Software Quality Engineer III (multiple positions)

Cambia Health Solutions•Portland, OR

1d•Remote

About The Position

This senior-level Software Quality Engineer III position at Cambia Health Solutions involves applying extensive technical knowledge and experience to develop and deliver high-quality software solutions. The role encompasses programming, debugging, testing applications, performing database design, and system testing. Engineers are expected to prevent and detect defects throughout the product lifecycle, evaluate software solutions, and enhance delivery team productivity. This includes applying various testing and quality assurance techniques, often coordinating with multiple software delivery teams, and participating in agile practices like scrum and defect triage. Key activities involve reviewing user stories, writing automated and manual test cases, executing unit, component, and system-level tests, reporting defects, and ensuring software testability and maintainability. The role also requires assessing the impact of changes, recommending test updates, acting on metrics for process improvement, and mentoring team members. Collaboration with Development to ensure testability, scalability, maintainability, and reliability is crucial. The engineer will also develop new technical solutions, lead process improvement efforts, assess vendor quality, and escalate issues to the Software Quality Lead. Travel is required 1 to 2 times annually to states where Cambia does business. Cambia Health Solutions is an award-winning company with a purpose-driven culture, committed to transforming healthcare. Employees work alongside diverse teams, receive competitive salaries and benefits, and have opportunities for career growth and community involvement.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Engineering, or related field or the foreign degree equivalent and 6 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience performing software quality and testing throughout product development, deployment and maintenance, including 3 years of experience in each of the following: Writing, running, and automating tests; Working with Java or C# programming languages; Communicating with technical and non-technical project team members; Working with web, mobile, database application technologies, and automated testing and tools; Experience with one or more of the following: software reliability, automated test maintenance, static analysis, or code coverage; Applying appropriate industry-standard processes and practices to prevent and detect defects throughout the software development lifecycle; Utilizing metrics and understanding processes related to effective quality assurance and testing progress; Working with web, mobile and database application technologies, automated testing, frameworks and tools; Working with TDD/ATDD, Continuous Integration, Design for Testability, and Software Stability; Selecting the appropriate industry-standard processes and practices to prevent and detect defects throughout the software development lifecycle; Working across project teams to leverage existing knowledge, technologies and solutions; Working with the Trizetto Facets database, integration points and table structure; Working with ITS policies and system requirements determined by the BlueCross BlueShield Association; Testing API’s using tools such as ThunderClient, Ready API, SoapUI or Jmeter
OR Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Engineering, or related field or the foreign degree equivalent and 4 years of experience performing software quality and testing throughout product development, deployment and maintenance including 3 years of experience in each of the requirements listed above

Responsibilities

Apply extensive technical knowledge and experience to develop and deliver solutions for software projects
Program, debug, and test applications in a development environment
Perform database design and system testing
Ensure the delivery of high-quality products and software services
Work with teammates to prevent and detect defects throughout the product lifecycle
Evaluate the appropriateness of software solutions for customers and the enterprise
Enable delivery team productivity
Apply a wide variety for testing and quality assurance techniques to complex software projects often requiring coordination with multiple software delivery teams
Participate in a project scrum team and defect triage team
Manage personal work backlog using agile practices
Review user stories, acceptance criteria, specifications, software designs, code and tests
Write automated and manual test cases and procedures
Collaborate with peers to ensure adequate test coverage and efficient test execution
Apply industry-standard methods to develop, automate and execute unit, component and system-level tests
Report test results, submit defects and verify defect fixes
Ensure software testability, test coverage and test maintainability meet project requirements
Assess the impact of requirements, design and code changes, recommend test updates and regression testing, and execute agreed upon tests
Act on metrics to improve process effectiveness, test execution, and product quality
Participate in process improvement efforts
Mentor team members to ensure software testability, achieve required test coverage and improve automated test stability and maintainability
Collaborate with Development to define software requirements, design and implementation to ensure testability, scalability, maintainability, and reliability
Develop new technical solutions to ensure project quality, cost and schedule requirements are met, risks mitigated, and quality plans and test plan are executable
Use metrics to understand process effectiveness, quality assurance and testing progress, and product quality and recommend actions
Lead assigned process improvement efforts
Assess vendor quality and testing based on requirements in Statements of Work
Collaborate with vendors to plan and execute integration and system level tests
Assess and escalate issues as needed to Software Quality Lead
Participate in defect triage, program risk analysis and development cycle-time optimizations
Identify opportunities to enhance test automation framework and tests

Benefits

Competitive base pay
Market-leading 401(k) with a significant company match
Bonus opportunities
Medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible family members, including mental health benefits
Annual employer contribution to a health savings account
Generous paid time off varying by role and tenure in addition to 10 company-paid holidays
Market-leading retirement plan including a company match on employee 401(k) contributions, with a potential discretionary contribution based on company performance (no vesting period)
Up to 12 weeks of paid parental time off (eligibility requires 12 months of continuous service with Cambia immediately preceding leave)
Award-winning wellness programs that reward you for participation
Employee Assistance Fund for those in need
Commute and parking benefits