Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Assurance Engineer contractor role with the NC Department of Health and Human Services to drive the development and implementation of NC Families Accessing Services through Technology (NC FAST).

About the role

We are looking for a self-driven QA Engineer who will take initiative and ownership of testing activities by proactively managing tasks to meet timely deadlines, working independently with minimal supervision, accurately communicating identified issues, and delivering high-quality QA results.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements for testability and completeness using Functional Specification Documents, Business Requirements Documents, and Technical Design Documents.
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, product owners, scrum masters, and other team members to clarify requirements, expectations, and resolve issues.
• Take ownership of developing requirements into test conditions, test case scenarios, and test scripts, and drive them to completion.
• Orchestrate development and execution of automated scripts using qTest and Tosca to thoroughly test software to ensure proper operation and freedom from defects.
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive test documentation, defect records, and traceability.
• Drive quality assurance activities across functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing.
• Evaluate test cases and other testing artifacts to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all test artifacts.
• Drive the coordination for testing, reports and tracks testing problems by providing reproducible test cases.
• Work with other product team members to diagnose and recreate problems as well as prioritize and implement solutions and close problem reports.
• Oversee scripting data collection and analysis according to the project plan schedule and ensuring adherence to standard practices and procedures.
• Actively participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and daily stand-ups.
• Identify and communicate risks with the team and provide solutions before issues impact project delivery.

Requirements

• Experience and proficiency in using Tricentis tools including qTest and Tosca.
• Experience testing web, GUI, client/server, and database applications (5 years required).
• Experience with requirements analysis and automated test cases/script development (5 years required).
• Experience with manual or automated testing, testing tools, writing test plans, and reviewing test cases (5 years required).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (5 years required).
• Good oral and written communications skills to interact daily with system developers, business analysts, and others (5 years required).
• Ability to prioritize tasks within the project and work with minimal supervision or guidance (5 years required).
• Experience with testing Curam products (highly desired).
• Experience testing for a health and human services project (highly desired).
• Experience with executing SQL to validate or test (2 years required).
• Experience developing and executing Tosca automation test scripts (desired).
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment (5 years required).
• Experience with Agile (Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe) development (5 years required).

Benefits

• Long-term stability with multi-year opportunities and room to grow.
• Comprehensive health coverage for you and your family.
• 401(k) program for future financial security.
• Green Card assistance with immediate processing if required.