QA Technical Tester - Cigna Healthcare - Remote

The Cigna Group

1d • Remote

About The Position

The QA Technical Tester is responsible for strategizing and implementing QA practices and processes 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher strongly preferred in Computer Science or Business or equivalent work experience required
• 6 + years’ experience in testing.
• Advanced database experience in SQL server databases required and proficiency in Transact SQL to include:
• 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
• Solid experience in business requirements analysis, test design, defect logging and tracking
• Demonstrated experience in tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Jenkins, GIT, JavaScript
• Experience in all aspects of 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 (Zephyr)
• Competent user of the following tools: SAS, Microsoft Visual Studio, ESP job scheduler, Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
• 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
• Ability to work some evenings, weekends, or holidays is required
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with automation testing is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with AAPS tools and applications a plus
• Knowledge of how to query from PMHS, Proclaim and/or Facets a plus

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
• Test execution-manual and automated
• Perform UAT of functional requirements
• Utilize appropriate testing tools
• Assist in the coordination of User Acceptance testing (UAT) and End to End (E2E) testing
• Validate and report progress, risks, issues and defects to agile team
• Communicates with business partners and agile team members 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

Benefits

• 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), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level