It Testing Specialist (Remote)

**We are interested in every qualified applicant who is eligible to work remotely in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor VISAs.

Are you an IT Testing Specialist with experience Extracting Data from SQL Queries? Are you looking for your next opportunity? If so, consider joining us on our mission of helping our communities achieve better health!

What Will be Your Purpose?

IT Testing Specialists creates test deliverables (for example, strategies, plans and test cases) and performs hands-on testing for internally developed or external purchased products. Types of testing may include system, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing. IT Testing Specialists deploy or execute job streams for creating test beds as appropriate, design test scenarios, author test scripts, execute tests and track defects to certify that applications meet the approved system requirements. IT Testing Specialists collaborate with other IT staff as appropriate, to review and understand system requirements and design, review test strategy and design, identify resolution for defects identified during testing, and to analyze and make specific recommendations on usability/functionality improvements that can be integrated into business processes.

What You’ll be Doing?

• Update automated test scripts after a sprint is complete.
• Identifies approaches for risk-based testing for each feature or scope of work in a project effort and prioritizes test execution to test high risk/high impact scenarios first.
• Creates and executes moderately complex SQL queries.
• Writes/coordinates resolution of system defects.
• Identifies tests that are good candidates for automation.
• Design tests to aid learning and mitigate risks.
• Ensures test results are accurate, thorough, and appropriately documented.
• Assist product owner in coming up with the acceptance criteria for user stories.
• Participates in requirements gathering sessions or solicits information on incomplete requirements.
• Work with business analysts and business stakeholders to undertake exploratory testing.
• Documents problems or results inconsistent with expected results.
• Creates a test approach, identifying scope of testing with risk-based approach for each feature or scope of work in a project effort identifying test environments, dependencies, constraints, prioritizing test cases and scheduling time for the testing.
• Participates in facilitation and coordination of user acceptance testing.
• Ensures stories contain specific acceptance test conditions which communicate objectives to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Certifies application for release to the next testing stage or to the production environment. Generates and distributes periodic status reports for testing.
• Knowledge of performance and security vulnerability testing is a plus.
• Work with developers to create automated tests.
• Sets up and executes complex scripts independently.
• Sets up software and hardware in the test lab, per specs.
• Sets up test data beds based on data matching specific test conditions.
• Responsible for ensuring end to end testing methodology including all appropriate documentation and requirements.
• Performs quality assurance tests on all work and performs detailed analysis on test results.
• Communicates results and coordinates logistics to the Systems Analysts, Developers, and other key IT staff and leadership as appropriate.

What You Must Have?

• Required Education: High school diploma or GED.
• Required Work Experience: 3+ years related work experience in progressive work experience in business and/or system testing.

• Must have strong PC skills and demonstrated proficiency in the MS Office Suite products.
• Thoroughly understands As-Is and To-Be business processes to understand what's changing.
• Ability to communicate with the business in business language and with developers in technical language.
• Ability to read logical and physical data models and understand the relationship between various tables.
• Ability to read various system input/output files like XML, Flat, 834, 835 etc.
• Ability to execute automated test scripts as needed.
• Must have the ability to extract data utilizing moderately complex SQL queries.
• Should have solid work experience with testing management tools and concepts and have a solid knowledge of automated testing tools.
• Ability to clearly identify data needs and requirements for the respective test efforts.
• Must have strong knowledge of SDLC with an emphasis on testing methodologies.
• Thorough understanding of the business process(s) and flows involved in the system capabilities being tested.

What is Preferred?

• Previous experience with Florida Blue or affiliated organization.
• Experience in effectively communicate both technical and business needs.
• Strong experience with extracting data from SQL queries.

General Physical Demands:

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.

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