IT Quality Assurance Analyst

POSITION TITLE: IT Quality Assurance Analyst

Supervised by: Manager, Quality Assurance

Supervises: N/A

Status: Full-time, Exempt

POSITION SUMMARY

The IT Quality Assurance Analyst (QA) works with members of MediQuant’s agile development team to find and fix defects in a collaborative and pragmatic way. The QA is a functional expert in our SaaS web applications and provides direct feedback to the team. They work closely with a Business Systems Analyst and Product Manager to understand how they will validate the quality of the team’s development and can clearly communicate how our products are designed to work.

They embrace whole team ownership and can adapt to rapidly changing priorities while working as part of a high performing team which releases and performs regression tests monthly. QA partners with developers to provide daily feedback and tests in both a development and test environment.

JOB DUTIES and ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS. A qualified individual must be able to perform these essential functions of the job as listed, with or without accommodation. (An Asterisk (*) Identifies an Essential Function).

• Teamwork and coordination (*)
  • Works closely with the team’s Deployment Coordinator and IT team during our monthly release process to help determine the readiness of the release and communicate status of any defects identified pre-release.
  • Works with developers and IT to help reproduce production defects in a QA environment, document root cause and validate the fix.
• Documentation and test data management (*)
  • Responsible for Maintaining and Execution of Test Cases.
  • Responsible for the development of Test documentation to include Test Cases, Test Plans, Test Reports and Testing Notes.
  • Produce and maintain test coverage reports for functional and automation coverage.
  • GIT Source Code Control Software.
  • Track tests in test case management.
  • Work with stories and bugs in tracking Software (JIRA, Zephyr Scale, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Conduct testing, including creating, maintaining, executing, and evaluating the following: (*)
  • SQL code as part of data setup.
  • Smoke Tests.
  • Acceptance Test Cases.
  • Regression Tests.
  • Release Test Cases Log and retest defects.
  • Verify test results in manual and automated testing.

Competencies

• Critical Thinking
• Professionalism and Composure
• Exceptional Interpersonal and Oral Skills
• Flexibility
• Team Player
• Self-Motivated
• Ability to Absorb and Retain Information Quickly
• Strong Documentation Skills
• Lifelong Learner
• Curiosity

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Education and Experience:

• Associate’s Degree preferred; minimum of High School diploma or equivalent required.
• Minimum 2 years of firsthand work experience with IT quality assurance and testing of highly configurable web applications with significant size, scope and complexity is required.
• Familiar with agile development, quality assurance principles, inspection techniques and testing procedures, test result documentation
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Passion for automated testing techniques or a strong desire to learn them.
• Must understand complete SDLC.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

• QA certification (e.g. CSTE Certified Software Test Engineer)
• Experience working in a healthcare environment
• Programming knowledge with C# or a strong desire to learn would be a plus.

Work Environment. Employees may work from our corporate headquarters or work from home. Employees may at times be required to travel to headquarters for meetings or company events. Remote workers will be provided with a company laptop and are responsible for maintaining access to high-speed internet.

Physical Demands. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit for long periods of time, stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work. This is a full-time position, and the hours of work and days are typically Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Some flexibility in hours is allowed, but the employee must be available during the “core” work hours of 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

Travel. Incumbent may occasionally experience some out-of-the-area and overnight travel.

Work Authorization. In compliance with Federal employment laws, MediQuant will verify the identity and employment authorization of each person hired. MediQuant participates in the Federal E-Verify program.

Security Clearance. Must be able to pass all security clearances mandated by various government contracts as well as client hospital/healthcare security requirements. Any employee working on government projects will be required to successfully pass a government background check and receive a Common Access Card (CAC). Additionally, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen and will be subject to a Public Trust security background investigation and must meet requirements to obtain a Department of Defense (DOD) network account.

AAP/EEO Statement. MediQuant, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Compliance. Employees shall comply with all MediQuant policies, state and federal laws, regulations, and contractual obligations when accessing MediQuant or client Confidential Data, Confidential Information, and Information Assets.

Other Duties. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time.