Senior QA Automation Lead – Healthcare

Responsibilities

• Perform independent functional, integration, regression, performance, user acceptance, accessibility, and compliance testing across assigned systems, including eMedNY, MDW, and other Medicaid systems as directed by the Department.
• Create, maintain, execute, and document test cases, test scripts, test scenarios, test data, actual results, and testing conclusions based on documented requirements and expected outcomes.
• Review requirements, design documentation, user stories, process documentation, and other project artifacts to identify test conditions, coverage needs, and potential gaps
• Review contractor test plans, test cases, test scripts, automated test materials, test results, defect logs, and related testing artifacts for completeness, accuracy, requirements traceability, and support for documented testing conclusions.
• Monitor defect management activities, including defect logging, prioritization, retesting, trend analysis, and resolution tracking.
• Identify testing risks, open questions, unresolved defects, retesting needs, and readiness concerns, and provide clear findings and recommendations to QA leadership and Department stakeholders.
• Use SQL, data reporting tools, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and testing and defect management tools such as Jira, Xray, Zephyr, TestRail, or comparable platforms to support testing analysis, documentation, and reporting.
• Evaluate testing activities for large-scale, integrated Medicaid, healthcare, claims, eligibility, reporting, analytics, interface, or interoperability-related systems.
• Support independent system testing, CMS IV&V testing attestations, and related testing evidence needs.
• Coordinate with Department stakeholders, State bureaus and divisions, business users, system vendors, and project staff to support testing activities and confirm testing status.
• Prepare testing status updates, defect summaries, trend information, test result summaries, and other testing documentation for QA leadership and Department stakeholders.

Requirements

• Eight years of experience with testing and quality management for a large scale IT system.
• Five years of experience managing client and stakeholder relationships and reporting testing status.
• Three years of experience with end to end testing through UAT.
• Three years of experience with test automation technologies.
• Two years of experience using SQL and data reporting tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or similar field.
• Preferred: Five years of experience with highly integrated healthcare systems.
• Preferred: ISTQB Foundation certification or higher.
• Preferred: Two years of experience in a healthcare or insurance domain.

Skills

• Automation (Selenium Tools, HP UFT/QTP, VSTS, Automated AI Tools, Automation First / TDD)