Job Description
Quality Assurance Analyst – Independent Contractor
Location: Remote US
Job Description:
Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst – Independent Contractor
Job Description
For over 20 years, PSG has been singularly focused on helping our clients navigate the complex and ever-changing challenges of drug management. Through our leading pharmacy intelligence and technologies, we save our clients billions of dollars every year with an unwavering commitment to serving as an advocate and strategic partner to our clients. Our Artemetrx SaaS technology is the leading tool for utilizing integrated data to advise the largest healthcare payers on drug optimization strategies.
We are currently seeking a contractor Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst for approximately 6+ months. The QA Analyst will be responsible for ensuring product teams deliver high quality applications, systems, and data. The analyst plays a key role in testing efforts to ensure completion of quality assurance deliverables, adherence to product development processes and standards, and drives on time software releases. Identifies and helps with automated QA efforts where appropriate across projects and products.
We need a candidate experienced and resilient enough to understand the complexities of working in a fast-paced environment with a team spread across various locations. Effective collaboration is critical.
We employ an Agile methodology and fully embrace the fundamentals of continuous improvement, just-in-time requirements, active stakeholder participation, only as much documentation as is truly needed and processes that make sense for the organization (not for the sake of process). It is important that this person embraces Agile and is open to new concepts and creative ideas.
Primary Responsibilities
- Responsible for day-to-day software testing activities to ensure initiatives are completed within an agreed upon timeframe and delivered to user expectations.
- Communicate with users, other technical teams, and product management to review requirements, describe software product features, and test plans.
- Perform test execution based on functional and non-functional user stories or requirements.
- Work with product owners and development leads to triage bugs and effectively manage backlog.
- Negotiate with team members to prioritize defects as part of a sprint iteration.
- Identify KPI measures for test management and product quality throughout the development life cycle. Continually gather and report software quality metrics to illustrate success or shortcomings of service offerings.
- Build new test cases and automate existing test cases where possible.
- Demonstrates professionalism while representing Artemetrx both internally and externally.
- Support system, regression, performance testing, and release management activities.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in business, computer science, other discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ year relevant work experience
- Background in Health Care, medical and/or pharmacy data is a plus.
- Ability to prioritize multiple projects and responsibilities.
- Hands-on, detail-oriented, and organized.
- Analytical mindset and excellent problem-solving skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience in standard testing methodologies and tools
- Experience working with cloud based and/or SaaS product testing is a plus
- Experience in SQL, Tableau or PowerBI experience is preferred.
- Experience in gathering requirements to create detailed test plans and defining quality metrics is a plus.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.