QA & Testing Associate Advisor - HIH - Evernorth

QA & Testing Associate Advisor

Position Overview

The QA & Testing Associate Advisor is responsible for implementing QA practices and process across the PBM organization. The candidate will be responsible for maintaining and adhering to Safe agile practices. The candidate will work with the team in designing and ensuring overall integrity of the testing strategy. The QA will also work closely with Software Developers and other testers in small scrum teams to deliver the highest quality products in a timely and cost-effective manner. Specific duties and responsibilities include creating, comparing and manipulating data; creating, maintaining and executing test plans and test cases; estimating test efforts; analyzing and communicating test results; defect tracking and participating in day-to-day testing activities. The candidate will also support ensuring regression test scripts are current and are in the appropriate format for automation.

This role provides counsel and advice across several stakeholders on Q&A matters, often requiring coordination between organizations. This role may provide thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines and will acts as a lead within the team in mentoring junior team members.

Responsibilities

Works with business partners and IT staff to establish and implement a consistent testing methodology

Identify and prepare complex test data to support the test cases defined by the team

Supports senior team members and may design a comprehensive testing strategy and build test suites

Develop and maintain regression test beds and schedule test cycles

Leverage the testing process and test tool kit to create re-usable test sets

Ensure regression scripts are in appropriate format for automation

Test execution-manual and automated

Perform UAT of functional requirements

Utilize appropriate testing tools

Assist in the coordination of User Acceptance testing (UAT) and End to End (E2E) testing

Validate and report progress, risks, issues and defects to agile team

Communicates with business partners and agile team members throughout the project life cycle, to assist and support the design, development and implementation of effective systems and deliverables

Acts as a support during PI Planning, retrospective and daily stand-up meetings and business demonstrations

Support all post implementation activities, such as post implementation testing and lessons learned analysis

Be a part of an ongoing effort to bring new testing knowledge and methodologies to the team

Qualifications

Required Skills:

Proficiency with most of the following technologies- test automation, selenium, sauce labs, Java, Selenium, Test NG, Cucumber, Strong SQL

Testing and triaging of defects and issues.

Knowledge of defect tracking / task tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Knowledge of build automation and deployment tools such as Jenkins as well as source code repository tools such as Git.

Good understanding of multiple test automation frameworks

Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization.

Strong influencing/negotiation skills.

Strong interpersonal/relationship skills.

Strong time and project management skills.

Familiarity with agile methodology including SCRUM team leadership.

Familiarity with modern delivery practices such as continuous integration, behavior/test driven development, and specification by example.

Required Experience & Education:

8-11 years of experience

Experience with an onshore/offshore model.

Proven experience with testing large-scale enterprise application solutions.

College degree (Bachelor) in related technical/business areas or equivalent work experience.

Desired Experience:

Healthcare experience including Disease Management

Coaching of junior team members

Location & Hours of Work

Full-time position, working 40 hours per week. Expected overlap with US hours as appropriate

Primarily based in the Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India in a hybrid working model (3 days WFO and 2 days WAH)

Equal Opportunity Statement

Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer actively encouraging and supporting organization-wide involvement of staff in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to educate, inform and advance both internal practices and external work with diverse client populations.

About Evernorth Health Services

Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.