Quality Test Analyst

Seeking a Quality Assurance Tester for an opportunity in Columbia, SC.
Summary:

• The Quality Assurance Tester is responsible for performing test on technical solutions to isolate and solve issues.
• Initiates tests, analyzes results, and finds solutions to technical problems.
• Performs testing of small to large projects. 

Responsibilities and duties:

• 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.
• Lead projects to perform quality assessments that expose security flaws, reveal defects and identify areas of optimization.
• Design and/or run automated testing scripts with oversight for deployment of tests
• Create quality assurance documentation and reports as required
• Adhere to established 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
• Perform reviews, walkthroughs, or inspections and adhere to established governance standards. 

Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• 5 years translating business requirements or policy documentation into test cases and scenarios
• 5 years building test cases and scenarios into test systems
• Document and support development of test scenarios/cases and the execution of testing activities
• Should be able to communicate and publish status reports of all open issues and gaps found during test phase and articulate the details to the Development teams
• Direct hands-on experience with formal test design
• Experience with test design tools 

Preferred:

• 5 years large enterprise or e-business systems experience.
• Deep knowledge of healthcare operations (preferably Medicaid), business processes
• Proficient in Atlassian tool suite including JIRA and Confluence
• Prior experience working in a standard SDLC (waterfall methodology) & in an AGILE delivery.