Functional QA Engineer

Job Description

Job Summary:

The person hired for this role will design, create, and execute software tests and be responsible to plan and coordinate testing and quality activities and support validation activities for HIS software. This position requires knowledge and experience applying testing best practices and experience with testing tools and methodology and the ability to work with cross-functional teams.

Primary Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Design and develop test scenarios and test cases based on business requirements, technical specifications, and use cases that verify user workflows, functional testing, regression testing, end to end testing, negative testing, defect fixes, and usability
• Development of test data needed to meet specifications, clinical content definitions and software implementation design/logic
• Execution of manual test cases, analyze test case execution to identify abnormalities and report defects
• Review use cases, design mocks and business requirements with development teams and business analysts to understand the architecture and functionality of the application to create test cases
• Design test plans, to communicate the test scope to the product owner and stakeholders
• Participate in test activities including Test Planning, Test Development, Test Execution, Test Review, Defect Triage and Test Reporting
• Participate in scrum team planning sessions to identify dependency chain and tasks breakdown, provide estimates and outline test approach
• Work in an agile environment and interact with Product Owner, Business Analyst, and other QA members during daily stand-ups meeting
• Work with development teams to investigate and/or reproduce the issues

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited university
• Minimum five (5) years of Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Testing and/or Validation experience
• Experience working with an “Agile” team using Scrum Framework
• Experience testing applications that are implemented using JAVA, SQL, JSON Technology

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with analyzing and working with large sets of healthcare data (claims and billing, healthcare informatics, inpatient and outpatient data) and HIPAA requirements is desired
• Minimum three (3) years of experience creating and maintaining a Quality and/or Test Plan
• Minimum three (3) years of experience planning and coordinating application testing
• Minimum three (3) years of experience working with Quality Test Tools –TFS, Jira, and HP QC
• Strong Organizational and communication skills
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office programs
• Strong skills in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
• Experience with HL7 messages