Quality Assurance Analyst

Location: Saint Paul Park

Job Title:
Quality Assurance Analyst

Location:
St. Paul , Minnesota (Remote Role)

Job Description-

• Work with the appropriate resources to define and write Functional and Technical Testable Requirements (Waterfall) and/or User Stories and Acceptance Criteria (Agile).

• Have complete understanding of all functional and technical Requirements and/or Acceptance Criteria.

• Approve Requirements if asked to perform QA project lead duties.

• Have complete understanding of Design document to ensure the design complements the Requirements. Approve Design document if asked to perform QA project lead duties.

• Work with the QA Supervisor and/or QA Lead to create the Level of Effort (LOE) estimate for all testing activities within the project.

• Work with the QA Supervisor and/or QA Lead to create the Test Strategy.

• Work with the QA Supervisor and/or QA Lead to create the Test Plan.

• Work with Business Analyst, Developers, and DBA's in defining detailed and reusable Functional, System Integration, and Regression test cases and completing Requirements Traceability Matrix.

• Write detailed and reusable Functional, System Integration, and Regression Test Cases.

• Assist the Performance Engineer in determining business flows to be scripted and utilized in Performance/Load testing.

• Assist the Automation Engineer in determining test cases to be scripted and utilized in smoke / regression testing.

• Accurately document all defects in the defect tracking tool in a timely manner.

• Escalate all challenges to the appropriate resource(s) in a timely manner.

• Communicate effectively, both verbally and written.

• Attend and participate in the Defect Triage and Review meetings.

• Assist in managing the overall scope of the testing effort.

• Complete required QA documentation in an accurate and timely manner. Provide edits to QA documentation as necessary if the project's Requirements change, if scope changes, if testing schedule changes, etc.

• Receive appropriate approval and sign-off for all testing documentation.

• Provide QA leadership to assigned project, when requested.

• Provide support to the UAT team, if requested.

• Provide, in timely manner, status of assigned project when requested.

• Execute manual and automation Test Cases for various test types (smoke, functional, regression, etc.).

• Perform other related duties as assigned.

• Execute all Test Cases according to the Test Plan, or explain why risk-based / priority testing is executed.

• Provide knowledge transfer.

Minimum Qualifications

Seven (7) years' experience as a Quality Assurance Analyst.

A B.S. or B.A. Degree (4 year) substitutes for four years of experience, or an Associate's Degree (2 year) substitutes for two years of experience.

• Five (5) engagements/projects lasting a minimum of three (3) months each in a Quality Assurance Analyst role.

• Two (2) years IBM Cúram solution for Healthcare Reform manual testing experience.

Desired Skills

• Computer Science or Information Technology degree.

• Experience planning and executing end to end testing of integrated systems including validation of the integration layer.

• Experience writing and executing basic SQL query commands.

• Four years' experience with IBM Cúram solution for healthcare reform and/or downstream integrated systems that consume or use the Curam healthcare data.