Remote - QA Engineer

Role: Sr. QA Engineer (ETL Testing)

Duration: 6 months (likely to extend)

Location: Los Angeles, CA (Remote)

Qualifications:

• At least 8+ years as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer role including functional and non-functional testing activities.
• Experience participating in the review of business requirements to develop test strategy, deploy risk-based testing tactics, writing test plans and test cases. Experience as an Author of automated scripts according to Software Quality Assurance industry test automation best practices.
• Experience in ETL Testing.
• Experience executing manual test cases and automated scripts to detect and report defects.
• Experience effectively communicating quality-related matters across an organization and project teams.
• Experience participating in DevOps initiatives to shift left in testing approach.
• Experience collaborating in blended teams with onsite, nearshore, and offshore project resources.
• Strong sql knowledge. Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle, Agile methodologies, and Waterfall methodologies.
• Working knowledge of health domains such as Member portals, Provider portals, Healthcare Finance, Health Services, and Claims.
• Black box testing capabilities.
• Backend testing capabilities using SQL. Test Automation capabilities.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems Instead of a degree, equivalent education and/or experience may be considered.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems Preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Review business requirements, system documentation, and project assets to create robust, accurate, usable test artifacts (test plans, test cases, automated scripts, reports) to ensure results align with business needs.
• Analyze requirements and effectively apply appropriate testing techniques to ensure comprehensive testing coverage on time.
• Create or assist in creating, socializing, and presenting test approaches, test artifacts, testing process, and test metrics with appropriate teams.
• Prepare test data and ensure the readiness of the test environment before test execution. Ensure adherence to software quality criteria, policies, guidelines, and industry best practices. Promptly and effectively escalates issues as appropriate.
• Proactively engages with development teams and project team members to help promote the prevention of defects early in the project/development lifecycle.
• Participate in and/or lead test case reviews, user stories, risk assessments, requirement reviews, sprint reviews, backlog grooming sessions, and retrospectives.
• Execute tests (manual and test automation) to validate expected results. Publishes and socializes testing results and metrics to enable business decisions and promote continuous improvement.
• Identify and appropriately escalate non-standard results and other quality issues. Effectively logs defects and quality concerns using test management systems and any other reporting systems per Client policy and guidelines.
• Help drive the adoption and consistent usage of industry-standard quality best practices, testing methodologies, and the maturity of the Continuous Testing Framework at Client.

Preferred:

• 1 to 2 years collaborating in blended teams with onsite, nearshore, and offshore project resources.
• Experience defining processes and procedures for all automated platform and application testing including the development and maintenance of automated scripts.
• Experience executing automation testing including tests using open-source tools such as Cucumber, JUnit, Jenkins, and Selenium.
• Experience working with stakeholders and Business Systems Analysts to refine business requirements.
• Hands-on testing experience on healthcare systems such as QNXT, Facets, Syntranet, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with EDI transactions (834, 835, 837) for organizations and trading partners to electronically communicate.
• Performance testing, Security testing, Mobile testing. Understanding of programming concepts and skills such as Python, Java, C, C++, R JavaScript, MATLAB DevOps, and CI/CD.

Certification:

• International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification.