QA Consultant

Required Skills

• Bachelor s degree in a technical, business, healthcare or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance can substitute for formal education.
• 5+ years of translating business requirements or policy documentation into test cases and scenarios; building test cases and scenarios into test systems.
• 3+ years of deep knowledge of healthcare operations business processes
• 3+ years proficient in use of manual or automated testing tools such as Azure DevOps or Atlassian JIRA and Confluence

Preferred Skills

• Technical and/or Project Management certifications from recognized sources
• 5+ years of large enterprise or e-business systems experience.
• 3+ years of prior experience working in a standard SDLC (waterfall methodology) & in an AGILE delivery of Healthcare operations specifically Medicaid experience

Scope of the Project:

• The Quality Assurance Tester - Advanced will be assigned to projects for the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS), in collaboration with the SCDHHS Project Management Office (PMO).
• The PMO is responsible for staffing all SCDHHS projects as well as establishing and monitoring IT related governance and standards, which are followed by all enterprise project teams in the Medicaid Agency for SC.
• Candidates who enjoy working on complex, change-oriented projects will find this position attractive.

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.
• 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.