SCDHHS-IT Healthcare Consultant-Quality Assurance-Advanced

The State of South Carolina is looking for an IT Healthcare Consultant - Quality Assurance – Advanced

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This position requires the candidate to be engaged exclusively on Maxpath Technologies’ W2 payroll. Engagements via 1099 or third-party/sub-vendor or Corp-to-Corp arrangements are not accepted.

W2 requirement | Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote) | Candidate MUST be a SC resident or willing to relocate to SC 

• Interview Process: 1 round, Virtual/Online
• Duration of the Contract: 12 months
• Possibility for Extension: Yes
• Work Location: Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote).
• Candidate Location: Candidate MUST be a SC resident or willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense.

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.
• 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.
• Lead projects to perform quality assessments that expose security flaws, reveal defects and identify areas of optimization.
• Design and/or run automated testing scripts with oversight for deployment of tests
• Create quality assurance documentation and reports as required
• Adhere to established 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
• Perform reviews, walkthroughs, or inspections and adhere to established governance standards. 

MUST HAVE SKILLS

• 3 years translating business requirements or policy documentation into test cases and scenarios; building test cases and scenarios into test systems
• 2 years of experience testing IBM Curam software
• 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. 

PREFERRED SKILLS

• 5+ years large enterprise or e-business systems experience.
• Deep knowledge of healthcare operations (preferably Medicaid), business processes
• Proficient in Atlassian tool suite including JIRA and Confluence
• Prior experience working in a standard SDLC (waterfall methodology) & in an AGILE delivery. 

REQUIRED EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or related field. Years of experience can substitute for formal education.