, and action items leading to possible solutions by planned due date or report impediments to finding a timely solution and 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 which are established internally and by applying industry best practices.

·        Ensure projects adhere to software testing governance policies, best practices and guidelines and recommend improvements.

·        Maintain database with product defects, user reviews, survey information and functional improvements.

·        Coordinate with product development teams and software engineers to recommend solutions to maximize performance and efficiency.

·        Advises on best practices regarding industry standards. Maintains issues in defect database and participates in collaborative efforts to resolve and coordinate with leadership and technical resources at all levels.

·        Perform reviews, walkthroughs, or inspections and adhere to established governance standards.

·        Provides oversight/approval of vendor unit/system integrated test plans and test results.

·        Provide guidance on the preparation/review of test plans.

·        Provide guidance on the preparation/review of test scripts/scenarios.

·        Preparation/review of test reports.

·        Checking progress against targets, report as necessary and take action to resolve exceptions.

·        Collaborates with internal stakeholders and technicians at all levels; document feedback and reports of testing outcomes to management. Work with architects, technicians, and management on  project testing and complete assigned tasks in a timely fashion.

 Skills Needed

·        Superb written and oral communications skills, including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases. Very Strong proficiency in English is required.

·        5 years translating business requirements or policy documentation into test cases and scenarios; building test cases and scenarios into test systems.

·        5 years’ experience in Quality Assurance & Quality Control.

·        3 years’ experience in Sahi Pro/Selenium Automation Framework.

·        Working knowledge of ONE of the following:  Spice, TPI, TMMI, CMMI OPF, OPD and PPQA process areas.

·        Direct hands on experience with formal test design techniques like Equivalence Class Partitioning and Pairwise Analysis.

·        Experience with test design tools like PICT or equivalent orthogonal based tools.

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

·        3 years Medicaid or healthcare experience. Deep knowledge of healthcare operations (preferably Medicaid), business processes.

·        Experience with X.12 Standards and HIPPA EDI Transactions.

·        Proficient in Atlassian tool suite including JIRA and Confluence.

·        Prior experience working in a standard SDLC (waterfall methodology) & in an AGILE delivery.

·        Design and Develop Test Automation Scripts using Test Automation Guidelines.

·        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 test phase and articulate the details to the Development teams.

 REQUIRED EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field. Or equivalent experience on a year for year basis