Quality Assurance Analyst - Consultant with MMIS/Medicaid expertise - Hybrid

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.
• Develop and maintain SDLC traceability from test cases to requirements and designs/software components
• Design and support user interface testing of applications and regression testing.
• Test software applications for reliability and stability.
• Implement testing programs to perform quality assurance on technical applications including negative testing and usability.
• Design and/or run automated testing scripts with oversight for deployment of tests
• Participate in defect triage, retest, and resolution
• Create quality assurance documentation and reports as required
• Adhere to established software testing governance policies, best practices and guidelines and recommend improvements
• Perform reviews, walkthroughs, or inspections and adhere to established governance standards.

Required Skills (rank in order of Importance):

• 5 years translating business requirements or policy documentation into test cases and scenarios; building test cases and scenarios into test systems
• 3 years deep knowledge of healthcare operations (preferably Medicaid), business processes
• 3 years 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
• 3 years direct hands on experience with formal test design tools

Preferred Skills (rank in order of Importance):

• 5 years large enterprise or e-business systems experience.
• 3 years proficient in use of manual or automated testing tools such as Azure DevOps or Atlassian JIRA and Confluence
• 3 years prior experience working in a standard SDLC (waterfall methodology) & in an AGILE delivery

Required Education:

Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, healthcare or related field. Years of experience can substitute for formal education.

Required Certifications:

None required. Technical and/or Project Management certifications from recognized sources are desirable.