Title

IT Test Engineer 

Client

State of Louisiana

Location 

Remote– 2 visits /year to Baton Rouge, LA

Resumes Due

Dec 14-15

Rate

Up to $64/hr 

Duration

~2 years

Description/Role

The Office of Technology Services (OTS) was established as a means of recognizing cost savings through the consolidation of State IT assets and resources. The creation of OTS consolidated a wide variety of existing hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, networks, third party software, and custom applications. 

OTS leads the State’s technology procurement process in order to standardize technology over the entire organization, seek efficiencies of operations, maintenance, and scalability of new products introduced to the OTS suite of services which can eventually be offered to all in-scope agencies. 

Project Overview: 

In accordance with Federal requirements, OTS Customer Agency is transitioning the current Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) from a single system to a more modernized, modular system that supports all aspects of the State Medicaid program. This new Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) will promote automation and streamlined processes that support interoperability and data sharing among the various State agencies that touch Medicaid. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provides enhanced matching funds for modules that can be certified as having met the national standards developed for a module. 

Louisiana’s Office of Technical Services (OTS) owns the State’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) that provides the interface capabilities to link the MES modules. As such, Customer Agency is requesting staffing services to support the integration of new MES modules to the State’s EA. 

Roles and Responsibilities for Requested ResourcesApplication Programmer-IT Test Engineer:

• Test integration interfaces/APIs at the data file or message layer without a Graphical User Interface (GUI); create/develop/execute test cases that measure the appropriate inputs and expected results; prepare test data and artifacts; track issue/bugs and report to the team; perform performance testing, stress testing, and penetration testing; and provide recommendation on the expected result of test as per acceptance criteria.

Skills/Experience Required

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas:

All Positions: Prior experience with Medicaid or Government Health Insurance Programs. Prior experience with large scale System Integration Projects. Prior experience with Enterprise Architecture development and date exchange protocol development. 

Application Programmer-IT Test Engineer – Minimum of two (2) years of integration development experience.