Quality Assurance Analyst

St Paul, MN Hybrid Need locals only

One Year Contract

We are looking for the candidates who can work on our W2.

Quality Assurance Analyst resources with strong experience testing in large and complex systems development projects. These Quality Assurance Analysts are needed to bring several active, high visibility projects to successful completion, to enable the DHS System Modernization technical solutions to be deployed and fully operational. The software Quality Assurance Analysts will be responsible for performing all testing activities for DHS Systems Modernization projects such as ISDS, MMIS, and METS as determined by the State s Project Manager. These will include several cross-agency projects with key collaborators from MMIS, MNIT, and MNsure.

For each project, the quality assurance analysts will be working with the project teams, and will be expected to create or participate in creating: a QA test strategy, QA test plan, QA test cases, and QA test closure defect documentation, a requirements traceability matrix, and other documentation as requested (i.e., meeting notes, documented processes, change requests, and status reports). The quality assurance analysts will need to interface with a variety of individuals both on the project team and outside the project team who may have a vested interest and can offer information pertaining to the project, including: a project director, project managers, business analysts, developers, database administrators, and information technology group system architects. All members of the QA staff (managers, supervisors, leads, and other QA analysts), MMIS business staff, DHS business staff, MNIT employees, external vendors, and the stakeholder community, including the counties and health care provider organizations, and other agency team members.

Work must comply with the Statewide enterprise architecture, the State s Enterprise Security Policy and Standards Statewide project management methodology, applicable industry and agency standards. The resources must have the ability to work independently, with little or no supervision, and the drive to resolution in situations with high ambiguity and confusion. The Quality Assurance Analysts will report to the vendor s resource manager, who will receive work direction from the State s QA supervisor.

Sample Tasks

• Work with the appropriate resources to define and write Functional and Technical Testable Requirements (Waterfall) and/or User Stories and Acceptance Criteria (Agile).
• Have complete understanding of all functional and technical Requirements and/or Acceptance Criteria.
• Approve Requirements if asked to perform QA project lead duties.
• Have complete understanding of Design document to ensure the design complements the Requirements. Approve Design document if asked to perform QA project lead duties.
• Work with the QA Supervisor and/or QA Lead to create the Level of Effort (LOE) estimate for all testing activities within the project.
• Work with the QA Supervisor and/or QA Lead to create the Test Strategy.
• Work with the QA Supervisor and/or QA Lead to create the Test Plan.
• Work with Business Analyst, Developers, and DBA s in defining detailed and reusable Functional, System Integration, and Regression test cases and completing Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Write detailed and reusable Functional, System Integration, and Regression Test Cases.
• Assist the Performance Engineer in determining business flows to be scripted and utilized in Performance/Load testing.
• Assist the Automation Engineer in determining test cases to be scripted and utilized in smoke / regression testing.
• Accurately document all defects in the defect tracking tool in a timely manner.
• Escalate all challenges to the appropriate resource(s) in a timely manner.
• Communicate effectively, both verbally and written.
• Attend and participate in the Defect Triage and Review meetings.
• Assist in managing the overall scope of the testing effort.
• Complete required QA documentation in an accurate and timely manner. Provide edits to QA documentation as necessary if the project s Requirements change, if scope changes, if testing schedule changes, etc.
• Receive appropriate approval and sign-off for all testing documentation.
• Provide QA leadership to assigned project, when requested.
• Provide support to the UAT team, if requested.
• Provide, in timely manner, status of assigned project when requested.
• Execute manual and automation Test Cases for various test types (smoke, functional, regression, etc.).
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
• Execute all Test Cases according to the Test Plan or explain why risk-based / priority testing is executed.
• Provide knowledge transfer.

Minimum Qualifications

• Seven (7) years experience as a Quality Assurance Analyst
• A B.S. or B.A. Degree (4 year) substitutes for four years of experience, or an Associate s Degree (2 year) substitutes for two years of experience.

• Five (5) engagements/projects lasting a minimum of three (3) months each in a Quality Assurance Analyst role.

Desired Skills

• Experience creating the following documentation:

• Test Plan
• Test Cases
• Detailed defect logging
• Test Closure/Test Summary Report

• Experience with Data Conversion testing
• Experience with API/Web Service testing
• Experience writing and executing complex SQL query commands.
• Experience with in-depth requirement analysis and with breaking down requirements into testable requirements.
• Experience communicating (verbally & written), expectations, updates, progress, issues, and successes in a timely & clear fashion if necessary.
• Ability to think beyond what is expected of the software/product and think about how users can misuse the software/product.
• Experience organizing and prioritizing features and test cases and testing activities so that testing goals are achieved.
• Experience in writing automated scripts using Java, VB script etc.
• Experience testing MMIS (Medicaid Management Information Systems) is a plus but not required.