Quality Assurance Analyst

Quality Assurance Analyst

Type: Contract (W2)

Length: 12+ months

Industry: Government

Location: Columbia SC (may relocate)

Work: Hybrid must live in SC for duration of the contract

Interview Process: 1 round, Virtual/Online

Key Skills: Curam and Medicaid experience is desirable.

Responsibilities:

Performing tests on technical solutions to isolate and solve issues. Initiates test, analyzes results, and finds solutions to technical problems.

Required Skill Set:

• 5 years translating business requirements or policy documentation into test cases and scenarios .

• 5 years building test cases and scenarios into test systems

• 2 years of experience testing IBM Curam software

• Document and support development of test scenarios/cases and the execution of testing activities.

• 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.

Preferred Skills:

• 5+ years large enterprise or e- business systems experience .
• Deep knowledge of healthcare operations (preferably Medicaid), business processes
• Proficient in Atlassian tool suite including JIRA and Confluence
• Prior experience working in a standard SDLC (waterfall methodology) & in an AGILE delivery.

Job Duties:

• Develop test plans, QA and/or User Acceptance Testing processes and test cases for product management and software development teams.

• Design and support user interface testing application and regression testing software.

• Test software applications for reliability and stability.

• Implement testing programs to perform quality assurance on technical applications including negative testing and usability.

• Lead projects to perform quality assessments that expose security flaws, reveal defects and identify areas of optimization.

• Design and/or run automated testing scripts with oversight for deployment of tests

• Create quality assurance documentation and reports as required

• Adhere to established software testing governance policies, best practices and guidelines and recommend improvements

• Maintain database with product defects, user reviews, survey information and functional improvements.

• Coordinate with product development teams and software engineers to recommend solutions to maximize performance and efficiency

• Perform reviews, walkthroughs, or inspections and adhere to established governance standards.