Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Title: Quality Assurance Analyst - Advanced

Location: 1801 Main Street Columbia, SC 29201

Interview Process: 1 round, Virtual/Online

Duration of the Contract: 12 months

Possibility for Extension: Yes

Work Location: Fully Onsite - 5 days/week

Candidate Location: Candidate MUST be a SC resident or willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense.

"Please note: This is a contract role and would be available on W2 tax term only"

Objectives to Be Fulfilled by Candidate:

• 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.

• Perform Smoke test, System Integration Test and End to End test on various systems/Applications.

• Proactively identifies issues, and action items leading to possible solutions by planned due date or report impediments to finding a timely solution and coordinate with leadership and technical resources at all levels.

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

• Define, implement, and evangelize best practices, processes, and policies which are established internally and by applying industry best practices.

• Ensure projects adhere to 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.

• Advises on best practices regarding industry standards. Maintains issues in defect database and participates in collaborative efforts to resolve and coordinate with leadership and technical resources at all levels.

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

• Provides oversight/approval of vendor unit/system integrated test plans and test results.

• Provide guidance on the preparation/review of test plans.

• Provide guidance on the preparation/review of test scripts/scenarios.

• Preparation/review of test reports.

• Checking progress against targets, report as necessary and take action to resolve exceptions.

• Collaborates with internal stakeholders and technicians at all levels; document feedback and reports of testing outcomes to management. Work with architects, technicians, and management on project testing and complete assigned tasks in a timely fashion.

REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):

-5+ years’ experience in Quality Assurance & Quality Control.

-5+ years translating business requirements or policy documentation into test cases and scenarios; building test cases and scenarios into test systems.

-3+ years’ experience in Sahi Pro/Selenium Automation Framework.

-Design and Develop Test Automation Scripts using Test Automation Guidelines.

-Working knowledge of ONE of the following: Spice, TPI, TMMI, CMMI OPF, OPD and PPQA process areas.

-Direct hands on experience with formal test design techniques like Equivalence Class Partitioning and Pairwise Analysis.

-Experience with test design tools like PICT or equivalent orthogonal based tools.

Preferred Skills:

-5+ years large enterprise or e-business systems experience.

-3 years Medicaid or healthcare experience; Deep knowledge of healthcare operations (preferably Medicaid), business processes.

-Experience with X.12 Standards and HIPPA EDI Transactions.

-Proficient in Atlassian tool suite including JIRA and Confluence.

-Prior experience working in a standard SDLC (waterfall methodology) & in an AGILE delivery.

REQUIRED EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field. Or 5+ years of equivalent experience in Quality Assurance.