Business Analyst/Manual Tester, Remote

Business Analyst/Manual Tester, Remote

• Contract
• 100% Remote (preference given to local candidates to Bethesda, MD)
• Due to our client requirements, we can only consider US Citizens or Green Card Holders for this position
  
• NO THIRD PARTY RECRUITERS PLEASE! CANDIDATES MUST BE SELF-REPRESENTED.

Description

Our client is preparing for the next leap in how they serve patients, caregivers, care providers, and researchers with their Patient Registry. They have an ambitious vision for this next generation health data ecosystem: linking the existing records to many sources of additional data (e.g., electronic medical records, patient-reported outcomes, wearables, clinical trials, pharmacy, genetics, and claims) while providing patients with the power to control what is shared and with whom; welcoming flexibility and building a new architecture that will leverage the opportunities the next decade will bring in healthcare and technology solutions.

The Business Analyst/Manual Tester will be an essential member of the new health data ecosystem team managing and executing testing for the system configuration of the patient registry and its integrations. The Business Analyst/Manual Tester will be part of an interdisciplinary technology team and will work closely with developers and clinical data specialists. They will be the main QA resource on the project team and will be responsible for establishing the test approach and validating requirements before they are provided to the business and end-users for testing. The Business Analyst/Manual Tester will report to the Application Development Manager and work closely with the Head of Data Science.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Project Manager, Enterprise Architect, Product Owner, and Data Wrangler to develop the testing strategy, determine level of testing effort, identify risks, and prioritize test scenarios and cases to ensure testing is completed based on project plans. 
• Design and develop test scenarios, repeatable test cases, as well as automated scripts for select requirements, to validate functional requirements, technical requirements, and integrations (EMR integrations, Identity Provider, and others).  Work with the technical architect to validate technical requirements.
• Work with product owners to develop and document functional requirements.
• Identify and prepare test data for executing test scenarios and procedures.
• Perform all manual test execution. Also assist the Data Wrangler and Data Engineer with data validation.
• Conduct root cause analysis of identified defects, providing the Project Team with sufficient detail to understand, prioritize, replicate, and resolve issues.
• Properly document issues in a bug tracking system like Azure DevOps.
• Define the scope of testing, write test cases, and provide support and guidance for UAT.
• Collaborate with the PM to generate status reports of QA efforts.

Requirements

• BS in Information Science, Health Information Science, or a related technical discipline or equivalent work experience.
• A minimum of 6-8+ years combined experience in business analysis, requirements documentation and manual QA testing.
• Strong experience with debugging and isolating defects.
• Expertise with testing methodologies, test plan and test case development, and the defect reporting process.
• Manual regression tests generation/execution
• Integration tests generation/execution.
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration servers such as Azure DevOps, Octopus, or Jenkins.
• Knowledge of defect tracking and tools (i.e DevOps and/or Jira).
• Experience with testing frameworks.
• Self-driven, works well independently but also able to collaborate with the team.
  
• Understanding of health industry systems and standards (e.g. EHR systems, HL7) and InterSystems desired.
• Understanding HIPAA and relevant FDA regulations desired.
• Exposure to automated testing in Selenium, cypress.io, or similar tools a plus.

Please Note:

• Only those individuals selected for an interview will be contacted.
• No calls, inquiries, or Third-Party Vendors please.
• We are an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences. (The ACI Group is unable to sponsor H1B Visas).
• $1000 Referral Bonus - www.aci.com.

Since 1988, The ACI Group, a Baltimore-based staffing firm, has been committed to hiring the industry's leading professionals, and presenting exciting career opportunities. We have access to varied types of contract, permanent and contract-to-perm positions and offer a choice of employment options including a full benefits package.