TISTA Science and Technology Corporation, is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer with proven experience within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) environment (preferred). This project utilizes rapid design and development techniques in a SAFe Agile environment to respond to customer demands for meeting the challenges of government healthcare directives.

The successful candidate will interface with customers and teams to develop test plans, test cases, test data, automated scripts, etc., and has worked in a DevOps environment.

Provide testing and analysis of complex systems to ensure systems are compliant with requirements and can perform well in production.
• Independently develop performance, functional, behavioral, API, and 508 (any as needed) test scripts using applicable tools, create test scenarios and execute tests.
• Analyze test results, identify performance root cause, and write test reports to recommend improvements to the system.
• Coordinate with other testers and developers to resolve test problems and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Attend requirements gathering meetings to better understand business needs, functional and system requirements.
• Focuses on end-to-end pipeline health and deep visibility into end-to-end quality of the overall program.
• Produce detailed testing documents, including a testing plan, test cases, test data, and test scripts to automate and rapidly perform testing iteratively.
• Develop testing status reporting tools and methods that will allow stakeholders at various levels to quickly assess the system status of their focused area and drill down to get details as needed.
• Collaborate with the developers and analysts to ensure implementation of the needed business, functional, and system requirements.
• Leads and takes ownership of automated testing processes and implements them; contributes to the design and maintenance of the test automation framework.
• Develops high quality automation test engineering best practices, test strategy and principles.
• Attend requirements gathering meetings to better understand business needs, functional and system requirements.
• Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments.
• Work across stakeholders and teams to continuously improve.
• Understand, visualize, and manage upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Drive delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity.
• Mentors' junior members of the team.

• Minimum of 4 years of testing (performance, functional, behavioral, API, and 508) experience.
• 4 years of test automation experience on data-centric application and systems.
• Experienced creating test data for healthcare datasets such as provider, beneficiary/patient, quality measures and claims data.
• Testing API's experienced; which capture the functionality, performance, reliability and security for an application.
• Experienced conducting User Acceptance Testing with users, collecting inputs from users, and supporting users with potential workaround.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Experience with Atlassian Jira/Confluence.
• Strong analytical skills and innovative thinking.
• Demonstrated experience working on large integration systems and executing large-scale projects with large data sets from conception through implementation.
• Excellent written and communication skills, are required for client facing.

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge and experience in software development in an agile environment.
• Strong experience with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and/or Medicaid CHIP data.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline.
• Candidate's with no degree must have eight years of general information technology experience and four years of specialized test automation experience required.

Location:

• Remote

Clearance:

• The ability to obtain a government moderate background security clearance or Public Trust

Salary Information:

• The pay for this position ranges from $60,750 to $105,000.
• The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of compensation, such as bonuses.
• TISTA associates are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits plan! More information can be found here: https://tistatech.com/working-at-tista/