Senior Quality Analyst

 Job Code:                                               SRQA

Reports To:                                                      Director, Quality Assurance

Base Location:                                               AZ or CO

Work Status:                                           Virtual Office

Minimum Starting Monthly Range:       $6,943

Hiring Range (Monthly Pay):                    $6,943 - $8,083

Full-time / Part-time:                                   Full-time

Exempt / Non-Exempt:                               Exempt

Risk Designation:                                         Medium

Summary:

The Senior Quality Analyst is a member of an Agile team and works directly with other agile teams and cross functional roles to understand project features, review technical designs, and implement manual and automated testing solutions to deliver quality software with efficiency.  This position is responsible for designing manual and automated test cases in support of software products (internal and external) in an Agile Teams software development lifecycle. This senior position requires technical experience performing test data preparation, automated and manual test creation/execution, and test results analysis.  This includes documenting detailed test methods and procedures for use by QA and Operations team members.

This position is based in Phoenix Arizona; Denver Colorado; or Grand Junction, Colorado and requires local residency in one of these base locations. Our strategic flexibility allows for local work from home opportunities.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Collaborates within an Agile Teams methodology to ensure the effectiveness and quality of the components and products developed.


• Writes and executes test cases, plans, and supporting data sets.


• Creates and maintains standard test procedures and functional test libraries.


• Identifies test requirements from technical specifications and business use case scenarios


• Performs research and analysis of the company’s integrated system including 3rd party components.


• Plan, schedule, estimate, forecast, coordinate, and manage QA deliverables.


• Monitor and report on the status of testing efforts, defect tracking, and weekly time accounting.


• Opportunities to coordinate with vendors and project teams to understand system requirements and ensure new products are built to a sustainable testing environment and methodology.


• Effectively manage through complex technical challenges with clear timely decision making and incisive, creative problem solving.


• Provide analysis and recommendations in the development and enhancements to QA procedures, tools, and methods.


• Occasionally required to be available for after-hours work, outside of normally scheduled hours.


• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Skills

• Technical testing experience with SQL, Mongo, APIs, web services, and transaction integration engines.


• Experience with HL7 messaging standard, XML, JSON, REST.


• Experience with Postman and Swagger.


• Strong analytical and deductive reasoning skills.


• Experience with data analytics and data analytics systems.


• Electronic Health Record and Health Information Exchange (HIE) experience desired.


• Proficiency in clinical workflow, ideally across healthcare providers and systems.


• Strong problem solving, troubleshooting, and documentation skills.


• Proven aptitude for seeking creative solutions to multifaceted problems.


• Self-motivated, works tasks independently, and collaborates within the Agile team.


• Thrives in a fast-paced environment working on simultaneous projects.
  
  

Education/Experience

• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant QA technical experience required.


• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline required.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The position may  require occasional availability for after-hours work, outside of regularly scheduled hours.

The position may require ability to periodically drive to and from clients, conferences and / or events; and / or limited travel.

This position is expected to be exposed to, process, or handle sensitive information including but not limited to Protected Health Information (PHI), Personally Identifiable Information (PII), financial information, etc. As such, the holder of this position is expected to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, organizational policies, and compliance expectations.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those necessary to perform the essential functions of the role:

• Frequent communication and information exchange.


• Regular movement within the office to access equipment and materials.


• Ability to remain stationary for extended periods (approximately 50% of the time).


• Continuous use of computers and office equipment (e.g., keyboard, monitor, printer).


• Frequent handling of materials up to 10 lbs; occasional handling up to 30 lbs.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Note: This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and / or qualifications associated with the job.

Benefits: Contexture provides a comprehensive benefits package. For details, please request a Benefit Summary from our Benefits Department.

The organization is an inclusive Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other status protected by law or regulation.

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