Testing Specialist – Baltimore, MD

Testing Specialist – Baltimore, MD

About us 

Creative Information Technology Inc (CITI) is an esteemed IT enterprise renowned for its exceptional customer service and innovation. We serve both government and commercial sectors, offering a range of solutions such as Healthcare IT, Human Services, Identity Credentialing, Cloud Computing, and Big Data Analytics. With clients in the US and abroad, we hold key contract vehicles including GSA IT Schedule 70, NIH CIO-SP3, GSA Alliant, and DHS-Eagle II.

Join us in driving growth and seizing new business opportunities.

Background 

The Client an independent unit of state government, provides accessible, affordable health coverage to Client. MHBE administers Client (MHC), the state’s health insurance marketplace. Through MHC, Client residents explore health insurance plans, compare rates, and determine their eligibility for advanced premium tax credits (APTC), cost-sharing reductions (CSR), and public assistance programs such as Medicaid and Client MCHP). 

Client seeks up to four (4) Testing Specialists to provide User Acceptance, Manual, Integration, and/or Automation Testing and other testing and quality assurance services. 

Note: The candidate must be flexible to work overtime as needed, including weekends, holidays, and off-hours.

Role and Responsibilities 

• Perform software validation and testing, write test cases, map requirements to test scenarios, validate functionality, perform regression testing, integration testing, interface testing, and testing of downstream functions. 
• Prepare any required test documentation, design and prepare test data, review test results, and evaluate for conformance with design. 
• Translate verbal and written requirements and functional specifications into effective test cases and test scenarios to conduct integrated, scenario-based User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of complex health exchange systems. 
• Develop and identify test data for test scenarios. 
• Execute test cases and document the results of the test execution. 
• Document defects identified during test case execution and work with developers to resolve the defects. 
• Create test plans and test calendars to coordinate testing tasks and establish timelines. 
• Utilize performance testing techniques such as performance modeling, establishing baselines, services monitoring, and profiling system performance. 
• Use performance tools such as JMeter, Gatling, BlazeMeter, or similar tools to simulate usage/load of large enterprise environments. 
• Perform API services testing using the ReadyAPI tool or similar tools. 
• Work with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to resolve issues and validate requirements. 
• Conduct quality assurance activities such as peer reviews of test cases, test plans, and test case execution results. 
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities. 

Minimum Qualification

• A minimum of four (4) years of experience in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of complex public-facing systems. 
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience in testing web applications. 
• Experience in utilizing defect-tracking or defect management tools such as JIRA.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. 
• Strong testing and analytical skills with keen attention to detail. 
• Proven experience working effectively and collaboratively with stakeholders from multiple functional teams in an organization.

Preferred Qualification

• A minimum of four (4) years of experience as a Java/Web application tester. 
• A minimum of four (4) years of experience testing websites across multiple browsers, web services, back-end processing, and data validation. 
• Experience in mobile testing, system testing, data migration testing, data integrity testing, and data transformation-related testing. 
• Experience with backend database testing on SQL, PostgreSQL, or any other enterprise database systems, and experience in writing complex SQL queries. 
• Experience in performing testing and validation of complex State-Based Health Insurance Marketplace or other healthcare