Quality Assurance Analyst

Job Title: Quality Assurance Analyst - Medicaid/Healthcare

Location: Columbia SC (South Carolina Residents only)

Duration: 12 months

Pay Rate: $60 Hourly on W2 (NO C2C/Vendor)

Daily Duties / Responsibilities:

• Responsible for performing tests on technical solutions to isolate and solve issues. Initiates tests, analyzes results, and finds solutions to technical problems.
• Develop test plans, QA and/or User Acceptance Testing processes and test cases for product management and software development teams.
• Develop and maintain SDLC traceability from test cases to requirements and designs/software components
• Design and support user interface testing of applications and regression testing.
• Test software applications for reliability and stability.
• Implement testing programs to perform quality assurance on technical applications including negative testing and usability.
• Design and/or run automated testing scripts with oversight for deployment of tests
• Participate in defect triage, retest, and resolution
• Create quality assurance documentation and reports as required
• Adhere to established software testing governance policies, best practices and guidelines and recommend improvements
• Perform reviews, walkthroughs, or inspections and adhere to established governance standards.
• Communicate and publish status reports of all open issues and gaps found during test phase and articulate the details to the Development teams

REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):

• 5 years translating business requirements or policy documentation into test cases and scenarios
• 5 years building test cases and scenarios into test systems
• 3 years deep knowledge of healthcare operations (preferably Medicaid), business processes
• 3 years direct hands on experience with formal test design tools

PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):

5+ years large enterprise or ebusiness systems experience.

3+ years proficient in use of manual or automated testing tools such as Azure DevOps or Atlassian JIRA and Confluence

3+ years prior experience working in a standard SDLC (waterfall methodology) & in an AGILE delivery

REQUIRED EDUCATION:

Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, healthcare or related field. Years of experience can substitute for formal education.