Quality Assurance Engineer

Interview : Video

Visa : USC and GC

This is hybrid from day-1

Description : MUST HAVE :

• US Citizen or Green Card Holders only
• Must be vaccinated for Covid-19
• Must have experience working in healthcare domains - Membership Portals, Provider Portals, Claims (QNXT / Facets) and EDI
• Candidates should have SQL backend testing and performance testing for mobile and security

Job Summary

Reporting to the Quality Assurance (QA) Manager, Information Technology (IT) Quality Management, the Software Quality Assurance Engineer II will perform test planning, manual test case authoring, scripting automated scripts, test execution, review test activities, test reporting on assigned tasks and deliverables of QA consultants. The Software Quality Assurance Engineer II plays a major role to improve the quality, functionality, reliability and usability of software products. The Software Quality Assurance Engineer II is responsible to review the business requirements and create test plans, test cases, automated scripts, execute tests according to policy, guidelines, SQA industry best practices and escalate as appropriate. Adhere to test management best practices including requirements gathering, test case creation, test case execution, defect management, metrics and reporting. The Software Quality Assurance Engineer II will contribute to building, enhancing and maintaining a Continuous Testing Framework.

Duties

Review business requirements, system documentation and project assets to create robust, accurate, usable test artifacts (test plans, test cases, automated scripts, reports) to ensure end results aligns with business needs. Analyze requirements and effectively apply appropriate testing techniques to ensure comprehensive testing coverage in a timely manner. Create or assist in creating, socializing and presenting test approach, test artifacts, testing process, test metrics with appropriate teams. Prepare test data and ensures readiness of test environment prior to test execution. Ensure adherence to software quality criteria, policy, guidelines and industry best practices. Promptly and effectively escalates issues as appropriate. Proactively engages with development teams and project team members to help promote prevention of defects early in project / development lifecycle. Participate in and / or lead test case reviews, user stories, risk assessments, requirement reviews, sprint reviews, backlog grooming sessions and retrospectives. Execute tests (manual and test automation) to validate expected results. Publishes and socializes testing results and metrics to enable business decisions and promote continuous improvement. Identify and appropriately escalates non-standard results and other quality issues. Effectively logs defects and quality concerns using test management systems and any other reporting systems per policy and guidelines. Help drive the adoption and consistent usage of industry standard quality best practices, testing methodologies and the maturity of the Continuous Testing Framework.

Education Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Management Information SystemsIn lieu of degree, equivalent education and / or experience may be considered.

Education Preferred

Master's Degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems

Experience Required :

At least 5 years as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer role including functional and non-functional testing activities. Experience participating in the review of business requirements to develop test strategy, deploy risk-based testing tactics, writing test plans and test cases. Experience as an Author of automated scripts according to Software Quality Assurance industry test automation best practices. Experience executing manual test cases and automated scripts to detect and report defects. Experience effectively communicating quality related matters across an organization and project teams. Experience participating in DevOps initiatives to shift-left in testing approach. Experience collaborating in blended teams with onsite, nearshore and offshore project resources.

Preferred :

1 to 2 years collaborating in blended teams with onsite, nearshore and offshore project resources. Experience defining processes and procedures for all automated platform and application testing including the development and maintenance of automated scripts. Experience executing automation testing including tests using open source tools such as Cucumber, JUNIT, Jenkins, Selenium. Experience working with stakeholders and Business Systems Analysts to refine business requirements.

Skills Required :

Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle, Agile methodologies, and Waterfall methodologies. Working knowledge of health domains such as Member portals, Provider portals, Healthcare Finance, Health Services, and Claims.

Black-box testing capabilities.

Backend testing capabilities using SQL. Test Automation capabilities.

Preferred :

Hands-on testing experience on healthcare systems such as QNXT, Facets, Syntranet or equivalent. Familiarity of EDI transactions (834, 835, 837) for organizations and trading partners to electronically communicate.

Performance testing, Security testing, Mobile testing. Understanding of programming concepts and skills such as Python, Java, C, C++, R JavaScript, Matlab DevOps, CI / CD

Licenses / Certifications Preferred

International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification