IT Quality Analyst Lead

Company: Medica
Location: Minnetonka
Posted on: June 8, 2021

Job Description:

The IT QA Lead will develop, document and implement test processes and procedures. SME in workstream area.

Role Summary:

Ability to apply depth of expertise within your product team and function as a subject matter expert for other staff including offshore team as well as partnering continuously with QA Practice community, regression and automation team and stakeholders on a daily basis to stay focused on common goals.

We embrace a culture of constantly striving for improvement and learning that are in the best interests of Medica IT.

As a senior member in Information Technology, you may lead QA team members collaborating with vendor partners in delivering business value solutions. You will ensure that your team members have the guidance they need to deliver timely and relevant solutions.

This role is directly responsible to:

• Lead and mentor QA team members including offshore team within your product team.
• Design, Develop and execute test strategy, test cases, scripts, plans and procedures (manual and automated).
• Establish and evolve QA Best Practices, ensuring that the team is using proven best practices.
• Promote usage of tools, automation and develop new processes to ensure quality goals met are in alignment with stakeholder needs.
• Execute testing deliverables for the product team.
• Act as key point of contact for coordinating QA activities across various product teams and representing your team outside of IT
• Meet deadlines and work with an agile mindset.
• Advocate for test coverage within the team from anyone who can help.
• Have a strong commitment to delivering business value through critical thinking process and raw effort.
• Create and support a collaborative culture with team-oriented mindset.
• Work collaboratively within your product team, Automation team, QA Practice community and the IT department as well as when working with vendor partners.

Required Qualifications:

• Advanced working knowledge and skill of professional field with ability to function as a subject matter expert for other staff.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in related field, plus 7 years of work experience beyond degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Have a broad Health Care Payer experience with specialization in Claims domain.
• Have deep understanding of minimum two testing methods, EDI testing, ETL testing, API testing or UI validation that can be demonstrated verbally and supported with job history.
• Is a subject matter expert in testing EDI files 835 / 820 / 837 and has good concepts of Pharmacy accumulators.
• This position needs to have leadership and people skills to lead offshore staff working closely with onsite coordinator and lead testing activities for the scrum team.
• Have high aptitude for technology and learning new skills and can demonstrate verbally during the interview process.
• Able to provide Automation requirements and use Automation suite for testing.
• The candidate must be an effective influencer in day to day decision making when it comes to what to do next, velocity that can be supported, team assistance needed to have effective coverage and test depth and breadth for horizontal and vertical test paths.
• Comfortable in understanding requirements and proactively clarifying ambiguity with stakeholders, BA, PO,SM or anyone in the product team.
• Experience with defect management tools for tracking and monitoring defects, experience with test management software with expertise in developing and executing regression suites and proficient in using Agile Management tools such as Azure Devops
• Experience with any other role in a product team that goes beyond having filled in for someone-you lived it.
• Have experience in using ETL testing tools like QuerySurge.
• Able to provide configuration feedback on Test Management tools like QTEST

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