QA Tester ()

100% Telecommute.

Description:  This role combines a focus in software quality and testing as well as review and analysis of business requirements by ensuring adherence to quality standards and practices defined by our company, the Health Care Industry and Compliance. You will be heavily involved in developing and executing a multifaceted testing approach including functional/system testing, integration testing, service level testing via Ready API, end to end testing, exploratory testing, and regression.  We emphasize collaboration across multiple feature and support teams to deliver quality integrated products.

Responsibilities:
• Design test plans, scenarios, scripts, and procedures based on business requirements
• Perform functional, application and regression, to ensure that developed products meet design specifications and are within total quality management limits and standards. Participate in cross-functional initiatives and End to End testing coordination
• Analyze requirements, perform ambiguity analysis to ensure that requirements meet design specifications and standards
• Identify and investigate issues found during testing, assist Software Engineers in troubleshooting and update test cases based on discovered defects
• Contribute to standards and procedures for measuring product quality and release readiness
• Execute performance tests within Scrum Teams to ensure early detection of issues. Assist in troubleshooting and investigation of issues/concerns
• Enhance automation framework, create, maintain, and execute automated test scripts. Optimize performance of test execution through innovation
• Support UAT initiatives by providing data set up, access, and troubleshooting issues
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as required, assigned, or requested

Required:
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of progressive QA/testing experience in Information Technology or software development focus on problems / projects of diverse complexity and scope
• Experience in automation, creating scripts, execution and troubleshooting using Selenium, QTP or other front-end automation tools
• Experience in performance test script creation, execution and troubleshooting using tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, LoadUI, etc.
• Possess specialist understanding of QA/testing principals and policies with experience as a project leader for quality
• Ability to apply developed subject matter knowledge to solve common and complex testing challenges
• Ability to influence others within and outside of job function, and may communicate with external stakeholders

Department: Preferred Vendors
This is a contract position