Quality Assurance Analyst

The State of South Carolina is looking for a Quality Assurance Analyst - Project Lead

Columbia, SC 29201

Interview Process: 1 round, Virtual/Online

Duration of the Contract: 12 months

Possibility for Extension: Yes

Work Location: Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote).

Candidate Location: Candidate MUST be a SC resident or willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense.

Daily Duties / Responsibilities:

Responsible for performing tests on technical solutions to isolate and solve issues.

Initiates tests, analyzes results, and finds solutions to technical problems.

• Develop test plans, QA and/or User Acceptance Testing processes and test

cases for product management and software development teams.

• Design and support user interface testing application and regression testing

software.

• Test software applications for reliability and stability.

• Implement testing programs to perform quality assurance on technical

applications including negative testing and usability.

• Lead projects to perform quality assessments that expose security flaws, reveal

defects and identify areas of optimization.

• Design and/or run automated testing scripts with oversight for deployment of

tests

• Create quality assurance documentation and reports as required

• Adhere to established software testing governance policies, best practices and

guidelines and recommend improvements

• Maintain database with product defects, user reviews, survey information and

functional improvements.

• Coordinate with product development teams and software engineers to

recommend solutions to maximize performance and efficiency

• Perform reviews, walkthroughs, or inspections and adhere to established

governance standards.

• Document and support development of test scenarios/cases and the execution of testing activities.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• 3 years translating business

requirements or policy

• documentation into test cases and

• scenarios; 3 years building test

• cases and scenarios into test

• systems

• • 2 years of experience testing IBM

• Curam software

• • Able to communicate and publish

• status reports of all open issues

• and gaps found during test phase

• and articulate the details to the

• Development teams

• PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF

• IMPORTANCE):

• • 5+ years large enterprise or e-

• business systems experience.

• • Deep knowledge of healthcare

• operations (preferably Medicaid),

• business processes

• • Proficient in Atlassian tool suite

• including JIRA and Confluence

• • Prior experience working in a

• standard SDLC (waterfall

• methodology) & in an AGILE