Software Quality Assurance Testing Engineer (SQA)

Signature Performance, Inc. is focused on lowering healthcare administrative costs for federal government agencies, payers, and providers. They are seeking a Software Quality Assurance Testing Engineer to ensure the reliability and performance of software products through designing test plans, executing tests, and collaborating with various stakeholders to maintain product quality.

Responsibilities:

• Perform analysis related to solution design, requirements/specifications/other technical design documents to establish well defined and adequately structured test basis for interfaces and systems tailored to the project requirements
• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test scripts for internal and external clients
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Conduct rigorous functional, regression, API, performance, and user interface testing
• Extensive manual testing with ability to design, develop, maintain, and execute automation scripts when appropriate
• Collaboration with technical business analysts, technical analysts, developers, and business owners to clarify requirements and ensure product quality
• Expertise in back-end testing by leveraging complex SQL queries
• Identify, log, record, document thoroughly, and track anomalies and bugs
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Develop, implement, and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and testing strategies
• Actively participate in meetings to facilitate success
• Develop testing policies and procedures for modifications and changes
• Other duties may be assigned

Requirements:

• 5-10 years work experience in software quality assurance and testing
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Expertise in functional and non-functional testing best practices
• Analytical problem-solving and deductive reasoning skills
• Ability to juggle multiple projects at the same time
• Excellent orally and written communication ability to effectively work with a wide variety of audiences
• Ability to successfully perform job functions with minimal supervision
• Strong understanding and support of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), compliance, and IT Governance
• Personal traits of a high-level commitment, team orientation, professionalism, trust, personal honesty, and integrity
• Elevated level of diligence and analytical skills
• Experience with Jira, SQL, Practi-Test, and Confluence tool is a plus
• Experience in Healthcare setting required
• Knowledge of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) a plus