Job Description

Candidates who reside within 50 miles of the following locations may be asked to work in person three days per week: Bloomfield, CT, Chattanooga, TN, Denver, CO, St Louis, MO, or Scottsdale, AZ.

QA Technical Tester / QA & Testing Advisor.

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.

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

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or higher strongly preferred in Computer Science or Business or equivalent work experience required

6 + years’ experience in testing.

Experience with automation testing is highly desirable.

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

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

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 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

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

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.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 95,600 - 159,400 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.

At The Cigna Group, 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), 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, click here.

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 need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email seeyourself@thecignagroup.com for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.

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.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.

Job Tags

Full time, Work experience placement, Local area, Work from home, Weekend work, Afternoon shift, 3 days per week

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