Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TriWest Healthcare Alliance connects America’s heroes with health care in the community. The Senior Testing Analyst ensures internal and external applications and products meet customer specifications by developing testing standards, executing manual and automated tests, and validating IT processes. The role also mentors testing resources, coordinates defect resolution, and communicates testing progress and results to project stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Develops and establishes quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications/products, and enhancements to existing applications throughout the development/product lifecycle
- Reviews current automation testing capabilities and practices. Develops new automation strategies, contributing to an increase in automation test coverage
- Mentors other testing resources in best practices
- Analyzes project documentation and technical specifications as a basis for testing documentation and product/project understanding
- Collaborates with software/systems personnel in application testing, such as system, unit, regression, load, and acceptance testing methods
- Prepares and delivers reports, recommendations, or alternatives addressing existing and potential trouble areas/ software defects in IT systems and projects across the organization
- Participates in quality improvement initiatives within the IT organization
- Liaises with vendors and suppliers in assessing applications and/or systems and ensuring they meet customer requirements
- Defines test objectives, writes test plans and test cases, and develops test scripts
- Executes manual and automated test scripts
- Coordinates activities for defect tracking and resolution
- Analyzes performance/stress testing results
- Coordinates testing resources across multiple projects, provide assistance for junior team members
- Provides ongoing communication with leadership and training staff to ensure effective and efficient use of applications systems
- Communicates test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project managers
- Creates User Stories and Task Flows
- Participates in Agile Scrum sessions
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Regular and reliable attendance is required
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience U.S. Citizenship
- • Must be able to receive a favorable Interim and adjudicated final Department of Defense background investigation
- • 5 years of experience in quality assurance/software testing or related field
- • Experience with automated test tools like Katalon and Selenium Experience developing and documenting test cases in Xray, ALM or JIRA
- • Experience establishing quality assurance measures and testing standards
- • Familiar with Agile project methodology
- • 1+ years experience automating Web based applications and APIs
- • 3+ years experience working with Jenkins and CI/CD tools
- • 3+ years experience testing ETL, writing SQL statements and executing them
- Ability to influence or persuade others under positive or negative circumstances; adapt to different styles; listen critically; collaborate
- Resiliency in adapting to a variety of situations and individuals while maintaining a sense of purpose and mature problem-solving approach
- Customer-focused behavior; helping approach, including listening skills, patience, respect, and empathy for another's position
- Critical thinkers with ability to focus on things which matter most to achieving outcomes; commitment to task to produce outcomes without direction and to find necessary resources
- Ability to function in a fast-paced environment with multiple activities occurring simultaneously while maintaining focus and control of workflow
- Prioritize and manage actions to meet changing deadlines and requirements within a high volume, high stress environment
- Ability to solve problems through systematic analysis of processes with sound judgment; has a realistic understanding of relevant issues
- Influence the actions and opinions of others in a positive direction and build group commitment
- Ability to apply software quality assurance principles, inspection techniques and testing procedures; knowledge of and ability to utilize defect tracking systems; presentation skills; ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language, SQL statement writing and executing, and working knowledge of CI/CD tools
- • Periodic evening and weekend work
- • Sitting for extended periods of time
- • Operates a computer keyboard, mouse, and handles other computer components
- • Travel is not expected, but may be required
- • 7+ years' of experience in quality assurance / software testing or related field
- • Experience in the Health Care Industry
- • Experience developing and documenting test strategies
- • Experience with AngularJS and Java languages
Benefits
- Remote work opportunities (AK, AR, AZ, CO, FL, HI, IA, ID, IL, KS, LA, MD, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, NC, ND, OK, OR, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA/DC, WA, WI & WY only).
- Frequent pay raises
- Overtime opportunities to earn even more
- Recognition and reward programs
- Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
- Paid time off
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (with matching)
- Short-term and long-term disability, basic life, and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid volunteer time
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