Quality Assurance Analyst (LEAD)
Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Quality Assurance Analyst (LEAD) for a contract position in Columbia, SC
The opportunity will be one year with a strong chance for a long-term extension.Position Summary: The client is seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst (LEAD) to assist with implementing small to large projects.
Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities: - This position is for a Quality Assurance resource on the Systems Applications Integration and Development team and serves as a system testing specialist on client 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.
Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field
Or equivalent experience on a year for year basis - Superb written and oral communications skills, including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases.
- 5 years translating business requirements or policy documentation into test cases and scenarios.
- 5 years 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.
- Design and Develop Test Automation Scripts using Test Automation Guidelines.
- Working knowledge of ONE of the following: Spice, TPI, TMMI, CMMI OPF, OPD and PPQA process areas.
- 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.
- 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.
Preferred: - 5+ years of large enterprise or e-business systems experience.
- 3 years of 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.
If this job is a match for your background, we would be honored to receive your application.
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