QA & Testing Advisor

Full Time
Hartford, CT 06152
Posted
Job description
Role Summary
The QA Technical Tester is responsible for strategizing and implementing QA practices
and process across the Prepay organization. The candidate will be responsible for
maintaining and adhering to Safe agile practices. The candidate will work with the team
in designing and ensuring overall integrity of the testing strategy. The QA will also work
closely with Software Developers and other testers in small scrum or Kanban teams to
deliver the highest quality products in a timely and cost-effective manner. Specific
duties and responsibilities include creating, comparing and manipulating data, creating,
maintaining and executing test plans and test cases, estimating test efforts, analyzing
and communicating test results, defect tracking and participating in day to day testing
activities. The candidate will also be responsible for ensuring regression test scripts are
current and are in the appropriate format for automation.

Responsibilities:
  • Be a part of an ongoing effort to bring new testing knowledge and methodologies to
the team
  • Works with business partners and IT staff to establish and maintain a consistent
testing methodology
  • Identify and prepare complex test data to support the test cases defined by the team
  • Design, develop and code SQL programs to execute backend code tests
  • Design a comprehensive testing strategy & build test suites
  • Design, develop and maintain regression test beds and schedule test cycles
  • Leverage the testing process and test tool kit to create re-usable test sets
  • Ensure regression scripts are in appropriate format for automation
  • Implement QA process and testing automation projects to improve the overall testing
cycle
  • Test execution-manual and automated
  • Document User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test scenarios, test cases and test scripts
  • Perform UAT of functional requirements
  • Utilize appropriate testing tools
  • Assist in the coordination of Business Acceptance (BAT) and End to End (E2E) testing
  • Validate and report progress, risks, issues and defects to agile team
  • Communicates with business partners, test lead and IT staff throughout the project life
cycle, to assist and support the design, development and implementation of effective
systems and deliverables
  • Be an active participant during PI Planning, retrospective and daily stand up meetings
and business demonstrations
  • Participates in the review of QA procedures and processes and the development of
QA metrics for assessing the quality delivered application software or systems.
  • Support all post implementation activities, such as post implementation testing and
lessons learned analysis

Qualifications:
  • 6 + years experience in testing. Experience with automation testing is highly
desirable.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Computer Science strongly desired
  • Advanced database experience in SQL server databases and proficiency in Transact
SQL
Ability to insert data in a table
Ability to modify data within a table
Ability to delete/truncate tables
Ability to save off copies of tables
  • Experience with deciphering complex SQL stored procedures as required
  • Extensive QA/Software testing experience in large cross platform testing programs in
both WEB (UI) and BE (database) testing
  • Exposure to working in Agile/Scrum environment
  • Familiarity with AAPS tools and applications a plus
  • Working knowledge of automated testing tools and techniques, broad knowledge of
business modeling, process engineering, change management and test case
generation techniques across the testing lifecycle
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  • Solid experience in business requirements analysis, test design, defect logging and
tracking
  • Demonstrated experience in tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Jenkins, GIT,
JavaScript
  • Testing/working experience with Healthcare IT and familiarity with Healthcare IT
terminology, business functions and processes
  • Experience in all aspects of Agile Central/Rally/JIRA
  • Experience working with business analysts, system analysts and developers for test
requirement gathering, acceptance criteria etc.
  • Skilled utilizing test formulation tools for test management and operations, to include
performance and load testing tools as well as test reporting tools.
  • Sound understanding of approaches to testing
  • Competent user of the following tools: SAS, Microsoft Visual Studio, ESP job
scheduler, Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
  • Knowledge of how to query from PMHS, Proclaim and/or Facets a plus
  • Must be able to manage multiple assignments with staggered deadlines
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation and documentation skills
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Strong team and task management skills
  • Self-directed and highly adaptive to changing priorities
  • Innovative thinking and possess a keen eye for detail
  • Comfortable working independently or as part of a team
  • Flexible schedule a must. Employee will be required to work some evenings,
weekends or holidays

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 86,600 - 144,400 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

We want you to be healthy, balanced, and feel secure. That’s why you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) with company match, company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, visit Life at Cigna Group .

About The Cigna Group
Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: SeeYourself@cigna.com for support. Do not email SeeYourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.

The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.

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