Role: Quality Assurance Tester-W2 Only

Location: Columbia, SC

Duration: One Year

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.

Required skills:

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

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.

REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS:

Technical and/or Project Management certifications from recognized sources are desirable.