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Job Description:
Job Title - QA Automation Analyst – Medicaid Systems
(Test Automation Frameworks Creation)
Job location - Columbia, SC (5 days-Onsite)
Job Type - Full Time
Need min exp. - 8 Years of exp.
This is an Advanced QA Analyst / QA Automation Analyst role for a large state Medicaid IT environment. The person will support testing across enrollment, eligibility, claims, document-management, and workflow systems. They need to be strong in both manual QA discipline and test automation, with the ability to translate business requirements and policy documents into test cases, build and execute test scenarios, support UAT, perform regression, smoke, system integration, and end-to-end testing, and guide testing standards across vendor and internal teams. It is best positioned as an advanced/senior QA analyst with automation experience, Medicaid/healthcare exposure strongly preferred, and experience working in structured state-government or enterprise SDLC environments.
Overview / Summary
Seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst to support small to large-scale projects related to Medicaid enrollment, eligibility, claims processing, document management, and workflow systems. This role will work onsite in Columbia, SC working with the team and serves as a system testing specialist within the Systems Applications Integration and Development team and provides technical quality assurance support across enterprise projects.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop test plans, QA processes, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) processes, and test cases for software development and product management teams.
• Design and support user interface testing applications and regression testing software.
• Test software applications for reliability, stability, usability, and negative testing scenarios.
• Perform Smoke Testing, System Integration Testing, and End-to-End Testing across various systems and applications.
• Identify issues, action items, and impediments; coordinate with leadership and technical teams to support timely resolution.
• Participate in quality assessments to identify security flaws, defects, and optimization opportunities.
• Define, implement, and support QA best practices, processes, policies, and governance standards.
• Ensure projects adhere to software testing governance policies, best practices, and guidelines.
• Maintain defect databases, user reviews, survey information, and functional improvement documentation.
• Coordinate with software engineers and product development teams to recommend solutions that improve system performance and efficiency.
• Perform reviews, walkthroughs, and inspections in alignment with established governance standards.
• Provide oversight and approval of vendor unit and system integration test plans and test results.
• Support preparation and review of test plans, test scripts, scenarios, and test reports.
• Monitor testing progress against targets and take corrective action when necessary.
• Collaborate with architects, technicians, stakeholders, and management to document testing outcomes and complete assigned tasks on schedule.
• Document and support the development of test scenarios/cases and execute testing activities.
• Publish status reports for open issues and testing gaps and communicate findings to development teams.
Required Qualifications
• 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
• 5 years of experience translating business requirements or policy documentation into test cases and scenarios and building test cases into test systems.
• 3 years of experience with Sahi Pro/Selenium Automation Framework.
• Experience designing and developing test automation scripts using test automation guidelines.
• Working knowledge of one or more of the following: Spice, TPI, TMMI, CMMI OPF, OPD, or PPQA process areas.
• Hands-on experience with formal test design techniques such as Equivalence Class Partitioning and Pairwise Analysis.
• Experience with test design tools such as PICT or equivalent orthogonal-based tools.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field, or 5 years of equivalent Quality Assurance experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with strong English proficiency.
Preferred Qualifications
• 5 years of experience supporting large enterprise or e-business systems.
• 3 years of Medicaid or healthcare experience with knowledge of healthcare operations and business processes.
• Experience with X12 Standards and HIPAA EDI Transactions.
• Proficiency with Atlassian tools including JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience working within SDLC waterfall methodology and Agile delivery environments.