Software Quality Engineer III (multiple positions)

Cambia Health Solutions•Portland, OR

14h•Remote

About The Position

The Software Quality Engineer III is a senior-level engineer who applies extensive technical knowledge and experience to develop and deliver solutions for software projects. This role involves programming, debugging, and testing applications in a development environment, performing database design and system testing, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality products and software services. The engineer works with teammates to prevent and detect defects throughout the product lifecycle, evaluates software solutions, and enhances delivery team productivity. The position requires applying various testing and quality assurance techniques to complex software projects, often coordinating with multiple delivery teams. Responsibilities include participating in scrum and defect triage teams, managing personal work backlog using agile practices, and reviewing various project artifacts to write automated and manual test cases. The role also involves collaborating with peers and Development teams to ensure test coverage, efficient execution, and software testability, scalability, maintainability, and reliability. The engineer will mentor team members, lead process improvement efforts, assess vendor quality, and escalate issues as needed. Working at Cambia means being part of a purpose-driven, award-winning culture built on trust and innovation, focused on sustainable, person-focused health care. Colleagues are described as caring, supportive, and innovative, with a strong emphasis on compassion, empathy, and team spirit.

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.
Alternatively, a 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 salary
Generous benefits
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