QA & Testing Analyst

Job Description

Position Summary: Looking for an energetic, engaged individual who is well versed in all manners of QA / QE in an Agile environment to drive functional validation (Sprint Testing) and quality delivery for Evernorth program deliverables. Tasks include collaborating with all impacted application teams to develop test strategies and high level test scenarios identify data needs, track / report progress / issues and obtain approval of the test results. There are multiple strategical and tactical responsibilities. The successful candidate will be able to work in a rapid-paced environment, meet tight deadlines interact with all management levels and be self-managed and motivated. Job Description & Responsibilities: Design, develop and execute sprint testing of a software product / solution. Define test process including required test activities, deliverables and test schedule. Understand how changes impact work upstream and downstream including various back end and front-end architectural modules Closely interact with both onsite and offshore team members. The onsite and offshore interactions include scrum team members (Scrum masters, developers, Product Owners and QA at onsite and offshore) Define test data conditions and partners and works closely with Data team to obtain the data. Actively participate in all phases of testing (In sprint functional testing, integration testing and regression) Develop and execute comprehensive suites of automation test plans, test cases for inclusion in regression, automation for newly integrated features, and development of tool sets to augment QA and Development testing. Business requirement analysis, test design, defect logging and tracking Perform manual / exploratory testing where needed Actively engage in defect reporting and triaging Analyzes failure patterns and determine corrective actions to eliminate the errors completely Adheres to the organization's Quality Engineering best practices while helping to drive changes to our testing practices where necessary Experience Required: 3+ years of experience in Quality Assurance with automation experience preferred Experience Desired: Hand on experience in Test and defect Management Tools Experience on Automation Frameworks that includes products such as Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured products with focus on reusability. Experience using programming languages with core concepts in Java / JavaScript Experience on defining test scenarios using Gherkin BDD format Working experience with API automation frameworks that includes mocking and authorization Experience with API virtualization or mocking using tool CA DevTest / Swagger Thorough knowledge/experience Quality Engineering best practices and applying them to automation frameworks. Designs and develops scripts to run automated tests to ensure consistency, repeatability and accelerates delivery Experience on understanding application architecture for web based applications Experience with Docker, Containers and Images Experience in API and UI Automation (Selenium WebDriver / Cypress) Experience in Git based source control tools like GitLab / GitHub Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins / Gitlab for automated test executions. Experience in build tools like Maven / Gradle Experience with Relational Database / SQL /NoSQL / backend testing Hands-on experience with API testing tools such as Postman/Insomnia Working experience with JIRA / Zephyr or equivalent tools Healthcare domain knowledge would be a big plus AWS and Cucumber (BDD) experience Primary Skills: Healthcare, Functional Testing, SQL, Agile (SAFe), Jira, SOAP UI/Post Man, Web Services testing and ETL testing Additional Skills: Selenium with Java and Cucumber BDD Framework Strong Communications Skills.