Job Purpose

The Quality Assurance Analyst provides quality assurance and testing expertise as part of the QA Team and is responsible for testing, test planning and ensuring software adhere to standard quality assurance practices. The QA Analyst is knowledgeable in modern test techniques, including automation, and will participate in test design necessary to verify our products. This role participates in all aspects of the QA/Test process, including test/automation strategies for specific projects.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for complex and highly integrated software systems developed in a fast-paced agile development environment
• Help plan and design test strategies and QA procedures
• Engage in robust requirements review or story refinement
• Oversee test planning and execution and coordinate with all team members to ensure completion
• Advocate for and ensure that the team performs the prescribed quality practices.
• Where exceptions are made, articulate the quality risk and potential impact/mitigation to the team, product manager or owner, and program manager
• Coordinate with QA Lead to plan and execute feature-level integration testing
• Analyze, maintain, and track defects for testing
• Validate conformance to requirements and that acceptance criteria have been met
• Where acceptance criteria are not provided, work with Product to derive criteria, if needed
• Ensure that stories have met Definition of Done
• Summarize testing and validation results and communicate with project team members regarding status
• Escalate issues or obstacles appropriately and timely
• Provide insightful input to retrospectives.
• Performs other duties as requested.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or technical discipline or equivalent combination of education/experience
• Minimum 5 years Quality Assurance experience
• Knowledge of HIPAA requirements
• Minimum 1-year experience in healthcare domain
• Strong experience in writing SQL statements
• Good understanding of ETL processes
• Knowledge of Hospital claim processing, Edi transaction 837I, 835 etc.
• Good experience testing web applications
• Good experience with automation tools like selenium, QTP
• Functional expert in QA strategies and techniques
• Excellent analytical skills with strong attention to detail
• Solid communication skills: Demonstrated ability to explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Team player as well as a self-starter who needs little supervision.
• Working knowledge and experience using Agile with Scrum Methodology

Working conditions

• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to move around the work area;
• Sit; perform manual tasks; operate tools and other office equipment such as computer, computer peripherals and telephones; extend arms; kneel; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds.
• Mental Demands: The employee must be able to follow directions, to get along with others, and handle stress;
• Work environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.

Med-Metrix will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, veteran status, other non-merit based factors, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.