Sr. QA Specialist

About the role

This is a contract opportunity. You will be employed by Magnit to work on assignment with GuideWell and subsidiary companies including Florida Blue.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and technical guidance to test teams; accountability across multiple functions
• Create test deliverables (strategies, plans, test cases) and perform hands-on testing for internally developed or external purchased products
• Deploy or execute job streams for creating test beds as appropriate
• Design test scenarios, author test scripts, execute tests, and track defects to certify that applications meet approved system requirements
• Collaborate with other IT staff to review and understand system requirements and design, review test strategy and design, identify resolution for defects identified during testing, and analyze usability/functionality improvements
• Create a test approach identifying scope of testing with risk-based approach for each feature, identifying test environments, dependencies, constraints, prioritizing test cases and scheduling time for testing
• Ensure end-to-end testing methodology including all appropriate documentation and requirements
• Set up software and hardware in the test lab per specifications
• Ensure test results are accurate, thorough, and appropriately documented; communicate results and coordinate logistics to Systems Analysts, Developers, other IT staff, and leadership
• Document problems or results inconsistent with expected results
• Perform quality assurance tests and detailed analysis on test results
• Certify application for release to the next testing stage or to production environment
• Generate and distribute periodic status reports for testing
• Set up and execute complex scripts independently; set up test data beds based on data matching specific test conditions
• Create and execute moderately complex SQL queries
• Execute automated test scripts
• Write and coordinate resolution of system defects; ensure appropriate hand-offs and re-testing
• May provide technical guidance to other IT Testing Specialists
• Participate in requirements gathering sessions or solicit information on incomplete requirements
• Participate in facilitation and coordination of user acceptance testing
• Design tests to aid learning and mitigate risks; work with developers to create automated tests
• Work with business analysts and business stakeholders to undertake exploratory testing
• Ensure stories contain specific acceptance test conditions which communicate objectives to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Knowledge of performance and security vulnerability testing is a plus
• Assist product owner in coming up with the acceptance criteria for user stories

Requirements

• Must have strong knowledge of SDLC
• Must have strong knowledge of STLC
• Must have strong knowledge of testing concepts
• Must be able to create and execute test cases
• Thorough understanding of the business process(s) and flows involved in the system capabilities being tested
• Thoroughly understands As-Is and To-Be business processes to understand what's changing
• Ability to communicate with the business in business language and with developers in technical language
• Must have strong PC skills and demonstrated proficiency in the MS Office Suite products
• Experience with testing management tools — Automated: Selenium, Robotium, TestComplete, QTP, SoapUI, Visual Studio Test Pro, etc.; Manual: Selenium, Appium, JMeter, Jenkins, TestLink, Mantis, Postman, Firbug, etc.
• Must have the ability to extract data utilizing moderately complex SQL queries
• Ability to read logical and physical data models and understand the relationship between various tables
• Ability to clearly identify data needs and requirements for the respective test efforts
• Ability to execute automated test scripts as needed
• Ability to read various system input/output files: XML, Flat, 834, 835, etc.
• Must have the ability to create unique test scenarios

Preferred Qualifications

• Various domain experience: Health Care, Financial, etc.
• Experience using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodology
• Specific tools, languages and specialty skills may vary

Required Experience: 5-8 years of professional experience in an IT related field, preferably in a development or testing environment

Required Education: Bachelor's Degree in an IT related field or relevant work experience