Surescripts serves the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. We deliver insights at critical points of care for better decisions — from streamlining prior authorizations to delivering comprehensive medication histories to facilitating messages between providers.
 

Job Summary

To provide in-depth quality assurance support for Surescripts software development. The Senior QA Engineer plays a key role in the software development process as part of an agile team, working with product owners, developers, analysts, and other team members to define, prioritize, estimate, and communicate testing aspects of stories within the agile team’s project scope.  Senior QA engineers are expected to support planning and strategizing of the test automation effort within and across agile teams when required.  Individuals are expected to attain a detailed knowledge of our applications and application interfaces as well as a solid understanding of our underlying business products and processes.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate within an agile team providing input for product backlog, sprint planning, story development and testing, demos, and team retrospective.
• Communicate and interact within and across agile teams on issues, changes, and enhancements that may impact data, workflow and /or functionality across Surescripts products.
• Coordinate communication and interaction across agile teams on issues, changes, and enhancements that may impact data, workflow and /or functionality across Surescripts products.
• Review story requirements, design, and acceptance criteria during team planning to provide timely and meaningful feedback for robust story details.
• Create and organize effective test strategy and planning to ensure software quality and to confirm business, technical and functional requirements.
  • Design system, regression, and integration tests to validate application releases.
  • Create comprehensive test data to support test cases.
  • Execute tests based on test strategy/plans. Tests may be manual or automated.
  • Support testing processes from manual testing to automated testing.
  • Provide concise and accurate documentation of software defects and issues.
  • Report test results to support story sign off by Product Owner.
• Develop highly effective working relationships with product owners, developers, analysts, operations and other team members in support of the software process to ensure that releases are tested and ready for a production environment.
• Create, analyze, review, and revise QA and system documentation as necessary based on changing functionality of applications.
• Attain and maintain a high level of expertise regarding processing to and from Surescripts, and the systemic dependencies between applications within Surescripts systems.
• Perform system, regression, and integrated tests across multiple environments as changes are promoted and staged for production.
• Support the automated test efforts within the agile team.
  • Identify manual tests to be included in automated test suite.
  • Work with agile team members on framework enhancements/changes as needed.
  • Update/Add manual tests into the automated tests suite.
  • Support maintainance of the automated test suite to continually support product changes.
  • Monitor and oversee test suite in support of the processes for release promotion through test environments for production readiness.
  • Provide leadership/guidance for QA practices and the automation effort within Surescripts.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor degree or equivalent experience
• 5 years of QA experience with hands-on participation in manual and automated testing of software applications.
• 2 years of experience with agile development process.
• 2 years recent hands-on experience with database and operating systems.
• 2 years of experience with ad-hoc query programs and writing SQL query statements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of standard transactions sets (NCPDP, ANSI, IHE or Telecom).
• XML and Edifact formats
• Json for web services

Surescripts embraces flexibility through its Flexible Hybrid Work model for most positions. This model allows employees to work virtually while still utilizing our offices as collaboration centers. With alignment and agreement from your leadership, you can come and go from the office as needed.
 

To be considered for employment, applicants must have a valid U.S. work authorization allowing work without restrictions with Su