QA Specialist

Description

Summary
The IT Quality Assurance Specialist will perform test planning, manual test case authoring, Scripting automated scripts, test execution, and test reporting on assigned tasks.
Responsibilities

• QA Specialist Targets applications may include QNXT, CCA, MHC, Member Portals, Provider Portals, Encounters, G&A and other assigned applications.
• The IT Quality Assurance Specialist plays a major role to improve the quality, functionality, reliability and usability of software products
• Responsibilities include reviewing available project assets (requirements, BRD, TRD, systems documentation, test cases, defects, project notes, companion guides, release notes, test data, compliance guidelines, etc) and preparing a test strategy following the QA Team testing guidelines and software testing best practices.
• Responsibilities include learning and understanding the application/system under test and perform test activities and make recommendations on the readiness of the target system.
• Responsibilities include creating, maintaining, and executing test cases, automated scripts required to ensure the highest quality product possible.
• Responsibilities include effectively communicating with the project team, stakeholder and IT organization on the status of the testing efforts and readiness recommendation with an impact on analysis, reports and metrics.
• Other applications such as Human Resource, Finance, Security, and Compliance systems are in scope for testing.
• Test types include functional testing, automated testing, performance testing, security testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).

SKILLS:

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Management Information, Systems, Computer Engineering, Engineering or related field
• 2 to 4 years hands on functional, automated or performance testing as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer
• 2 to 4 years hands on functional, automated or performance testing in the healthcare industry
• Experience testing healthcare applications
• Working knowledge of Medicare and Medical and testing scenarios
• Experience and knowledge of testing healthcare EDI
• Experience writing test plans, test cases, automated scripts from limited documentation
• Working knowledge of healthcare industry
• Knowledge of HP Quality Center/ALM or equivalent test management system
• Knowledge of HP Quality Center/ALM or equivalent as a defect tracking system
• Knowledge of HP Quality Center/ALM or equivalent for reports and metrics